WTA Rankings Report – As of July 15, 2024

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A topsy-turvy Wimbledon, and a lot of commotion in the updated WTA Tour rankings for this lovely post-Wimbledon Monday.

Notable, of course, is Barbora Krejcikova, the former No. 2 who came into the tournament as the No. 31 seed – and leaves it with her second career major title, and a leap into the top 10.

And what of Jasmine Paolini, who is now a top-five player after back-to-back Grand Slam finals.

Lulu Sun broke through. Emma Raducanu showed very positive signs of life. And Donna Vekic, despite having her heart broken in the semifinals, is right up near the top 20 again.

It’s all here.

ATP Rankings Report – As of July 15, 2024

(All screenshots from the BBC).

For the complete, updated WTA Tour rankings, click here.

Jasmine Paolini (ITA): No. 7 =========> No. 5 (Although she was generally outplayed in both the Roland Garros and Wimbledon finls, that the 28-year-old Italian made two consecutive major finals when many more accomplished than she fell before the final hurdle is a remarkable achievement. And the outcome is that she is now a top-five player).

Danielle Collins (USA): No. 11 =========> No. 9 (Back inside the top 10 for the first time since Aug. 2022 for the American, who is headed to the Olympics).

Barbora Krejcikova (CZE): No. 32 =========> No. 10 (Back into the top 10 for the first-time Wimbledon champion, for the first time since the start of the season. Her second Grand Slam title, as the No. 32 seed, at Wimbledon, will warm her tennis heart for awhile).

Jelena Ostapenko (LAT): No. 14 =========> No. 11 (Ostapenko is about 150 points out of the top 10, after making the Wimbledon quarterfinals).

Donna Vekic (CRO): No. 37 =========> No. 21 (Just 20 points out of the top 20 for the semifinalist, who lost a heartbreaker in a third-set match tiebreak to Paolini. Her career high is No. 19, reached in Nov. 2019, and she’s not far).

Leylah Fernandez (CAN): No. 25 =========> No. 23 (Another little move up for the top Canadian, even though she went out in the second round at Wimbledon. It’s the highest she’s been since the end of the US Open in 2022. And now, she heads for an Olympic moment).

Yulia Putintseva (KAZ): No. 35 =========> No. 29 (Two spots away from her career high, reached in more than seven years ago, for the woman who upset world No. 1 Iga Swiatek and reached the fourth round at Wimbledon).

Lulu Sun (NZL): No. 123 =========> No. 53 (A life-changing tournament for the qualifier Sun, who rolled to the quarterfinals but finally ran out of gas, after seven singles matches. She’ll be at the Olympics, playing doubles with new doubles No. 1, Cana-Wiki Erin Routliffe).

Paula Badosa (ESP): No. 93 =========> No. 65 (It’s taken awhile, but Badosa is finally getting her ranking closer to where it should be, as the protected ranking won’t last much longer. She has a solid schedule planned on the summer hard-court circuit, as she’s skipping the Olympics).

Caroline Wozniacki (DEN): No. 91 =========> No. 76 (Wozniacki, who is playing the Olympics, made the third round at Wimbledon and won’t need a wild card at the US Open later this summer, after being denied one at Roland Garros).

Emma Raducanu (GBR): No. 135 =========> No. 94 (A nice bounce back from Raducanu with her fourth-round effort at Wimbledon, getting herself back into the top 100 and making things a bit more simple going forward. She’ll be playing the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. in two weeks).

Marina Stakusic (CAN): No. 164 =========> No. 152 (The Canadian qualified for her first Wimbledon and even though she lost in the first round, she still moves up and is on the doorstep of the top 150).

Sonay Kartal (GBR): No. 298 =========> No. 193 (Back into the top 200 and a career high for the 22-year-old, who qualified and made the third round at her home Slam. She first came on the radar as the “other girl” in a childhood video of Raducanu. But she announced herself during the fortnight. And now she’s meeting royalty!)

Oksana Selekhmeteva (RUS): No. 415 =========> No. 255 (Selekhmeteva, a 21-year-old who was off the Tour for eight months because of injury, has had a busy fortnight. She was outside the top 900 as recently as match. Selekhmeteva lost in the second round of Wimbledon qualifying, made the final at a $60K ITF in Montpellier and won another one in Rome on Sunday to move up 160 spots).

Jessica Pegula (USA): No. 5 =========> No. 6 (Pegula, who lost in the second round at Wimbledon to Wang Xinyu, drops out of the top five for the first time since Oct. 2022. That’s a remarkable streak of consistency, even if she through missing chunks of time in 2024).

Ons Jabeur (TUN): No. 10 =========> No. 16 (The 2023 finalist lost in the third round, and so drops out of the top 10).

Marketa Vondrousova (CZE): No. 6 =========> No. 18 (A big drop for last year’s champion, who was shocked in the first round but came into the tournament nursing an injury from earlier in the grass-court swing).

Elina Svitolina (UKR): No. 21 =========> No. 30 (A drop for Svitolina, who made the quarterfinals but didn’t defend all the points earned in the semis a year ago).

Mirra Andreeva (RUS): No. 23 =========> No. 31 (Down eight from her career high going into Wimbledon, Andreeva was shocked in a rain-delayed first round by fellow 17-year-old Brenda Fruhvirtova).

Taylor Townsend (USA): No. 76 =========> No. 87 (Townsend drops in singles, after losing in the first round. She actually earned three times as many points in losing in the final round of qualifying a year ago. Townsend came in after a nasty ankle roll earlier in the grass season. But she has won her first career Grand Slam – in women’s doubles, with Katerina Siniakova. So all good.

Lesia Tsurenko (UKR): No. 59 =========> No. 90 (Follow the bouncing ball to see where Tsurenko’s ranking is this week. She went out quickly in the first round of Wimbledon, losing her fourth-round points from a year ago. She began the season ranked No. 32).

Petra Kvitova (CZE): No. 125 =========> No. 204 (Kvitova, 34, drops her pounds from making the fourth round at Wimbledon a year ago. But in a bit of exquisite timing, she gave birth to her first child, Petr, during the Champsions. Which is fabulous).

Kaia Kanepi (EST): No. 283 =========> No. 397 (Where is Kanepi? She has played just three matches this year: first-round qualifying loss at the Australian Open, a first-round loss at a $60K ITF in April, and a first-round qualifying loss at Roland Garros. Kanepi’s career, which has had some great moments, has also been interruped a fair bit by injuries. And it’s easy to forget that she won the Roland Garros junior girls’ title in … 2001).