Last week, Gulbis reached the final of the Cuga “Challenger” tournament.
The second racket of Latvia, Roberts Štrombachs, has moved up by 15 places and occupies the 595th position, while Mārtiņš Podžus is 43 places lower than a week ago (1015th). The other Latvians are ranked higher than a week ago – Kārlis Ozoliņš has moved up by 20 places (1276th), Mārtiņš Rocēns – by 34 (divided 1484th), and Jānis Podžus – by 141 places (divided 1612th). Artūrs Lazdiņš, who took the shared 1652nd place, has dropped out of the ranking.
The neutral athlete Daniil Medvedev is still in the leading position, the second place is occupied by the German tennis player Alexander Zverev, and the third place is the Spanish Rafael Nadal. The Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz moved up to the fourth position, ahead of the Greek Stefan Tsitsipas, while the sixth is now Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia, ahead of the Norwegian Kasper Ruud. The eighth place is the neutral athlete Andrejs Rublyovs, the ninth place is taken by the Canadian Félix Auger-Aljasim, and the top ten is completed by the Italian Yannik Sinner.
Last week, the Australian tennis player Alex de Minor won the Atlanta “ATP 250” tournament in the USA, who moved from 30th to 21st place, the Spaniard Roverto Bautista Agut celebrated his victory at the Kitzbiel “ATP 250” competition in Austria, who moved up two places, occupying the 18th position. , but Sinner won the title at the Umag ATP 250 competition in Croatia.
Latvia’s number one in the doubles ranking, Štrombach, has experienced a drop of three places (677th), as well as Ozoliņš (846th), J.Podžum’s decline of 69 places (divided 1632nd), M.Podžum’s drop of 657 places (1642nd). Only Ročena managed to move up 21 places (divided 1709).
Meanwhile, Latvia’s leading tennis player Aļona Ostapenko has retained 17th place in the World Ranking of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).
Ostapenko has not played in tournaments after the Wimbledon championship and she is not scheduled to compete this week either. In the ranking of the season, she is in 14th place.
Darja Semenistaja (271st) moved up five places, becoming Latvia’s second racket. Daniela Vismane (274th) is three places lower compared to the week before, Diana Marcinkēviča managed to move up by three positions (327th), and Anastasija Sevastova – by two positions (505th). Kamilla Bartone experienced a 52-place drop in the ranking (528th), Anna Ozerova rose by eight places (934th), Līga Dekmeijere – by 13 (1188th), Margarita Ignatjeva is lower by 88 places (1398th), and Patricija Špaka rose by 15 places (1511).
There are no changes in the top twenty. Poland’s Iga Šviontek is still the leader of the WTA ranking, followed by Estonia’s number one Anete Kontaveita, and Greece’s Maria Sakari is third. Next is Paula Bados from Spain, Tunisian Onsa Jabert is in fifth place, followed by neutral athlete Arina Sabalenka. The American Jessica Pegula is seventh, the Spanish Garvinje Muguruza has risen to the eighth position, the American tennis player Daniela Collins is ninth, and Emma Radukana from Great Britain completes the top ten.
Two “WTA 250” series tournaments took place last week. The winner in Warsaw was the French Caroline Garcia, who rose from the 45th place to the 32nd place in the ranking, while the winner in Prague was won by the native Marie Bouzkova, who experienced a rise of 20 positions and is in the 46th place.
At the top of the doubles rankings, 18 athletes have retained their positions, Ostapenko taking 14th place, while Belgian tennis player Elise Mertens and her Chinese partner Zhang Shua are at the top of the ranking.
Marcinkeviča experienced a drop of 19 places (231st), Vismane (245th), Bartona (321st), Semenistaja (415th), Špaka (892nd), Elza Thomasa (974th), an increase of two positions, four – Dekmeyer ( 1057), five – to Ignatiev and two – to Sevastova (1379). Ozerova slipped one position lower (1478), while Denīza Marcinkēviča moved up five positions (1545).
