WTA Tour Rankings Report – As of Sept. 8, 2025

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The end of a major always brings some significant changes in the rankings.

Some players drop right down, unable to defend a great result from the previous year.

Others shoot up the rankings, with a full year’s grace on that position to try to add more points and buffer their spot before those points drop off after the 2025 US Open.

And so it is that Amanda Anisimova, after two major finals, finds herself at … No. 4.

ATP Tour Rankings Report – As of Sept. 8, 2025

Two-time US Open champion Aryna Sabalenka is now about 3,300 points ahead of Iga Swiatek and firmly in the No. 1 spot.

For the complete, updated WTA rankings for Sept. 8, click here.

Amanda Anisimova (USA): No. 9 ===========> No. 4 (Amanda Anisimoiva fell in her second straight Grand Slam final. But the news here is that she MADE a second consecutive Grand Slam final, acquitted herself well in the end, and is now the No. 4 player in the world).

Clara Tauson (DEN): No. 14 ===========> No. 12 (Tauson was on the losing end of a marathon loss to Alexandra Eala – 14-12 in the third set. But even though she didn’t earn many points, the moves around her meant that she climbed to a new career high).

Naomi Osaka (USA): No. 24 ===========> No. 14 (What a crazy story it would have been if Osaka had managed to beat Anisimova in that US Open semifinal. She couldn’t quite get there. But wins over Samsonova, Ostapenko, Svitolina, Kasatkina, Gauff and Muchova over the last few weeks – and an 11-2 record between Montreal and New York – means she’s back in the top 15 for the first time since Jan. 2022. Stuck between 50-60 for most of the last year, she’s closer to where she belongs).

Marketa Vondrousova (CZE): No. 60 ===========> No. 36 (Vondrousova was having a great tournament in New York, until she had to withdraw before her quarterfinal match against Aryna Sabalenka. Still, she beat Kessler and Paolini and Rybakina, and made a big dent in her ranking. Let’s hope the knee doesn’t keep her off the courts too long).

Barbora Krejcikova (CZE): No. 62 ===========> No. 40 (Vondrousova’s fellow Czech and Grand Slam champion also made a nice dent in her ranking by getting to the quarters. But tough wins over Navarro and Townsend – a crazy one – took their toll and she didn’t have much left for Jessica Pegula in the final eight).

Jaqueline Cristian (ROU): No. 50 ===========> No. 43 (Cristian beat the hard-hitting Danielle Collins and Ashlyn Krueger before taking a set from Anisimova – the only one to do that until the semifinals. She reaches a new career high).

Ann Li (USA): No. 58 ===========> No. 46 (Li had been quiet of late. But she jumps back into the top 50 by beating Belinda Bencic on the way to the fourth round. She’s two away from her career best).

Maria Sakkari (GRE): No. 64 ===========> No. 55 (Sakkari is getting that ranking back up, slowly but surely. She’s playing in her happy place, Guadalajara, this week).

Alexandra Eala (PHI): No. 75===========> No. 61 (Eala added onto her win in New York, beating Tauson in a classic, with a WTA 125 title in Mexico this week).

Cristina Bucsa (ESP): No. 95 ===========> No. 62 (Despite a late and rushed arrival in New York after playing the doubles final in Monterrey, the steady Spaniard makes the third round in New York in both singles and doubles).

Priscilla Hon (AUS): No. 126 ===========> No. 106 (The 27-year-old qualified for her second straight Grand Slam, won her first match at that level since before the pandemic, and made the third round to reach a new career high).

Taylor Townsend (USA): No. 139 ===========> No. 112 (It was a dramatic and impressive tournament for Townsend, who beat Ostapenko and Andreeva and was involved in one of the matches of the tournament – a three-set loss to Krejcikova that included a 15-13 second-set tiebreak that, had she converted on one of her many match points, would have put her in the quarterfinals. She also made the doubles final. And went viral after the Ostapenko match. And showed off her quickly-growing, adorable son. She deserves a vacay).

Janice Tjen (INA): No. 149 ===========> No. 130 (The US college product from Indonesia is on a nice rise, and drawing comparisons to a player she says she modeled her game after, Ashleigh Barty. She qualified and beat Veronika Kudermetova in the irst round, ater making two high-level ITF finals in the previous weeks. She’s 59-11 on the year at all levels, and was at No. 716 in he rankings a year ago).

