On February 28, Beijing time, the WTA officially announced the latest edition of the world rankings. Last week, the WTA Tour featured two races in Doha and Guadalajara, with Doha being the first WTA 1000 class of the season. In addition, this week deducted the points of the same period of last year's Australian Open, so the latest WTA ranking has changed significantly.
This week Barty is still ranked number one in the world by a large margin, and she is close to 3,000 points ahead of the second place. Krychkova overtook Sabalenka this week to rise to No. 2 in the world, refreshing her career-high rankings. Krychkova became the 40th player to be among the TOP2 players since becoming the WTA ranking system. Sabalenka slipped one place this week to move to No. 3 in the world.
Sviatek won last week's doha race to win the hard court title at the highest level of his career. After scoring 1,000 points in Doha, Sviatek moved up four places this week to no. 4 in the world, tying the highest ranking of her previous career. Sviatek's final opponent, Contavit, rose two places this week to rank 5th in the world.
There were 3 players who rose in the top 100 of the world last week. American star Stephens won her first championship in nearly four years in Guadalajara, and this week she rose 18 places to 39th in the world, the best ranking in the past 13 months. In Guadalajara, Bauzkova reached the final, moved up 15 places this week to 81st in the world. Guadalajara's Top Four Karinskaya rose from 100th to 86th.
In terms of Chinese players, Zhang Shuai rose one place this week to rank 64th, still a sister of Jinhua. Zheng Qinwen's weekly ranking has not changed, and it is still ranked 77th. Wang Xinyu, who reached the round of 16 in Guadalajara, moved up four places this week to 90th. Guadalajara's Wang Qiang, who reached the final four, rose 28 places to 116th in the world. Zheng Saisai, who is recuperating from injuries, has slipped 22 places and has fallen to 117th in the world. Zhu Lin slipped 10 places this week, and was latest ranked 119th.