WTA Rankings Report – As of Nov. 4, 2024

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This week is the big one, as the year-end No. 1 will be decided in Riyadh.

At this point, though, Iga Swiatek has to win the WTA Finals, nothing less, to even have a shot. So it’s not looking good, even though you never know.

For the rest, there are bonus clauses to reach for ranking milestones. But the “regular season” is done now, with Diana Shnaider (her fourth) and Viktorija Golubic (her second – and first since 2016) winning the final two titles of the season.

ATP Rankings Report – As of Nov. 4, 2024

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

Diana Shnaider (RUS): No. 14 ========> No. 12 (What an end to the season for 20-year-old Shnaider, who wins her fourth WTA Tour title in Hong Kong – and she won on three different surfaces. She gets to a career high No. 12 to wrap up the season).

Katie Boulter (GBR): No. 29 ========> No. 23 (A final in Hong Kong puts the 28-year-old Brit at a career high of No. 23 to finish the season).

Rebecca Sramkova (SVK): No. 53 ========> No. 43 (Sramkova, 28, had a career season in 2024 – especially post the US Open. She made the final at Jiangxi, and finishes at a career high. She began the season at No. 131 and as recently as Feb. 2023 was outside the top 300).

Laura Siegemund (GER): No. 101 ========> No. 83 (At 36, Siegemund makes the Jiangxi semis and puts some distance between herself and the singles cutoff for the Australian Open in January. She’s a marvel).

Sonay Kartal (GBR): No. 95 ========> No. 88 (The 23-year-old Brit, who shocked in winning the WTA title in Monastir earlier in the fall, moves to another career high after making the final at the Hamburg ITF).

Zeynep Sonmez (TUR): No. 127 ========> No. 91 (It’s been awhile since a Turkish player broke through – since Cagla Buyukakcay. But the 22-year-old, who looks a little like Ana Ivanovic’s sweet younger sister, makes a top-100 breakthrough as she wins her first WTA Tour title. She made her first move by qualifying at Roland Garros in May; it’s been a nice trajectory ever since.

***Both Mérida champion Zeynep Sonmez and runnerup Ann Li burst into the top 100 on Sunday – making a good case for direct entry into the Australian Open.***

Ann Li (USA): No. 111 ========> No. 93 (Li, 24, was fairly invisible this season but has come on late to stay out of the AO qualifying. She had potentially two matches on Sunday in Mérida – she won the semi, but lost the final to Zeynep Sonmez. Her career high of No. 44 came in Jan. 2022).

Viktorija Golubic (SUI): No. 168 ========> No. 105 (The former No. 35, now 32, makes a big leap by winning the Jiangxi tournament as an unseeded player. It was her first title since her first one in Gstaad, all the way back in 2016. Golubic still has time this season to get back into the top 100, with no points to defend. A year ago, she went on a run in October at the ITF level and got herself into the 80s).

Polina Kudermetova (RUS): No. 133 ========> No. 114 (Veronika’s younger sister, 21, made the semis in Mérida – No. 104 if she wins the semi, No. 93 and into the top 100 if she wins the title. Kudermetova began the season ranked No. 187; if she keeps this up, they might give her a profile pic).

Alina Korneeva (RUS): No. 254 ========> No. 184 (It was nearly two years ago when Korneeva, just 15, won the Australia Open junior girls’ title over some young girl named … Mirra Andreeva. It’s been a slog since then, with injuries. But Korneeva gets back into the top 200 by making the semis in Mérida).

**Louisa Chirico during a match against Genie Bouchard at the 2017 Australian Open. She returned in 2021 after two years away with a partial rotator cuff tear. But it’s been tough getting back.**

Louisa Chirico (USA): No. 230 ========> No. 186 (Chirico, now 28 – where does the time go – also gets herself back into the top 200 by winning the Tevlin Challenger in Toronto. Her career high of No. 58 came a little more than eight years ago).

Kayla Cross (CAN): No. 312 ========> No. 273 (Another career high and a breakthrough into the top 300 for the 19-year-old Canadian, who posted some impressive wins in reaching the final of the $60K ITF in Toronto this past weekend).

