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The WTA published an updated rating: Sobolenko lags behind Rybakina by more than 2 thousand points

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has published an updated ranking in which the leading positions remain unchanged. At the same time, the gap ...

The WTA published an updated rating: Sobolenko lags behind Rybakina by more than 2 thousand points

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has published an updated ranking in which the leading positions remain unchanged. At the same time, the gap between the first and second rackets of the world continues to be significant, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency reports.

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The representative of Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina for the third consecutive week holds the status of the first racket in the world. She has a score of 9901. Belarusian tennis player A. Sobolenko, who lost the lead two weeks ago, continues to occupy the second line with 7810 points.

In the top ten rankings over the past week, there were no changes either. The third is American Jessica Pegula (7265 points). The top 10 also includes: Koko Gauff (No. 4, USA), Mirra Andreeva (No. 5, Russia), Linda Noskova (No. 6, Czech Republic), Elina Svitolina (No. 7, Ukraine), Karolina Mukhova (No. 8, Czech Republic), Iga Schwentek (No. 9, Poland) and Martha Kostyuk (No. 10, Ukraine).

Among other Belarusian tennis players, it is worth noting the significant progress of Alexandra Sasnovich. She climbed 11 positions and now ranks 121st with a score of 631. At the same time, Irina Shimanovich fell by five lines and is in 191st place (417 points).

Alena Faley retained 220th position (356 points), while Daria Khomutyanskaya lost five positions and takes 291st place with 253 points.

Source: Минск-новости ↗

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