Iga Świątek may lose her reign in the WTA ranking. An important point of the regulations was shown
Aryna Sabalenka lost to Karolina Muchova for the third time in a row. This time, the Czech turned out to be better in the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing. However, the Belarusian will still be close to the leader of the ranking.
The struggles in China take place in the shadow of what we see around Iga Świątek. After playing in the Grand Slam US Open, the Pole did not take part in any tournament, and on Friday she announced on social media that she would no longer cooperate with Tomasz Wiktorowski, and then the organizers of the event in Wuhan confirmed that the leader of the world ranking would not appear at the start.
Sabalenka can catch up with Świątek
On Friday, the hit quarterfinal of the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing took place, in which Karolina Muchova defeated Aryna Sabalenka. This means that the Belarusian is still significantly behind Świątek in the ranking. Currently, Iga Świątek’s achievements in the WTA live ranking amount to 9,785 points. The second Belarusian has 8,716 points, which means the difference is 1,069 points.
However, on platform
What is important here is the WTA Race ranking for the 2024 season, where the Belarusian’s loss to the Pole is only 194 points. If Sabalenka reaches at least the quarterfinals during the tournament in Wuhan (she will then receive 215 points), she will push Świątek out of the leader’s position not only in the WTA Race rankings, but also in the main series. Why will this happen?
The reason is that the points for last year’s performance in the WTA Finals will be deducted from the main ranking before this year’s edition of the finals in Riyadh, which will take place on November 2-9.
One question about Świątek
As the profile “From the court – tennis information” explains, after subtracting the points from the WTA Finals 2023, the points in the main WTA ranking for both players will be equivalent to their achievements in the WTA Race. Now the question remains whether the Polish representative will fight to defend her title at the WTA Finals. Last year, she was clearly the best at the event held in Cancun. Currently, it is difficult to predict whether the 23-year-old will take part in the final competition of the season, considering the turmoil around her team.
