WTA Rankings Report – As of March 3, 2025

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A WTA 500 and a 250 with a lot of the top players either not playing, or bowing out early, has meant a lot of opportunity for the rank and file.

That seems to be a feature of the post-Australian Open landscape. And some are taking full advantage.

Notably: Emiliana Arango, Ajla Tomljanovic and McCartney Kessler.

ATP Rankings Report – As of March 3, 2025

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

Emma Navarro (USA): No. 10 ===========> No. 8 (Navarro would get back to her career high of No. 8, whether or not she won the title in Mérida. The double-bagel she inflicted on poor Emiliana Arango in the final was just extra. She has consistently been able to maintain her ranking with her willingness to play smaller events – and, with all the absences and early exits in Mérida, that has to fit in this particular category).

Paula Badosa (ESP): No. 11 ===========> No. 10 (Badosa ended up retiring because of back pain in Mérida – this was a feature, not a bug this past week for various reasons – but she gets back into the top 10 with her quarterfinal effort)

Clara Tauson (DEN): No. 23 ===========> No. 21 (Tauson gets to another career high without even playing, as Donna Vekic and Marta Kostyuk drop down).

Elina Avanesyan (ARM): No. 45 ===========> No. 39 (The 22-year-old, recently switching from Russian to Armenian citizenship, makes the semis in Mérida and moves inside the top 40 for the first time).

McCartney Kessler (USA): No. 56 ===========> No. 48 (The former collegian, now 25, is rising at a relative mature age. But she’s at a new career high with her final in Austin and breaks into the top 50. A year ago, she was outside the top 150 before winning the WTA 125 in Puerto Vallarta in February).

Zeynep Sonmez (TUR): No. 88 ===========> No. 77 (Sonmez was the surprise winner in Mérida last year. But that tournament was in October in 2024 and was a 250-level event; she didn’t have to defend those points this past week. So her effort to get to the quarterfinals isn’t offset by anything, and puts her at a career high. A year ago, she was at No. 173).

Emiliana Arango (COL): No. 133 ===========> No. 80 (Much was expected from the Colombian when she first burst on the scene. But it didn’t really happen for her. Now, at 24, she backs up a title at the WTA 125 in Cancún with a final in Mérida, which is a 500 event. And she did it out of the qualifying. Arango breaks into the top 100 for the first time with plenty to spare, despite the tough, tough loss in the final).

Maya Joint (AUS): No. 103 ===========> No. 85 (Still just 18, the Aussie qualifies and makes the quarterfinals in Mérida to leap into the top 100 for the first time. Mexico has been very good to Joint, and other Aussies; she made the semis at the WTA 125in Cancún a few weeks ago, and the quarterfinals at another one in Tampico last fall).

Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS): No. 111 ===========> No. 94 (Tomljanovic has been on and off the tour for the last few years because of injury. But after taking a wild caard into the Austin tournament, she made he semis and is back into the top 100, even with a three-set loss to No. 1 seed Jessica Pegula on Saturday).

Daria Saville (AUS): No. 121 ===========> No. 109 (The 30-year-old Aussie, still working her way back from a serious knee injury, made the Mérida semifinals out of the qualifying).

Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 212 ===========> No. 188 (The 18-year-old Canadian is on a roll in 2025. And the points from her title at the ITF in Manchester, UK come in and help her jump into the top 200 for the first time. She didn’t have much when she moved to another ITF in Macon, France last week. And so her winning streak ended with a first-round loss there).

Clara Tauson (DEN) (No. 21)
Rebecca Sramkova (SVK) (No. 37)
Elina Avanesyan (ARM) (No. 39)
Zeynep Sönmez (TUR) (No. 77)
Emiliana Arango (COL) (No. 80)
Maya Joint (AUS) (No. 85)
Francesca Jones (GBR) (No. 123)
Victoria Mboko (CAN) (No. 188)

Marta Kostyuk (UKR): No. 19 ===========> No. 24 (Kostyuk loses in the first round of Mérida, and drops out of the top 20 because she was defending points from making the San Diego Open final a year ago. She has semifinal points to defend in the next couple of weeks at Indian Wells. So hopefully she’ll get back in the groove).

Yue Yuan (CHN): No. 51 ===========> No. 68 (Yue made some quiet noise a year ago in Austin, as she was a surprise winner of the tournament and made a big leap. But she was out in the first round this year. On the positive side, she makes the doubles final with first-time partner Anna Blinkova).

***Yue was the winner last year in Austin.***

Wang Xiyu (CHN): No. 94 ===========> No. 121 (The 23-year-old Chinese lefty didn’t play last week, and so drops points from her finals appearance a year ago in Austin – a rare all-Chinese final).

Marina Stakusic (CAN): No. 114 ===========> No. 129 (Stakusic came from cold, snowy Toronto to frigid Austin ahead of the WTA event. But a quad strain that was greatly exacerbated by the cold led to Team Marina deciding to retire, and try to heal up before the Indian Wells qualifying. But she drops point from the now-defunct San Diego tournament a year ago, so it wasn’t a nothingburger decision).

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK): No. 118 ===========> No. 138 (The former No. 26 is up and down like a roller coaster. This looks to be a down period. And she didn’t play last week, thus dropping points from her semifinal in Austin a year ago a year ago. The fourth-place finisher at the Olympics last summer has yet to win back-to-back matches this year, even in qualifying).

***Vickery during qualifying at the 2025 Australian Open***

Sachia Vickery (USA): No. 221 ===========> No. 256 (Vickery, who retired in her first-round match at the ITF in Spring, Texas last week – probably out of precaution given they were playing in frigid temperatures – didn’t play last week, either. So she drops points from a second-round run from the qualifying last year – beating two Canadians on the way – and is out of the top 250).