WTA Rankings Report – As of July 28, 2025

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A 500-level tournament in Washington, plus another WTA 250 in Prague and a host of other high level ITFs means some moves in the rankings even without a top-level event last week.

For Leylah Fernandez, the biggest title of her career – not only with the level of tournament, but who she beat along the way.

And for Taylor Townsend – she’s the new No. 1 doubles player in the world.

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

Leylah Fernandez (CAN): No. 36 ==============> No. 24 (Fernandez dropped out of the top 32 just in time – bad timing – to ended up unseeded at her hometown tournament this week. But she’s back in there for Cincinnati, and so will get a first-round bye. But more important was the way she played and battled in D.C., winning the biggest tournament of her career).

Anna Kalinskaya (RUS): No. 48 ==============> No. 31 (Kalinskaya got as high as No. 11 just nine months ago. But she’s had a tough year that will be helped immensely by her run to the Citi Open final).

Emma Raducanu (GBR): No. 46 ==============> No. 33 (It would no doubt do Raducanu’s tennis soul good to return to the US Open as a seeded player this year. And she might well do it. This is as high as she’s been ranked since her points for winning the US Open in 2021 fell off a year later. And her run to the semifinal in D.C. – including a win over Naomi Osaka – will only give her momentum).

Marie Bouzkova (CZE): No. 47 ==============> No. 39 (There probably isn’t an active player on the women’s tour who has suffered SO many heartbreaking, near-miss losses in her career. But Bouzkova comes good at home in Prague, beating Linda Noskova in the final and winning her 2nd career title – and moving back into the top 40. Her first also came in Prague, in 2022. And she might have jumped more, but she was defending points from making the D.C. final a year ago).

Maria Sakkari (GRE): No. 90 ==============> No.. 72 (Finally, Sakkari’s ranking moves in the right direction as he posts two solid wins to make the Washington quarterfinals. While that was happneing, she squeezed in the the main draw in Montreal, too. And has an opportunity to do a little more).

Taylor Townsend (USA): No. 97 ==============> No. 75 (Townsend made a nice dnt in he ranking by qualifying in D.C. and then going to the quarterfinals – where she lost a brutal, physically-sapping match against eventual champion Leylah Fernandez. But her biggest move was in doubles, where she won the title with Zhang Shuai and, after the semifinal win, guaranteed she would be No. 1 in the world in doubles this week. She had to give up a shot at that one-match qualifying in Montreal to win the title – both she and Zhang were in the qualifying and had to withdraw).

Francesca Jones (GBR): No. 101 ==============> No.. 84 (Already at a career high and on the cusp of the top 100, Jones bursts through that often daunting glass ranking ceiling with elan, winning the WTA 125 in Palermo and moving to another career high. At 24, it’s been a long time coming and she’s been overshadowed by some of her countrywomen. So she’s donee it below the radar. Great accomplishment).

Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 88 ==============> No.. 85 (Mboko got a wild card in D.C., which meant she didn’t have to go through the qualifying. She lost in the second round to Elena Rybakina in two pretty close sets. And she moves to a new career high).

Tereza Valentova (CZE): No. 106 ==============> No. 92 (Watch out for this one, because it hasn’t taken the 18-year-old long at all to break into the top 100. She makes the semifinal at the WTA 250 at home in Prague to do it).

Caty McNally (USA): No. 134 ==============> No. 116 (Slowly but surely, the talented American is getting close to the top 100 after a long injury layoff. She wins the $100K ITF in Evansville and moves up nicely).

 

Francesca Jones (GBR) (No. 84)
Victoria Mboko (CAN) (No. 85)
Tereza Valentova (CZE) (No. 92)
Talia Gibson (AUS) (No. 107)
Sára Bejlek (CZE) (No. 111)
Tatiana Provorova (RUS) (No. 140)
Cadence Brace (CAN) (No. 228)

 

 

Magda Linette (POL): No. 28 ==============> No. 34 (A bit of a drop for Linette, who made the second round in D.C. but drops her points from winning the 250-level event in Prague last year.).

Olga Danilovic (SRB): No. 32 ==============> No. 40 (Danilovic didn’t play last week and dropped her points from a semifinal at a WTA 250 in Iasi, Romania a year ago. She’d be a dangerous one to meet early in a tournament; we’ll see what she can do in Montreal this week.

Maya Joint (AUS): No. 38 ==============> No. 45 (Joint lost to Leylah Fernandez in the first round in D.C. – which didn’t seem like a thoroughly expected loss at the time except the Canadian won the tournament. She drops points from making the final at the WTA 125 Polish Open in Wardaw a year ago.  Guess who she plays in the first round in Montreal? You guessed it.

Elina Avanesyan (ARM): No. 54 ==============> No. 67 (Avanesyan, who hasn’t played much lately, drops the points from making the final at the WTA 250 in Iasi, Romania a year ago. she didn’t play last week. And she’s not playing Montreal this week).

Alycia Parks (USA): No. 58 ==============> No. 74 (Parks opted to stay in Europe instead of playing the Citi Open in D.C., and she ended up losing in the second round – dropping the points from going from the qualifying to the title last year at the WTA 125 in Warsaw).

Kristina Mladenovic (FRA): No. 290 ==============> No. 357 (Mladenovic has been out for awhile, and so the 32-year-old former top 10 player is watching her ranking drop precipitously).   

 

 

 

 

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