WTA Rankings Report – As of July 1, 2024

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This will be the last rankings update for two weeks, as the tours don’t do it on the middle Monday of Grand Slam tournaments.

(So any Challengers and ITF results that move the needle next week won’t be reflected until the July 15 edition).

But these pre-Slam updates are always fascinating. Because so many of the top players are focused on the big one, and they are always opportunities, at fairly high-level events, for surprise results and big rises.

This Monday’s update is no exception. There are no changes in the top 10, although No. 7 Jasmine Paolini got to within 250 points of No. 6 Marketa Vondrousova by getting to the Eastbourne semifinals (and Vondrousova is defending 2,000 points at Wimbledon).

For the complete WTA Tour rankings update, click here.

ATP Rankings Report – As of July 1, 2024

Daria Kasatkina (RUS): No. 14 ===========> No. 12 (Kasatkina looked pretty tense the entire time. But she finished strongly in defeating Leylah Fernandez to win the WTA 500 at Eastbourne on Saturday. It was worth two spots in the rankings to her).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [PR] Zhang Shuai
Ranking points to defend: 130 (3R)

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Emma Navarro (USA): No. 19 ===========> No. 17 (Navarro made the Bad Homburg semis and moved up two spots, to get back to her career high reached three weeks ago).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [PR] Wang Qiang
Ranking points to defend: 10 (L1R)

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Leylah Fernandez (CAN): No. 30 ===========> No. 25 (Fernandez will be disappointed in the loss in Eastbourne, especially the way she just … went away at the end. She’s a player who never finds much positive in a great week that didn’t end the way she expected it to end. But her ranking is back inside the top 30 for the first time since … Sept. 2022, when she was ranked No. 14 but her points from making the 2021 US Open final dropped off. And she has every right to be confident as Wimbledon begins even though she hasn’t done much there so far in her career).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: Lucia Bronzetti
Ranking points to defend: 70 (L2R)

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Diana Shnaider (RUS): No. 47 ===========> No. 30 (Until not so long ago, Shnaider, still just 20, was balancing playing college tennis and pro tennis. It seemed fairly clear that she was on an upward path towards leaving North Carolina State behind. But few would have predicted she would win two WTA tournaments in the first half of the season – including Bad Homburg on Saturday. She’s at a career high, needless to say).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: Karolina Pliskova
Ranking points to defend: 20 (L2R qualifying)

Donna Vekic (CRO): No. 49 ===========> No. 37 (The former No. 19 is back inside the top 40 with her run to the Bad Homburg final. She’ll be a tough unseeded floater at SW 19).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: Wang Xiyu
Ranking points to defend: 130 (3R)

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Viktoriya Tomova (BUL): No. 58 ===========> No. 48 (It’s an unlikely run into the top 50 for the first time for the 29-year-old Bulgarian, who qualified in Bad Homburg and made the semifinals. Just a month ago, before Roland Garros, she was at No. 84).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: Wang Xinyu
Ranking points to defend: 70 (L2R)

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Peyton Stearns (USA): No. 59 ===========> No. 52 (Stearns makes a nice move up even though she only won one round at Bad Homburg; it’s a very tightly-packed section of the rankings).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: Daria Saville
Ranking points to defend: 10 (L1R)

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Ashlyn Krueger (USA): No. 87 ===========> No. 75 (Krueger qualified and won a round at Eastbourne, losing in quick order to Fernandez. It’s not a huge number of wins but Krueger, also, is in a tightly-packed section of the draw where no one else really did anything).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [5] Jessica Pegula
Ranking points to defend: 20 (L2R qualifying)

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Caroline Wozniacki (DEN): No. 112 ===========> No. 91 (Wozniacki, who hadn’t played since Madrid, had to retire in her quarterfinal match in Bad Homburg. But mission accomplished, she’s pretty much guaranteed she can get into the US Open in August without a wild card, by getting nicely back into the top 100. She’s a wild card into Wimbledon).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [Q] Alycia Parks
Ranking points to defend: None (DNP)

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Paula Badosa (ESP): No. 113 ===========> No. 93 (Badosa, who has been operating on a protected ranking, gets to the Bad Homburg quarterfinals and she, too, gets herself back into the top 100 in the process and faces a tough opponent at Wimbledon).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: Karolina Muchova
Ranking points to defend: 70 (L2R)

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Emma Raducanu (GBR): No. 168 ===========> No. 135 (Slowly but surely, the 21-year-old Brit is getting her ranking up. This jump is from making the Eastbourne quarterfinals, although she’s still getting by on wild cards. With a good run at the All-England Club, where she didn’t play a year ago, she could go a ways to make that a moot point).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [22] Ekaterina Alexandrova
Ranking points to defend: None (DNP)

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Tereza Valentova (CZE): No. 335 ===========> No. 268 (Yup, another talented Czech rising up the rankings, as the 17-year-old – ranked far too low to play Wimbledon qualifying – wins the ITF in Stare Splavy and jumps well into the top 300. Valentóva, who won the Roland Garros juniors in singles and doubles  a few weeks ago, began the season ranked No. 690. She is 30-2 on the season in the pros).

