Romania was left without a representative in the main draw of the Australian Open even after the first round, not since the 2008 major tournament in Melbourne. Sorana Kirstya remains the best racket of our country, but other athletes have lost several positions in the WTA hierarchy.

Sorana Kirstea, 25th place in the new WTA ranking

Sorana Kirstya suffered a surprise loss to Yafan Wang in the first round of the Australian Open (she was leading 6-0, 3-0), but will move up two positions in the new WTA rankings.

Ana Bohdan, Jacqueline Christian (eliminated in the first round), Iryna Begu and Gabriela Ruse (did not participate in AO 24) will drop several positions.

Iryna Bara, Miriam Bulgaru and Andrea Mitu qualified, but only the former made it to the second round and jumped 7 places.

25. Sorana Kirstea 1722 (+2)

66. Ana Bohdan 1016 (-3)

89. Jacqueline Christian 831 (-6)

117. Iryna Begu 633 (-9)

146. Gabriela Ruse 526 (-7)

176. Iryna Bara 437 (+7)

195. Miriam Bulgaru 406 (-4)

220. Andrea Mitu 350 (-4)

235. Anka Todoni 324 (+8)

254. Christina Dinu 299 (+21)

293. Oleksandra Kadantsu-Ignatik 233 (-8), etc.

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TOP-10 WTA – Iga Svyatek, leader – Qinwen Zheng, at the best place in his career

Having been eliminated in the third round of the Australian Open 2024, Iga Sviatek remains in first place in the WTA hierarchy (last year she left the competition in eighth place).

Sabalenka defended her points, obtained last year in Melbourne, and is behind the athlete from Poland by 865 points.

First Grand Slam finalist of the year Qinwen Zheng climbed to 7th place, a career-best result.

1. Iga Sviatek (Poland) 9770 points

2. Aryna Sabalenko (Belarus) 8.905

3. Coco Gauf (USA) 7200 (+1 place)

4. Jessica Pegula (USA) 5705 (+1)

5. Olena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) 5688 (-2)

6. Ons Jabeur (Tunisia) 4076

7. Qinwen Zheng (China) 3950 (+8)

8. Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) 3846 (-1)

9. Maria Sakkari (Greece) 3710 (-1)

10. Karolina Muhova (Czech Republic) 3520 (-1)

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115. Bianca Andreescu 640 (-9)

295. Emma Radukanu 231 (+1).