By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday July 18, 2023
Welcome to the Top-10, Marketa Vondrousova!
The first unseeded women’s singles champion at Wimbledon in the Open Era rises 32 spots from No.42, making her Top-10 debut in this week’s WTA rankings.
Vondrousova, who had previously topped out at No.14 in the rankings in July of 2019, was outside of the Top-100 for a spell last year, in October, after missing six months due to multiple wrist surgeries.
She finished 2022 as the 99th-ranked player on tour but has stormed up the rankings, putting up a 29-10 record that includes seven consecutive wins at Wimbledon.
Vondrousova jumps 23 spots to No.5 in the WTA’s Race to the Year-End Championships.
Svitolina Biggest Riser
Elina Svitolina’s emotional run to the Wimbledon semifinals has the Ukrainian knocking on the door to the Top-25.
Pretty remarkable when we consider the fact that the 28-year-old was ranked 508 when she took the court in Strasbourg for a pre Roland-Garros event in May. After winning the title at Strasbourg she rose to 192, then reached the quarterfinals in Paris to rise into the Top 80.
The former World No.4 sits at No.27 (+49) today, and is poised to rise higher with zero ranking points to defend until next April.
Andreeva Keeps Climbing
16-year-old Mirra Andreeva continues her push up the WTA rankings. After reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon the Russian (+36) now sits at No.66, making her Top 100 debut.
Remarkably, she finished 22 at 405 in the world.
Great Britain’s Jodie Burrage (+10) also makes her Top 100 debut, coming in at No.98.
Among the other notable risers were former World No.4 Sofia Kenin (+35 – from No.126 to No.91), who qualified at Wimbledon and reached the third round; Arantxa Rus (+23 from No.85 to No.62): who captured an ITF title in The Hague, then won her second WTA 125 title of the year in Contrexéville, France, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (+22 from No.118 to No.96), who was was runner-up to Rus at the Contrexéville tournament.
Pavlyuchenkova returns to the Top-100 for the first time since last August. After dealing with a knee injury in 2022, the 32-year-old was ranked No.846 as recently as January.
Katie Boulter, the last Brit standing at Wimbledon this year, jumps 16 spots to No.73, thanks to her third-round run at SW 19.
Swiatek’s Lead at No.1 Shrinks
Poland’s Iga Swiatek continues her reign atop the WTA rankings but the gap between herself and No.2-ranked Aryna Sabalenka has slimmed to 470 points.
Sabalenka leads Swiatek in the WTA Race standings (also the Race to year-end No.1) by 770 points.