WTA Rankings Report – As of Aug. 5, 2024

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No points at the Olympics. But the alternative of a WTA 500 in Washington, D.C. was of interest to many.

And combine that with the other ITF-level events and a lot of players were able to make moves.

Some, of course, sacrificed ranking points and spots because of the Olympics, too.

Notably – World No. 2 Coco Gauff, who lost those points for winning in Washington last year while Aryna Sabalenka made the semifinals. She made up nearly 700 points on that No. 2 spot, although she’s sill a fair bit behind.

But wild card Paula Badosa got what she came for in D.C. – even if it probably exceeded her expectations – by taking the title as a wild card.

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

ATP Rankings Report – As of Aug. 5, 2024

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS): No. 33 ===========> No. 29 (Pavlyuchenkova didn’t do much in D.C. ; she won a round. But it was enough to move her back into the top 30 again. Pavlyuchenkova gets No. 12 seed Victoria Azarenka in the first round in Toronto).

Marie Bouzkova (CZE): No. 43 ===========> No. 36 (Another TOUGH, tough loss for Bouzkova, who has had more than her share. But she did well getting to the D.C. final and moves back into the top 40. She faces No. 13 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia in the first round in Toronto, where she’s had some great moments).

Paula Badosa (ESP): No. 62 ===========> No. 40 (A much better number next to Badosa’s name, after she wins the WTA 500 in D.C. as a wild card. She’s back in the top 40 for the first time in a year – just in time as her protected ranking starts running out of oxygen. It’s her first title since Sydney at the start of 2022. Badosa will play Clara Tauson in the first round in Toronto)

Emma Raducanu (GBR): No. 89 ===========> No. 69 (Raducanu lost a tough one from a winning position in the D.C. quarterfinals. But she still makes a nice leap in the rankings. She is not playing in Toronto this week).

Taylor Townsend (USA): No. 78 ===========> No. 71 (Townsend made the second round in D.C. but it worked out well for her ranking. She is into the final round of qualifying in Toronto. She also won the D.C. doubles – with one win, two walkovers and then a win in the final. Nice work if you can get it).

Robin Montgomery (USA): No. 131 ===========> No. 107 (Montgomery was already at a career high when she went to Washington as a wild card last week and made the quarterfinals. So it’s another career high for the 19-year-old. As is often the case she wasn’t able to ride the momentum; she lost in the first round of qualifying to Harriet Dart on Sunday).

Nuria Parrizas Diaz (ESP): No. 144 ===========> No. 116 (Up as high as No. 45 in March, 2022 in a late-career bloom, the 33-year-old Spaniard won an ITF on Maspalomas and leaps nearly 30 spots).

Amanda Anisimova (USA): No. 176 ===========> No. 132 (Anisimova took a wild card into the qualifying in D.C. and made the quarterfinals, which was worth a nice bump to her real ranking. The conditions got to her in that match, her fifth of the week. The last time Anisimova played five matches in a week was when she made the Wimbledon quarterfinals two years ago. She used her protected ranking of No. 61 to squeeze into the main draw in Toronto, where she will play Caroline Dolehide – who, as it happens, was the player who defeated her in D.C.)

Maria Sakkari (GRE): No. 8 ===========> No. 9 (Sakkari made the D.C. final a year ago – beating Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys and Leylah Fernandez before losing to Gauff in the final. so she slips behind Danielle Collins who, even though she didn’t do any earning, moves up to within one spot of her career high. Sakkari was one of many who withdrew from Toronto).

Linda Noskova (CZE): No. 27 ===========> No. 32 (Noskova had a nice run in doubles at the Olympics, if not in singles where she lost in the first round to Wang Xiyu. But she drops points from making the final of the Prague Open – held on hard court in July last year – and falls out of the top 30. She’s not playing in Toronto).

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK): No. 67 ===========> No. 75 (Schmiedlova gave up some ranking round to take the ITF’s pass into the Olympics. But she made the most of it, going on a great run that was only stopped in the semifinals, and in the bronze medal match against Iga Swiatek. Schmiedlova has more points to defend in two weeks, a semis result from a WTA 125 in Barranquilla).

Brenda Fruhvirtova (CZE): No. 87 ===========> No. 97 (Fruhvirtova hasn’t been around much since Wimbledon, where she shocked Mirra Andreeva in the first round. She loses in the first round of an ITF in Hechingen, retirning down 1-6, 0-2. She also retired at another tournament just before Wimbledon. Her opportunities are bit limited by the age-eligibility rule, but it’s been up and down in 2024., and drops points from winning a $60K ITF last year).

Nao Hibino (JPN): No. 96 ===========> No. 159 (Luckily for her it happened after the US Open deadline. But Hibino drops a lot of points from a year ago, when she went from the qualifying to the title in Prague. and lost in the final of qualifying this year. She could have made it as a lucky loser, but all those final-round qualifiers seemed to have hit the road by the time a spot opened up on Thursday. Hibino headed to Toronto, where is in the final round of qualifying on Monday).

Lauren Davis (USA): No. 296 ===========> No. 410 (Davis, now 30, is coming back from an injury that kept her out from Guadalajara last September, to Charleston this past April. But it hasn’t really happened. She’s lost in the first round in her six events, and hasn’t won more than one match when she’s been in qualifying. She drops points from last year’s Citi Open and now is out of the top 400).