Poland’s Iga Swiatek poses with the trophy the day after she received the ladies’s ultimate match in opposition to Italy’s Jasmine Paolini, on day fifteen of the French Open tennis match on the Roland Garros Advanced in Paris on June 9, 2024. (Photograph by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)
French Open champion Iga Swiatek of Poland cemented her place on the high of the ladies’s sport together with her victory at Roland Garros, reinforcing her place as world No.1 when the WTA launched its new rankings on Monday.
The 23-year-old Swiatek beat Jasmine Paolini in a one-sided ultimate on Saturday to declare a fourth French Open title which now places her 3,707 factors forward of Coco Gauff, the lady she beat within the semi-finals in Paris.
Other than just a few weeks in autumn 2023 when Aryna Sabalenka took over, Swiatek has been on the high of the rankings since April 2022, a complete of 107 weeks.
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Gauff’s efficiency, which improved in her quarter-final in 2023, enabled her to leapfrog the Kazakh Aryna Sabalenka who slips to 3rd.
Paolini’s run to her first Grand Slam ultimate was ok to elevate her eight locations to a career-high seventh whereas 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva, who fell to the Italian within the semis, jumped 15 locations from 38 to 23.
Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, who reached the semi-finals final yr, went down six locations to No.20 after going out within the first spherical this time.
WTA rankings
1. Iga Swiatek (POL) 11695 pts
2. Coco Gauff (USA) 7988 (+1)
3. Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 7788 (-1)
4. Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 5973
5. Jessica Pegula (USA) 4625
6. Marketa Vondrousová (CZE) 4503
7. Jasmine Paolini (ITA) 4068 (+8)
8. Zheng Qinwen (CHN) 4005
9. Maria Sakkari (GRE) 3980 (-2)
10. Ons Jabeur (TUN) 3748 (-1)
