WTA Rankings: Aryna Sabalenka widens gap to Iga Swiatek; Amanda Anisimova’s milestone, Naomi Osaka -10
The top 10 in the WTA Rankings remains unchanged, but Aryna Sabalenka was a big winner as she has extended her points lead over Iga Swiatek while Amanda Anisimova has reached a new career high.
Sabalenka started last week with a 186-point advantage over second-place Swiatek in the rankings and, although the world No 1 lost in the second round of the Qatar Open, there was a big points swing after the Pole failed to defend her title.
Swiatek was beaten in the semi-final and thus “lost” 610 points, meaning the gap to Sabalenka is now 806 points ahead of the Dubai Tennis Championships.
Sabalenka started her 26th week at No 1 on Monday to move up to joint-16th with Dinara Safina in the all-time list for most weeks spent at the top of the rankings. She is assured of moving ahead of Safina next week as Swiatek can’t overtake her after the Dubai WTA 1000 event.
With third-placed Coco Gauff and fourth-placed Jasmine Paolini also losing early in Doha, there was no real change behind the top two.
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Jessic Pegula in fifth place did earn 215 points for reaching the quarter-final while last year’s runner-up Elena Rybakina dropped 435 points after reaching the quarter-final this time around.
Outside of the top 10, Mirra Andreeva is up one place to a new career-high of No 14 while there is a new entrant in the top 20 as Qatar Open champion Anisimova surged 23 places to No 18.
The American won her third WTA singles title, but the biggest one of her career when she beat Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 6-3 in the final and the result was a big jump from her previous best of 22.
Anisimova started the year at No 36, but took her record for the season to 9-2 with her title run.
Former world No 5 and 2017 French Open winner Ostapenko, who defeated Swiatek in straight sets in the semi-final to take her head-to-head record with the Pole to 5-0, is up 11 spots to No 26.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova reached the semi-final in Qatar last year, but lost in the second round in 2025 and thus dropped 11 places to No 36 while Naomi Osaka – a quarter-finalist in 2024 – is down 10 places to No 54 as she didn’t compete this season.
Sofia Kenin surged 17 places to No 56 after reaching the third round and Alycia Parks is up 16 to No 74 after winning two matches.
Former world No 1 Karolina Pliskova has dropped out of the top 100 as she is down 63 spots to No 132.
WTA Rankings Top 20
1. Aryna Sabalenka – 8,966 points
2. Iga Swiatek Poland – 8,160
3. Coco Gauff United States – 6,538
4. Jasmine Paolini Italy – 5,398
5. Jessica Pegula United States – 5,076
6. Madison Keys United States – 4,680
7. Elena Rybakina Kazakhstan – 4,153
8. Zheng Qinwen China – 3,985
9. Emma Navarro United States – 3,649
10. Paula Badosa Spain – 3,588
11. Daria Kasatkina – 3,116
12. Danielle Collins United States – 2,877
13. Diana Shnaider – 2,853
14. Mirra Andreeva – 2,730
15. Barbora Krejcikova Czech Republic – 2,675
16. Beatriz Hadid Maia Brazil – 2,369
17. Karolina Muchova Czech Republic – 2,344
18. Amanda Anisimova United States – 2,316
19. Anna Kalinskaya – 2,304
20. Donna Vekic Croatia – 2,273
