WTA Rankings Report – As of Sept. 9, 2024

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The US Open is done. And there are a lot of changes in the rankings as a result of some impressive moves made during the fortnight.

And it’s also the day when two weeks’ worth of results from other tournaments around the world are also added to the computer.

So – a ginormous edition of the Rankings Report this week. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

There are also changes on the doubles side, with Cana-Kiwi Erin Routliffe dropping out of the top spot mostly because she and Gabriela Dabrowski weren’t able to defend their US Open title.

US Open champion Aryna Sabalenka joins Iga Swiatek among those qualified for the year-end championships.

ATP Rankings Report – As of Sept. 9, 2024

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

Jessica Pegula (USA): No. 6 =========> No. 3 (Pegula’s great run through the North-American summer only showed in the rankings after her run to the US Open final. She’s now at No. 3, which is a career high. She’s also the No. 1 American – of three in the top 10 and four in the top 11).

Emma Navarro (USA): No. 12 =========> No. 8 (A new career high for the 23-year-old American after her run to the US Open semifinals).

Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA): No. 21 =========> No. 16 (Haddad Maia, carrying some grief from a tragedy involving a member of her team that spilled over during her match against Karolina Muchova, is still back in the top 20 after making the quarterfinals in New York).

Paula Badosa (ESP): No. 29 =========> No. 20 (Another great step on Badosa’s return to the top of the game, as she gets back into the top 20 after making the US Open quarterfinals. The last time she was in the top 20 was in Feb. 2023).

Ashlyn Krueger (USA): No. 59 =========> No. 51 (The 20-year-old American is three points out of the top 50 after making the third round in New York. Along the way, she upset Mirra Andreeva).

Wang Yafan (CHN): No. 80 =========> No. 62 (Wang, 30, made the second week in New York and is having a nice comeback after missing nine months from May 2022 to late February 2023 due to injury. She was ranked No. 696 in March, 2023 and now is nearing the top 60).

Naomi Osaka (JPN): No. 88 =========> No. 75 (Winning a round at the US Open was worth a nice jump in the rankings. But with all the special outfits and the focusing of her comeback year towards this fortnight, a disappointment with the second-round loss to Muchova).

Sara Errani (ITA): No. 96 =========> No. 76 (The astonishing 37-year-old, who made the third round in New York and defeated Bucsa and Dolehide – two solid players – did even better in the mixed doubles as she took the title with countryman Andrea Vavassori. It’s her highest singles ranking since May 2023).

Tatjana Maria (GER): No. 99 =========> No. 82 (Maria, 37, lost in the first round of the US Open, but made lemons with lemonade as she jetted to Guadalajara for a WTA 125 during the second week, and made the final).

Jessika Ponchet (FRA): No. 143 =========> No. 104 (Just a few weeks after countrywoman Chloe Paquet finally breaks into the top 100 at age 30, the 27-year-old Ponchet is just a few points away after qualifying and making the third round in New York. She benefited greatly from a second-round walkover gifted by No. 4 seed Elena Rybakina).

Maya Joint (AUS): No. 135 =========> No. 111 (The 18-year-old, who qualiid and won a round at the US Open, earned $140,000 that she’ll try to figure out how to get, given the maze of NCAA rules about accepting professional prize money as she still plans to head to the University of Texas. It’s a career high, and it certainly served Shnaider fairly well to have that big rankings rise and still try to play college for a year. We’ll see what happens).

Rebecca Marino (CAN): No. 139 =========> No. 128 (Marino lost in the second round of US Open qualifying, but went to the Guadalajara WTA 125 and made the quarterfinals. She is in qualifying at the WTA 500 there this weekend while her lower-ranked countrywoman Marina Stakusic gets a main-draw wild card. But that’s life in the big city).

Varvara Lepchenko (USA): No. 199 =========> No. 159 (The 38-year-old, who was inside the top 20 back in 2012, qualified and won a round at the US Open. It was her first main-draw win in New York since … 2016. Lepchenko served a doping suspension, testing positive for a banned stimulant back in 2021 and having that four-year ban cut down in February 2023. She returned in May 2023, starting from scratch, got back onto the computer in July 2023 at No. 1104 and clearly has been determined to make something of it).

Ena Shibahara (JPN): No. 217 =========> No. 169 (An underreported story at the US Open was the 26-year-old American/Japanese player, who has put her doubles success aside in 2024 to see what she can make of herself in singles. She began the year at No. 548, barely squeezed into the qualifying, got through the qualifying and won a round in the main draw before losing to Iga Swiatek on Arthur Ashe Stadium. She’s at a career high, is 40-15 on the year in singles and is trying for more in Guadalajara this weekend).

Carson Brantine (CAN): No. 305=========> No. 275 (After a three-school college odyssey through COVID and multiple surgeries, Branstine is finally getting her pro career going. And, two weeks after the effort, she moves into the top 300 for the first time with a title at the ITF in Vrnjacka Banja).

Iva Jovic (USA): No. 389 =========> No. 290 (The 16-year-old didn’t win the US Open juniors. But she made hay with her wild card into the women’s draw. And winning a first-round match against Magda Linette moves her up nearly 100 spots to a career high).

Stacey Fung (CAN): No. 332=========> No. 306 (Fung, whose career high of No. 222 cameback in February, adds points with semifinals at ITFs in Saskatoon and Leiria, and gets withim a few points of returning to the top 300).

