WTA tennis rankings

Move	Ranking	Country	Player	Age	Points	Tourn Played
0	1	AUSTRALIA	Ashleigh Barty	23	8 717	17
0	2	ROMANIA	Simona Halep	28	6 076	16
0	3	CZECH REPUBLIC	Karolina Pliskova	27	5 205	20
+1	4	UNITED STATES	Sofia Kenin	21	4 590	25
+2	5	UKRAINE	Elina Svitolina	25	4 580	24
-2	6	CANADA	Bianca Andreescu	19	4 555	10
-1	7	NETHERLANDS	Kiki Bertens	28	4 335	25
0	8	SWITZERLAND	Belinda Bencic	23	4 010	25
0	9	USA	Serena Williams	38	3 915	11
0	10	JAPAN	Naomi Osaka	22	3 625	16
0	11	BELARUS	Aryna Sabalenka	21	3 615	24
0	12	CZECH REPUBLIC	Petra Kvitova	30	3 566	16
0	13	USA	Madison Keys	25	2 962	16
+2	14	GREAT BRITAIN	Johanna Konta	28	2 803	17
-1	15	CROATIA	Petra Martic	29	2 770	20
-1	16	SPAIN	Garbine Muguruza	26	2 711	17
0	17	KAZAKHSTAN	Elena Rybakina	20	2 471	26
0	18	CZECH REPUBLIC	Marketa Vondrousova	20	2 307	15
0	19	USA	Alison Riske	29	2 256	23
0	20	GREECE	Maria Sakkari	24	2 130	25
0	21	GERMANY	Angelique Kerber	32	2 040	21
0	22	ESTONIA	Anett Kontaveit	24	2 010	19
0	23	BELGIUM	Elise Mertens	24	1 950	26
0	24	CROATIA	Donna Vekic	23	1 880	23
0	25	UKRAINE	Dayana Yastremska	19	1 835	24
0	26	CZECH REPUBLIC	Karolina Muchova	23	1 813	16
0	27	RUSSIA	Ekaterina Alexandrova	25	1 775	27
0	28	UNITED STATES	Amanda Anisimova	18	1 717	18
0	29	CHINA	Qiang Wang	28	1 706	23
0	30	RUSSIA	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	28	1 540	21
0	31	CZECH REPUBLIC	Barbora Strycova	33	1 530	21
0	32	RUSSIA	Svetlana Kuznetsova	34	1 527	17
0	33	KAZAKHSTAN	Yulia Putintseva	25	1 525	25
0	34	CHINA	Saisai Zheng	26	1 510	24
0	35	CHINA	Shuai Zhang	31	1 475	26
0	36	POLAND	Magda Linette	28	1 472	28
0	37	USA	Sloane Stephens	26	1 453	21
0	38	GERMANY	Julia Goerges	31	1 423	21
0	39	TUNISIA	Ons Jabeur	25	1 373	22
0	40	RUSSIA	Veronika Kudermetova	22	1 373	28
0	41	LATVIA	Jelena Ostapenko	22	1 360	24
0	42	FRANCE	Kristina Mladenovic	26	1 335	27
0	43	LATVIA	Anastasija Sevastova	29	1 288	23
+1	44	SWEDEN	Rebecca Peterson	24	1 225	23
-1	45	SLOVENIA	Polona Hercog	29	1 205	21
0	46	FRANCE	Caroline Garcia	26	1 175	27
+10	47	CZECH REPUBLIC	Marie Bouzkova	21	1 147	25
-1	48	USA	Jennifer Brady	24	1 144	24
-1	49	POLAND	Iga Swiatek	18	1 139	15
-1	50	GREAT BRITAIN	Heather Watson	27	1 122	25

How do WTA rankings work?

Knowing a thing or two about how WTA singles rankings work is always handy. After all, the world of tennis has a natural pecking order, and it’s better to stay informed. The WTA rankings for 2020 will remain mostly unchanged due to the somewhat limited scope of events this year. With the WTA Tour 2020 taking a hit, most players will stay in the same fixtures. That said, the quickest way to understand rankings is to see how the WTA and ATP allocate their points to players.

It all boils down to a simple points system in tennis rankings. For each tournament a player wins, they will go up the rank list. Conversely, a loss would reduce their chance to progress in the overall ranking – plain and simple.

Why do rankings matter in tennis?

Some tennis fans would wonder – why do ranking players even matter? Isn’t tennis tournaments and winners enough to give the public a good idea of who the best-ranked players are? It might, but the International Tennis Federation, the Women’s Tennis Association and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) all agree that a point-based system gives a better overview.

A list of the points accumulated by a player is easy to track. Furthermore, the WTA ranking is apparent and concise. In other words, if someone new to tennis didn’t know any of the players, a unique look at the tennis rankings would help them find their bearings very quickly. Same with women’s professional tennis as with men’s, rankings are a great way to understand the current power order in tennis.

Predicting the 2020 year-end WTA ranking

Predicting this year’s WTA ranking points is not an easy undertaking. There have been extenuating circumstances that have put the availability of the 4 Grand Slams under questions. The WTA Finals and WTA Premier have experienced the effects of a global pandemic bringing the sport to a halt.

Many events have suffered as a result. Some of the flagship events aren’t the same, including Madrid, Miami, Indian Wells, and Beijing. The relative drought of games extends to men’s as well as women’s tennis rankings, putting the world of tennis on hold for a while.

In a 52-week season, it’s understandable why a few months of hiatus are counter-productive to the point where WTA points are merely not trickling in anymore – at all. True, the singles rankings depend on the players’ skills and with this said, the year-end rank list will mostly depend on how well players have done training for their return when professional tennis is resumed.

Greatest female tennis players of all time

Tennis has a lot of gifted players in both the male and female competitors. Therefore, narrowing down the list of top-performers is often excellent. It could help with, say, a bet you want to make or help you find out more about the competition.

The best place to start is the WTA rankings singles. The top female tennis players will be understandably at the top. They will have accumulated a long list of achievements as well as many points. Each female player will have some tournaments played, as well as the total points accrued.

And so, A. Barty is without a doubt at the top of the best women’s tennis players with her 8,717 points. The second best is S. Halep is still far behind Barty with 6076 points, and the third is K. Plíšková. Anything below that is sub-5000 points.