The first clay-court WTA 1000 tournament of the season is drawing to a close in Madrid, and there will be some notable moves when the WTA Rankings update next week.<\/p>\n
Here, we look at the Madrid Open winners and losers from a rankings perspective.<\/p>\n
1. Aryna Sabalenka \u2013 10,768
\n2. Iga Swiatek, Poland \u2013 7,383
\n3. Jessica Pegula, United States \u2013 6,208
\n4. Coco Gauff, United States \u2013 6,073
\n5. Madison Keys, United States \u2013 4,999
\n6. Jasmine Paolini, Italy \u2013 4,930
\n7. Mirra Andreeva \u2013 4,781
\n8. Zheng Qinwen, China \u2013 4,193
\n9. Paula Badosa, Spain \u2013 3,821
\n10. Emma Navarro, United States \u2013 3,797<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s singles final at La Caja Magica is set, with Aryna Sabalenka set to face Coco Gauff<\/a>\u00a0in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n World No 1 Sabalenka has stretched her lead at the top after reaching her second consecutive final in Madrid.<\/p>\n The Belarusian sits on the\u00a010,768 points she started the tournament with after defending her runner-up points, and she could increase her total to\u00a011,118 if she lifts the trophy.<\/p>\n Iga Swiatek<\/a> was the defending champion, but the world No 2 has dropped 610 points after falling in the semi-finals this year \u2014 taking her points total from 7,383 to 6,773.<\/p>\n \u2018Iga Swiatek has unravelled \u2013 it\u2019s like the computer is malfunctioning\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka equals stunning Martina Hingis feat as reaches fourth Madrid Open final<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Gauff started the Madrid Open in fourth position, but she has displaced third-ranked Jessica Pegula in the Live WTA Rankings with her run to the final.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old American has boosted her tally by 530 points to 6,603, and she can take the No 2 spot from Swiatek if she claims the title.<\/p>\n Pegula also had the chance to finish the tournament ranked second, but her third round exit ended her hopes.<\/p>\n 1. Aryna Sabalenka \u2013 10,768 Jasmine Paolini will climb above Madison Keys into fifth place after the latter fell a round short of her last four result in 2024.<\/p>\n Emma Navarro\u2019s single victory before losing in the third round will be enough to see her replace Paula Badosa \u2014 who withdrew through injury \u2014 as the world No 9.<\/p>\n Diana Shnaider\u2019s run to the last 16 has seen her rise from 13th to a new projected career-high of 11th in the live rankings.<\/p>\n Elina Svitolina is up three places from 17th to 14th after her excellent semi-final result.<\/p>\n Marta Kostyuk started the event ranked 36th, and she has surged to 27th position due to her quarter-final run.<\/p>\n Moyuka Uchijima, who progressed to the last eight, will leap nine spots from 56th to a new career-high of 47th.<\/p>\n Yuliia Starodubtseva reached the fourth round after coming through qualifying, and she has been rewarded with a 19-place climb to world No 79.<\/p>\n Elena Rybakina\u2019s third round loss will see her drop a sizeable 325 points, taking her from 11th to 12th, as she was a semi-finalist in Madrid in 2024.<\/p>\n Beatriz Haddad Maia, who made the last eight a year ago, has dropped out of the top 20 (from 19th to 22nd) after her third round exit.<\/p>\n Ons Jabeur is set to fall from 28th to 36th after falling well short of her quarter-final effort in 2024.<\/p>\n Mayar Sherif\u2019s first round defeat has seen her drop from 50th to 64th in the live rankings as she made the last 32 last year.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Coco Gauff explains how she made Iga Swiatek \u2018uncomfortable\u2019 during their semi-final<\/a> The post WTA Rankings Winners & Losers Madrid Open: Gauff rises, Swiatek & Pegula suffer blows, Sabalenka dominant<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first clay-court WTA 1000 tournament of the season is drawing to a close in Madrid, and there will be some notable moves when the WTA Rankings update next week. Here, we look at the Madrid Open winners and losers from a rankings perspective. WTA Rankings Top 10 pre-Madrid 1. Aryna Sabalenka \u2013 10,768 2. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n
Live WTA Rankings before Madrid final<\/h4>\n
\n2. Iga Swiatek, Poland \u2013 6,773
\n3. Coco Gauff, United States \u2013 6,603 (+1)
\n4.\u00a0Jessica Pegula, United States \u2013 6,273 (-1)
\n5. Jasmine Paolini, Italy \u2013 4,875 (+1)
\n6.\u00a0Madison Keys, United States \u2013 4,824\u00a0(-1)
\n7. Mirra Andreeva \u2013 4,781
\n8. Zheng Qinwen, China \u2013 4,193
\n9.\u00a0Emma Navarro, United States \u2013 3,797\u00a0(+1)
\n10.\u00a0Paula Badosa, Spain \u2013 3,761\u00a0(-1)<\/p>\nWinners outside the top 10<\/h4>\n
Losers outside the top 10<\/h4>\n
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