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Two tournaments, and two top seeds win the titles.
Elena Rybakina won her second Porsche in Stuttgart and Marta Kostyuk, who could have played Stuttgart but opted for the smaller WTA 250 event Rouen, maximized and won the second title of her career, her first in three years.
The breakout effort came from Kostyuk’s countrywoman Veronika Podrez, who has lived in France since she was very young. She got close to the top 200 playing at the lower levels. But she made her WTA-level debut in Rouen. And she got to the final out of the qualifying against the fellow Ukrainian she had a pic taken with when she was just 11, at Roland Garros, when she could only dream this would happen.
Podrez should be able to make her Roland Garros debut herself in the qualifying this year, as she has leaped into the top 150.
For the complete, updated WTA rankings for Monday, click here.
Marta Kostyuk (UKR): No. 28 =============> No. 23
(Kostyuk wins just the second WTA title of her career, more than three years after the first in Austin in 2023. She dropped down to be the No. 1 seed at the smaller event – she made the final in Stuttgart two years ago – and it was a great decision).
Hailey Baptiste (USA): No. 35 =============> No. 32
(Baptiste lost in the second round in Rouen, despite being a high seed. But she moves up three and is in position to be seeded at Roland Garros, at a new career high).
Laura Siegemund (GER): No. 51 =============> No. 47
(Siegemund lost to Iga Swiatek in the second round in Stuttgart, but it was enough to move her back into the top 50. At 38, that’s good work).
Tatjana Maria (GER): No. 63 =============> No. 54
(Maria, at 38, makes the Rouen semifinals and a nice leap in the rankings).
Zeynep Sonmez (TUR): No. 79 =============> No. 67
(Sonmez lost a heartbreaker to Leylah Fernandez in the quarterfinals of Stuttgart, out of the qualifying. She just had less in the tank once they hit the three-hour mark, and served – unsuccessfully – for the match in the third set. But she still moves to a new career high).
Alycia Parks (USA): No. 95 =============> No. 84
(A decent week for the American, who qualified and won a round in Stuttgart).
Lilli Tagger (AUT): No. 97 =============> No. 91
(Tagger lost in the first round in Rouen, but others fell off so she moves up six spots to another career high. Now that she’s in the top 100, the road gets a lot steeper).
Hanne Vandewinkel (BEL): No. 98 =============> No. 92
(Same situation for Vandewinkel, the 21-year-old Belgian. She didn’t play, but she moves up).
Maja Chwalinska (POL): No. 129 =============> No. 118
(The clever Polish lefty moves to a new career high as she wins the WTA 125 in Oeiras).
Veronika Podrez (UKR): No. 209 =============> No. 147
(The 19-year-old, a Ukrainian who has lived in France since she was five, picked a great week to play her first career WTA level event. She went from the qualifying to the final and moves into the top 200 – actually, the top 150 – with a big bang).
Robin Montgomery (USA): No. 416 =============> No. 339
(Montgomery, still just 21 and who broke into the top 100 at No. 95 just before last year’s Wimbledon), had been out from Wimbledon until she reappeared at the Bogota clay-court event a couple of weeks ago. After losing her opener in the two previous return events, she made the semifinals at the Oeiras tournament).
Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP): No. 528 =============> No. 359
(Sorribes Tormo took a mental-health break last year; she was out from BJK Cup in mid-April until a return in mid-November. And it’s been a slow return that she’s made at the ITF and WTA 125 levels, despite having a protected ranking. Until last week, when she qualified and won the ITF tournament in Portoroz. Her career high of No. 32 came in Feb. 2022).
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Hailey Baptiste (USA) (No. 32)
Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) (No. 67)
Lilli Tagger (AUT) (No. 91)
Hanne Vandewinkel (BEL) (No. 92)
Nikola Bartunkova (CZE) (No. 93)
Maja Chwalinska (POL) (No. 118)
Veronika Podrez (UKR) (No. 147)
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Jelena Ostapenko (LAT): No. 22 =============> No. 40 (Ostapenko won Stuttgart last year – the most recent title on her resumé – but she was upset in the first round this year and sees her ranking tank big time. That said, it’s less than 100 points to get herself into a seeded position for Paris in a very tight section of the rankings. So plenty to work for in the next two WTA 1000s coming up).
Veronika Kudermetova (RUS): No. 62 =============> No. 64
(No Kudermetova since the Asian swing last fall. And while she was automatically entered in Madrid next week, she won’t make the date there, either. She’s still ranked in the top 10 in doubles. Kudermetova announced she had surgery on New Year’s Eve – the details of which, she did not elaborate on either at the time, or since).
Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU): No. 61 =============> No. 71
(Ruse made he semifinals in Rouen last year, but didn’t play last week).
Ella Seidel (GER): No. 87 =============> No. 100
(Seidel lost to Elise Mertens in the first round of Stuttgart, after qualifying and winning a round a year ago. So she drops, but she secured her main-draw spot in Paris at the entry deadline last week).
Mayar Sherif (EGY): No. 105 =============> No. 119
(Sherif, who has been as high as No. 31 but does her best work below the top WTA level, drops because of a first-round loss at the Oeiras event – a 9-7, third-set tiebreak defeat to Montgomery. A year ago, she won a $100K ITF in Madrid).
Olga Danilovic (SRB): No. 113 =============> No. 131
(Danilovic hasn’t played since the Cluj-Napoca WTA event in early February. She drops her points from making the Rouen final a year ago).
Jana Fett (CRO): No. 226 =============> No. 293
(Fett, who was provisionally suspended in January in the wake of a positive doping test in November 2025 in the Billie Jean King Cup playoffs, sees her ranking fall yet again. No word yet on how long that suspension will be).
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