By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday May 6, 2024

Iga Swiatek is opening the hole between herself and the remainder of the sphere within the WTA rankings desk. The four-time main champion, coming into her 102nd whole week atop the rankings, is now 3412 factors away from No.2-ranked Aryna Sabalenka within the rankings.

The Pole defeated Sabalenka in an exciting three-set closing in Madrid on Saturday, claiming her twentieth profession title and enhancing to 71-10 lifetime on clay.

There was little or no motion contained in the Top 10 on this week’s WTA rankings. Marketa Vondrousova (+1 to No.6), Zheng Qinwen (+1 to No.7) and Maria Sakkari (-2 to No.8) have been the one movers.

𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐂 🩶🩷@iga_swiatek | @WTA | #MMOPEN pic.twitter.com/jtYHwM7U8Y

— #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) May 5, 2024

Top 20 for Kostyuk

Marta Kostyuk, within the midst of a robust season that options finals in San Diego and Stuttgart and a 19-8 general file, makes her Top 20 debut (+1) this week, which marks the primary time within the historical past of the WTA rankings that two Ukrainian girls are within the Top 20 on the identical time. Elina Svitolina is at the moment ranked nineteenth.

🔥For the primary time in historical past, two Ukrainian tennis gamers entered the highest 20 of the WTA rating on the identical time.

🇺🇦Elina Svitolina is ranked nineteenth, whereas 🇺🇦Marta Kostyuk, who set a private file, is ranked twentieth. pic.twitter.com/CyDO5LMDH1

— Ukrainian Tennis • BTU (@ukrtennis_eng) May 6, 2024

Kostyuk is eighth within the Race to the WTA Finals standings.

American Madison Keys jumps 4 spots to No.16 after reaching the semifinal in Madrid.

Keys is the fourth-ranked American, which places her in place to qualify for the Olympics for Team USA (dependent upon rankings after Roland-Garros).

A pair of ladies who reached the quarterfinals in Madrid final week are additionally on the rise: 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva jumps three spots to make her Top 40 debut at No.40, whereas Yulia Putintseva, this week’s greatest riser contained in the Top 50, jumps 9 spots to No.41 after reaching the quarterfinals in Madrid.

Also making a formidable transfer was Maria Lourdes Carle of Argentina. She jumped 11 spots to a career-high No.72 after profitable back-to-back tour-level matches for the primary time in Madrid.

Carle made her Top 100 debut in March and gained an ITF title simply previous to Madrid.

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