Caroline Garcia and Elena Rybakina are the two Top 10 players who are climbing the WTA ranking published on Monday, while Ons Jabeur and Maria Sakkari are falling. Also note the return of Océane Dodin to the Top 100.
Four changes are to be noted in the WTA Top 10 at the end of the first WTA 1000 of the season, in Indian Wells. Iga Swiatek, even if she was beaten in the semi-finals when she was defending champion, maintains a good lead of 3235 points over Aryna Sabalenka, finalist in California. The gap might narrow once more in two weeks following the Miami tournament, where Swiatek will once more defend his title and the 1000 points that go with it, while the Belarusian will have no points to defend. Jessica Pegula retains her place on the podium, but it is now Caroline Garcia who follows her, and no longer Ons Jabeur. The Frenchwoman has spent one lap more than the Tunisian in Indian Wells and this allows her to gain a place, to equal her best career ranking. In Miami, Garcia will have no points to defend, while Jabeur will have 110 and Pegula 380. The Lyonnaise might therefore be on the podium in the event of a very big result.
Rybakina et Sakkari se croisent
The other main change in this Top 10 is the arrival of Elena Rybakina in 7th place in the world, to the detriment of Maria Sakkari, eliminated in the semi-finals when she was in the final last year, and who takes 10th place. occupied until then by the Kazakh. Rybakina, winner of the tournament on Sunday, achieved the best ranking of her career, at 23 years old. She would even be world No. 3 if her victory at Wimbledon last year had brought her points. If Caroline Garcia is the French n°1, the other two tricolors of the Top 100 are much further. Alizé Cornet is 66th, while Océane Dodin returns to the Top 100 for the first time since October, thanks to her final at the ITF tournament in Trnava. Here she is now 93rd.
TENNIS / WTA RANKING
Ranking as of Monday, March 20, 2023
1- Iga Swiatek (POL) 9 975 points
2- Aryna Sabalenka (BIE) 6 740
3- Jessica Pegula (USA) 5,605
4- Caroline Garcia (FRA) 4,990 (+1)
5- Ounces of Jabeur (TUN) 4 976 (-1)
6- Coco Gauff (USA) 4 401
7- Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 3 720 (+3)
8- Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 3,375
9- Belinda Bencic (SUI) 3 360
10- Maria Sakkari (GRE) 3 191 (-3)
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66- Alizé Cornet (FRA) 868 (+2)
93- Océane Dodin (FRA) 709 (+9)
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