WTA Race Update: Swiatek Leads Race At Halfway Stage Of 2024 Season

Monday, 27 May 2024 at 13:00

byNurein Ahmed

Iga Swiatek is the first player to clock over 5000 points in the WTA race this season thanks to a stellar clay-court swing.

It could still get even better for Pole as she can top it off by winning a fourth Roland Garros in the next two weeks. Swiatek has won four titles already at the halfway stage of the current season, including two WTA 1000s on clay.

She can recreate history by winning the Triple Crown, which is equivalent to lifting the Madrid-Rome double and the French Open. Only Serena Williams has achieved this feat on the WTA Tour.

With 5335 points to her name, Swiatek has an advantage of 1407 points over Aryna Sabalenka, the Australian Open champion. Elena Rybakina, for her part, is down in third spot with 3593 points.

Danielle Collins is the unexpected name in the top four. Collins celebrates a return to the world's Top 10 of the WTA rankings, but she's ranked fourth in the race, which counts for points earned in 2024. She was a runner-up in Strasbourg this past week and stayed above Coco Gauff.

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China's Qinwen Zheng has reached a pair of quarterfinals since her runner-up finish at the Australian Open. She has cascaded from 2nd to 6th in the span of four months. Jelena Ostapenko is down in 7th, while Marta Kostyuk rose above Jasmine Paolini for the coveted eighth spot.

Maria Sakkari pips Daria Kasatkina for 10th spot. After winning her first title of the season in Strasbourg, Madison Keys rose to 15th place. Less than 400 points separates the big-hitting American from the Top 10.

The WTA race is an important metric because it will decide the top eight players who will qualify for the 2024 WTA finals, which will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Additionally, it will also determine the women's year-end World No. 1, which has been won by Swiatek in each of the last seasons.

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2024 WTA Race as of May 27, 2024:

Rank	Player	Points
1	Iga Swiatek	5335
2	Aryna Sabalenka	3928
3	Elena Rybakina	3583
4	Danielle Collins	2857
5	Coco Gauff	2383
6	Qinwen Zheng	2070
7	Jelena Ostapenko	1889
8	Jasmine Paolini	1710
9	Marta Kostyuk	1695
10	Maria Sakkari	1591
11	Daria Kasatkina	1543
12	Anna Kalinskaya	1511
13	Victoria Azarenka	1503
14	Emma Navarro	1496
15	Madison Keys	1291
16	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1253
17	Dayana Yastremska	1181
18	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1143
19	Linda Noskova	1035
20	Beatriz Haddad Maia	960
21	Katie Boulter	922
22	Jessica Pegula	915
23	Sorana Cirstea	892
24	Karolina Pliskova	882
25	Marketa Vondrousova	863
26	Elise Mertens	849
27	Elina Svitolina	848
28	Anhelina Kalinina	803
29	Yulia Putintseva	800
30	Anastasia Potapova	767
31	Sloane Stephens	755
32	Caroline Garcia	754
33	Yue Yuan	752
34	Katerina Siniakova	706
35	Diana Shnaider	668
36	Magdalena Frech	649
37	Mirra Andreeva	647
38	Moyuka Uchijima	637
39	Liudmila Samsonova	628
40	Magda Linette	628
41	Leylah Fernandez	577
42	Donna Vekic	574
43	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	572
44	Clara Burel	559
45	Barbora Krejcikova	551
46	Naomi Osaka	544
47	Xinyu Wang	534
48	Katie Volynets	518
49	Oceane Dodin	509
50	Jaqueline Cristian	500