WTA Rankings Report – As of April 22, 2024

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No change in the top five, despite the losses by the top three before the final. Because the gaps between them are fairly significant.

But still, lots of moves on the WTA Tour this week because instead of just having Stuttgart on offer last week, there was also a 250 in Rouen, France AND a WTA 125 on Oeiras, Portugal.

The winners are Elena Rybakina in Stuttgart, Sloane Stephens in Rouen and the fairly unknown Suzan Lamens in Oeiras.

ATP Rankings Report – As of April 22, 2024

The most intriguing movers are below, along with their opening opponents in Madrid – if they’re playing.

For the complete, updated WTA rankings effective Monday, click here.

Jasmine Paolini (ITA): No. 14 ==========> No. 13 (Another career high for the 28-year-old Italian, who made the quarterfinals in Stuttgart and took eventual champion Elena Rybakina to three sets)(Madrid No. 12 seed/Bye/Zhu or Jimenez Kasintseva)

Marta Kostyuk (UKR): No. 27 ==========> No. 21 (Another great week for Kostyuk, to add to great weeks in San Diego and Indian Wells even if she didn’t take home the big hardware. She is just 63 points behind Madison Keys to make it into the top 20 for the first time)(Madrid No. 25 seed/Bye/Davis or Sherif).

Sloane Stephens (USA): No. 39 ==========> No. 33 (Too late for a seed in Madrid, so the Rouen champ will have to play the first round. But she wins her first tournament title since Guadalajara in 2022 – only her second since Miami 2018. And with Karolina Muchova still out, she should snag a seed in Rome and likely at Roland Garros, as well)(Madrid: Martina Trevisan).

Arantxa Rus (NED): No. 53 ==========> No. 47 (Rus is back into the top 50 with her quarterfinal effort in Rouen. And she’s sneaking up on her career high of No. 41, reached last Augus. At age 33)(Madrid: [WC] Brenda Fruhvirtova).

Magda Linette (POL): No. 60 ==========> No. 48 (It’s been a tough year for the 32-year-old from Poland, who got into the top 20 at No. 19 a little over a year ago and was at No. 24 just three months ago before dropping out of the top 60. But she makes a dent in her ranking by making the Rouen final)(Madrid: Elisabetta Cocciaretto).

Clara Tauson (DEN): No. 87 ==========> No. 80 (We keep waiting for the former Australian Open junior champion, who quickly rose to No. 33 just two years ago but dealt with back issues for quite a while, to make another run. She did reach the final at the WTA 125 in Portugal to put a dent in her ranking)(Madrid Qs: [10] seed/vs Sramkova).

Julia Riera (ARG): No. 112 ==========> No. 94 (A first trip to the top 100 for the 21-year-old from Argentina, who beat Anna Bondár in the final of an ITF in Chiasso. Unfortunately for her, it’s too late for the Roland Garros main draw by a week, so she’ll have to do it the hard way)(Madrid Qs: [20] Sara Errani).

Suzan Lamens (NED): No. 163 ==========> No. 134 (The fairly unknown 24-year-old from the Netherlands moves up to a career high after winning the WTA 125 in Oeiras).

Polona Hercog (SLO): No. 200 ==========> No. 177 (The 33-year-old from Slovenia has slowly been coming back from a long injury, grinding it out at the ITF Level. She makes the final of the ITF in her homeland, and gets herself inside the top 200 again. Her career high of No. 35 came all the way back in 2011).

Lois Boisson (FRA): No. 205 ==========> No. 191 (Yet another leap for the 20-year-old from France, who makes the semis at an ITF in Chiassi, Italy and moves into the top 200 for the first time. A year ago, she was ranked No. 626).

Emma Raducanu (GBR): No. 303 ==========> No. 221 (Raducanu lops more than 80 spots off her ranking after making the Stuttgart quarterfinals. With a protected ranking of No. 103, she’s still a few spots out of making the Roland Garros main draw on her own ranking, though. And if a wild card isn’t forthcoming – let’s remember, they’ve got Caroline Wozniacki and Simona Halep and Osaka and a bunch of French players vying for those precious spots – she may end up having to do it the hard way).

Kristina Mladenovic (FRA): No. 252 ==========> No. 228 (The 30-year-old Frenchwoman, a former top 10 and top doubles player, has fallen off the radar as she tries to get her form back at the lower levels. She had a good week in Oeiras, though; she made the semifinals in singles, and the final in doubles).

Barbora Krejcikova (CZE): No. 24 ==========> No. 27 (At least she’s back. Krejcikova lost in the first round in Stuttgart. But she hadn’t been seen since Abu Dhabi in February. So that’s a good sign. Krejcikova has only won completed matches at the Australian Open this year – a quarter-final effort there. But that’s it)(Madrid No. 22 seed/Bye/French or Q).

Karolina Pliskova (CZE): No. 47 ==========> No. 53 (Pliskova, who showed signs of life earlier in the season by going 9-1 through winning the Transylvania Open and making the Doha semis, has gone low-profile again and drops out of the top 50 after losing in the second round of Rouen. She lost her opening matches in both Indian Wells and Miami)(Madrid: [WC] Emma Raducanu).

Caroline Dolehide (USA): No. 48 ==========> No. 56 (Dolehide was part of the US BJK Cup team that played the previous week, most of whom did not head right over to Europe to play on clay last week. But she drops points from winning a $25K in Florida a year ago. And there’s more to come in the next weeks; she has two semis at the $100K, another semi at a $60K, and a $60K title over the next month leading into Roland Garros. That’s 209 ranking points in all)(Madrid: Wang Yafan).

Peyton Stearns (USA): No. 79 ==========> No. 87 (From a high of No. 43 reached last September, Stearns has been having to defend quite a few points as she transitions to the WTA level full time. She didn’t help her cause by losing in the first round of Rouen, as points from getting to the final of a $100K in Charleston a year ago come off. She also has a quarterfinal in Rabat and a third round at Roland Garros to content with in the next month)(Madrid: Tatjana Maria).

Paula Badosa (ESP): No. 93 ==========> No. 101 (Badosa’s ranking held out just long enough to get past the Roland Garros deadline a week ago. Because after having to retire in the second round of Stuttgart against good pal Aryna Sabalenka, she drops out of the top 100 because of quarterfinal points earned a year ago. It’s an adductor injury this time, not the back. And she’s going to try to be ready to play her home-country WTA 1000 this week in Madrid. But it’s a short turnaround, with round-of-16 points to defend there, and quarterfinal points in Rome)(Madrid: Qualifier).

Naomi Osaka (JPN): No. 192 ==========> No. 197 (Osaka takes a step back, dropping a few spots after going to the 250 in Rouen – a rare appearance at a 250 for her, and not an easy turnaround to indoor clay after playing BJK Cup in Japan – and losing in the first round)(Madrid: Qualifier).

Eugenie Bouchard (CAN): No. 327 ==========> No. 346 (No word if Bouchard is ever returning to tennis – the WTA site still lists … Rennae Stubbs as her coach – but that number drops a little more with the match she won a year ago at a $100K ITF in Portugal falls off. Next are her points from Madrid a year ago, when she qualified and beat Dayana Yastremska in the first round. Without those, that number will drop outside the top 450).

Danka Kovinic (MNE): No. 251 ==========> No. 409(Kovinic, who has been out since last year’s US Open with a back injury, sees the points from a $100K ITF title a year ago drop off. She defeated Genie Bouchard, Marie Bouzkova, Sara Rossibes Tormo and Rebeka Masarova to win that one. And with that, she drops out of the top 400. Her career high of No. 46 came in 2016).