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It’s a comprehensive update list this week – which isn’t unusual after a major, but made even more so by the number of upsets that littered this year’s edition of Wimbledon.
Notable among them are finalist Amanda Anisimova, who leaps into the top 10 for the first time in her career. And Belinda Bencic, who is back in the top 20 just nine months after returning to the Tour following maternity leave.
Career highs for Victoria Mboko and Carson Branstine on the Canadian side.
For the complete, updated WTA Tour ranking for Monday, click here.
Iga Swiatek (POL): No. 4 ===========> No. 3 (It’s just one spot – and she had to jump up 1,870 points to do it, but Swiatek is back as part of the current “big 3” after notching her first Wimbledon title. You sense, now that she’s gotten off the Wimbledon shneid, that it won’t be the last).
Mirra Andreeva (RUS): No. 7 ===========> No. 5 (It’s been a bumpy year for the 18-year-old Russian, but she’s into the top five for the first time after a quarter-final effort at Wimbledon).
Amanda Anisimova (USA): No. 12 ===========> No. 7 (Anisimova was a No. 189-ranked, unsuccessful qualifier at Wimbledon a year ago, as she returned from a break. She was already at a career high – now she’s into the top 10 for the first time and her tough, TOUGH day in the final Saturday doesn’t change the impressive level of her journey).
Clara Tauson (DEN): No. 22 ===========> No. 19 (Tauson had … not much against Swiatek in the fourth round, but she upset Elena Rybakina on the way and moves into the top 20 for the first time).
Belinda Bencic (SUI): No. 35 ===========> No. 20 (Wimbledon will be the last time Bencic is unseeded at a major for awhile. She didn’t show well against Swiatek in the semifinals in part because of a problematic toe. But she’s back in the top 20 just nine month after returning from maternity leave).
Linda Noskova (CZE): No. 27 ===========> No. 23 (Still just 20, Noskova has had the quietest career of any young player, in part because she’s been rising slowly but surely without posting any major results. She made the fourth round at Wimbledon).
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS): No. 50 ===========> No. 30 (Pavlyuchenkova’s career, at 34, has been full of ups and downs and it’s somewhat surprising she has never been in the top 10; her career high remains No. 11. But she impressed in a run to the quarterfinals).
Maya Joint (AUS): No. 41 ===========> No. 37 (Joint fell victim to the curse of players who did well the week before Wimbledon. She won her second career title at Eastbourne, but fell in the first round at Wimbledon to No. 19 seed Liudmila Samsonova – who went all the way to the quarterfinals. Still, the 19-year-old moves into the top 40 for the first time).
Sonay Kartal (GBR): No. 51 ===========> No. 44 (Kartal celebrated her second-week effort at Wimbledon by … getting another tattoo. But even bigger than that is she squeezed past Emma Raducanu – these two played each other as far back as age 9 and 10 – to become the No. 1 British player).
Hailey Baptiste (USA): No. 55 ===========> No. 48 (It’s ben a long road to the top 50 for Baptiste, who is still only 23. But she made the third round at Wimbledon and finally burst through that door).
Naomi Osaka (USA): No. 53 ===========> No. 49 (Osaka was WAYYYYYY too hard on herself after a narrow loss to Pavlyuchenkova in the third round. But on the plus side, she’s back in the top 50).
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP): No. 62 ===========> No. 50 (A first trip to the top 50 for the rather obscure Spanish player, who is 22. She made the second week).
Laura Siegemund (GER): No. 104 ===========> No. 54 (Siegemund might have been one of the biggest stories of this Wimbledon, had there not been SO many upsets this year. She beat Leylah Fernandez and Madison Keys on the way to taking a set from Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals, and is back into the top 50 at age 37).
Solana Sierra (ARG): No. 100 ===========> No. 67 (Sierra couldn’t squeeze into the main draw as she hit the top 100 too late. But she made her way through the qualifying and got to the fourth round in an impressive effort that put her firmly into the top 70 for the first time).
Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 97 ===========> No. 86 (Mboko had only a couple of hours’ notice before making her Wimbledon debut as a lucky loser, and won her first round. She moves to another career high and one thing is certain, her Slam qualifying days are over. But the size of the wraps on her knees, which got bigger with every round, are something to watch for).
Elsa Jacquemot (FRA): No. 113 ===========> No. 95 (Jacquemot moves into the top 100 for the first time at age 22. And with that, she gets straight into the US Open, giving the French federation more options in terms of who they hand out their reciprocal wild card to. She made th final at the WTA 125 in Contrexeville).
Diane Parry (FRA): No. 118 ===========> No. 98 (Same situation for Parry, also 22, who moves back into the top 100 with her effort going from qualifying to the third round at Wimbledon).
Caty McNally (USA): No. 208 ===========> No. 135 (McNally is finally starting to get her ranking on the right track after an injury comeback. She was the only onee\ to take a set off former junior doubles partner Iga Swiatek in a tight second-round loss, with a protected ranking. And she wins the WTA 125 Newport final on grass).
