WTA Rankings Report – As of July 22, 2024 (updated)

Zheng Qinwen was the only top-20 player in action this past week. And she was actually defending points – without making the final in Palermo she would have dropped down a spot to No. 8 from her current No. 7.

But she did it, in a terrific final over Karolina Muchova.

In Budapest, the mighty-mite Diana Shnaider wins her third title of the year – on her third different surface.

Lots of other moves this week, as you can see below.

For the complete WTA rankings update for Monday, click here.

ATP Rankings Report – As of July 22, 2024

Diana Shnaider (RUS): No. 28 ==========> No. 23 (Schnaider was the No. 1 seed and the only top 50 player in action in the Budapest event. And she won it, for her third title this year to move up to yet another career-high ranking. She’s having a great breakout season).

Karolina Muchova (CZE): No. 35 ==========> No. 29 (What great news it is what Muchova, after missing 10 months, seems to be healthy again. She made the Palermo final and moves back into the top 30. She is looking good with the Olympics coming on clay just around the corner).

Diane Parry (FRA): No. 58 ==========> No. 52 (Parry made the Palermo semifinals. She, too, has a nice bit of momentum heading into her “home” Olympics).

Jaqueline Cristian (ROU): No. 66 ==========> No. 61 (A quarterfinalist in Palermo, the 26-year-old Romanian is just three spots (less than 50 points) off a career high reached in Jan. 2022).

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK): No. 79 ==========> No. 70 (The maddeningly inconsistent Slovak made the Budapest semis and with it, made a nice leap in the rankings).

Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR): No. 134 ==========> No. 104 (The 30-year-old has been as high as No. 29, but she meanders up and down the rankings from year to year. Making the Budapest final is a nice move for her).

Eva Lys (GER): No. 129 ==========> No. 108 (A lovely 22-year-old from Germany, Lys reaches a career high with her semifinal effort in Budapest. She’ll look to keep that momentum going in Prague this week).

Alexandra Eala (PHI): No. 155 ==========> No. 143 (If it feels as though the Filipino player has been around a lot longer than her 19-year-old would dictate, it’s because she has. It’s been a slow, steady climb but she’s at another career best this week, with her victory in Vitoria Gasteiz).

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND): No. 231 ==========> No. 197 (Another former junior Slam champion – that was all the way back in 2020 and she’s still only 18 now – has lived a decade in a few years as she rose to No. 121 at age 16, but has dropped down since. Her final in Vitoria Gasteiz moves her back into the top 200).

Carson Branstine (CAN): No. 334==========> No. 314 The 23-year-old Can-American is at another career high, after making the Granby quarterfinals. She is at 34-6 on the season, all levels combined).

Stacey Fung: No. 417 ==========> No. 364 (It wasn’t so long ago that Fung was at a career high No. 222. It was just five months ago. But it’s been a tough year, and she dropped outside the top 400. But a good effort to get to the semifinals at the Granby Challenger last week is a stepping stone. Fung is in Toronto training the next couple of weeks ahead of the National Bank Open).

Kayla Cross (CAN): No. 638 ==========> No. 487 (The 19-year-old Canadian shows what can happens with one great week – even if it’s not at the WTA level. Her run to the final/victory finally puts her into the top 500 in the singles rankings, a career high).

Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP): No. 59 ==========> No. 71 (A second-round loss in Budapest means a drop out of the top 70 for the Spaniard, who made the Palermo semifinals last year. She’s also headed to the Olympics. On the plus side, at least she won a match; Sorribes Tormo had lost her last five first-round matches, going back to Roland Garros, without so much as winning even one set).

Nadia Podoroska (ARG): No. 71 ==========> No. 85 (Podoroska lost in the first round in Budapest, after making the semifinals a year ago. She’ll go at it again in Prague this week before heading to Paris).

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Mayar Sherif (EGY): No. 67 ==========> No. 87 (Sherif made the semis in Palermo last year after winning it in 2022, but was upset by Ajla Tomljanovic in the first round this year).

Ana Bogdan (ROU): No. 68 ==========> No. 96 (Bogdan won the WTA 125 in Iasi, Romania a year ago. But she had to play the qualifying in Budapest this year, and lost in the first round. That’s a big chunk gone, although it comes past the US Open deadline so there’s no concern about getting straight in there).

Daria Snigur (UKR): No. 105 ==========> No. 131 (At a career high last week, the 22-year-old drops back down again after losing in the first round of an ITF in Vitoria Gasteiz. She won it in 2023).

Rebecca Marino (CAN): No. 141 ==========> No. 151 (Marino made the semis in Granby a year ago, but didn’t play it this year. She’s back in action this week in a $100K ITF in Portugal).

Maria Timofeeva (RUS): No. 103 ==========> No. 160 (The 20-year-old lost in the second round in Budapest, dropping most of her points from her breakthrough there last year. She went from the qualifying to the title, cutting her ranking almost in half from No. 246 to No. 129. But she’s sort of treaded water since then, so there was no buffer if she dropped those points. She’s in Iasi, Romania this week).

Kayla Day (USA): No. 125 ==========> No. 161 (Day got to No. 84 in the world earlier this year, but drops her points from winning the Granby $100K ITF a year ago, as she was idle last week).

Katherine Sebov (CAN): No. 235 ==========> No. 281 (The 25-year-old Canadian has had a tough year, starting in Australia with a wrist injury that cost her some time. She made the Granby ITF final a year ago, but has been playing a series of ITF in Portugal this past month, and lost in the first round of one of them this past week).

Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 395 ==========> No. 421 (Mboko drops outside the top 400, after her points from winning the ITF $60K in Saskatoon a year ago fell off. But when the points from the title at a smaller event in Darmstedt, Germany last week go on the computer, she’ll get some of those points back).