Several nice Italian-style changes in the women’s world rankings published this morning by the WTA after the conclusion of the Wimbledon tournament, the third Slam held on the lawns of the All England Club. This week too, there are still five Italians among the top one hundred.
The Italian leader is confirmed by Jasmine Paolini who, thanks to the Wimbledon final (the second consecutive, and in her career, in a Major), improves her “best ranking” and climbs another two steps to occupy seat number 5: the 28-year-old from Bagni di Lucca is the third Italian ever to reach this high in the rankings after Schiavone (4) and Errani (5).
Behind her, Elisabetta Cocciaretto, now number 46, takes three steps back, having been forced to withdraw from Wimbledon and this week in Palermo after giving up in Bad Homburg. Lucia Bronzetti, who hit the mark in the WTA 125 in Contrexeville, gains eleven steps and is now number 70: Martina Trevisan climbs 12 steps thanks to another Italian success in a WTA 125, in Bastad, and settles at number 77. Sara Errani loses 10 positions: the Italian veteran, who returned to the top one hundred for the umpteenth time, is now number 96.
Changes also in the top ten of the ranking. Iga Swiatek continues to lead the way: the 23-year-old from Warsaw is in command for the 112th week overall (the 37th consecutive). The Polish player, who triumphed in Paris for the fourth time at the beginning of June, the third in a row, but was again “failed” on the London grass (out in the third round), sees her advantage over the American Coco Gauff, in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, drop to 3,112 points, confirming her “best” ahead of the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, still on the third step of the podium but 1,112 points behind after forfeiting at “The Championships”.
Kazakh Elena Rybakina is still in fourth place, ahead of Paolini. Both China’s Qinwen Zheng, seventh, and Greece’s Maria Sakkari, eighth, gain a position. Thanks to her eighth-finals in the British Slam, American Danielle Collins returns to the top ten, ninth, just ahead of the queen of Wimbledon 2024, Czech Barbora Krejcikova, who thanks to her second career Slam triumph (after Roland Garros 2021) jumps 22 positions and regains a place in the world elite, she who boasts a personal record of number 2 signed in February 2022.