{"id":193000,"date":"2022-06-14T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=193000"},"modified":"2022-06-14T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T19:03:09","slug":"french-open-champion-iga-swiatek-continues-to-top-wta-rankings-aryna-sabalenka-moves-to-fifth-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/14\/french-open-champion-iga-swiatek-continues-to-top-wta-rankings-aryna-sabalenka-moves-to-fifth-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open champion Iga Swiatek continues to top WTA rankings; Aryna Sabalenka moves to fifth spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paris, Jun 13 (AFP): French Open champion Iga Swiatek remains firmly at the head of the new WTA rankings released on Monday, over 4000 points ahead of number two Anett Kontaveit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 21-year-old Pole has held the top spot since the surprise retirement of Australian Ashleigh Barty at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only change in the Top 20 sees Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, beaten in Sunday&#8217;s final at &#8216;s-Hertogenbosch by the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, take fifth place from Maria Sakkari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neither Sabalenka nor Alexandrova will be at Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam event of the year, as Russian and Belarusian players have been barred from competing following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No WTA rankings points, however, will be awarded for the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WTA rankings as of 13 June, 2022 (players representing Russia and Belarus are banned from competing under the name or flag of Russia or Belarus until further notice):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Iga Swiatek (POL) 8631 pts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Anett Kontaveit (EST) 4511<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. Paula Badosa (ESP) 4245<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. Ons Jabeur (TUN) 4150<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">5. Aryna Sabalenka 4145 (+1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">6. Maria Sakkari (GRE) 4075 (-1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">7. Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 3678<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">8. Jessica Pegula (USA) 3255<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">9. Danielle Collins (USA) 3255<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">10. Garbine Muguruza (ESP) 3060<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">11. Emma Raducanu (GBR) 2975<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">12. Darya Kasatkina 2765<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">13. Cori Gauff (USA) 2756<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">14. Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) 2642<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">15. Leylah Fernandez (CAN) 2605<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">16. Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 2596<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">17. Belinda Bencic (SUI) 2585<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">18. Angelique Kerber (GER) 2474<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">19. Victoria Azarenka 2330<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">20. Simona Halep (ROM) 2196<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, Jun 13 (AFP): French Open champion Iga Swiatek remains firmly at the head of the new WTA rankings released on Monday, over 4000 points ahead of number two Anett Kontaveit. The 21-year-old Pole has held the top spot since the surprise retirement of Australian Ashleigh Barty at the end of March. The only change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}