WTA Rankings Report – As of Nov. 11, 2024

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The WTA Tour season is over – mercifully, because how anyone has any energy left at this stage is a miracle.

Given that, it was even more impressive that Coco Gauff and Zheng Qinwen were able to muster up three hours of dramatic tennis in the season finale.

But with only the BJK Cup finals left (and no ranking points at stake), the next few weeks will be all about trying to get into position to get into the Australian Open main draw, or even the qualifying, at the lower-level tournaments around the world.

But these rankings will “officially” be the WTA Tour year-end rankings for 2024.

ATP Rankings Report – As of Nov. 11, 2024

Zheng, who began at No. 7 but made the final, moves up to a career high No. 5.

Barbora Krejcikova, who was a long way back but qualified because of her Wimbledon title and won two round-robin matches, moves up from No. 13 back into the top 10, at No. 10.

You hope those “year-end top 10” bonuses will kick in for her.

Beyond that, there really aren’t any moves in the top 60.

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

Zheng Qinwen (CHN): No. 7 =========> No. 5 (Zheng reaches a new career high and makes her year-end debut in the top five after a great run to the final in Riyadh.

Barbora Krejcikova (CZE): No. 13 =========> No. 10 (Krejcikova slid into the WTA Finals because of the new rule about Grand Slam champions getting a spot. But she did something with it, and ends the season in the top 10. It’s her first visit since . And despite going a pretty pedestrian 18-15 on the season, she earns more than $4 million).

Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU): No. 102 =========> No. 83 (The 34-year-old veteran gets herself out off the borderline as she moves up nearly 20 spots by winning the WTA 125 in Cali, Colombia and guarantees herself a main-draw spot at the Australian Open).

Rebecca Marino (CAN): No. 115 =========> No. 103 (Marino wins Midland going away, after saving match point earlier in the tournament. But it’s still not enough to get her into the main in Melbourne. The conundrum she faces is that she’s playing BJK Cup – and even though Canada doesn’t play until next weekend, it’s still two weeks where she can’t earn any points. And it’s unlikely she’ll get off the bench – she had this experience a year ago. On the plus side, there’s some cash involved).

Océane Dodin (FRA): No. 110 =========> No. 104 (If it’s the end of the year, it must be Dodin time. Her run to the ITF final in Pétange puts her back close to the top 100 – less than 60 points).

Alycia Parks (USA): No. 120 =========> No. 112 (Parks made the Midland final, her arm and shoulder wrapped up heavily for the final match, in which she was routed by Canadian Marino).

Daria Snigur (UKR): No. 158 =========> No. 141 (Snigur, 22, gets to the the final at the Ismaning ITF. Her career high is No. 105 exactly two years ago. She’s played quite a lot this year, qualifying at the Australian Open and Wimbledon. But she actually ends up five spots lower than when she began in January).

Lauren Davis (USA): No. 387 =========> No. 309 (Davis, a former No. 26 who is now 31, was out a long time with injury and her return has been slow. She does make the semifinals in Midland and puts a nice dent in that ranking, though).

Ksenia Efremova (FRA): No. 879 =========> No. 732 (The 15-year-old, who was in the Patrick Mouratoglou academy loop at a very young age and recently took the Varvara Gracheva route and became a French citizen, wins the $15K ITF in Monastir and moves to a career high. She’s at No. 62 in the ITF junior rankings)

**McNally and Gauff at the US Open back in 2019.**

Caty McNally (USA): No. 1020 =========> No. 817 (McNally, still only 22 and a finalist to Coco Gauff’s champion at the 2018 Roland Garros junior girls’ event, is the American answer to Karolina Muchova. She has ALL the shorts, and serve-volleys even more. But she, too, has had a career beset by injuries after reaching No. 54 in singles 18 months ago and No. 11 in doubles in 2022 – with eight career titles. McNally was out from 2023 Wimbledon through to early 2024. She played a couple of matches – and then was out from the end of February. The good knews is that she returned in Midland last week and lost a tight one to eventual finalist Alycia Parks in the second round. Hopefully that means she’s back for good; she has a protected ranking she can work with).

Zheng Qinwen (CHN) (No. 5)
Anca Todoni (ROU) (No. 113)
Talia Gibson (AUS) (No. 125)
Wei Sijia (CHN) (No. 131)
Mananchaya Sawangkaew (THA) (No. 133)
Antonia Ruzic (CRO) (No. 145)

Ann Li (USA): No. 93 =========> No. 99 (Li put herself in good stead by making the final at the WTA Tour event in Mérida the previous week. But it was a tough turnaround going all the way back up north to Michigan, indoors, in the space of a few days. And her first-round loss there drops her close to that cutoff line again).

Brenda Fruhvirtova (CZE): No. 140 =========> No. 163 (The 17-year-old hadn’t been seen much since Wimbledon with one second-set retirement (one game) and one first-set retirement at the US Open (after three games). She returned in Ismaning last week and lost in the first round. She Was defending a $40K title from a year ago, and is defending another in a few weeks. Despite the state of her ranking, she still has pulled in over $420K this year).

Stacey Fung (CAN): No. 253 =========> No. 292 (Fung didn’t play last week – she’s back at it next week – and drops points from Making the final at the Tevlin Challenger a year ago. She needs to do some things to end the season if she wants to get back down to Australia for the qualifying in January, and starts at a $40K in Mexico this week).