WTA Rankings Report – As of Feb. 2, 2026

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MELBOURNE, Australia – With the end of the first major of the season, there are plenty of big move from players who had life- and career-changing runs in Melbourne.

Champion Elena Rybakina moves back up to her career high of No. 3, well ahead of those behind her and just a few hundred points behind No. 2 Iga Swiatek.

And look at all the teenagers who have vaulted up to new career highs – including Canadian teen Victoria Mboko.

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Elena Rybakina (KAZ): No. 5 ===========> No. 3
(With her victory in the WTA Tour Finals last November, and her triumph in the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, Rybakina is on an absolute roll).

Elina Svitolina (UKR): No. 12 ===========> No. 10
(Back into the top 10 for the 31-year-old, for the first time since Oct. 2021. She made a run to the semifinals, couldn’t get over the hump, but had a tremendous fortnight).

Victoria Mboko (CAN): No. 16 ===========> No. 13
(Another career best for Mboko, who made the second week in Melbourne. She’s a ways from the top 10 still, but there’s no rush. She has decided not to play the first Middle East event in Abu Dhabi, saving the energy for the two WTA 1000s that come right after).

Naomi Osaka (JPN): No. 17 ===========> No. 14
(More drama for Osaka, who bowed out of her third-round match because of an abdominal issue. Still, a move up).

Iva Jovic (USA): No. 27 ===========> No. 20
(Top-20 for the 18-year-old, who made the quarterfinals and is looking for more).

Wang Xinyu (CHN): No. 46 ===========> No. 33
(Sort of forgotten the last six months because of injury, Wang moves up nicely after a fourth-round effort in Melbourne).

Magda Linette (POL): No. 50 ===========> No. 39
(Nicely into the top 50 again for the 33-year-old, who made the third round).

Tereza Valentova (CZE): No. 54 ===========> No. 44
(Another teenager making a move, as the 18-year-old made the third round and jumps into the top 50 for the first time).

Janice Tjen (INA): No. 59 ===========> No. 47
(The conqueror of Leylah Fernandez at the AO, Tjen went out in the next round. But she still moves into the top 50 for the first time.

Peyton Stearns (USA): No. 68 ===========> No. 50
(The former No. 28 gets back into the top 50 after making the third round. But she has some off-court issues to deal with after hiring a notoriously bad coach, who is reportedly now gone).

Zeynep Sonmez (TUR): No. 112 ===========> No. 79
(Relegated to the qualifying by fine margins and timing on her ranking, Sonmez not only made it but made it through to the third round in Melbourne).

Maddison Inglis (AUS): No. 168 ===========> No. 113
(One of those players for whom that top-100 barrier always seemed just out of reach, the 28-year-old qualifies and makes the fourth round in singles, and gets to within one of her career high – with a big cheque to go along with it that should allow her to invest in herself).

Lilli Tagger (AUT): No. 155 ===========> No. 128
(We thought the 17-year-old would qualfy in Melbourne but she went out in the final round. She did win a high-level ITF in the Middle East during the second week, though, and so moves to a career high).

Bianca Andreescu (CAN): No. 238 ===========> No. 162
(In the third tournament of her ITF comeback tour, the biggest one, Andreescu is back in the top 200 and wins another title).

Karolina Pliskova (CZE): No. 1057 ===========> No. 416
(The former No. 1 player her first Grand Slam tournament since the 2024 US Open and got to the third round, making that “real” ranking look a little better. She’s playing on a protected ranking and is in Cluj-Napoca this week).

Sloane Stephens (USA): No. 1102 ===========> No. 772
(The 32-year-old is giving it a final go and qualified at the Australian Open, only to run into Pliskova in the first round of the main draw).

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Notably, seven of these players are still teenagers.

Victoria Mboko (CAN) (No. 13)
Iva Jovic (USA) (No. 20)
Maya Joint (AUS) (No. 28)
Tereza Valentova (CZE) (No. 44)
Alexandra Eala (PHI) (No. 45)
Janice Tjen (INA) (No. 47)
Petra Marcinko (CRO) (No. 69)
Oksaka Selekhmeteva (RUS) (No. 76)
Nikola Bartunkova (CZE) (No. 108)
Lilli Tagger (AUS) (No. 128)
Mary Stoiana (USA) (No. 193)

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Coco Gauff (USA): No. 3 ===========> No. 5 
(Gauff doesn’t drop any points, as she also made the AO quarters a year ago. But Rybakina and Anisimova moved ahead of her with their runs in Melbourne. Back to the drawing board for the American. She has almost nothing to defend on the Middle East swing, so let’s see how much she plays).

Madison Keys (USA): No. 9 ===========> No. 15
(2025 AO champ Keys did well to hang in the top 10 as she did, considering how little she played last fall. She made the fourth round, but loses a TON of points, and six spots).

Veronika Kudermetova (RUS): No. 32 ===========> No. 38
(A quiet AO for the Russian, who ended up not playing at all and drops her points from last year’s fourth round. She hasn’t played since Ningbo last October. And, unlike Gauff, she does have a fair few points to defend in the Middle East).

Dayana Yastremska (UKR): No. 28===========> No. 43
(Out of the top 40 after losing in the first round in Melbourne and dropping points from a third round a year ago – plus a final at the WTA lin Linz, which took place last week, a year ago).

Tatjana Maria (GER): No. 42 ===========> No. 54
(The 38-year-old loses in the first round in Melbourne and in the second round of the Manila WTA 125, and drops out of the top 50).

Eva Lys (GER): No. 39 ===========> No. 59
(Lys broke out in last year’s AO, going from the qualifying to the fourth round and leaping into the top 100 for the first time. This year, armed with a new Lacoste sponsorship, a knee issue helped take her out early, in the first round).

Daria Kasatkina (AUS): No. 43 ===========> No. 62
(Kasatkina was officially sworn in as an Aussie. But she didn’t look fit for purpose and crashes out in the first round of the AO).

Paula Badosa (ESP): No. 26 ===========> No. 65
(Tough drop for Badosa, who won a round but who was a semifinalist last year. She played just one event between Wimbledon 2025 and Adelaide in January. And if it feels, like Maria Sakkari, that her window has sort of closed, we’d say never count out a tennis player).

Donna Vekic (CRO): No. 72 ===========> No. 95
(Another player who did things a year ago, Vekic lost in the first round at the AO, but made the final at the WTA 125 in Manila to ease that pain a little).

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS): No. 47 ===========> No. 100
(The 34-year-old Russian barely hangs on in the top 100 after going out in the first round. A year ago, she took Aryna Sabalenka to three sets in the quarterfinals. Feels like eons ago, in truth).

Petra Martic (CRO): No. 211 ===========> No. 340
(The 35-year-old would have been in the AO qualies by ranking. But she hasn’t played since last year’s US Open. And drops points from qualifying a year ago, and from a good result at the Linz tournament in 2025). 

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