Maja Chwalinska (POL): No. 177 ===========> No. 134 (Chwalinska lost in the second round of qualifying to Tjen. But she jetted to Montreux, Switzerland and won the WTA 125 event there during the second week of the Open).

Linda Klimovicova (POL): No. 188 ===========> No. 171 (A 21-year-old from Poland, Klimovicova was quite popular with the young lads – and the older, less age-appropriate lads – as she reached the final round of qualifying at the US Open and reached a career high).

Carol Zhao (CAN): No. 250 ===========> No. 218  (Now 30, Zhao won a round at the US Open qualifying bowing out – and flying to Changsha, China to play a WTA 125 during the second week. At least her ranking got a nice little boost).

 

 

Amanda Anisimova (USA) (No. 4)
Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) (No. 11)
Clara Tauson (DEN) (No. 12)
Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) (No. 43)
Tereza Valentova (CZE) (No. 77)
Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) (No. 83)
Priscilla Hon (AUS) (No. 106)
Veronika Erjavec (SLO) (No. 119)
Janice Tjen (INA) (No. 130)
Linda Klimovicova (POL) (No. 171)
Cadence Brace (CAN) (No. 210)

 

 

Jessica Pegula (USA): No. 4 ===========> No. 7 (Pegula making the US Open semis instead of the finals, in a tight section of the rankings, means she drops three spots).

Zheng Qinwen (CHN): No. 7 ===========> No. 9 (Still out after elbow surgery, Zheng is still in the top 10 but that’s not likely to last until the end of the year. She was a quarterfinalist in New York a year ago, but has a LOT of points to defend before the end of the year: a semifinal at the 1000 in Beijing, a final at the WTA 1000 in Wuhan, a title at the WTA 500 in Tokyo, and a final at the WTA Finals in Riyadh. That’s nearly 60 per cent of her total and when they fall off, she would drop to about No. 30. That is still, actually, not that bad, considering. At the same time, it also gives you an idea of how many points she’d have to earn to get back to where she was).

Emma Navarro (USA): No. 11 ===========> No. 18 (It’s not surprising that Navarro has finally dropped down out of the top 15. She’s not having a great year backing up a splendid 2024, despite having played more tournaments than anyone in the top 35 except for Diana Shnaider. She even skipped out of the “mixed singles” in New York jumped into Monterrey, late in the game, to try to buffer those 2024 semifinal US Open points. But only making the third round drops her).

Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA): No. 22 ===========> No. 27 (In the top 10 just two years ago, Haddad Maia is another who’s having a tough year. Maybe playing at home in Brazil – a rare opportunity in Sao Paulo this week – will kickstart the rest of a season that has her at 13-24 so far).

Donna Vekic (CRO): No. 49 ===========> No. 68 (Vekic got a tough draw and went out in the second round to Coco Gauff, during a week when she was defending fourth-round points. She drops out of the top 50).

Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS): No. 79 ===========> No. 91 (Tomljanovic probably should have upset 2023 US Open champion Coco Gauff in the first round. It was that close and who knows what she might have been able to do after that, with a friendly draw. She was the No. 4 seed in Sao Paulo this week, but retired in the second set of her first-round match).

Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU): No. 70 ===========> No. 96 (Ruse went out in the first round of the US Open to Daria Kasatkina, and hasn’t won a match since going from the qualifying to the final in ‘s-Hertogenbosch back in June. A year ago, she qualified and reached the third round in New York, so she drops a fair few points).

Bianca Andreescu (CAN): No. 173 ===========> No. 183 (Andreescu hasn’t played since hurting her ankle in Montreal. But it looks like she’s on the practice court again).

Harriet Dart (GBR): No. 221 ===========> No. 261 (Dart lost in the second round of qualifying this year after making the second round of the main draw a year ago. So her ranking, at a career-high No. 70 exactly a year ago, continues to tumble).

Martina Trevisan (ITA): No. 285 ===========> No. 299 (Trevisan is in the draw in Guadalajara as a wild card, to play Rebecca Marino in the first round. After being out from last October through to early July, Trevisan has been playing but hasn’t made many waves. She lost in the first round of qualifying at the US Open to Tatiana Prozorova, and in the second round of the WTA 125 in Guadalajara last week to No. 544-ranked Maria Kozyreva. Now 31, her career high of No. 18 was just two years ago, just before Roland Garros).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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