Tennis
Daria Kasatkina again became the first racket of Russia
Daria Kasatkina / Photo: © Rob Prange / Keystone Press Agency / Global Look Press
Russian Daria Kasatkina regained the title of the first racket of the country.
In the updated version of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) ranking, she takes 13th place, ahead of Lyudmila Samsonova, who dropped from 12th to 14th line.
The leader in the ranking is retained by the representative of Poland, Iga Sventek.
American Corey Gauff, who won the tournament in Cincinnati (USA), overtook Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia in the ranking and became sixth. Czech Karolina Muchova, who reached the final of the competition, made her debut in the top ten.
WTA Ranking as of August 21:
eleven). Iga Sventek (Poland) – 9955 points
2 (2). Arina Sobolenko (Belarus) – 8746
3(3). Jessica Pegula (USA) – 5945
4 (4). Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) – 5670
5(5). Ons Jaber (Tunisia) – 4831
6(7). Corey Gauff (USA) – 4595
7(6). Caroline Garcia (France) – 3820
8(8). Maria Sakkari (Greece) – 3585
9 (10). Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) – 3400
10 (17). Carolina Muchova (Czech Republic) – 2995 …
13(13). Daria Kasatkina – 2780
14(12). Lyudmila Samsonova – 2745 …
16(16). Veronika Kudermetova – 2480 …
22(21). Ekaterina Alexandrova – 2065 …
27 (27). Anastasia Potapova – 1675 …
39 (37). Anna Blinkova – 1283 …
64(64). Elina Avanesyan — 901…
67 (67). Mirra Andreeva – 879 …
78 (80). Kamilla Rakhimova – 832 …
85 (87). Diana Schneider — 772…
87 (76). Anna Kalinskaya – 755 …
99(100). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (all – Russia) – 720.
Source: Sportbox
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