Winner of the Granby tournament, the Russian Daria Katsatkina has won a place and is in 9th place in the WTA ranking published on Monday, still dominated by Iga Swiatek when the US Open begins, which will probably be the legend’s last tournament. Serena Williams.
By taking 9th place from the Spaniard Garbine Muguruza, who slipped to 10th place, thanks to her success on Saturday in the final of the Quebec tournament, Kasatkina regained the best ranking of her career, already busy in early August.
Pending possible upheavals after the US Open, this small movement is the only one in the WTA World Top 20, still led by the Polish Iga Swiatek, ahead of the Estonian Anett Kontaveit and the Greek Maria Sakkari.
Lower in the rankings, the Russian Liudmila Samsonova, strong from her victory on Saturday in Cleveland – her second title of the season -, gained 10 places, and is now ranked 35th in the world.
Much lower in the ranking, the American legend Serena Williams points to … 605th in the world. She will compete Monday evening at the US Open against Montenegrin Danka Kovinic, for what will most likely be the last tournament of her phenomenal career.
