Alona Ostapenko Photo: MIKE SEGAR / Reuters / Scanpix
In the world ranking of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), Latvia’s leading player Alona Ostapenko has risen four places and now occupies the 21st position, but the career record has been reached by Estonian Anete Kontaveita, who is now sixth.
Last week, Ostapenko reached the semi-finals of the WTA 500 tournament in St. Petersburg, where he lost to Kontaveit, who won the Greek Maria Sakari in the final, reaching his first title this season and his sixth career. The second leading Latvian player Anastasia Sevastova rose by one position in the WTA rank and takes the 78th place.
Daniela Vismane has risen by eight places and is in the 270th position this week, Diāna Marcinkēviča is six places higher (280th), while Kamilla Bartone (378th) is 16th higher, and Darya Semeneist (548th) is one. . Sabīne Rutlauka (945) retains the previous position, but Anna Ozerova (981) is two positions below. Meanwhile, Margarita Ignatieva resigned by 18 places (1117), Patricia Špaka (1129) lost four positions, and Līga Dekmeijere rose three positions (1338).
The leader of the WTA rank remains the Australian Ashley Barthi, followed by the Belarusian Arina Sabalenko, the Czech Barbora Krejčikova and Karolina Plīškova. Paula Badosa from Spain is still in fifth place, Kontaveita is in sixth place, followed by Garvinje Mugurusa from Spain and Maria Sakari from Greece. The ninth place is taken by Iga Švjonteka from Poland, and the best ten is finished by Ons Žabér from Tunisia.
In the ranking of doubles, Ostapenko retains the 22nd place, but Marcinkēviča, who resigned one position below, is in the 235th place. Vismane improved her position by six places (256), while Bartone (417) is three places higher. Fall of two positions for Seminiista (753), Spaka rose by two places to 1056, but Ignatjeva lost two (1106). .) but Rutlauka slipped three positions below (1730).