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Aneta Kucmova (CZE): No. 436 ===========> No. 346 (Valentova’s finals opponent in Stare Splavy isn’t a kid – she’s 24 – but she’s another Czech on the rise with a new career best Monday. She’ll blow by her previous best, reached in Aug. 2022.)

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Cadence Brace (CAN): No. 482 ===========> No. 420 (The 19-year-old Canadian sees the points from her win at the Wichita ITF two weeks ago go on the computer and put a dent in her drop in fortunes over the last year. Notably, she has a … 14-year-old sister, Britney – yes, like Spears – who has just started on the ITF junior circuit).

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Julieta Pareja (USA): No. 9999 ===========> No. 969 (At just 15, the American got a wild card into the ITF in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. two weeks ago – and won it. The local – from Carlsbad, Calif. – had just earned her first pro point three weeks before with her first ITF main draw win, and followed that up with a quarterfinal the next week. A lot of the players on this SoCal ITF stretch are West Coast college players on summer break, so she’s a fair bit younger than all of them.  Pareja just finished her freshman year in high school; she’s ranked No. 197 on the ITF junior list).

Sloane Stephens (USA): No. 45 ===========> No. 50 (It’s hard to figure where Stephens is at, at age 31. Sometimes she plays like the best version of Sloane Stephens; other times she just goes down without much of a fight. Her loss in the first round of Eastbourne – albeit with a tough draw against Raducanu, was an example of the latter. She gets another one at Wimbledon).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [16] Victoria Azarenka
Ranking points to defend: 70 (L2R)

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Lucia Bronzetti (ITA): No. 64 ===========> No. 81 (Bronzetti qualified at Bad Homburg – I mean, who DIDN’T qualify there last week? – but lost in the first round to eventual finalist Vekic. A year ago, she made the final being straight into the draw, despite having the same ranking).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [PR] Bianca Andreescu
Ranking points to defend: 10 (L1R)

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Petra Martic (CRO): No. 74 ===========> No. 85 (Martic lost in the final round of Eastbourne qualifying, but got in as a lucky loser and lost in the first round of the main draw. Last year, she went from the qualifying to the quarterfinals, losing to eventual champion Madison Keys).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [WC] Francesca Jones
Ranking points to defend: 130 (3R)

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Rebeka Masarova (ESP): No. 97 ===========> No. 109 (Masarova, who made the quarters in Bad Homburg last year, didn’t play this year and drops out of the top 100 as a result. She was already straight into Wimbledon, though, with the earlier deadline).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: [WC] Francesca Jones
Ranking points to defend: 70 (2R)

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Bianca Andreescu (CAN): No. 165 ===========> No. 176 (Andreescu had a good result in Bad Homburg a year ago, even though only a month later she’d be out for 10 months. So by losing in the first round this year to Anna Blinkova – after making the second round last year and losing to Masarova – she takes a drop in the rankings. Her protected ranking of No. 64 did get her into the Olympics, although she’ll need another wild card to get into her home event in Toronto next month).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: Lucia Bronzetti
Ranking points to defend: 130 (3R)

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Martina Capurro Taborda (ARG): No. 161 ===========> No. 185 (Capurro Taborda was on a roll this time last year – at small $25K ITF events where she put together a 27-1 winning streak to go from outside the top 400 to inside the top 200. But this year – having improved her fortunes enough to get in – she lost in the first round of Wimbledon qualifying to alternate Valentina Ryser. Gone are some of those points).
First-round Wimbledon opponent: Lost in qualifying
Ranking points to defend: 59 (From 2023 ITFs)

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Jill Teichmann (SUI): No. 197 ===========> No. 223 (Teichmann, whose career high of No. 21 came almost exactly two years ago, inexplicably has her tumble down the rankings continue after dropping her points from a second-round effort at Bad Homburg. This year, she lost in the first round of Wimbledon qualifying to Daria Snigur)

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Stacey Fung (CAN): No. 319 ===========> No. 391 (Things were only looking up for the 27-year-old Canadian, who reached a career high of No. 222 four months ago and made the qualifying at the Australian Open. She also played United Cup and got to play mixed doubles with Félix Auger-Aliassime. But it’s been downhill since … She didn’t play after winning a $25K in Wichita, Kansas this time last year, has won just one match since early April, and is currently home in Vancouver).

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