WTA Rankings Report – As of Sept. 22, 2025

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No changes in the top 10, but Iga Swiatek gets a little closer to the No. 1 spot by banking the 500 points she earned by winning the Seoul tournament.

It wasn’t easy. A doubleheader on Saturday because of rain – not that she was pushed. But it’s still a double workload.

And then she was in big trouble in the final against Ekaterina Alexandrova, who seemed to battle the concept of beating Swiatek and winning the tournament. Even though she won there three years ago.

Swiatek is still 2,800 points behind Sabalenka, who is not playing Beijing next week.

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Leylah Fernandez (CAN): No. 28 =========> No. 25 (Fernandez moves back into the top 25, but mostly because other players fell off. She didn’t play Seoul, and will start her Asian swing this week in Beijing. So she’ll take it.

Sofia Kenin (USA): No. 30 =========> No. 26 (Kenin, now 26, just sort of hangs in there in the rankings, without doing much of anything great. She lost in the second round in Seoul).

Barbora Krecjikova (CZE): No. 39 =========> No. 34 (Worth it to play the Seoul event as she made the quarterfinals and is less than 50 points away from a seed in Melbourne in January. She also re-teamed with Katerina Siniakova in doubles for the week, and won the tournament).

Maya Joint (AUS): No. 46 =========> No. 36 (What a year the 19-year-old is having, without even having made any huge splashes in the biggest events. But by making the semis in Seoul, she’s now at a career high and she, too, can look to be seeded at her home-country Slam in January with so many points still to get in Asia this fall).

Loïs Boisson (FRA): No. 49 =========> No. 41 (It’s been an interesting career arc for Boisson, who was a surprise Roland Garros semifinalist and then kind of disappeared for the grass and the summer hard-court season until she surfaced at the US Open. She won a round in Seoul – and all of a sudden she’s at another career high).

Katerina Siniakova (CZE): No. 77 =========> No. 62 (Atop the game in doubles, Siniakova came to Seoul mostly to play singles. And after getting through the qualifying, she got to the semifinals. She also won the doubles with Barbora Krejcikova on Sunday, after playing three matches on Saturday).

Ella Seidel (GER): No. 105 =========> No. 95 (Seidel, at 20, jumps into the top 100 for the first time after qualifying and making the quarterfinals in Seoul).

Oleksandra Oliynykova (UKR): No. 163 =========> No. 136 (The 24-year-old from Ukraine wins the WTA 125 in Tolentino without dropping a set or giving up more than three games in any one set. And moves to a career high).

Lilli Tagger (AUT): No. 275 =========> No. 219 (The Roland Garros junior champion this year wins the ITF in Kursumlijska Banja and makes another big leap in the rankings to another career high, at age 17).

Katie Swan (GBR): No. 451 =========> No. 378 (The former top junior prospect and No. 18, now 26, is coming back from inury on the Australian ITF circuit. She adds a title in Wagga Wagga beating Lizette Cabrera in the semis and Taylor Preston in the final).

Maya Joint (AUS) (No. 36)
Loïs Boisson (FRA) (No. 41)
Emiliana Arango (COL) (No. 50)
Suzan Lamens (NED) (No. 57)
Ella Seidel (GER) (No. 95)
Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah (FRA) (No. 127)
Oleksandra Oliynykova (UKR) (No. 136)
Nuria Brancaccio (ITA) (No. 153)
Kaitlyn Quevedo (ESP) (No. 156)
Polina Iatcenko (RUS) (No. 190)
Renata Jamrichova (SVK) (No. 218)
Lilli Tagger (AUT) (No. 219)

Daria Kasatkina (AUS): No. 16 =========> No. 20 (Kasatkina lost in the second round in Seoul after making the final a year ago. She’s still in the top 20, but only by about 60 points. And she has nearly 800 points to defend on the Asian swing).

Marta Kostyuk (UKR): No. 26 =========> No. 28 (Kostyuk drops her points from a quarterfinal in Seoul a year ago, as she devotes the week to the Billie Jean King Cup final. She wasn’t alone. It’s too bad it’s a choice).

Veronika Kudermetova (RUS): No. 27 =========> No. 30 (Kudermetova made the semifinals in Seoul last year. But she didn’t play this time).

Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA): No. 25 =========> No. 40 (Haddad Maia kind of had to come to Seoul, where she was the defending champion. But it was a super-tough commute after she played the new event in Sao Paulo – a rare opportunity to play at home. She was the No. 1 seed there, but bowed out in the quarterfinals. San Paulo —> Seoul isn’t exactly a picnic. She lost in the second round after running out of gas. And perhaps the jet lag kicked in).

Laura Siegemund (GER): No. 43 =========> No. 53 (Siegemund lost in the first round in Seoul, after making the final at a WTA 250 in Hua Hin a year ago that’s … no longer there. And so she falls out of the top 50).

Rebecca Sramkova (SVK): No. 38 =========> No. 55 (Sramkova won that Hua Hin tournament a year ago – which allowed her to leap from outside the top 00 to No. 61. She then qualified and made the third round at the WTA 1000 in Beijing, which got her almost to the top 50. But this year she didn’t play).

Polina Kudermetova (RUS): No. 65 =========> No. 76 (Like her sister, Kudermetova skipped Seoul this year. She made the quarterfinals there a year ago as a lucky loser ranked outside the top 160).

Viktoriya Tomova (BUL): No. 97 =========> No. 115 (Tomova drops her points from making the Seoul quarterfinals a year ago, and drops out of the top 100).