WTA Rankings: Leylah Fernandez, Anna Kalinskaya, Emma Raducanu, Maria Sakkari soar after Citi DC Open
Leylah Fernandez, Anna Kalinskaya and Emma Raducanu have all made healthy leaps in the WTA Rankings after their runs at the Citi DC Open.
The WTA 500 tournament in Washington was the biggest tour-level women’s event held last week, and there were four top 20 stars in action in Jessica Pegula, Emma Navarro, Elena Rybakina and Clara Tauson.
The top 20 remains unchanged, however, as Pegula and Navarro fell in their opening matches, Tauson lost in the quarter-finals and Rybakina reached the last four.
Fernandez crushed Kalinskaya 6-1, 6-2 in the Washington final to claim her fourth and biggest career title.
The 22-year-old Canadian started the event ranked 36th and she has surged up to 24th with her triumph. Her career-high ranking is world No 13.
Kalinskaya’s search for a maiden WTA Tour title goes on after her third final defeat, but the 26-year-old Russian’s run has lifted her from 48th to 31st in the rankings.
Rybakina, who lost to Fernandez in a fiercely-contested semi-final, remains in 12th position.
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Raducanu reached her first semi-final of the 2025 season in DC before she was stopped by Kalinskaya.
The 22-year-old Brit is up from 46th to 33rd place — her highest ranking since August 2022, just before the points from her 2021 US Open title dropped.
Since the 2024 Citi Open was staged a week later due to the Olympics, Raducanu will drop the 108 points from her quarter-final result at last year’s event when the rankings next update.
This has dropped Raducanu from 33rd to 42nd in the Live WTA Rankings, but she has the chance to climb back up if she makes a run in Montreal. Raducanu did not compete in Canada last year.
Elsewhere, Maria Bouzkova has climbed eight places to 39th after beating Linda Noskova to secure the WTA 250 title in Prague.
Maria Sakkari and Taylor Townsend both reached the quarter-finals in Washington, and they have moved up +18 to 72nd and +22 to 75th respectively.
Elina Avanesyan has suffered a 13-place slide to 67th, while Alycia Parks is -16 to world No 74. Olga Danilovic has fallen eight spots to 40th.
WTA Rankings Top 20
1. Aryna Sabalenka – 12,420
2. Coco Gauff, United States – 7,669
3. Iga Swiatek, Poland – 6,813
4. Jessica Pegula, United States – 6,423
5. Mirra Andreeva – 4,914
6. Zheng Qinwen, China – 4,553
7. Amanda Anisimova, United States – 4,470
8. Madison Keys, United States – 4,374
9. Jasmine Paolini, Italy – 3,576
10. Paula Badosa, Spain – 3,454
11. Emma Navarro, United States – 3,420
12. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan – 2,893
13. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine – 2,794
14. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic – 2,718
15. Ekaterina Alexandrova – 2,666
16. Liudmila Samsonova – 2,576
17. Diana Shnaider – 2,526
18. Daria Kasatkina, Australia – 2,361
19. Clara Tauson, Denmark – 2,346
20. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland – 2,190
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