Emerson Jones (AUS): No. 584 ========> No. 426 (Just 16, the top Aussie junior leaps more than 150 spots as the points from her ITF win in Sydney go on the board, putting her at another career high. A year ago, she was just jumping into the top 1000 in the WTA rankings. Jones was the AO junior girls’ runner-up, and is the No. 1 ranked girl in the ITF Junior rankings).

Nina Stojanovic (SRB): No. 560 ========> No. 431 (The former No. 81, back from a long injury layoff, is making good leaps in the rankings as she plays on a protected ranking. Her run to the Mérida quarterfinals moves her up nearly 130 spots).

Jasmine Paolini (ITA) (No. 4)
Diana Shnaider (RUS) (No. 12)
Katie Boulter (GBR) (No. 23)
Rebecca Sramkova (SVK) (No. 43)
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP) (No. 55)
Renata Zarazua (MEX) (No. 59)
Suzan Lamens (DEN) (No. 86)
Sonay Kartal (GBR) (No. 88)
Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) (No. 91)
Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) (No. 106)
Polina Kudermetova (RUS) (No. 114)
Mananchaya Sawangkaew (THA) (No. 134)

Anna Kalinskaya (RUS): No. 11 ========> No. 14 (Kalinskaya, who didn’t play last week, loses her points from getting to the Tampico final last year. And she’s the defending champion at the WTA 125 in Midland this week, too. She probably won’t lose any ground there. And all in all, despite a few injuries, she’s had a tremendous season).

Océane Dodin (FRA): No. 99 ========> No. 110 (Dodin, 28, always seems to be on the bubble to get main-draw entry into Grand Slams. This time, because she lost in the first round of the ITF in Nantes (after making the quarters in Poitiers a year ago), she drops out of contention unless she can get it back in the next few weeks. That’s going to be tough; she’s defending a pair of ITFs in November. Dodin still has made nearly $550,000 this season).

Alycia Parks (USA): No. 109 ========> No. 120 (The roller-coaster season for the former No. 40 is nearly over. But she didn’t help her case by playing in Asia – and then travelling all the way to Mexico to keep chasing points. She lost in the first round of the Mérida 250 event. This week, she’ll be at the Midland WTA 125 to try again).

Marina Stakusic (CAN): No. 116 ========> No. 128 (Stakusic won the Tampico WTA 125. But she drops points from winning the Tevlin Challenger last year, and lost in the second round of the larger tournament in Mérida. She, too, will try again in Midland to try to get into the top 100 before the end of the season. She’d have to win it, and a little more, to make it. She, too, needs a pic).

Brenda Fruhvirtova (CZE): No. 121 ========> No. 140 (The 17-year-old has been off the grid for awhile after reaching No. 87 in the world in July. She had played just two matches since Wimbledon, retiring at both an ITF in Germany and in the first round of the US Open. She’s back this week at the ITF in Ismaning).

Emina Bektas (USA): No. 141 ========> No. 205 (Bektas, who got herself into the top 100 and into the main draw at the Australian Open a year ago, has had a tough 2024 trying to defend those results. She drops the points from winning the Tampico ITF a year ago, and falls out of the top 200. She has quarterfinal points to defend in Midland).

***Mboko – with Kayla Cross, at a career high this week – made the Wimbledon junior doubles final in 2022.***

Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 302 ========> No. 347 (Mboko missed the Canadian ITFs; she hasn’t played since retiring in the semifinals of a similar event in Edmond, Oklahoma the week before that And because she made the semis in Toronto last year, she drops down a fair bit in the updated rankings).

Katherine Sebov (CAN): No. 324 ========> No. 349 (Sebov lost in the Toronto quarterfinals, and so drops from a year ago. She also lost in the first round of the Midland qualifying, so she can’t make anything up this week and has quarterfinal points dropping. Sebov beat Lulu Sun and Ashlyn Krueger in the first two rounds in Midland a year ago before losing to Alycia Parks. In retrospect, those were pretty good wins. But they’ve been harder to come by lately).