WTA Rankings Report – As of Sept. 15, 2025

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Two post-US Open events with weaker fields means great opportunities for everyone.

The ones who stepped up to the plate to take advantage are the ones who will leave those tournaments with nice cheques and nice bumps in the rankings.

But this week’s rankings update – on the downside – also shows what happens to players who seize that opportunity, work for a year with their improved circumstances, but are unable to back it up a year later.

Look at what happened to 2024 Guadalajara finalist Olivia Gadecki’s ranking: it just fell through the floor.

There are no changes in the top 20.

ATP Rankings Report – As of Sept. 22, 2025

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

Tatjana Maria (GER): No. 51 ============> No. 44 (Back into the top 50 after a one-week fall out of it with her quarterfinal effort in Guadalajara, Maria also has to travel all the way to Seoul this week).

Iva Jovic (USA): No. 73 ============> No. 36 (Jovic, 17, leaps into the top 40 by seizing the opportunity in Guadalajara and winning the tournament – a WTA 500-level event. A year ago, she was ranked No. 293).

Emiliana Arango (COL): No. 86 ============> No. 53 (Arango leaps far beyond her previous career high of No. 76, reached in last June, by reaching the Guadalajara final. Unfortunate for her that she had … stomach issues. No details necessary).

Elsa Jacquemot (FRA): No. 83 ============> No. 62 (Already at a career high, the 22-year-old reaches another one after making the semifinals in Guadalajara).

Francesca Jones (GBR): No. 85 ============> No. 73 (Mostly ignored in favour of flashier Brits, the 24-year-old has just kept plugging away, and jumped into the top 100 for the first time back in July. She reaches another career high after making the Sao Paulo semifinals).

Veronika Erjavec (SLO): No. 119 ============> No. 99 (The 25-year-old late bloomer jumps into the top 100 for the first time by winning the WTA 125 in Huzhou, China last week).

Janice Tjen (INA): No. 130 ============> No. 103 (Tjen, who opened eyes at the US Open, is just a few points away from the top 100 after making the Sao Paulo final. A year ago, fresh out of a college career that went through Oregon and Pepperdine, she was ranked No. 589).

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND): No. 123 ============> No. 110 (The Russian-Spanish product of Andorra, marked as a can’t miss as a junior, is finally making some moves, at age 20. She was the No. 1 ranked junior in the world in March, 2020 when tennis stopped for the pandemic; she’d won the Australian Open junior title in January. Jimenez Kasintseva went from the qualifying to the quarterfinals in Guadalajara and reaches a new career best).

Kaja Juvan (SLO): No. 154 ============> No. 128 (Another player coming back from a long injury break, Juvan – a former No. 58 – makes a move by winning the WTA 125 in Ljubljana, in her home country of Slovenia).

***Juvan during her 1R qualifying loss to Victoria Mboko at Roland Garros in May.***

Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah (FRA): No. 228 ============> No. 131 (The 19-year-old, who played the qualifying at US Open for the first time a few weeks ago, leaps into the top 150 by with an unexpected first WTA Tour title in Sao Paulo. She was a good, not outstanding, junior. But she’s moving up quickly).

Nikola Bartunkova (CZE): No. 228 ============> No. 144 (A career high for the 19-year-old 2023 Wimbledon junior finalist, who got a wild card into the WTA 500 in Guadalajara and ran that all the way to the semifinals).

Lilli Tagger (AUT): No. 347 ============> No. 275 (The 17-year-old one-hander from Austria, under theh tutelage of Francesca Schiavone, is out in the pros now after winning the Roland Garros juniors ad making the quarters at Junior Wimbledon. And she wins the ITF in Bucharest (W75) to move into the top 300 for the first time. She’s still ranked No. 5 in the juniors. You’d expect her rise, in that part of the rankings, to be pretty rapid).

Storm Hunter (AUS): No. 1269============> No. 624 (Hunter, mostly known as a doubles player, was playing some good singles and reached a career high No. 114 when she ripped up her Achilles and missed a year. She’s on the comeback. And winning a round in Guadalajara after getting a singles wild card cuts that number in half).

Iva Jovic (USA) (No. 36)
Emiliana Arango (COL) (No. 53)
Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) (No. 62)
Francesca Jones (GBR) (No. 73)
Veronika Erjavec (SLO) (No. 99)
Janice Tjen (INDA) (No. 103)
Oksana Selekmeteva (RUS) (No. 126)
Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah (FRA) (No. 131)
Alina Charaeva (RUS) (No. 142)
Darja Vidmanova (CZE) (No. 148)
Oleksandra Oliynykova (UKR) (No. 163)

Magdalena Frech (POL): No. 30 ============> No. 47(Tough drop for the 27-year-old from Poland, who loses a lot of points after bowing out in the quarters in Guadalajara. She was the defending champion. Frech has fourth-round points in Beijing, and quarterfinal points in Wuhan to defend in the coming weeks).

Marie Bouzkova (CZE): No. 48 ============> No. 54 (Bouzkova plays as much as anyone, and she’s had good success in Mexico, where she’s popular in part because she speaks fluent Spanish. But she didn’t play Guadalajara, and so she drops her points from a quarterfinal last year, and falls out of the top 50).

Eva Lys (GER): No. 56 ============> No. 69 (Lys, who is playing in Seoul this week, drops her points from making the semifinals in Monastir a year ago as she didn’t play last week).

Sonay Kartal (GBR): No. 53 ============> No. 82 (Kartal’s ranking is taking a big hit as she sacrifices playing for the trip to Shenzhen, China to play the BJK Cup finals. A year ago, she won her first WTA title in Monastir. That tournament no longer exists. But she would have had to go to Mexico or South America to try to defend the points, and that was impossible with the long trip to Asia).

***Kartal in Monastir – now defunct – a year ago.***

Camila Osorio (COL): No. 69 ============> No. 85 (Osorio made the second round in Guadalajara. But that wasn’t nearly enough to cover her semifinal points from a year ago).

Kamilla Rakhimova (RUS): No. 76 ============> No. 90 (Same for Rakhimova, who lost in the first round in Guadalajara and drops her points from making the quarters a year ago).

Olivia Gadecki (AUS): No. 129 ============> No. 295 (Gadecki drops her points from going from the qualifying to the finals in Guadalajara a year ago – a massive hit to her ranking. She defeated Stephens, Collins, Trevisan and Joint en route).