Mirra Andreeva entered the top 20 of the WTA rankings for the first time in her career, Kalinskaya moved closer to Kasatkina

Russian tennis player Mirra Andreeva moved from 22nd to 19th place in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) ranking, an updated version of which was published on the organization’s website.

Last week, Andreeva reached the quarter finals of the tournament in Beijing. For a 17-year-old tennis player, this is the highest position in the world rankings.

Another Russian, Anna Kalinskaya, rose from 14th to 13th place in the ranking. The first racket of Russia Daria Kasatkina is 11th.

The winner of the tournament in China, American Cori Gauff, moved up two places and became fourth.

WTA rankings as of October 7:

1 (1). Iga Szwiatek (Poland) – 9785 points;

2 (2). Arina Sabalenko (Belarus) – 8716;

3 (3). Jessica Pegula (USA) – 5945;

4 (6). Corey Gauff (USA) – 5593;

5 (4). Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) – 5481;

6 (5). Jasmine Paolini (Italy) – 5293;

7 (7) Zheng Qingwen (China) – 4300;

8 (8). Emma Navarro – 3698;

9 (9). Daniel Collins (both USA) – 3177;

10 (10). Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) – 3161;

11 (11). Daria Kasatkina – 3075…

13 (14). Anna Kalinskaya – 2825…

16 (16). Diana Schneider – 2641…

19 (22). Mirra Andreeva – 2218…

23 (15). Lyudmila Samsonova – 2080…

26 (25). Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – 1856…

33 (33). Ekaterina Alexandrova – 1693…

38 (38). Anastasia Potapova – 1427…

63 (39). Veronica Kudermetova – 983…

66 (61). Kamilla Rakhimova – 925…

70 (67). Erika Andreeva – 913…

84 (78). Anna Blinkova (all – Russia) – 825.