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Some not especially great news on the Canuckian front as Bianca Andreescu falls out of the top 200, and Marina Stakusic’s ranking also takes a drop.
But good news for several others, including Tokyo champion Belinda Bencic and finalist Linda Noskova.
And a couple of very young Brits make hay on the ITF circuit right at home.
And this is that weird week where the WTA decides that all the points from last year’s Tour Finals will drop off. Even though the finals don’t start for another week. So that’s bad news for both Barbora Krejcikova and Zheng Qinwen.
And Jasmine Paolini drops two spots while Madison Keys, who hasn’t played for awhile, moves up one because she loses nothing.
It’s the same thing in doubles; you can see the Cana-Kiwis, who won the Tour Finals last year, have dropped down.
For the complete, updated WTA rankings for Monday, click here.
Elena Rybakina (KAZ): No. 7 ===========> No. 6
(Rybakina squeezes past Jasmine Paolini by making the Tokyo semifinals, even though she pulled the ripcord before that match having qualified for Riyadh with her quarterfinal win. It’s the highest she’s been since February).
Belinda Bencic (SUI): No. 13 ===========> No. 11
(Bencic wins Tokyo, and moves to within 230 points of getting back into the top 10. Perhaps that’s why she took a wild card into the Hong Kong tournament this week – with the goal of getting back in before year’s end. That would be a tremendous achievement, considering she came back from maternity leave late in 2024 with no ranking at smaller events, and began the season at No. 421. She’d have to win it to get past Ekaterina Alexandrova and get there).
Linda Noskova (CZE): No. 17 ===========> No. 13
(Not sure there’s been a player in the top 20 who’s had a quieter successful season than the 20-year-old Czech, who gets to a new career high in the top 15 by making the Tokyo final).
Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 23 ===========> No. 21
(Just two spots up for the top Canadian, but she nudges countrywoman Leylah Fernandez back to down to No. 2 in the country by virtue of winning one more match in Tokyo. Fernandez was beaten by Rybakina in the second round, Mboko in the quarterfinals. Both are in Hong Kong this week).
Ann Li (USA): No. 44 ===========> No. 33
(A quiet one, Li wins the Guangzhou tournament, the second title of her career, and moves up to a career high at age 25).
Caty McNally (USA): No. 90 ===========> No. 83
(Another step up for the Talented American as she makes the Guangzhou quarterfinals).
Sara Bejlek (CZE): No. 101 ===========> No. 84
(The 19-year-old Czech lefty is inside the top 100 for the first time and should get straight into the main draw of a major come January for the first time in her career. She has successfully qualified in Australia each of the last three years, but this time she won’t have to).
Lulu Sun (NZL): No. 116 ===========> No. 88
(A roller-coaster season for Sun, but she goes from the Guangzhou qualifying to the final and firmly steps back into the top 100 again, which should get her straight into Melbourne).
Oksana Selekhmeteva (RUS): No. 113 ===========> No. 97
(The 22-year-old Russian lefty, who missed a long chunk of time with a knee issue, is back and better than ever as she breaks into the top 100 for the first time. She wins the WTA 125 in Rovereto).
Zhang Shuai (CHN): No. 122 ===========> No. 107
(Another leap up for 36-year-old Zhang, who makes the semifinals in Guangzhou).
Claire Liu (USA): No. 305 ===========> No. 222
(The former WImbledon junior champ, who got to a career high of No. 52 back in Jan. 2023, qualifies amd makes the semifinals in Guangzhou to give her ranking a nice boost).
Erika Andreeva (RUS): No. 334 ===========> No. 263
(Little sister Mirra isn’t the only Andreeva who has struggled in 2025. But big sis Erika takes a good step by winning the ITF in Hamburg this week).
Mingge Xu (GBR): No. 381 ===========> No. 269
(The 18-year-old Brit adds a title at the Wrexham ITF and a quarterfinal in Edgbaston, to reach a new career best).
Katrina Scott (USA): No. 461 ===========> No. 323
(The former highly-touted American junior prospect, who was playing the junior US Open at 15 and got inside the top 150 at age 18, almost exactly three years ago, is on her way back and made the final at the WTA 125 in Queretaro).
Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR): No. 577 ===========> No. 352
(Another Brit, this one just 16, takes advantage of some tournaments at home to make a huge jump in the rankings to a career high. She wins the Edgbaston ITF and makes the Wrexham final).
Linda Noskova (CZE) (No. 13)
Victoria Mboko (CAN) (No. 22)
Ann Li (USA) (No. 33)
Darja Semenistaja (LAT) (No. 86)
Sara Bejlek (CZE) (No. 89 – 83)
Oksana Selekhmeteva (RUS) (No. 97)
Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah (FRA) (No. 123)
Hanne Vandewinkel (GER) (No. 128)
Kaitlin Quevedo (ESP) (No. 143)
Alice Ramé (FRA) (No. 196)
Wakana Sonobe (JPN) (No. 227)
Zheng Qinwen (CHN): No. 11 ===========> No. 24
(After elbow surgery, Zheng came back in Beijing – but only for one match and part of another before retiring. She drops points from winning Tokyo last year. AND the ponts from the WTA Finals. So, a total of 1,300 off the books, which is a lot. It’s surprising she didn’t drop further).
Barbora Krejcikova (CZE): No. 36 ===========> No. 64
(Krejcikova has had a tough time of it in 2025. And she hasn’t played since retiring in the third set of her third-round match in Beijing. She obviously won’t make the Tour Finals, where she reached the semis a year ago. So those points fall off Monday.).
Olga Danilovic (SRB): No. 49 ===========> No. 70
(Danilovic, who won Guangzhou last year but didn’t play last week, drops out of the top 50 by failing to defend her points).
Katie Boulter (GBR): No. 63 ===========> No. 79
(Tough drop for Boulter, whose career high of No 23 came almost exactly a year ago. She qualified, but lost in the first round in Tokyo and her record for the season is under .500).
Léolia Jeanjean (FRA): No. 94 ===========> No. 104
Lucia Bronzetti (ITA): No. 91 ===========> No. 105
(These last two didn’t defend points last week, and so drop out of the top 100 at the worst time. They still have some tournaments at the lower levels to get back in before the AO deadline, if they hustle).
Caroline Dolehide (USA): No. 85 ===========> No. 112
(The former No. 41 drops out of the top 100 after losing in the first round in Tyler, Texas. A year ago, she made the final of the WTA event in Guangzhou. She might have to try to go the USTA wild card route, but that’s a long road).
Marina Stakusic (CAN): No. 140 ===========> No. 169
(It’s been a learning experience for Stakusic, who drops her points from winning the WTA 125 in Tampico out of the qualifying and didn’t play last week. She made quarterfinal points at Tampico the previous week to buttress it, a little. She’s back in Irapuato this coming week so hopefully she can make that ground back up).
Bianca Andreescu (CAN): No. 172 ===========> No. 227
(Not sure what the immediate future holds for the former US Open champ. But she drops the points from making the quarters in Tokyo a year ago and drops out of the top 200. She couldn’t win a main-draw match on the Asian swing in four attempts although, to be fair, she did get Victoria Mboko in the first round in Tokyo even if the first three, on paper, would have been very winnable matches).
