WTA Rankings Report – As of Oct. 14, 2024

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Before the final, Aryna Sabalenka was about 400 points behind Iga Swiatek, who has skipped the Asian swing.

With the win, she’s just 70 points behind. It’s been awhile since anyone was that close. And everyone else is at least 4,000 points behind those two.

So the race for year-end No. 1 will likely go right down to the wire – notably, we’ll see if Swiatek comes back for the year-end finals in Saudi Arabia.

And keep an eye on the two Slovak Teenagers who made the final at the Bratislava ITF. The winner is just 15; the runner up a seasoned 17.

Maybe Slovakia is the new Czechia!

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ATP Rankings Report – As of Oct. 14, 2024

Coco Gauff (USA): No. 4 =========> No. 3 (A combination of Gauff’s semifinal effort in Wuhan and Pegula dropping points after a third-round loss moves the 30-year-old back up to No. 3).

Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA): No. 12 =========> No. 10 (Haddad Maia made the third round in Wuhan, which isn’t an amazing result. But in a tightly packed section of the rankings it puts her back into the top 10 and ties her career high – notably because of Krejcikova’s loss of nearly 300 points from a year ago).

Anna Kalinskaya (RUS): No. 13 =========> No. 12 (Another spot up for Kalinskaya, who made the third round in Wuhan. She has gone from No. 80 at the start of the season. And in that tranche of the rankings there’s no reason she couldn’t make a run at the top 10. Which is pretty crazy).

Magdalena Frech (POL): No. 27 =========> No. 24 (Underrated season for the 26-year-old from Poland, who made the quarterfinals in Wuhan – beating her first top-10 opponent, Emma Navarro, on the way – and gets to another career high. She was pondering retirement before the start of 2024, and she was feeling burned out. halfway through the season. But it’s been a big breakthrough).

Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS): No. 33 =========> No. 28 (Alexandrova’s ranking fluctuates anywhere from 15 to 35, depending on a result one week, or the lack of one. So a quarterfinal in Wuhan last week is an “up” for her).

Wang Xinyu (CHN): No. 51 =========> No. 39 (She’s been quiet this year after a solid rise in 2023. But Wang making the Wuhan semifinals was just what the doctor ordered to get back into the top 40).

Bernarda Pera (USA): No. 95 =========> No. 79 (The former No. 27 qualifies and makes the third round in Wuhan, taking the pressure off in terms of being on the borderline to get straight into the Australian Open).

Hailey Baptiste (USA): No. 102 =========> No. 80 (Great effort for the qualifier to get to the round of 16 in Wuhan, and move comfortably into the top 100 again and to a career high).

Olga Danilovic (SRB): No. 103 =========> No. 86 (Danilovic is at a career high after winning the $100K ITF in Barcelona. She rolled over the experienced Arantxa Rus 6-2, 6-0 in the final. The former top junior prospect has hovered around this area for awhile now, at 23. She qualified at Roland Garros and beat Trevisan, Collins and Vekic on the way to the second week. A year ago, she beat Paolini on the way from the qualifying to the third round there, and made the second round out of the qualifying in 2022. But everywhere else, with rare exceptions, she has been stymied at the qualifying stage. This should ensure she can skip that stage for the foreseeable future. And she has nothing to defend the rest of the way this year).

Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 319 =========> No. 284 (Mboko, now 18, hasn’t played much in North America since leaving the Tennis Canada umbrella and relocating to Belgium. But she returned in this fall and made the semifinals of a $60K in Edmond, Oklahoma. That’s enough to get her back into the top 300 and at a career high. She’s due to work on backing that up at the Calgary Challenger this week).

Renata Jamrichová (SVK): No. 468 =========> No. 367 (The 17-year-old made the ITF final in Bratislava, losing in three sets to her even younger compatriot. She began the season outside the top 600 in the WTA rankings, and is pretty much out there full-time. Jamrichová played just three junior events in 2024: the Australian Open, which she won and after which she became junior No. 1, Roland Garros – where she made the quarters – and Wimbledon. Which she also won. Looks like she’s ready).

Mia Pohankova (SVK): No. 962 =========> No. 514 (Is SVK the new CZE? Another young one – just 15, is piling up the points after a quarterfinal effort in Trnava, and title at the $60K in Bratislava over her fellow teen Slovakian wild card. That’s a 450-spot jump in a couple of weeks. Pohankova is in the top 50 in the juniors. But even as recently as Roland Garros she had to qualify to even make the junior main draw. This was just her third pro event; she qualified and made the quarters in Bratislava a year ago – but it as a few weeks later, so she’ll have to defend those points. Her only other pro event was a $15K in Slovakia two weeks ago, where she made the quarters. One to watch.

