WTA Ranking: Serena is now world no.2, Stephens climbs to no.17

After a thrilling Australian Open, Victoria Azarenka managed to keep the top ranking after defeating Li Na in the final at Melbourne Park.

Serena was widely expected to overtake both Sharapova and Vika after the Australian Open, but her upset at the hands of Sloane Stephens made it impossible… at least for the time being. The American had to “stop” to the 2nd spot.

Maria Sharapova slips one place to be world no.3. Li Na overtkes Angelina Kerber to grab the 5th spot.

Sloane Stephens enters the top 20 to climb 8 place and get the 17th ranking (from 25).

Elena vesnina climbs 14 places to be wolrd no.33 fro 47 and former world no.1 Svetlana Kutzetsova becomes now world no.50 (from the 75th spot).

Here the full rankings

 

CURRENT

PREVIOUS

PLAYER

COUNTRY

 

POINTS


1

1

AZARENKA, VICTORIA

BELARUS

10325

2

3

WILLIAMS, SERENA

UNITED STATES

9970

3

2

SHARAPOVA, MARIA

RUSSIA

9545

4

4

RADWANSKA, AGNIESZKA

POLAND

7750

5

6

LI, NA

CHINA

6255

6

5

KERBER, ANGELIQUE

GERMANY

5695

7

7

ERRANI, SARA

ITALY

4605

8

8

KVITOVA, PETRA

CZECH REPUBLIC

4285

9

9

STOSUR, SAMANTHA

AUSTRALIA

4230

10

11

BARTOLI, MARION

FRANCE

3740

11

10

WOZNIACKI, CAROLINE

DENMARK

3545

12

12

PETROVA, NADIA

RUSSIA

2945

13

13

IVANOVIC, ANA

SERBIA

2841

14

14

CIBULKOVA, DOMINIKA

SLOVAKIA

2695

15

15

KIRILENKO, MARIA

RUSSIA

2690

16

16

VINCI, ROBERTA

ITALY

2585

17

25

STEPHENS, SLOANE

UNITED STATES

2466

18

17

SAFAROVA, LUCIE

CZECH REPUBLIC

2160

19

18

GOERGES, JULIA

GERMANY

1965

20

19

MAKAROVA, EKATERINA

RUSSIA

1881

21

20

LEPCHENKO, VARVARA

UNITED STATES

1875

22

24

WICKMAYER, YANINA

BELGIUM

1835

23

26

WILLIAMS, VENUS

UNITED STATES

1810

24

22

ZAKOPALOVA, KLARA

CZECH REPUBLIC

1800

25

27

HSIEH, SU-WEI

TAIWAN

1696

26

21

JANKOVIC, JELENA

SERBIA

1631

27

30

PASZEK, TAMIRA

AUSTRIA

1618

28

23

PAVLYUCHENKOVA, ANASTASIA

RUSSIA

1595

29

28

SHVEDOVA, YAROSLAVA

KAZAKHSTAN

1582

30

29

CIRSTEA, SORANA

ROMANIA

1565

31

33

SUAREZ NAVARRO, CARLA

SPAIN

1510

32

43

FLIPKENS, KIRSTEN

BELGIUM

1498

33

47

VESNINA, ELENA

RUSSIA

1456

34

32

PENG, SHUAI

CHINA

1450

35

41

CORNET, ALIZE

FRANCE

1420

36

31

RADWANSKA, URSZULA

POLAND

1395

37

39

ARVIDSSON, SOFIA

SWEDEN

1380

38

56

JOVANOVSKI, BOJANA

SERBIA

1370

39

34

KANEPI, KAIA

ESTONIA

1335

40

50

WATSON, HEATHER

UNITED KINGDOM

1326

41

37

PIRONKOVA, TSVETANA

BULGARIA

1285

42

35

MCHALE, CHRISTINA

UNITED STATES

1267

43

53

ROBSON, LAURA

UNITED KINGDOM

1253

44

40

ZHENG, JIE

CHINA

1245

45

38

BARTHEL, MONA

GERMANY

1225

46

55

BEGU, IRINA-CAMELIA

ROMANIA

1225

47

42

WOZNIAK, ALEKSANDRA

CANADA

1220

48

45

HALEP, SIMONA

ROMANIA

1210

49

46

DOMINGUEZ LINO, LOURDES

SPAIN

1181

50

75

KUZNETSOVA, SVETLANA

RUSSIA

1173