Carson Branstine (CAN): No. 194 ===========> No. 178 (Branstine qualified at Wimbledon in her first attempt. And the reward was a duel with the world No. 1 on No. 1 court. She lost it. But she certainly got plenty of pub which hopefully will help her in a chase for sponsors that will help her go even further).
Carol Zhao (CAN): No. 273 ===========> No. 232 (Amid all the wild card drama in Newport, Zhao, who just turned 30, quietly made the semifinals).
Mirra Andreeva (RUS) (No. 5)
Amanda Anisimova (USA) (No. 7)
Clara Tauson (DEN) (No. 19)
Linda Noskova (CZE) (No. 23)
Ashlyl Krueger (USA) (No. 29)
Tatjana Maria (GER) (No. 36 – 35)
Maya Joint (AUS) (No. 37)
Sonay Kartal (GBR) (No. 44)
Hailey Baptiste (USA) (No. 48)
Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP) (No. 50)
Eva Lys (GER) (No. 55)
Suzan Lamens (NED) (No. 61)
Loïs Boisson (FRA) (No. 63)
Solana Sierra (ARG) (No. 67)
Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) (No. 74)
Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) (No. 83)
Victoria Mboko (CAN) (No. 86)
Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) (No. 95)
Veronika Erjavec (SLO) (No. 136)
Carson Branstine (CAN) (No. 176)
Emerson Jones (AUS) (No. 190)
Cadence Brace (CAN) (No. 259)
Jasmine Paolini (ITA): No. 5 ===========> No. 9 (Paolini had unlikely back-to-back Grand Slam finals to defend from 2024. She didn’t do it – she lost in the second round at Wimbledon. But the fact that she’s still in the top 10 after those points dropping points to a good level of success at all the other tournaments over the last 52 weeks).
Elena Rybakina (KAZ): No. 11 ===========> No. 13 (Rybakina made the third round, loing to Laura Siegemund and drops a couple of spots).
Jelena Ostapenko (LAT): No. 21 ===========> No. 25 (Ostapenko was a shock exit in the first round – one of many (in her case, to Kartal). But as a consolation prize, making the doubles final – despite her huge disappointment when they didn’t pull it out – is a decent consolation prize. Had she and Hsieh Su-Wei won, though, Ostapenko would have become No. 1).
Wang Xinyu (CHN): No. 32 ===========> No. 40 (Zhang, who went from the qualifying to the final in Berlin during the leadup to Wimbledeon – meating Jabeur, Kasatkina, Gauff, Badosa and Samsonova en route – lost in the second round to Zeynep Sonmez, after making the fourth round a year ago).
Yulia Putintseva (KAZ): No. 33 ===========> No. 43 (Putintseva had a tough, tough first round this year in No. 13 seed Amanda Anisimova, who ended up going all the way to the final).
Anna Kalinskaya (RUS): No. 39 ===========> No. 47 (Kalinskaya, who has dealt with a lot of physical issues this. year, drops out of the top 40 after a second-round loss).
Donna Vekic (CRO): No. 25 ===========> No. 52 (Vekic, a semifinalist a year ago, goes from the top 25 to outside the top 50 after a second-round loss to Cristina Bucsa).
Danielle Collins (USA): No. 54 ===========> No. 66 (Collins, who made the fourth round last year, made the third round this year but it wasn’t enough to defend).
Ons Jabeur (TUN): No. 59 ===========> No. 71 (Tough times for the former Wimbledon finalist, who was beaten in the first round this year by Viktoriya Tomova after she retired early in the second set).
Barbora Krejcikova (CZE): No. 16 ===========> No. 78 (Krejcikova has missed a ton of time since winning Wimbledon last year, which is why her ranking has taken such a hit by not defending her title. She struggled physically and mentally in a third-round loss to Emma Navarro, and then withdrew from the doubles).
Maria Sakkari (GRE): No. 77 ===========> No. 88 (Sakkari is floundering a bit, to say the least, as she turns 30 in a few months. She’s playing a clay-court event this week to try and find some form, and points).
Lulu Sun (NZL): No. 47 ===========> No. 94 (Last year’s surprise Wimbledon quarterfinalist out of the qualifying lost in the first round this year to Marie Bouzkova. And that drops her ranking by exactly the same number it was).
Bianca Andreescu (CAN): No. 146 ===========> No. 185 (Easily forgotten is Andreescu’s run to the third round at Wimbledon a year ago. But she couldn’t make it through the qualifying this year, losing to her pal Carson Branstine. That’s a tough number, but she already has a wild card into Montreal and will hope to make a run).
Caroline Garcia (FRA): No. 164 ===========> No. 193 (Garcia is wrapping it up, at age 31. The only question is when that finale will be).
Caroline Wozniacki (DEN): No. 167 ===========> No. 241 (The baby bump is getting big now. And although Wozniacki isn’t retired for a second time, her points are dropping off quickly. A year ago, she made the third round at Wimbledon; her last match was a fourth-round loss to Beatriz Haddad Maia at the US Open).
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