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WTA Rankings Report – As of Oct. 13, 2025

A WTA 1000 – albeit an old-school, one-week version – brings about some changes in the rankings, with so many points on offer.

In this instance, most of the top seeds went deep, so not many surprise runs (unlike on the men’s side).

With her quarterfinal win in Wuhan, Jessica Pegula officially qualified for the year-end finals. So instead of playing on, she’s headed home for a break – she’s been in Asia since BJK Cup – before the big show in Riyadh.

And Coco Gauff wins her ninth hard-court final – in nine tries.

 

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

Jessica Pegula (USA): No. 6 ============> No. 5
(Up a spot after Beijing, and another spot after Wuhan, the finalist didn’t quite have enough juice to overcome Coco Gauff, despite a positive head-to-head against her. But she qualifies for Riyadh, and all in all it’s been a positive season).

Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS): No. 11 ============> No. 10
(A third-round effort in Wuhan brings Alexandrova, a few months away from her 31st birthday, a first trip into the top 10. Long awaited and well-deserved).

Karolina Muchova (CZE): No. 22 ============> No. 20
(Muchova squeezes back into the top 20 with her second-round effort in Wuhan).

Laura Siegemund (GER): No. 57 ============> No. 39
(At 37, the German isn’t slowing down a bit. She makes the quarterfinals in Wuhan and gets back into the top 40).

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP): No. 47 ============> No. 40 
(Late into the draw in Wuhan after withdrawals, Bouzas won a round, but moved up a lot and ties her career best).

Katerina Siniakova (CZE): No. 62 ============> No. 45 
(Siniakova’s career singles high of No. 27 came in in June 2024. And after a bit of a lull on that side, she’s firing back. She reached the quarterfinals in Wuhan out of the qualifying. And in her second straight week without regular partner Taylor Townsend, she won the tournament with a different partner – Barbora Krejcikova in Beijing, Storm Hunter in Wuhan. She’s playing with Hsieh Su-Wei in Ningbo).

Solana Sierra (ARG): No. 86 ============> No. 71
(Sierra wins the ITF In Mallorca).

Zhang Shuai (CHN): No. 142 ============> No. 119
(The renaissance year continues for the evergreen Zhang, now 36. She did well in Beijing and also won a couple of rounds in Wuhan to edge closer to the top 100. Her career high of No. 22 came in Jan. 2023. And everything just fell off the cliff after that – likely burnout from being on the road constantly, because of the pandemic, and not being able to see her family for three years. But she finally took a break, and is bounding back nicely).

Marina Stakusic (CAN): No. 151 ============> No. 141
(Stakusic has 125 points to defend this week in Tampico, so she’d want to buffer that a bit and she’s done so. She made the final at the $100K ITF in Edmond, Oklahoma).

Cadence Brace (CAN): No. 221 ============> No. 203 
(The Canadians moves up 18, to within two of her career best, with a semifinal effort at the $100K ITF in Oklahoma).

Elizabeth Mandlik (USA): No. 270 ============> No. 211
(Mandlik, the daughter of the great Hana Mandlikova, did get into the top 100 in the summer of 2023. But it’s been a tough road, even with cookies like a main-draw wild card in Montreal this summer. But she cuts a chunk off her number with the title in Edmond, Oklahoma).

Katherine Sebov (CAN): No. 304 ============> No. 283
(It’s a slog trying to get that ranking back up at the ITF level, but Sebov gets back ito the top 300 with a quarterfinal effort in Oklahoma).

Madison Brengle (USA): No. 705 ============> No. 477
(The 35-year-old, whose career of No. 35 came over a decade ago, was out for awhile and is slowly making her way back this summer. She qualified and won the $30K ITF in San Rafael, Calif. two weeks ago, and made the quarterfinals in Edmond last week).

Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) (No. 10)
Maya Joint (AUS) (No. 34)
Iva Jovic (USA) (No. 35)
Ann Li (USA) (No. 42)
Emiliana Arango (COL) (No. 46)
Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) (No. 61)
Priscilla Hon (AUS) (No. 94)
Sara Bejlek (CZE) (No. 100)
Teodora Kostovic (SRB) (No. 186)
Cadence Brace (CAN) (No. 203)

 

Mirra Andreeva (RUS: No. 5 ============> No. 6
Andreeva exited Wuhan on torrents of tears after a three set loss to Laura Siegemud. A season that still has her No. 6 in the world has been much more of an emotional slog than the one the fresh-eyed, then-17-year-old had a year ago. She’s the top seed in Ningbo this week and has finalist points to defend. She could meet Emma Raducanu in her opener).

Zheng Qinwen (CHN): No. 10 ============> No. 11
(Zheng’s return from elbow surgery only lasted one match in Beijing, and she withdrew from Wuhan, where she was the defending finalist. But that only drops her one spot, because of the gap below her).

Daria Kasatkina (AUS): No. 19 ============> No. 22
(Kasatkina put an end to her season after losing her openers in Seoul and Beijing and drops points from last year’s Wuhan. She also has a title in Ningbo that will drop – 500 more points – in a week. So that would put her at about No. 36).

Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA): No. 44 ============> No. 52
(The Brazilian ended a challenging season early, and so drops out of the top 50 by not defending her third-round points from Wuhan. She and Siegemund certainly had a shot at making the WTA Finals in doubles, so she also sacrificed that. Must have been in rough shape, bccause she’ll drop more this coming week. And it kind of seemed she’d somewhat turned a corner in the middle of the season).

Magda Linette (POL): No. 40 ============> No. 56
(Linette saw points from the Wuhan quarterfinals last year fall off after losing in the first round this year, to qualifier Antonia Ruzic).

Wang Xinyu (CHN): No. 37 ============> No. 62
(A tough drop for Wang, who lost her opener in Wuhan to qualifier Moyuka Uchihima, and drops the points from her semifinal effort a year ago).

Magdalena Frech (POL): No. 53 ============> No. 63
(Frech reached her career high of No. 22 in almost exactly a yeat ago. But it’s been a bit of struggle since, despite making the third round in Wuhan; she made the quarterfinals last year).

Donna Vekic (CRO): No. 71 ============> No. 79
(Vekic took a wild card into Wuhan, but went out in fairly perfunctory fashion to her good friend Belinda Bencic).

Kamilla Rakhimova (RUS): No. 90 ============> No. 102
(The Russian drops her points from last year’s run in Wuhan, and will scramble the rest of this season to ensure that she doesn’t have to qualify in Australia. She lost in the first round of qualifying in Wuhan, and the final round of qualifying in Ningbo over the weekend).

Erika Andreeva (RUS): No. 211 ============> No. 333
(Andreeva, the older sister of Mirra, got to a career high No. 65 almost exactly a year ago. It’s been a tough season (she’s 5-18, and hasn’t played since Wimbledon). And after dropping her points from qualifying and reaching the third round in Wuhan A year ago – icluding beating her sister – she falls out of the top 300. She is in the draw at the WTA 125 in Jinan this week).

Lesia Tsurenko (UKR): No. 386 ============> No. 711
(Tsurenko has been out since last November, and drops the points from Wuhan a year ago. At 36, it’s unclear if she’ll be back.)

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