Last week, Iga Świątek lost her lead in the WTA ranking to Aryna Sabalenka, which was surprising news. “Unexpectedly, on Monday, October 21, the points were updated, thanks to which Świątek now dropped to second place behind Sabalenka. The difference between them is 41 points. Last week she was in favor of the Pole with 69 points,” wrote Dominik Senkowski from Sport.pl.
What was the reason for this change? “Probably due to the fact that both were given an obligatory 0 points for the worst result. In Iga's case it was 120 points for WTA 1000 in Miami, and in Aryna's case – 10 points for WTA 1000 in Dubai” – explained on the Z kortu profile on the X website. Now the situation has changed even more.
Here is the new WTA ranking. Iga Świątek is losing distance from Aryna Sabalenka
According to predictions, on October 28, the tennis players were to have their points for last year deducted WTA Finalswhich Świątek won with a full set of victories. For this she received 1,500 points, while Sabalenka finished the competition with “only” 625 points. These predictions came true, but that's not the end.
“In the rating of October 28, Iga Świątek lost a total of 1,695 points (1,500 for the WTA Finals and 195 for the WTA 500 in Stuttgart). In turn, Aryna Sabalenka had a reduction of “only” 690 points (625 for the WTA Finals and 65 for WTA 1000 in Miami)” – informs the Z court profile. After these changes, the 26-year-old is leading with 9,016 points and an advantage of as much as 1,046 points over the Pole. Tej will therefore very much regain the first position at the end of the season.
Świątek and Sabalenka maintained last week's status, which cannot be said about all players. Jessica Pegula, last year's finalist of the Tournament of Champions, dropped two places with Jasmine Paolini. And the Top 10 is closed by Danielle Collins, taking advantage of Beatriz Haddad Mai's considerable descent (from 10th to 17th position).
Magdalena Fręch has great reasons to be satisfied, moving from 24th to 22nd place, which is the best in her career. It also advanced two places Magda Linettecurrently the 38th racket in the world.
WTA ranking from October 28
- 1. Aryna Sabalenka – 9016 points
- 2. Iga Świątek – 7970 points
- 3. Coco Gauff – 5,230 points
- 4. Jasmine Paolini (+2) – 5144 points
- 5. Elena Rybakina – 4971 points
- 6. Jessica Pegula (-2) – 4,705 points
- 7. Qinwen Zheng – 4540 points
- 8. Emma Navarro – 3698 points
- 9. Daria Kasatkina – 3368 points
- 10. Danielle Collins (+1) – 3176 points
- …
- 22. Magdalena Fręch (+2) – 2020 points
- 38. Magda Linette (+2) – 1376 points
- 175. Maja Chwalińska (-4) – 412 points
- 249. Katarzyna Kawa (+3) – 290 points
- 308. Gina Feistel (-2) – 205 points
- 349. Martyna Kubka (+3) – 180 points