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With the end of the WTA Finals in Riyadh comes the official year-end rankings list.
And there are probably more changes than there might have been after a “regular” tournament, as the players’ points from their performance at the 2024 edition came off a couple of weeks ago.
But overall, the moves in the rankings have come at the lower levels. Other than Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula swapping spots, there are no other changes in the top 60.
For the compete, updated WTA rankings effective Monday, click here.
Elena Rybakina (KAZ): No. 6 ===========> No. 5
(Rybakina was the champion in Riyadh and in addition to pocketing the sum of $5.235 million, she also should earn some sponsors’ bonuses for finishing in the year-end top 5. It’s the first time she’s been back there since February).
Renata Zarazua (MEX): No. 82 ===========> No. 70
(Zarazua moves up 12 as she wins the WTA 125 in Austin, Texas, outlasting Canadian Marina Stakusic in three sets).
Simona Waltert (SUI): No. 93 ===========> No. 86
(Waltert, a 24-year-old Swiss, moves to a career high by making the semis at the WTA 125 on clay in Tucuman, Argentina).
Mayar Sherif (EGY): No. 103 ===========> No. 93
(Sherif, the former Pepperdine star whose moniker as the ‘queen of the 125s’ is well-earned because she struggles some when she jumps up to the top level, moves back into the top 100 with her final in Tucuman. All of that is nicely timed as she looks to get straight into the Australian Open and pocket that cash. Except … Sherif has a quarter, a semi and a title – all earned in South America last fall at the WTA 125 level – to defend the rest of 2025).
Oleksandra Oliynykova (UKR): No. 132 ===========> No. 109
(Oliynykova has been through the wringer at the lowest levels of the ITF circuit. But at 24, she’s playing her best tennis and is at a career high after winning in Tucuman).
Marina Stakusic (CAN): No. 151 ===========> No. 131 (Stakusic’s sort-of sophomore season after making an impressive debut a year ago has been a struggle. But she’s finishing strong. Making the Austin 125 final means she’s almost back where she was at the start of 2025, after dropping as low as No. 168).
Elisabeth Mandlik (USA): No. 202 ===========> No. 185
(Mandlik, the daughter of legend Hana Mandlikova, got into the top 100 during the summer of 2023. But it didn’t last long. And she’s worked hard at the lower level to get back there. Mandlik moves back into the top 200 with her quarterfinal effort at the WTA 125 in Austin).
Simona Waltert (SUI) (No. 86)
Oleksandra Oliynykova (UKR) (No. 109)
Yeon Woo Ku (KOR) (No. 252)
Aouk Vrancken Peeters (NED) (No. 296)
Jessica Pegula (USA: No. 5 ===========> No. 6
(Pegula had a good Finals, but drops a spot because of Rybakina’s 1,500-point haul).
Veronika Erjavec (SLO): No. 98 ===========> No. 114
(Bad timing for Erjavec, who drops the points she earned in making the final of a WTA 125 in Cali, Colombia last year, as she didn’t play last week. She had just broken into the top 100 for the first time in September.)
Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU): No. 124 ===========> No. 147
(The 35-year-old former No. 22 won that Cali event a year ago. But she didn’t play it this year – she hasn’t played since the WTA tournament in Iasi, Romania last July – which she won ˆ and so drops in the rankings).
Rebecca Marino (CAN): No. 147 ===========> No. 180
(This time of the year is usually very good to the veteran Canadian, who has had great results in Mexico. And there are a number of tournaments in that country late in the season.
Lauren Davis (USA): No. 262 ===========> No. 300
(The 32-year-old veteran has played sparingly this year – and she drops points from making the semis at the Dow Tennis Classic last year. She has semifinal points from a similar event in Charleston a year ago that will drop off in another two weeks, which will drop her outside the top 360. Davis hasn’t played since losing in the first round of the US Open qualifying, and winning just three games. She has lost in the first round of her last six events; her last win came in April at a $100K in Bonita Springs, Fla., when she beat Canadian Katherine Sebov. It sort of smells like the end might be near; certainly in watching her against Stakusic in the Roland Garros qualifying, her movement wasn’t anywhere close to what it was at her best. And that was her best asset. But never say never.
Océane Dodin (FRA): No. 479 ===========> No. 671
(She’s still just 29, but the former No. 46, who showed so much promise at a young age, has hardly played. The six-footer from Lille drops points from making the final of a W75 tournament in Luxembourg a year ago. Dodin hasn’t played outside France for a year – and didn’t play at all in 2025 until she returned at a W35 ITF in Reims in October. It was the first of only three tournaments this season. The only noteworthy thing about her in recent months has been the … surgical enhancement of her assets and a new venture with OnlyFans. We wish we were kidding).
And her are the official year-end top-10 rankings.
