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class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Aryna Sabalenka, Lilli Tagger and Emma Raducanu                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/aryna-sabalenka\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>\u2019s lead at the top of the WTA Rankings has increased slightly, title winners Tamara Korpatsch and Lilli Tagger have earned massive jumps while Emma Raducanu has slipped down the list.<\/p>\n<p>There are no changes to the top 20 of the rankings as none of the players was in action last week as they prepared to switch from grass to hard courts, but some of them have dropped points due to a slight shift in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wta-tour\">WTA Tour<\/a> schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/wta-washington-open-draw-alex-eala-venus-williams-difficult-test\">WTA Washington DC Open<\/a> took place from 21-27 July last year \u2013 a week earlier than in 2026 \u2013 and the points that players earned at the event in 2025 were removed last week. It will again be out of sync this coming week as the Canadian Open started on 28 July a year ago, but will only get underway on 3 August this time around.<\/p>\n<p>World No 2 Elena Rybakina is one of the players who competed in Washington DC last year and she dropped 87 points, resulting in Sabalenka\u2019s lead to grow to 494 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/aryna-sabalenka\">Sabalenka<\/a> started her 101st week at No 1 in the WTA Rankings on Monday and the four-time Grand Slam winner is set to remain top for at least another couple of weeks with Rybakina\u2019s next chance to overtake her coming in Montreal.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA News<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/venus-williams-teaming-diana-shnaider-washington-instead-alex-eala\">Venus Williams explains why she\u2019s now teaming with Diana Shnaider in Washington instead of Alex Eala<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/serena-williams-weight-loss-drug-banned-tennis-adhd\">Should weight loss drugs be banned after Serena Williams\u2019 comeback? Tennis chiefs speaks out<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova is the other top-10 player to drop points as she is -103, but her position is also unaffected as she remains at No 6.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, you have to move outside the top 20 for the first changes in the rankings as Maja Chwalinska (21), Madison Keys (22) and Elise Mertens (23) are all up one place each after Marie Bouzkova dropped three spots.<\/p>\n<p>Filipina star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/alex-eala-ranking-prediction-usopen\">Alex Eala<\/a> is back to her career best of No 28 as she also moved up one place with a few players around her dropping with Leylah Fernandez \u2013 who won the WTA 500 Washington Open DC event last year \u2013 being one of them, as she is down nine places to No 34.<\/p>\n<p>There are some big climbers outside the top 30 as Daria Snigur is +11 to a new high of No 43 after finishing runner-up to Tagger at the Prague Open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/18-year-old-youngster-tipped-for-success-by-jannik-sinner-wins-first-wta-title\">The 18-year-old Tagger won her maiden title<\/a> with a 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 win over the Ukrainian and she earned a 29-place surge to No 45.<\/p>\n<p>Tamara Korpatsch was the other title winner last week as the German delighted home fans by beating Anna Bondar 6-3, 6-3 in the Hamburg Open final to claim her second career title and a 35-place jump to No 46 in the rankings \u2013 25 places above her previous career high.<\/p>\n<p>Bondar is +20 to No 77.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the coin is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\">Emma Raducanu<\/a> as the British player is down 12 places to No 49 as she reached the semi-final in Washington DC last year. And she is set for more disappointment in the coming weeks as she won\u2019t play at the Canadian Open or the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p>Magda Linette i -14 to No 65, Caty McNally -20 to No 73 and Taylor Townsend -22 to No 105.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA Top 20<\/h2>\n<p>1. Aryna Sabalenka \u2013 8,550<br \/>\n2. Elena Rybakina Kazakhstan \u2013 8,056<br \/>\n3. Jessica Pegula United States \u2013 6,300<br \/>\n4. