In April, Iga will have been the leader of the WTA ranking for 100 weeks.
At the top of the ranking is still Iga Świątek, who will certainly not lose her lead for the next few weeks, and if everything goes according to the Polish woman’s plan – on April 22, 2024, exactly two years after she first became the leader of the WTA ranking, Iga Świątek will become the ninth tennis player in history to have been the No. 1 women’s tennis player in the world for at least 100 weeks.
The third place was retained by the semi-finalist of the Australian Open 2024 American Coco Cori Gauff , while the fourth place was held by Elena Rybakinafrom Kazakhstan . The fifth place was retained by the second American tennis player Jessica Pegula , sixth by the Tunisian Ons Jabeur . There was a change in positions seven and eight. Seventh is now the current Wimbledon champion, Czech Marketa Vondrousova , and eighth is the AO finalist Chinese Zheng Qinwen . These tennis players swapped positions. After a week’s break, the currently ninth Greek Maria Sakkari returned to the TOP 10, and the top ten is closed by Latvian Jelena Ostapenko. The Czech Karolina Muchova, who has not played for a long time due to injury, dropped out of the TOP 10. In turn, another Czech Barbora Krejcikova , who did not defend her title in Dobaj, dropped out of the TOP 20 .
The winner of the WTA 1000 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship 2024, an Italian with Polish roots, who speaks Polish fluently, Jasmine Paolini, moved up 12 positions to a career-high 14th place, while the winner of Iga Świątek in the semifinals in Dubai, the Russian tennis player Anna Kalinskaya, moved up 16 positions in the ranking and is classified in 24th place.
