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MIAMI, Fla. – The return of Petra Kvitova to the top 10, after her impressive and unexpected run to the Miami Open singles title, is a happy headline as the Sunshine Swing comes to a close.
But it’s not the only great news.
Canadian Katherine Sebov gets inside the top 150 for the first time. And Bianca Andreescu’s run to the fourth round before her injury also earned her some valuable spots in the rankings.
(For the complete, updated WTA rankings, click here).
ON THE UPSWING
Elena Rybakina (KAZ): No. 7 =========> No. 7 (No change for Rybakina, despite making the Miami Open final. She gains 585 points, but she’s stil about 40 short of Coco Gauff at No. 6. With her Wimbledon points, she’d be No. 4).
Petra Kvitova (CZE): No. 12 =========> No. 10 (It’s the first time Kvitova is back in the top 10 since Sept. 2021. It was an emotional win for her, and she earned it by taking out arguably the most in-form player on the tour in Rybakina in the final).
Martina Trevisan (ITA): No. 24 =========> No. 20 (If Trevisan has seemed pretty … quiet since her great run to the Roland Garros semifinals almost a year ago, she has maintained well. Her quarterfinal effort on the hard courts in Miami puts her into the top 20 for the first time in her career).
Bianca Andreescu (CAN): No. 31 =========> No. 27 (Who knows how far Andreescu might have gone, were it not for her unfortunate ankle injury in the round of 16. Hopefully she won’t be out too long; in the meantime, she can at least look to being a seed if she gets back for Paris).
Elise Mertens (BEL): No. 39 =========> No. 29 (Mertens had dropped quite a bit since reaching her career high of No. 12 in 2018 she was at No. 17 two years ago this week. But a 10-spot leap after her fourth-round effort in Miami will help).
Sorana Cirstea (ROU): No. 74 =========> No. 41 (Cirstea cut her ranking in half with a great trip through the Sunshing Swing. She was a semifinalist in Miami).
Varvara Gracheva (RUS): No. 54 =========> No. 46 (Gracheva’s rise to main-draw type ranking for Indian Wells and Miami came too late to get her out of the qualifying. But she did qualify for both. And her fourth-round effort in Miami pushes her into the top 50 for the first time. Next up for her is a possible citizenship change from Russian to French).
Sara Errani (ITA): No. 99 =========> No. 78 (The 35-year-old from Italy just soldiers on. She lost in the first round of qualifying in Miami – but motored to San Luis Potosi and made the final there, losing to Elisabetta Cocciaretto. It’s the highest her ranking has been since Oct. 2018; she’s only even spent a few weeks inside the top 100 since then).
Marketa Vondrousova (CZE): No. 103 =========> No. 83 (Vondrousova may still have some tournaments left in which to use a protected ranking of No. 32. But her jump of 20 spots with a fourth round in Miami will help get her back where she needs to be when those run out).
Jodie-Anna Burrage (GBR): No. 132 =========> No. 109 (Burrage is now the No. 2 Brit after losing in the final round of Miami qualifying, then jetting back over the pond to France and winning an ITF in Croissy-Beaubourg; it’s a career high).
Taylor Townsend (USA: No. 123 =========> No. 113 (Townsend gained 10 by winning a round in Miami; and she gained five spots in doubles as she and Leylah Fernandez got to the final. She’s now at a career high No. 14; she and Fernandez are already at No. 12 in the race. That run did cost her an opportunity to play the Charleston qualifying, although the big cheque will help ease that).
Sofia Kenin (USA): No. 164 =========> No. 142 (Kenin, who still has a protected ranking of No. 4 and can take top-20 wild cards, make some progress on the Sunshine Swing and made the third round in Miami, losing to Andreescu)
Katherine Sebov (CAN): No. 172 =========> No. 148 (A wild card into the qualifying, Sebov made it through and won her first round to reach a career high and a first trip to the top 150. She also qualified in Charleston over the weekend).
ON THE DOWNSWING
Belinda Bencic (SUI: No. 9 =========> No. 11 (Bencic was a third-round loser in Miami, and drops because she made the semifinals last year. Of concern this week is that she won Charleston a year ago; that’s another 470 points she has to defend).
Danielle Collins (USA): No. 30 =========> No. 40 (Collins, who lost in the third round of Miami after making the quarters a year ago, seems sort of in and out at times. But she’s definitely better than No. 40 in the world).
Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE): No. 50 =========> No. 60 (Just into the top 50 at 17, Fruhvirtova is back down after losing her first-round match in Miami. She made the round of 16 a year ago, beating both Mertens and Azarenka).
Qiang Wang (CHN): No. 189 =========> No. 237 (No, we don’t know where the 31-year-old former No. 12 is. She hasn’t played since losing in the first round in Tokyo last September).
Naomi Osaka (JPN): No. 69 =========> No. 314 (Osaka’s points from her Miami final a year ago drop, dropping her out of the top 300. Osaka said in a recent interview that she was planning on coming back. But with a baby coming, that might be awhile).
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