The Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka He was crowned US Open champion for the first time in his career. In his second attempt, he avenged the defeat of the previous edition against Coco Gauff. She defeated fellow American Jessica Pegula.
Sabalenka’s fourth Grand Slam title, aged 26, second on the course after revalidating her Australian Open crown. With the win he earned 2,000 ranking points, although only 700 reais since he was defending 1,300.
She tied herself in second place in the WTA classification, although 2,169 behind the Polish Iga Swiatekwhich will continue at world number one for the 121st of 129 weeks since April 4, 2022, when it premiered at the top because Australian Ashleigh Barty asked to be removed from the list as soon as she announced her departure .
The only eight weeks in which he relinquished command fell to Sabalenka, from September 11 to November 5, 2023. He would fight to unseat Swiatek for the remainder of the campaign. Of the points scored this season, the Pole has only 409 more.
The finalist, Jessica Pegula 30 years old, up two places, from sixth to fourth place. come down Coco Gauff, now the sixth.
Even the biggest increase in rank in New York was accomplished by Paula Badosa reaching the quarterfinal round. It rose nine places, to twentieth place. It was not in the top-100 three months ago. In the fourteenth best player of the year, as indicated by Race, the 2024 classification of points.
His executioner, the North American Emma Navarrodebuts in the top-10: eighth, starting twelfth. Leave the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko in the top ten clubs.
1. Iga Swiatek (Pol) / 10,885 pts.
2. Aryna Sabalenka (Blr) / 8,716
3. Jessica Pegula (USA) / 6,220
4. Elena Rybakina (Kaz) / 5,871
5. Jasmine Paolini (Ita) / 5,398
6. Coco Gauff (USA) / 4,983
7. Qinwen Zheng (Chn) / 3,980
8. Emma Navarro (USA) / 3,810
9. Barbora Krejcikova (Che) / 3,631
10. Maria Sakkari (Gree) / 3,515
11. Danielle Collins (USA) / 3,362
12. Jelena Ostapenko (Let) / 3,008
13. Daria Kasatkina (Russian) / 2,803
14. Anna Kalinskaya (Russian) / 2,772
15. Liudmila Samsonova (Russian) / 2,720
16. Diana Shnaider (Russian) / 2,595
17. Beatriz Haddad Maia (Bra) / 2,581
18. Marta Kostyuk (Ucr) / 2,468
19. Victoria Azarenka (Blr) / 2,326
20. Paula Badosa (Esp) / 2,325
Source: La Verdad
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