Sabalenka's lead in the world ranking has shrunk to a minimum
The Women's Global Association has published a new ranking list.
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Aryna Sabalenka continues to hold the top spot, but her lead is now small.
Aryna has 8550 points, Elena Rybakina has 8143. The representative of Kazakhstan is 407 points behind and could catch up with the Belarusian soon if the latter performs poorly. At one point, the gap was almost 1500 points, and a week ago it was 947 points.
Recall that at Wimbledon, Sabalenka was eliminated in the 1/8 finals, while Rybakina was eliminated even earlier.
Third place is held by American Jessica Pegula (6301), American Coco Gauff is fourth (5649), Russian Mirra Andreeva is fifth (5293).
Followed by Czech Karolina Muchova (5168) and Wimbledon winner Linda Nosková (5119).
However, Pole Iga Świątek was unable to defend her title at Wimbledon; she lost 2000 points awarded for winning the tournament, and she dropped from third to eighth place, now having 4539 points.
Sabalenka has held the top spot in the world ranking since October 2024, and tomorrow in Minsk she will open courts at the school where she studied.