The latest edition of the world ranking is out, Naomi Osaka ranked No.2 after winning the Australian Open, Australian Open runner-up Brady ranked No.13. Williams ranked back to TOP10, Sabalenka topped the doubles world No.1. In addition, Kasagina, Pegula and others have risen in the rankings.
With the first Grand Slam of the season coming to a successful conclusion, several players saw their rankings improve in the new week.Naomi Osaka, who won her fourth Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, leapfrogged Halep to move up to No. 2 in the new rankings.The Japanese girl is now just behind world number one Barty, who has held the queen's throne for 57 consecutive weeks.
Here are the players who made significant gains in the rankings this week:
Williams returns to top 10
The American star, who fell out of the world's top 10 at the end of last year's year-end rankings, moved from No. 11 to No. 7 on the strength of her reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals.
Sabalenka tops doubles world number one
With two Grand Slams and two WTA 1000 titles under her belt, Sabalenka became the 44th player in WTA history to sit atop the women's doubles throne.
"It's a great honor to be the new WTA Doubles World No. 1," said Sabalenka, "I want to thank my coach, everyone on the team, and my partner, Elise - all of them are so I couldn't have achieved this without them. I will always remember this moment.
Sabalenka is the first player in the last seven years to be ranked in the top 10 in singles while having the No. 1 ranking in the world in doubles. The last was still Errani, when she was ranked No. 1 in doubles and No. 7 in singles.
So far in 2019, Sabalenka has been paired almost exclusively with Mertens in doubles. After this year's Australian Open, the pair moved up to No. 1 and No. 2 in the doubles rankings. Because of her withdrawal in Cincinnati last year, the Belgian has 85 fewer points than Sabalenka: Mertens earned 105 points at that stop, while Sabalenka earned 190.
Brady ranks at record high
Australian Open runner-up Brady moved up 11 spots in the world rankings this week to a new high of No. 13, which makes her the current No. 3 U.S. women's player behind Kenning and Williams.
Kasagina lifts with crown
After stopping in the second round of the Australian Open, Kasagina made the most of her stay in Melbourne by winning the Phillip Island Championships, which took place the following week. The WTA 250-level singles event was set for 56 signings and was also played at Melbourne Park. Kasagina, playing as an unseeded, broke a title drought of more than two years when she snapped consecutive victories over No. 7 seed Pavlyuchenkova, No. 4 seed Martic, No. 8 seed Collins and No. 13 seed Buzkova on her way to the top. The Russian girl soared 18 places in the rankings this week, from No.75 to No.57.
Other ranking changes:
Pegula: +18
Hsieh Su-wei: +21
Juwan: +13
Sharif: +17
R. Marino: +103
Gavrilova: +77
WTA Rankings Watch
This week's Top 100 comes from 31 different countries and regions, with the largest number of players being from the United States, totaling 18. The Czech Republic, Russia and Romania follow.
The average age of this week's Top 100 is 26.36 years, with the oldest being No. 76 Williams and the youngest being No. 52 Gough.
