WTA Rankings Report – As of May 4, 2026

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The first rankings update in two weeks, because of the extended WTA 1000 event in Madrid, means a lot of changes.

In addition to the big leap by Madrid champion Marta Kostyuk, you’ll note the long list of new career highs, achieved at the numerous lower level tournaments over the last two weeks.

For the complete, updated WTA rankings for Monday, click here.

Iga Swiatek (POL): No. 4 ===========> No. 3
(Swiatek squeezes past Gauff and back into the No. 3 spot after five weeks at No. 4. Mostly because she drops fewer points from Madrid than Gauff did)

Mirra Andreeva (RUS): No. 8 ===========> No. 7
(Andreeva’s good work to get to the final in Madrid only moves her up one spot, with Amanda Anisimova nearly 2,000 points ahead of her at No. 6).

Marta Kostyuk (UKR): No. 23 ===========> No. 15
(Kostyuk had her 2026 momentum stopped by an ankle ligament injury earlier this season. But she’s back with a vengeance and with the win in Madrid, her second consecutive title and the third and biggest of her career, moves to a career high of No. 15).

Leylah Fernandez (CAN): No. 25 ===========> No. 23
(It’s been a good few weeks for Fernandez, whose ranking has been holding but not moving up much. She made the quarters in Madrid).

Hailey Baptiste (USA): No. 32 ===========> No. 25
(A breakout week at the top level for the 24-year-old American, who made the semis in Madrid by beating Paolini, Bencic and Sabalenka. She’ll be a seed in Paris).

Jaqueline Cristian (ROU): No. 33 ===========> No. 28
(Another player who should be seeded in Paris, Cristian is playing the best tennis of her career as she approaches her 28th birthday, and is into the top 30 for the first time after a third-round effort in Madrid).

Ann Li (USA): No. 34 ===========> No. 29
(Top-30 debut for Li, who made the fourth round in Madrid).

Zheng Qinwen (CHN): No. 36 ===========> No. 32
(The field would prefer Zheng not be unseeded in Paris. And she put herself in range with her third-round effort in Madrid. But she’s defending semifinal points in Rome, where she beat Andreescu and Sabalenka and fell in a third-set tiebreak to Coco Gauff in the semis. So that’s a challenge).

Anastasia Potapova (RUS): No. 56 ===========> No. 38
(Potapova has been having an excellent clay-court swing. Very good. She came out of the qualifying in Madrid as a lucky loser and made it all the way to the semifinals. In doing that, she’s back into the top 40 for the first time in nearly a year. She had dropped as far down as No. 97 just a month ago).

Tereza Valentova (CZE): No. 51 ===========> No. 48 (Just 19, Valentova made the final at the WTA 125 in Saint-Malo).

Caty McNally (USA): No. 76 ===========> No. 63
(With her early promise sidelined by injury, McNally is finally starting to get it into gear at age 24. She makes the fourth round in Madrid; on the horizon is a doubles reunion with Gauff in Rome).

Daria Kasatkina (AUS): No. 75 ===========> No. 66
(Kasatkina, still just 28, took a break this winter and didn’t play until Rouen a couple of weeks ago, after retiring before her second-round match in Dubai in mid-February. She is at a WTA 125 in Spain – her first tournament below the top WTA level in a decade – and wins it 7-5 in the third set).

Veronika Erjavec (SLO): No. 96 ===========> No. 86
(Erjavec lost in the first round of qualifying in Madrid. But she hustled down to China and made the final at the WTA 125 in Huzhou).

Anhelina Kalinina (UKR): No. 110 ===========> No. 93
(After qualifying in Madrid, she makes the third round and gets herself back into the top 100 – too late for the Roland Garros main draw, though. The former Rome finalist will try to make a similar move there. Kalinina was out from early June 2025 until she returned at a WTA 125 in Limoges in mid-December, winning it. She’s 26-9 on the season playing at a lower level and getting on clay as soon as she could – including a 14-1 run at three WTA 125s in Antalya in March with two titles and a final against quality competition. Going into that stretch, she’d fallen outside the top 200).

Lanlana Taraudee (THA): No. 113 ===========> No. 99
(The 21-year-old, who won the Austin WTA 125 earlier this year, makes the final in Tokyo and the semifinal in Gifu during a pair of $100K ITFs in Japan. She moves to a new career high and breaks into the top 100 for the first time).