Kayla Cross (CAN) : No. 463=========> No. 395 (The 19-year-old Canadian moves into the top 400 for the first time as the points from her singles win at the $25K in Saskatoon the week before the US Open are finally added on. Her current doubles ranking of No. 260 will also rise next week, when the points from her title in the Dominican Republic also go on).

Kaitlin Quevedo (ESP): No. 478 =========> No. 391 (Quevedo, 18 and a native of Naples, Fla. decided to represent Spain this year, after playing for the US all through the juniors. And it’s working out. She adds a quarterfinal at Vrnjacka Banja. She made the final of an ITF in Saint-Palais-sur-Mer – a $40K).

Ana Konjuh (CRO): No. 1,115 =========> No. 728 (Konhuh, a former top-20 player who’s still only 26 but has spent as much time post-surgery as she has on court, is trying one more time and made the final round of qualifying at the US Open. She went 0-2 at the WTA125 and the WTA 500 qualifying in Guadalajara. So no more for now).

Mia Kupres (CAN): No. 1,170 =========> No. 807 (The 20-year-old Canadian, who has been playing at Texas A&M, gets the points added on from her effort to get to the Saskatoon ITF final to weeks ago, and moves up to a career high in the rankings. She’s at a career high of No. 205 in doubles).

Coco Gauff (USA): No. 3 =========> No. 6 (Considering she was defending a Grand Slam title and lost in the fourth round, the fallout from dropping 1,760 points would have been a lot worse. But she was in a rather spread-out area of the draw. Gauff played just events last year after winning the US Open, but she’s defending a semifinal at the WTA 1000 in Beijing).

Jelena Ostapenko (LAT): No. 10 =========> No. 12 (Ostapenko is out of the top 10 after a shock shellacking in the first round of the US Open to Naomi Osaka in singles. But she was there the entire fortnight anyway, as she won the women’s doubles with longtime doubles partner and friend Lyudmyla Kichenok. Her doubles ranking is up to No. 6 – a career high; she’s the top seed at the WTA 500 in Guadalajara this week).

Ons Jabeur (TUN): No. 17 =========> No. 22 (Jabeur missed the US Open, and so drops out of the top 20 for the first time in three years after last year’s fourth-round points drop off.. Two years ago, she was No. 2. She’s 16-14 on the season and isn’t even playing the WTA event in Tunisia which – like many of these types of tournaments – was in part created to capitalize on the popularity of someone from that country but ends up flailing because, for various reasons, those players don’t play it. She’s defending 550 points on the Asian swing).

Madison Keys (USA): No. 14 =========> No. 24 (Keys made the third round, but that wasn’t nearly enough to make up for the points lost from her semifinal a year ago, when she beat Samsonova, this year’s finalist Pegula, Vondrousova and lost in a match tiebreak to this year’s champion, Sabalenka. Keys retired at Wimbledon at 5-5 in the third set in the round of 16, retired down 0-3 in the third in her opener in Toronto. And so she did well to get as far as she did in Flushing, to be fair).

Marketa Vondrousova (CZE): No. 22 =========> No. 33 (Vondrousova withdrew from the US Open, the last major in a tough year on the personal front and on the physical front as well. She drops out of the top 30).

Sorana Cirstea (ROU): No. 39 =========> No. 65 (Cirstea withdrew from the US Open, where she made the quarterfinals last year with a run of wins over Kalinskaya, Rybakina and Bencic. And so the typically sturdy Romanian, now 34, drops out of the top 60. She had surgery on her foot in early August and won’t be back until 2025).

Greet Minnen (BEL): No. 70 =========> No. 88 (A second-round loss at the US Open doesn’t cover her run from the qualifying to the third round a year ago, when she dropped a pair of breadsticks on an immobile Venus Williams in the first round. The No. 6 seed plays a qualifier in the first round in Monastir this week).

Marina Stakusic (CAN): No. 140 =========> No. 155 (Stakusic, who is in Guadalajara ths week, lost in the first round of US Open qualifying an also in the first round of the WTA 125 in Mexico. She drops points from winning a $25K in Spain a year ago. In a couple of weeks, she’ll also see the pionts from winning a $60K in California fall off. But she has a wild card into the WTA 5000 in Guadalajara this week, and will face Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the first round).

Tamara Zidansek (SLO): No. 149 =========> No. 226 (The former No. 22 has dealt with injuries in recent years. And after her loss in the first round of US Open qualifying to Lepchenko, drops all the points she earned a year ago as she won a WTA 125 in Italy during the second week of the US Open).

Jodie Burrage (GBR): No. 232 =========> No. 279 (Burrage, 25, got into the top 100 at No. 85 in exactly a year ago. But she’s been out for six months after suffering a left-wrist injury during practice in February (and had surgery – the fourth of her career) and an ankle injury in May … She’s finally back this week, and in the qualifying at the WTA tournament in Monastir. But she drops her US Open points from a year ago).

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Vera Zvonareva (RUS): No. 290 =========> No. 329 (Zvonareva turned 40 on Saturday, and she spent it on court with the kids she works with at the Topspin Academy in Dubai. She drops points from the US Open qualifying a year ago, and she has only been an occasional sighting. Zvonareva injured her shoulder at Roland Garros, where she played doubles with Mirra Andreeva, and had surgery recently. It’s a shame; she could certainly play some more doubles until her 2023 WTA Finals title points drop off; she’s currently still ranked No. 11.