Iga Swiatek will walk into the 2024 US Open as the World No. 1 and can extend her dominance by the end of the fortnight.
Swiatek has passed Justine Henin (117 weeks) for the eighth spot in the list of WTA players with the most weeks at No. 1 and is guaranteed to overtake another retired star, Ashleigh Barty (121 weeks), two weeks after the US Open.
The Pole has amassed 10465 points at the start of the final Grand Slam of the season and only drops 240 points from last year's total. If Swiatek wins her second US Open, then she'll hit her highest points tally since becoming World No. 1.
Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff have a lot of ground to make up. The two women contested last year's US Open final, with the American coming out on top. That means she is the player who defends the most points in the next two weeks and could face a ranking slide if she underperforms.
Elena Rybakina (4th) is best placed to return to the top three after the US Open. She only made the third round last year, but she will need to overcome her health struggles, which limited her to only a single appearance on the summer hard-court swing before New York.
Jasmine Paolini kept her slender lead of eight points over Jessica Pegula in fifth place. Not a single Top 10 player was in action this past week in either Cleveland or Monterrey, and there weren't any changes in that group.
Therefore, Qinwen Zheng, Barbora Krejcikova, Maria Sakkari, and Jelena Ostapenko enter the final major of the year ranked inside the Top 10. American Emma Navarro rose one spot to a new best ranking of No. 12 following her semifinal run at the Monterrey Open.
Beatriz Haddad Maia climbed two places to 21st after reaching the Cleveland Open final. The biggest mover in the Top 30 is Linda Noskova. The 19-year-old Czech captured her maiden WTA title in Monterrey with a victory over Lulu Sun.
Noskova rose to a new career-high of No. 25, but this is not enough to earn her a seeding spot at the US Open, as the draw has already been released. Sun, meanwhile, makes her Top 50 debut (up to 41st).
Karolina Pliskova and Marie Bouzkova each dropped three spots to 44th and 45th, respectively, while China's Wang Xiyu edges closer to a Top 50 return despite a 22-22 win-loss record for the season.
Erika Andreeva, who earned the biggest win of her career over Danielle Collins this past week, was a quarterfinalist in Monterrey and soars to a new best ranking of No. 75.
Last week, McCartney Kessler made her Top 100 debut. This week, she is celebrating a new career-high ranking of No. 63 after becoming one of the most unexpected first-time champions on the WTA Tour. The 25-year-old American won the WTA 250 in Cleveland by beating Haddad Maia.
Ana Bogdan has rejoined the Top 100 (91st) after a quarterfinal run in Cleveland. She can compete for the mantle of Romania's No. 1 player with Jaqueline Cristian now that Sorana Cirstea is set to miss the rest of the year. The newly published WTA rankings can be accessed on our WTA Rankings page.
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