After two weeks of the WTA rankings not being refreshed, let’s have a look at the major shifts in player positions now that the standings have been updated following the 2023 Australian Open. Danielle Collins suffered the biggest fall inside the Top 100, while Zhu Lin experienced the biggest rise.
Newly-crowned Melbourne champion Aryna Sabalenka is back to her career-high ranking of No.2, which she first reached in August 2021. Iga Swiatek, who lost in the fourth round of the Australian Open, remains the top-ranked WTA player, far ahead of the second-ranked Sabalenka with 10485 points compared to the Belarusian’s 6100.
Last year, Elena Rybakina received no ranking points for her Wimbledon title, due to political reasons affecting professional tennis. Following her runner-up finish in Melbourne, the Moscow-born player has climbed 15 spots in the WTA rankings, cracked the Top 10 and became the first representative of Kazakhstan to achieve the feat.
Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, a semifinalist this year in Melbourne, got back to the Top 20 by rising 8 spots to position No.16. Another former world No.1 has also returned to the Top 20 — Karolina Pliskova jumped 11 spots to No.20 after her quarterfinal finish in…
