Iga Świątek doesn't stop. Aryna Sabalenka is far behind

After Iga Świątek’s victory in WTA Doha, the WTA ranking was updated. The Raszynian crossed the 10,000 mark. points and increased her advantage over the second placed Aryna Sabalenka.

Iga Świątek recently won her first title in 2024. The Pole won the WTA Doha tournament for the third time in a row, and defeated Jelena Rybakina in the final. This year there has been an important change related to the Qatari competition. Well, from 2024, the competition in Doha will have a rank of 1000, not 500, as it was before, which means that the winner won twice as many ranking points and earned more. The prize for the triumph in this year’s edition was PLN 500,000. dollars.

The latest WTA ranking. Iga Świątek again beat Aryna Sabalenko

Thanks to her triumph in WTA Doha, Iga Świątek overtook her main rival. Thanks to the increased rank, she gained 530 points, which allowed the Pole to cross the 10,000 mark again. points. Currently, it has 10,300 of them. This turn of events also allowed the first rocket in the world to overtake her main rival – Aryna Sabalenko, who – like last year – did not start in Doha. Thanks to this, the Pole has an advantage of 1,395 points over the Belarusian.

Coco Gauff is in third place, but the gap to her was compensated by the finalist of this year’s WTA Doha edition – Jelena Rybakina. Next are Jessica Pegula, Ons Jabeur, Qinwen Zheng and Marketa Vondrousova. There was only one significant rotation in the top ten. Jelena Ostapenko moved up to ninth place, replacing Maria Sakkari. Karolina Muchova retained tenth place, and the Greek dropped to 11th place.

WTA Ranking. Magda Linette is again the second racket in Poland

The race for the title of the second rocket in Poland also looks very interesting. As of Monday, Magda Linette can boast of this title. Thanks to one triumph at the WTA Doha, she advanced from 53rd to 48th place. In turn, Magdalena Fręch dropped from 52nd to 53rd place.

Further positions are taken by Katarzyna Kawa – 195th WTA, Maja Chwalińska 289th in the ranking, Martyna Kubka 369th, and Weronika Falkowska placed 403rd.