Karolina Pliskova (CZE): No. 197 ===========> No. 130
(Is she back? The 34-year-old has moved from No. 1056 at the start of 2026 as she returns from a year away between the 2024 and 2025 US Opens, and starts winning matches, buffeted by a protected ranking she has used to her advantage. She was a surprise quarterfinalist in Madrid).

Akasha Urhobo (USA): No. 239 ===========> No. 183
(The 19-year-old American moves into the top 200 for the first time after making the semis at an ITF in Charlottesville on the Har-Tru, winning another in Zephyr Hills and making the final in Bonita Springs this past week through the Madrid period. She began this season at No. 337 before winning a small ITF in Weston, Fla in which she defeated Bianca Andreescu in the semifinals, and has locked up the Roland Garros reciprocal wild card).

Fiona Ferro (FRA): No. 246 ===========> No. 197
(The former No. 39, now 29 and rebuilding her career after a traumatic period with an abusive coach, moves back into the top 200 for the first time since Aug. 2024 after winning the WTA 125 in Oeiras, Portugal two weeks ago).

Madison Brengle (USA): No. 349 ===========> No. 288
(The 36-year-old American was unsure what she would do past April, when her protected ranking ran out. But she has kept on trucking. She qualified in Charlottesville. And she qualified again in Bonita Springs and made the semifinal).

Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP): No. 359 ===========> No. 291
(Sorribes Tormo took a mental health break and is slowing rounding into form. She’s back into the top 300 after a semifinal at the WTA 125 in La Bisbal, up from No. 528 just two weeks ago. Her career-high ranking of No. 17 came exactly two years ago). 

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Marta Kostyuk (UKR) (No. 15)
Hailey Baptiste (USA) (No. 25)
Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) (No. 28)
Ann Li (USA) (No. 29)
Zeynep Sonmez (TUR) (No. 65)
Veronika Erjavec (SLO) (No. 86)
Lanlana Taraudee (THA) (No. 99)
Darja Vidmanova (CZE) (No. 106)
Maja Chwalinska (POL) (No. 113)
Dominika Salkova (CZE) (No. 117)
Alina Charaeva (RUS) (No. 125)
Taylah Preston (AUS) (No. 126)
Emerson Jones (AUS) (No. 129)
Himeno Sakatsume (JPN) (No. 131)
Mary Stoiana (USA) (No. 149)
Jeline Vandromme (BEL) (No. 179)
Mia Pohankova (CZE) (No. 273)

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Coco Gauff (USA: No. 3 ===========> No. 4
(Gauff was a finalist a year ago in Madrid, and lost in the fourth round this year. So the differential in points will drop her a spot. Both she and Swiatek are nearly 3,000 points behind Elena Rybakina at the No. 2 spot).

Elina Svitolina (UKR): No. 7 ===========> No. 10
(Svitolina, who made the Madrid semis last year, lost in her opening match this year and drops two spots, She’s not far out of tumbling from the top 10, depending on what happens in Rome. She’s defending quarterfinal points there).

Emma Navarro (USA): No. 28 ===========> No. 35
(It wasn’t that long ago that Navarro was at a career high No. 8 – right after the 2024 US Open. She hasn’t won back-to-back matches since Adelaide, hasn’t played since the Austin WTA 125 in March, and drops out of the top 30. It’s crazy how she fell right into the abyss).

Maya Joint (AUS): No. 29 ===========> No. 34
(The 20-year-old has been out since Indian Wells with a lower back issue – right as she reached a career high. After making the quarterfinals in Adelaide, she has lost her opener in five straight matches. 

Maria Sakkari (GRE): No. 38 ===========> No. 47
(At 30, Sakkari is sort of in a purgatory in terms of her career. She has had bright, shining moments. And she has squeezed into the bigger 1000 events lately as a seed. But she also has gotten some tough draws – and some better ones – and with her exit in the second round in Madrid to Karolina Pliskova, drops out of the top 40).

Donna Vekic (CRO): No. 66 ===========> No. 89
(In the qualifying in Madrid, Vekic lost in the first round and drops her fourth-round points from last year).

Bianca Andreescu (CAN): No. 127 ===========> No. 137
(Andreescu played down the last two weeks, losing in the first round of a WTA 125 in Oeiras and the second round in Saint-Malo. She’s expected to get a main draw wild card in Rome, on an exchange between Tennis Canada and the Italian federation).

Anastasija Sevastova (LAT): No. 195 ===========> No. 226
(At 36, the Latvian, who reached No. 11 back in Oct. 2018 and made two comebacks during her career – the more recent one after maternity leave, announced her retirement this weeek after a star-crossed but nevertheless impressive career that included four titles).

 

 

 

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