WTA Rankings: Iga Swiatek draws level with another legend, Sonay Kartal secures milestone as she is +55 in latest update
Iga Swiatek is now joint-seventh in the all-time list for most weeks spent at the top of the WTA Rankings, but Sonay Kartal and Olivia Gadecki were the big rankings winners the past week.
Five-time Grand Slam winner Swiatek has been top of the rankings for the past 46 weeks as she started her second spell at No 1 on November 6 last year.
The Pole has now spent a total of 121 weeks at No 1 and she is level with Ashleigh Barty in seventh place on the all-time list for women. She will move ahead of the Australian and up to sixth next week with the legendary Monica Seles as her next target as she is on 178 weeks.
Swiatek is set to remain at the top of the rankings until at least mid-October as Aryna Sabalenka will be in with a chance of usurping her during the back-to-back WTA 1000 events in Asia, but the 2024 year-end No 1 ranking will likely only be settled at the WTA Finals in November.
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Sabaleka remains 2,169 points behind in second place with Jessica Pegula, Elena Rybakina and Jasmine Paolini completing the top five. There were a couple of changes in the top 10 with Maria Sakkari and Danielle Collins moving up one spot each as Barbora Krejcikova dropped out of the top 10.
But the biggest movers and shakers have come from further down the rankings with Magdalena Fręch up 11 places to a career-high No 32 after winning her maiden title, the WTA 500 Guadalajara Open in Mexico.
She defeated Olivia Gadecki in the final and the 22-year-old Australian surged an incredible 64 places to No 81, a career-high with her previous 120. Camila Osorio reached the semi-final in Mexico and she is up 19 places to No 61.
The Jasmin Open was the other WTA event on the calendar last week and Great Britain’s Kartal emerged victorious in her maiden top-level final as she beat Rebecca Sramkova. Her reward is a jump into the top 100 for the first time as she moved up 55 spots No 96.
“I started the year with the goal of being top 150, so now I think I’ve past that,” Kartal, who has won five ITF tournaments this year, said. “I think I’m just trying to end the year in the top 100. It’s to put myself in the best position for Australia at the start of the year.”
Sramkova is up 34 places to No 102.
Sofia Kenin was one of the big droppers this week as the American is down 36 places to No 90 while compatriot Ashlyn Kruger sits at No 69 after losing 18 places.
WTA Rankings Top 20
1. Iga Swiatek Poland – 10,885 points
2. Aryna Sabalenka – 8,716
3. Jessica Pegula United States – 6,220
4. Elena Rybakina Kazakhstan – 5,871
5. Jasmine Paolini Italy – 5,398
6. Coco Gauff United States – 4,983
7. Qinwen Zheng China – 3,980
8. Emma Navarro United States – 3,705
9. Maria Sakkari Greece – 3,416
10. Danielle Collins United States – 3,705
11. Barbora Krejcikova Czech Republic – 3,161
12. Jelena Ostapenko Latvia – 3,008
13. Daria Kasatkina – 2,803
14. Anna Kalinskaya – 2,725
15. Liudmila Samsonova – 2,720
16. Diana Shnaider – 2,571
17. Beatriz Hadid Maia Brazil – 2,516
18. Marta Kostyuk Ukraine – 2,445
19. Victoria Azarenka – 2,326
20. Paula Badosa Spain – 2,325
