TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Australian Open winner Osaka leaps to No.1
Change Size
This combination of pictures created on January 25, 2019 shows Japan's Naomi Osaka (L) reacting after a point against Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova during their women's singles semi-final match on day 11 of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 24, 2019, and the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova (R) celebrating her victory against Australia's Ashleigh Barty during their women's singles quarter-final match on day nine of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 22, 2019.
(AFP/-)
N
aomi Osaka, winner of the Australian Open, has jumped to the top of women's tennis with her beaten opponent Petra Kvitova rising to second in Monday's WTA rankings.
Osaka climbed three places after beating the Czech in Melbourne on Saturday. Kvitova moved up four places.
The 21-year-old Japanese player has only won three career titles, but those include the last two majors, after she won the US Open in September.
Romanian former number one Simona Halep, knocked out by Serena Williams in the round of 16 in Melbourne, fell two spots to third. Dane Caroline Wozniacki, whose defence of her Australian Open title ended in the third round, fell six places to ninth.
The biggest rise of the week was by the 25-year-old American Danielle Collins who leaped 12 places to 23rd after her run to the semi-finals.
The other semi-finalist, Czech Karolina Pliskova, who saved four match points against Williams in their quarterfinal, also advanced, gaining three places to fifth in the world.
Williams, who fell to 491 after her maternity break last year, continued her rise, gaining five places to 11th.
WTA rankings:
1. Naomi Osaka (JPN) 7,030 pts (+3)
2. Petra Kvitova (CZE) 6,290 (+4)
3. Simona Halep (ROM) 5,582 (-2)
4. Sloane Stephens (USA) 5,307 (+1)
5. Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 5,100 (+3)
6. Angelique Kerber (GER) 4,965 (-4)
7. Elina Svitolina (UKR) 4,940
8. Kiki Bertens (NED) 4,430 (+1)
9. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 3,566 (-6)
10. Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 3,485 (+1)
11. Serena Williams (USA) 3,406 (+5)
12. Darya Kasatkina (RUS) 3,355 (-2)
13. Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) 3,330 (-1)
14. Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 3,285 (+1)
15. Garbine Muguruza (ESP) 3,035 (+3)
16. Julia Goerges (GER) 2,995 (-3)
17. Madison Keys (USA) 2,786
18. Wang Kiang (CHN) 2,605 (+3)
19. Caroline Garcia (FRA) 2,550
20. Anett Kontaveit (EST) 2,355
