Lyudmila Samsonova for the first time in her career became the first racket of Russia

Russian tennis player Lyudmila Samsonova has risen to 12th position in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) ranking, the new version of which was published on Monday on the organization’s website.

On Sunday, Samsonova lost to American Jessica Pegula in the final of the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal, Canada – 1:6, 0:6. Thus, for the first time in her career, Samsonova became the first racket of Russia.

Another Russian Daria Kasatkina moved to 13th place.

The top 10 rating remained unchanged, it is still headed by Iga Swiatek from Poland.

WTA Ranking August 14:

eleven). Iga Sventek (Poland) – 9730 points;

2(2). Arina Sobolenko (Belarus) – 8746;

3(3). Jessica Pegula (USA) – 6030;

4(4). Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) – 5755;

5(5). Ons Jaber (Tunisia) – 4746;

6(6). Caroline Garcia (France) – 4685;

7(7). Corey Gauff (USA) – 3760;

8(8). Maria Sakkari (Greece) – 3510;

9(9). Peter Kvitov – 3445;

10(10). Marketa Vondrousova (both – Czech Republic) – 3211 …

12 (18). Lyudmila Samsonova – 2745;

13 (14). Daria Kasatkina – 2735 …

16(16). Veronika Kudermetova – 2485 …

21(21). Ekaterina Alexandrova – 2115 …

27 (27). Anastasia Potapova – 1635 …

37 (34). Anna Blinkova – 1283 …

64 (65). Elina Avanesyan — 901…

67 (70). Mirra Andreeva – 879 …

76 (78). Anna Kalinskaya – 844 …

80 (82). Kamilla Rakhimova – 817 …

87 (87). Diana Schneider — 772…

100(98). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (all – Russia) – 719.