 

Barbora Krejcikova (CZE): No. 10 =========> No. 13 (Krejcikova, who only has to stay in the top 20 to nail down a spot at the WTA Finals because of her Wimbledon win, drops nearly 300 points after making the third round in Wuhan. A year ago, she made the final in Zhengzhou, which was held this week as Wuhan sort of fell off the cliff for a few years).

Leylah Fernandez (CAN): No. 28 =========> No. 34 (Fernandez had points to defend from winning the Hong Kong WTA 250 a year ago. Making the fourth round was a great result in terms of the wins she put in the board and the fact that she quashed a four-match, four-tournament winning sreak going back to a tough one in a third-set tiebreak vs. Jessica Pegula in Cincinnati. But it wasn’t enough to stop the rankings drop. She’s the No. 2 seed in Ningbo this week, with semifinal points to defend from an event in Nanchang last year).

Anhelina Kalinina (UKR): No. 49 =========> No. 62 (Out of the top 60 as the idle Kalinina drops points from a third-round effort a year ago.  She is defending quarterfinal points from a 500 in Zhengzhou a year ago this week. Kalinina has lost in the first round of four of her last five tournaments).

Laura Siegemund (GER): No. 68 =========> No. 89 (Siegemund, 36, lost in the first round in Wuhan and so drops points from qualifying and making the quarters in Zhengzhou last year. She’s defending quarterfinal points from Nanchang this week as well).

Anna Blinkova (RUS): No. 84 =========> No. 99 (The 26-year-old’s career high of No. 34 came after the Canadian event in 2023. She is capable of big wins and early defeats. But she didn’t play Wuhan last week, and thus drops making the semifinals in Hong Kong a year ago).

Viktorija Golubic (SUI): No. 97 =========> No. 124 (Golubic didn’t play last week, either. And with points from a WTA 125 title in Rouen a year ago falling off, she has taken herself out of the top 100 and is looking at the qualifying in Melbourne. It doesn’t help that she has more points – 140 – coming off this week from a $100K title last year in Shrewsbury).

Martina Trevisan (ITA): No. 112 =========> No. 133 (Ranked No. 18 just 17 months ago, Trevisan has had a VERY quiet season as she’s 20-29 on the year. That’s a … LOT of tournaments. And she has … 18 opening losses, plus another one in the first round of a main draw after qualifying. With her loss in the first round of Wuhan qualifying, she drops even further because of Hong Kong semifinal points from last year).

Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE): No. 181 =========> No. 204 (Fruhvirtova loses in the first round of qualifying both in Wuhan and Osaka, and tumbles out of the top 200. She might well have been better off trying to get back in the winning track at smaller events. But we don’t make her schedule).

Iva Jovic (USA): No. 216 =========> No. 246 (A week after winning a higher-level ITF, Jovic loses in the first round to Canadian Victoria Mboko at another ITF in Edmond, Okla and falls back down form her career high. She is looking for that USTA Australian Open reciprocal wild card, and that loss won’t help her case. But there are a couple of $100K ITFs in the U.S. coming up).

Vera Zvonareva (RUS): No. 465 =========> No. 745 (Retired, basically – at least from singles – Zvonareva is coaching in the middle east and watching her ranking wind down).

 

A new feature this week: a list of the players in the top 150 who have tied or reached their career-high ranking this week.

Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) (No. 12)
Magdalena Frech (POL) (No. 24)
Rebecca Sramkova (SVK) (No. 52)
Renata Zarazua (MEX) (No. 71)
Hayley Baptiste (USA) (No. 80)
Olga Danilovic (SRB)(No. 86)
Maya Joint (AUS) (No. 110)
Ella Seidel (GER) (No. 121)
Talia Gibson (AUS) (No. 128)
Ena Shibahara (JPN) (No. 139)

 

(Siniakova and Townsend, despite not being in the top 8, have qualified on the basis of their Roland Garros title – just like Barbora Krejcikova in singles because she won Wimbledon).

 

WTA Rankings Report – As of Oct. 7, 2024

ATP Rankings Report – As of Sept. 30, 2024

 

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