WTA Rankings Report – As of Jan. 27, 2025

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MELBOURNE, Australia – The first Grand Slam tournament of the season is done and dusted.

And with that, come the major, game-changing rankings moves that often accompany it.

In this case, the big moved is Madison Keys, who won her first career Grand Slam title as the No. 19 seed, beating the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the world en route to the title.

With Sabalenka doing one round worse than last year, and Swiatek doing one round better, there has been a swing of 1350 points and that means that Swiatek is now less than 200 points away from the No. 1 ranking.

For the full WTA rankings update, click there.

ATP Rankings Report – As of Jan. 27, 2025

Elena Rybakina (KAZ): No. 7 ==========> No. 5 (Rybakina’s coaching situation is in turmoil. But she still made the fourth round at the Australian Open and, helped by Zheng Qinwen’s drop, is back in the top five).

Madison Keys (USA): No. 14 ==========> No. 7 (Keys had already risen from No. 21 to No. 20 after Auckland, and to No. 14 after Adelaide. So with the win in Melbourne, she cut two-thirds of her ranking out in less than a month. And is now, and forever, a Grand Slam champion. Nice work).

Donna Vekic (CRO): No. 19 ==========> No. 17 (It’s only two spots, after a fourth-round effort. But it moves the 28-year-old to a career high ranking).

Yulia Putintseva (KAZ): No. 23 ==========> No. 20 (For the first time in her career, at age 30, Putintseva has finally cracked the top 20).

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS): No. 32 ==========> No. 23 (A surprise quarterfinalist, the 33-year-old makes a nice jump).

Ons Jabeur (TUN): No. 39 ==========> No. 34 (Another baby step for Jabeur, who made the third round but lost a close one to No. 8 seed Emma Navarro).

Olga Danilovic (SRB): No. 55 ==========> No. 41 (By far the best ranking of her career, after she made the fourth round in Melbourne. Danilovic had made it out of qualifying only once in five previous ries. This time, she was straight into the draw and made hay. She neat Pegula and Samsonova en route).

Naomi Osaka (JPN): No. 51 ==========> No. 42 (Another rise, but a disappointing end for the former AO champ, who retired in the third round after losing a first-set tiebreak to Belinda Bencic).

Veronika Kudermetova (RUS): No. 75 ==========> No. 51 (Hopefully Kudermetova’s fourth-round effort signals a rebound from last year. It wasn’t so long ago –   Oct. 2022 – that she was in the top 10. Her younger sister Polina, 21, had moved past her in the rankings. But sister has that honour back).

Jaqueline Cristian (RUS): No. 82 ==========> No. 61 (Still not a career high for the 26-year-old Romanian, who reached the third round. But only four spots away from her career high reached last July).

Eva Lys (GER): No. 128 ==========> No. 91 (A lucky week for the lucky loser, who lost to Destanee Aiava in the final round of qualifying but got the last-minute call as a lucky loser and made the fourth round – to move into the top 100 for the first time in her career).

Belinda Bencic (SUI): No. 294 ==========> No. 157 (Bencic, who entered on a protected ranking and made the fourth round, cuts her “actual” ranking nearly in half and impressed in her return from maternity leave).

Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 327 ==========> No. 268 (A career high for the 18-year-old Canadian, who wom a pair of $25K ITFs in Guadeloupe over the last few weeks).

Zheng Qinwen (CHN): No. 5 ==========> No. 8 (Zheng didn’t come into Melbourne with good prep or a lot of matches. And so while it was a shocker that she went out in the second round when defending a final, it also kind of wasn’t. Her good results through the rest of the year helped buffer the blow, and she only drops three spots).

Barbora Krejcikova (CZE): No. 9 ==========> No. 14 (Krecjikova, who was a late withdrawal from the Australian Open and allowed Canadian Rebecca Marino to squeeze in at the last minute, drops out of the top 10, big time. Krejcikova was a quarterfinalist a year ago).

Jelena Ostapenko (LAT): No. 22 ==========> No. 26 (A drop for Ostapenko after a shock first-round loss to Bencic. But on the plus side she reached the doubles final with new partner Hsieh Su-Wei in only their second tournament together).

Victoria Azarenka (BLR): No. 24 ==========> No. 29 (She was a bit of a ghost in Melbourne; the former two-time champion dropped a shocker in the first round to Lucia Bronzetti).

Linda Noskova (CZE): No. 28 ==========> No. 38 (Out of the top 30 after a first-round loss to Clara Tauson – which isn’t a terrible loss, but left her unable to defend last year’s points).

Dayana Yastremska (UKR): No. 33 ==========> No. 72 (Yastremska was seeded in Melbourne, but even though she made the third round she drops a whopping 39 spots and is out of the top 70. It’s easily forgotten, but Yastremska came out of the qualifying a year ago and beat Vondrousova, Navarro, Azarenka and Noskova before falling in the semifinal to Zheng).

Alycia Parks (USA): No. 68==========> No. 89 (It seems to be all or nothing for the American, who just missed out on making the main draw and ended up getting rinsed in the first round of qualifying by Mirjam Bjorklund).

Sloane Stephens (USA): No. 81 ==========> No. 104 (Stephens, 31, is out of the top 100 after losing in the first round. She made the third round a year ago. Although she’s been up and down, it’s the first time she’s been out of the top 100 since she was down in the 900s, after missing a big chunk of time in 2017. A few weeks after that terrible low, she won the US Open. It doesn’t feel like that sort of comeback is in the cards).

Océane Dodin (FRA): No. 115 ==========> No. 175 (Dodin didn’t come down to Australia and in dropping 240 points from last year, she drops 60 spots).

Brenda Fruhvirtova (CZE): No. 196 ==========> No. 261 (A qualifier a year ago, Fruhvirtova lost in the final round of qualifying, and then in the first round of a high-level ITF in India when she retired midway through the first set. She drops out of the top 200, after being at a career high of No. 87  last July. She’s still only 17. But it’s proving a tougher road than expected).

Storm Hunter (AUS): No. 187 ==========> No. 325 (Hunter missed most of last year after Achilles surgery, just as she was on the cusp of breaking into the top 100 in singles to add to her doubles accomplishments. She was doing media work at the Australian Open. Last year, she qualified and made the third round. Sanders lost her new doubles partner because of the injury, to Taylor Townsend. Townsend and Katerina Siniakova won the women’s doubles).

Donna Vekic (CRO) (No. 17)
Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) (No. 20)
Olga Danilovic (SRB) (No. 51)
Ashlyn Krueger (USA) (No. 50)
Suzan Lamens (NED) (No. 67)
Eva Lys (GER) (No. 91)
Kimberly Birrell (AUS) (No. 95)
Robin Montgomery (USA) (No. 103)
Anca Todoni (ROU) (No. 108)

 

The “road to the WTA Finals” listings are pretty funny over the first few months of the season, with an early good result putting you in good stead temporarily until the Riyadh water finds its own level.

 

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