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Sobolenko remained on the second line, Shimanovich rose by 11 places in the ranking of the Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association has published a new version of the world ranking. Belarusian Arina Sobolenko is still the second racket of the planet, according to the press service.

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Sobolenko remained on the second line, Shimanovich rose by 11 places in the ranking of the Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association has published a new version of the world ranking. Belarusian Arina Sobolenko is still the second racket of the planet, reports sb.by.

Arina Sobolenko. Archived photo
Arina Sobolenko. Archived photo

Meanwhile, Alexandra Sasnovich lost two positions and is now 132nd, Irina Shimanovich rose 11 places at once and is now 186th, and Alena Faley exchanged 212th position for 220th.

The leader is the representative of Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina. Next in the top 10 are Arina Sobolenko (Belarus), Jessica Pegula (USA), Coco Gauff (USA), Mirra Andreeva (Russia), Linda Noskova (Czech Republic), Elina Svitolina (Ukraine), Karolina Mukhova (Czech Republic), Iga Sventek (Poland) and Martha Kostyuk (Ukraine).

No changes compared to the previous version were recorded in the top ten.

In the ranking of the Association of Tennis Professionals above all Belarusian athletes is Ilya Ivashko, who is 234th (minus four lines).

The first three are Italian Yannick Sinner, German Alexander Zverev and Spaniard Carlos Alcaras. And then in the top ten are Ben Shelton (USA), Felix Auger-Alyassim (Canada), Daniil Medvedev (Russia), Flavio Kobolli (Italy), Francis Tiafo (USA), Alex de Minaur (Australia) and Taylor Fritz (USA).

There were no changes compared to the version released a week ago in the top 10. Ex-first racket of the world Azarenko dropped out of the WTA rating

Source: СБ. Беларусь сегодня ↗

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