WTA : Aryna Sabalenka chauffe Iga Swiatek au sommet, Eugenie Bouchard gagne 52 rangs

PARIS, France – The Polish Iga Swiatek retains the lead in the WTA ranking published on Monday ahead of Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, but with a reduced lead over her runner-up who dominated her on Saturday in the final of the Madrid tournament.

The 21-year-old Polish, defeated for the first time on clay by Sabalenka, only has 1744 points more on the 25-year-old Belarusian, against 2084 last week.

If the American Jessica Pegula remains in third place in the world, the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, forfeited by injury in Madrid, falls three ranks, to 7th place.

The French Caroline Garcia, 4th, the American Coco Gauff, 5th, and the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, 6th, take the opportunity to each glean a position in the world hierarchy.

Crowned at Wimbledon last year, Rybakina thus won the best ranking of her career.

The Greek Maria Sakkari, beaten in the semi-final in Madrid by Sabalenka, gains a place in 8th place at the expense of the Russian Daria Kasatkina.

Aged 29, the Italian Martina Trevisan, up two places to 18th place, also obtained the best ranking of her career.

Bianca Andreescu remains the top-ranked Canadian, sitting 31st after dropping four spots. Leylah Fernandez follows in 50th place, a step down. Rebecca Marino kept her 79th place. Quebecer Eugenie Bouchard jumped 52 places and now occupies 23rd place.

WTA ranking published on Monday:

1. Each Swiatek (POL) 9625 pts

2. Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 7881

3. Jessica Pegula (USA) 5300

4. Caroline Garcia (FRA) 5025 (+1)

5. Cori Gauff (USA) 4345 (+1)

6. Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 4195 (+1)

7. Ons Jabeur (TUN) 4116 (-3)

8. Maria Sakkari (GRE) 3516 (+1)

9. Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 3505 (-1)

10. Petra Kvitova (JUN) 3162

11. Belinda Bencic (SUI) 2750

12. Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 2660 (+1)

13. Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) 2616 (-1)

14. Karolina Pliskova (JUN) 2245 (+1)

15. Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 2206 (-1)

16. Lyudmila Samsonova (RUS) 2172 (+2)

17. Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 2127 (-1)

18. Martina Trevisan (ITA) 1878 (+2)

19. Magda Linette (POL) 1820

20. Elena Ostapenko (LAT) 1795 (+2)