Of the three tournament winners in Tianjin, Hong Kong and Linz, Maria Sharapova has made by far the biggest leap in the world rankings – the Russian approaches the top 50 again.
Her 36.Maria Sharapova celebrated her tournament victory emotionally in the arms of coach Sven Groeneveld, but the success in Tianjin has naturally also been reflected in the world rankings: The Russian has moved up 29 places and is currently in 57th position in the world.And could improve even further this week, Sharapova will be competing at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow for the first time in ten years.She will face Magdalena Rybarikova, the final loser of Linz, in round one.
Barbora Strycova, who had been successful at the Upper Austrian Open, made up a good position after all, she is now ahead of Rybarikova in position 25.Three places improvement was worth the marathon victory of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in Hong Kong, the Russian, this year already in Monterrey (and there in the final against Angelique Kerber) successful, lies on rank 18.
Best German is Kerber eleventh, Julia Görges, who will play in Moscow this week, remains stable at 27.
Austria’s best player remains Barbara Haas.The 21-year-old is ranked No. 171 and had to give up on Sunday in the second round of qualifying for the Luxembourg tournament in the third set against Belgian Alison van Uytvanck.
Here is the current WTA world ranking list
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