On January 31, Beijing time, the WTA officially announced the latest edition of the world rankings. Over the past two weeks, the focus of tennis has been on Melbourne, Australia. After two weeks of competition at the Australian Open, the new WTA world rankings have changed significantly.
Barty, who won his third career title at the Australian Open, defended his world number one ranking. In the latest issue, Barty topped the table with 8331 points, 2633 points ahead of second-place Sabarenka, and the advantage is very obvious. Sabalenka held the world's No. 2 position, and the quarter-finalist Krichkova rose one place to no. 3 in the world. Sviatek, who reached the final four, moved up five places to the 4th place in the world. Among the top 10 players, Muguruza slipped 4 places to no. 7 in the world, and Kontavit slipped 2 places to no. 9 in the world.
Collins, who made his way to the final at the Australian Open, has improved his rankings very significantly this week. Collins reached 3,071 points this week, and her ranking rose 20 places to 10th in the world. This is the first time in Collins' career that he has been among the top ten in the world.
In addition, among the top 100 players, the french final four players Keith and the quarter-final player Kone, who rose 23 places and 24 places respectively, ranked 28th and 37th respectively. Kanepi, who reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open, rose 52 places to rank 63rd in the world this week.
Three of the top 100 players this week plummeted in the rankings. Mukhova, who missed the Australian Open, slipped 35 places to 66th in the world this week. Defending champion Naomi Osaka plummeted 71 places in the rankings, and her latest ranking has slipped to 85th in the world. Kenning plummeted 82 places to 95th in the world this week.
China's Jinhua Zhang Shuai rose five places this week to 69th in the world, and Zheng Qinwen soared 28 places in the rankings to rank 80th in the world this week, setting a new career high. Wang Xinyu rose 14 places to 86th in the world, also creating the best ranking. Zheng Saisai, who missed the Australian Open, slipped 8 places to 89th in the world. Wang Xiyu rose 17 places to 122nd in the world, and Wang Qiang slipped 16 places to rank 126th in the world.