February 10, 2025

Open Court

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WTA Rankings Report – As of April 15, 2024

Lois Boisson; at 20, a Frenchwoman on the rise.

No WTA tournaments this week because of Billie Jean King Cup.

Which doesn’t offer ranking points these days, even though it featured a lot of well-known players motivated to qualify for the Olympics.

But there were other ITF-level tournaments. And with that, some rankings moves.

But no changes in the top 35 and really only one in the top 70.

The theme with the photos this week is the players as juniors; that’s how long they’ve been on the Open Court radar.

For the complete, updated ranking report effective Monday, click here.

 

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP): No. 102 ==========> No. 90 (A big win for the Spaniard, just 21, after reaching a career high of No. 102 just last week. She’s 27-7 on the season and ranked No. 127 when she quickly lost in the first round of qualfying in Miami, she went on a tear. Bouzas won a WTA 125 in Turkey. Then, after losing in the second round of a similar event in Spain, she went to a $100K ITF in Zaragoza and reached the final there. Her week included a straight sets win over Martina Trevisan. She has gotten herself into the Roland Garros main draw, where she played for the first time a year ago at No. 174, and lost in the first round of qualies).

Anna Bondar (HUN): No. 114 ==========> No. 108 (A top-50 doubles player and a former top-50 singles, player, the 26-year-old reached the final of a $60K ITF on clay in Bellinzona, Switzerland).

Moyuka Uchijima (JPN): No. 143 ==========> No. 126 (The 22-year-old wins the $100K ITF in Zaragosa, after coming back from losing the first set to No. 1 seed Arantxa Rus 6-1 in the first round, and comingback to win that one).

Lois Boisson (FRA): No. 246 ==========> No. 205 (The 20-year-old – like most of the French women amid a very good crop of young French male players, hasn’t gotten much attention. But she is rising quickly and is 23-5 on the season at the lower levels. She has moved up nearly 100 spots in six weeks to a career high, during a run that includes a title at a $25K in Cyprus, another at a similar event in Spain – and a third straight title last week, at the $60K level in Switzerland).

Katrina Scott at the 2019 US Open juniors.

Katrina Scott (USA): No. 485 ==========> No. 412 (The once-precocious 14-year-old who played in the US Open juniors is now 19, a 6-footer finding it a tougher jump that perhaps she and those around her expected. At 16, she got a wild card into the US Open and beat Vikhlyantseva in the first round before pushing No. 22 seed Amanda Anisimova to three sets. It all went well at first, as she sneaked into the top 150 in Oct. 2022 when she was still 18. Then it sort of went south. But she’s won 10 of her last 11 matches in making one $25K final in Italy last month, and winning one in Jackson, Mississippi two weeks ago).

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Carson Branstine (CAN): No. 537 ==========> No. 492 (The Can-American finally got into the top 500. But she cut her ITF Tour short to … return to school at Texas A&M, where she was still taking classes and where she will rejoin the tennis squad. Branstine is 27-5 this season, mostly at events in Turkey and Tunisia where she began with no ranking at all and often had to qualify. She won two 15Ks, a $25K and made the final of another $25K from the qualifying, only to retire in the final after winning six matches).

Carson Branstine at the 2017 Australian Open juniors

Oksana Selekhmeteva (RUS): No. 641 ==========> No. 510 (The 21-year-old lefty, whose career high of No. 138 came in Aug. 2022, made a big jump last week with a semifinal in Zaragoza. Two tournaments ago, she was at No. 840. Selekhmeteva was at No. 172 at Roland Garros last year, which was her last tournament for eight months b efore she returned in January).

Mirra Andreeva (RUS): No. 39 ==========> No. 43 (After her furious wise in 2023 after making the Australian Open junior final at 15, Andreeva has been a lot more low-key lately. She’s only 6-4 on the season, and her last win came in the third round of the Australian Open, where she came back from almost being out to stun Diane Parry. Since then, she has lost i the first round of Dubai. And then in the first round of Indian Wells. That’s it. She’s back this week as the No. 5 seed in Rouen).

A very young Mirra Andreeva, at the Eddie Herr junior tournament in Dec. 2020.

Céline Naef (SUI): No. 148 ==========> No. 158 (With absences at the top of the Swiss org chart, Naef, 18, couldn’t defend the points earned from a semifinal at home in Switzerland, as she represented her country in BJK Cup last week in a sweep at the hands of Poland. That said, it was good experience; she took Magdalena Frech to three sets. And she got to face world No. 1 Iga Swiatek with the tie on the line, although she went down to defeat).

Timea Babos (HUN): No. 165 ==========> No. 180 (The former No. 1 is back to No. 64 in doubles. But she’s still working on getting her singles ranking back into the top 100. She won a $25K in Mississipi a year ago, but lost in the first round of a WTA 125 in Spain last week. She has two more ITF titles to defend in the next few weeks).

Osuigwe at Wimbledon in 2017, the freshly-minted Roland Garros junior champ.

Whitney Osuigwe (USA): No. 397 ==========> No. 454 (Still just 21, Osuigwe is near a career high in doubles at No. 126. But the single has been a struggle. She got close to the top 100 early – nearly five years ago, at age 17. But she’s currently at No. 454 after the points from her run to the final at a $25K last year fell off. Osuigwe was the No. 1 junior in the world in Oct. 2017, when she was just 15.  She was the Roland Garros junior girls’ champion in 2017).

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