WTA Rankings Report – As of Feb. 24, 2025

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Welcome to the top 10, Mirra Andreeva.

The 17-year-old, seeded No. 12, wins the WTA 1000 in Dubai and moves into the top 10 for the first time.

Her opponent in the final, 22-year-old Clara Tauson, leaps into the top 25 for the first time.

The Middle East swing was full of unexpected heroines, and it undoubtedly was the result of the fact that there’s SO much emphasis on the Grand Slams these days, the hangover for the top-ranked players seems to last right through the Middle East swing.

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That’s not great for women’s tennis writ large. But it’s exciting for those who take advantage.

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

Madison Keys (USA): No. 6 =========> No. 5 (As Keys enjoys a break after winning the Australian Open – she was not, with the WTA rules, allowed to play in Austin this week as planned – she moves up another spot to a career high because of the drop by Jasmine Paolini)

Mirra Andreeva (RUS): No. 14 =========> No. 9 (Into the top 10 with a bullet after her unexpected title at the WTA 1000 in Dubai. She defeated Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina en route, so it was hardly a fluke. And withstood a tough first-set charge by unseeded Clara Tauson before the Dane dropped a level physically. She’s still just 17).

Karolina Muchova (CZE): No. 17 =========> No. 15 (Another step for Muchova, who made the Dubai semifinals and is back in the top 15 for the first time since last May).

Clara Tauson (DEN): No. 38 =========> No. 23 (Tauson’s former career high of No. 33 was reached in Feb. 2022, a relative lifetime ago at age 19 as she’s since dealt with back issues. But her run to the final in Dubai – after retiring the previous week after losing the first set 6-0 to Elise Mertens in the first round – moves her into the top 25 for the first time. She’s 15-4 on the season and has hit more winners than anyone on Tour. Still just 22, she seems to have finally arrived although the future will tell).

Leylah Fernandez (CAN): No. 30 =========> No. 28 (Fernandez was out of Dubai in the first round last Sunday, before things really got going. But she didn’t have a lot to defend so with other players dropping, she’s back inside the top 30. She’s now headed home for a little pre-Indian Wells break after having been on the road since well before Christmas, as she did her pre-season in Australia).

Sofia Kenin (USA): No. 56 =========> No. 47 (Emma Raducanu got all the ink because of the wild cards she received in the Middle East. But one-time Grand Slam champion Kenin got wild cards, too. In Dubai, she ran that opportunity to the quarterfinals and is back inside the top 50 for the first time since last July).

Moyuka Uchijima (JPN): No. 62 =========> No. 54 (Uchijima, 23, has been rising slowly and steadily and without much fanfare. She qualified in Dubai and won a round and is at a new career high).

Emma Raducanu (GBR): No. 61 =========> No. 55 (Raducanu had a horrifying situation with a stalker in Dubai. And ended up losing in the second round to Karolina Muchova – after beating Maria Sakkari – despite showing some very good tennis. It’s almost impossible to stop this kind of thing from happening, but you hope it’s a wakeup call for both the players to make sure the authorities know, and for them to be as proactive as possible).

Alycia Parks (USA): No. 74 =========> No. 61 (The roller-coaster ride that is Parks’s career was on the up last week, when she qualified and won a round in Dubai)

Eva Lys (GER): No. 87 =========> No. 77 (The elegant German rises to another career high, after qualifying and winning a round in Dubai. A year ago, she was ranked just outside the top 150. She already knows she has a wild card into the WTA 500 in Stuttgart in April).

Iva Jovic (USA): No. 167 =========> No. 165 (The 17-year-old American, who got the USTA’s reciprocal wild card at the Australian Open, continues to do well at the lower levels. She’s caught in the frozen tournament that is Spring, Texas this week. But if she makes the semis – if they even finish it – she would move to 160, and if she wins the whole tournament she would squeeze into the top 150. A year ago, Jovic was ranked No. 661. They should probably find a photo and some details for her on the WTA website, because she’s coming.).

Jasmine Paolini (ITA): No. 4 =========> No. 6 (This is going to be a player to watch this year, with so many big chunks of points to defend. She loses in the third round in Dubai as the defending campion and then pulls out of the doubles because of a foot issue, which she said is much improved after a few days off. Also noteworthy – how many matches she’s played the last year or so, with all the doubles. Generally that volume tends to take a toll on most players – if not physically, then mentally; Jessica Pegula is an example of that. Paolini has 185 points to defend during the Sunshine Double; not … SO much).

***Paolini and Kalinskaya were the champion and runner-up a year ago in Dubai.***

Anna Kalinskaya (RUS): No. 19 =========> No. 34 (Kalinskaya was a surprise finalist in Dubai a year ago. So losing in the first round this year drops her ranking outside the top 30. It was always going to be a struggle to maintain after she got to a career-high No. 11 blast October. But injuries have not helped in that endeavour. She took a wild card into the WTA 500 in Mérida this week).

Marketa Vondrousova (CZE): No. 39 =========> No. 46 (Vondrousova, a quarterfinalist a year ago in Dubai, loses in the second round and drops out of the top 40. She was out for the rest of the season after Wimbledon last year, and is just getting back).

***Stephens at the 2023 Australian Open***

Sloane Stephens (USA): No. 103 =========> No. 115 (It’s hard to know where Stephens’ career is at this point. Her doubles ranking of No. 67 is much higher than her singles ranking, which means that’s the default page on the WTA website. Which is wild. Stephens hasn’t won a match since beating lucky loser Elsa Jacquemot in the first round of Wimbledon last July and won just four after winning the Rouen WTA 250 in mid-April – two of them the following week in Madrid. After Madrid, she lost in the first round in 10 of her 12 tournaments for the rest of 2024. And she lost in the first round of all three events she played in Australia – and hasn’t played since. Stephens has a wild card into the Mérida tournament).

Sorana Cirstea (ROU): No. 89 =========> No. 120 (Cirstea had a GREAT week in Dubai – beating Kasatkina, Parks and Navarro and making the quarterfinals. Unfortunately for her, she drops because last year, she made the semis. One round less, more than 30 spots down. A lot of work to do with new coach Sven Groeneveld).

Karolina Pliskova (CZE): No. 132 =========> No. 166 (More damage to Pliskova’s ranking after her points from a third-round effort in Dubai a year ago drop off. When she returns from injury, though, she can use a protected ranking).

Noma Noha Akugue (GER): No. 202 =========> No. 237 (Akugue was considered an up-and-coming young German just a few years ago. In 2023, she was a teenaged wild card who reached the semis in Hamburg in her WTA Tour debut. But it looks like hard work for her right now, as she lost in the first round of the Prague ITF. We watched her play in the Australian Open qualifying and the stress and unhappiness was … palpable).

Storm Hunter (AUS): No. 461 =========> No. 539 (Hunter, 30, was near a career high in singles when an Achilles injury cost her a year. The good news is that she’s finally coming back – in doubles, in Austin this week. Her partner will be American Caroline Dolehide. When you think that her planned new partner for 2024 was … Katerina Siniakova, who has gone on to get back to No. 1 and win major titles, you can’t help but think about how fickle fate is).