WTA Rankings Report – As of Nov. 3, 2025

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With the top eight battling it out in Riyadh, their points are basically frozen this week, as the ones from a year ago (plus point penalties for failing to meet their tournament obligations) fell off a week ago.

So not much change at the top.

But there were still three WTA events last week, plus the assorted ITFs. So the WTA has still put out an updated rankings list for this Monday.

This type of week is a bit hyperactive; there are players who made unexpected moves a year ago in these final tournaments – taking advantage of the absence of top players – who didn’t defend those points. And then there are new players in that exact same situation who will use this big result – hopefully – as a launchpad for bigger and better things in 2026.

The only change in the top 20 is that Canadian Victoria Mboko makes her debut IN it, at No. 18. But there so many moves going down the list, as so many of these players compete right into December.

For the complete, updated WTA rankings for Nov. 3, click here.

ATP Rankings Report – As of Nov. 3, 2025

Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 21 ==============> No. 18 (It wasn’t looking too promising at first, when Victoria Mboko returned from a month away in the wake of a first-round US Open lost and undertook her first Asian swing. But it finished in glory, as she wins her second title of the season in Hong Kong, and moves into the top 20 for the first time).

Eva Lys (GER): No. 44 ==============> No. 40 (The likeable German moves into the top 40 for the first time).

Janice Tjen (INA): No. 82 ==============> No. 53 (The 2024 Pepperdine graduate out of Indonesia wins her first career WTA title in Chennai, and wins the doubles title as well. That prolific day on Sunday raises that ranking to No. 85, also a career best. Watch out, she’s coming. Her won-loss record at every level in 2025 is a gaudy … 77-15 – and 126-24 for her professional career so far).

Cristina Bucsa (ESP): No. 68 ==============> No. 54 (Another player who had a productive year, Bucsa fell to Mboko in the Hong Kong final but rose to a career high in the process. And she’s made nearly $1.5 million US in 2025. Nice work, as she turns 28 on New Year’s Day).

Anna Blinkova (RUS): No. 95 ==============> No. 63 (Blinkova, who has been as high as No. 34, not only wins in Jiangxi, but blows everyone away with a massive effort at giving most of her trophy speech in Mandarin).

Kimberly Birrell (AUS): No. 117 ==============> No. 94 (Birrell had a great first part of the season, rising to a career-high No. 60 in May. But that change in fortunes did not translate to wins at the highest level. And so she was dropping when she came up with a tremendous effort to make the final in Chennai, and get back into the top 100 before her home Slam in January. She’s made nearly $800,000 this year, which is more than a third of her career total).

Sinja Kraus (AUT): No. 129 ==============> No. 107 (The Austrian has been on the clay-court WTA 125 tour this fall, and follows up a semifinal in Florianopolis with a title in Cali Colombia and a new career best).

Joanna Garland (TPE): No. 132 ==============> No. 120 (Garland, a Brit who represents Taiwan after moving there at the age of 10, was brilliant in going from qualifying to her first WTA-level semifinal. There, in the heat and humidity, she was quite overcome in a three-hour marathon loss against Birrell. Still, she moves to a career high and impresses with her grit).

Marina Stakusic (CAN): No. 169 ==============> No. 151 (The Canadian is righting the ship on her ranking with a title at the $100K ITF in Irapuato, Mexico. She has the Austin, Texas WTA 125 this week, and then Billie Jean King Cup).

Lilli Tagger (AUT): No. 235 ==============> No. 156 (The 17-year-old Roland Garros junior champion makes a leap into the top 200 in her first WTA-level tournament, as she reaches the final in Jiangxi. Another one to watch out for; she’s 34-9 at all levels this season after winning back-to-back $60K ITFs in Romania and Serbia right after the US Open, along with a final and a semifinal just before, in two events in her homeland. She lost to her countrywoman Kraus – also at a new career best this week – in both of those. A year ago, she had just entered the top 1000 and after the US Open, she was at No. 347)

Mia Pohankova (SVK): No. 659 ==============> No. 460 (The young Slovak, who won junior Wimbledon this year, leaps nearly 200 spots after making the quarterfinals in Jiangxi on a wild card. She had played just one pro event before this year. She’s also 17, and she’s coming).

Victoria Mboko (CAN) (No. 18)
Eva Lys (GER) (No. 40)
Alexandra Eala (PHI) (No. 50)
Janice Tjen (INA) (No. 53)
Cristina Bucsa (ESP) (No. 54)
Sinja Kraus (AUT) (No. 107)
Joanna Garland (TPE) (No. 120)
Hanne Vandewinkel (BEL) (No. 126)
Lanlana Tararudee (INA) (No. 143)
Lili Tagger (AUT) (No. 156)

Diana Shnaider (RUS): No. 18 ==============> No. 21 (Shnaider drops out of the top 20, after not defending her title in Hong Kong – or even playing it. She is in Riyadh, having qualified for the doubles with Mirra Andreeva, and these two could use a nice, long holiday).

Ann Li (USA): No. 33 ==============> No. 38 (No sooner did Li get to a career high, and in range for a seeded spot in Melbourne, after winning Guangzhou, she drops down again after not defending her final in the WTA 250 in Mérida, which was moved to a slot just before Indian Wells this year).

Laura Siegemund (GER): No. 40 ==============> No. 46 (The veteran German drops a bit, but still a successful season for her in both singles and doubles. And that’s despite the fact that partner Beatriz Haddad Maia pull the ripcord on her season early in the Asian swing. The two were still in the mix for Riyadh, so it must have been a tough decision).

Victoria Golubic (SUI): No. 53 ==============> No. 69 (Golubic was defeated by a fellow one-handed backhand half her age, Lilli Tagger, in the semifinals of Jiangxi. And so doesn’t defend her title there. Still, the hurt isn’t too bad. She still has points from winning a WTA 125 in mid-December to defend before the end of the season).

Rebecca Sramkova (SVK): No. 61 ==============> No. 74 (Sramkova made the Jiangxi final last year, but didn’t play this year).

Ons Jabeur (TUN): No. 76 ==============> No. 78 (Jabeur hasn’t played in so long that we expected her ranking to be in the abyss. In fact, it’s still up there; most of her points … Her las match was a first-round retirement at Wimbledon back in late June. In 2024, she similarly ended her season early, after losing to Naomi Osaka in Toronto. Will she be back? She’s kept a very low profile although she has been doing things off court, such as lending her name to a new academy in Dubai. And she is in Riyadh this week).

Polina Kudermetova (RUS): No. 72 ==============> No. 88 (Kudermetova made the semifinal in Mérida a year ago, but that tournament was relocated on the schedule, so the points drop off).

Katie Boulter (GBR): No. 79 ==============> No. 100 (Tough times for the lovely Brit, who reached a career of 23 exactly a year ago. She’s 21-21 on the season, and has made nearly $1 million in prize money. But she hasn’t won back-to-back matches in a WTA main draw since Nottingham last summer. Boulter had a great year personally, getting engaged to Alex de Minaur. But now, at 29, she will have to squeeze into Melbourne and fight for spots at all the other big tournaments).

Zeynep Sonmez (TUR): No. 73 ==============> No. 113 (Sonmez, a rare player from Turkey, worked SO hard to get to a career high of No. 69 just two weeks ago. But she drops her points from winning her first career title in Mérida a year ago, and now will have to fight to get back there in 2026).

Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP): No. 278 ==============> No. 331 (The 29-year-old Spaniard dropped out of sight – literally, she has zero imprint on social media – to take a break to heal all wounds back in April, after the Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers. She announced her return this week, and with that lapse of time should be able to use her protected ranking, about No. 71)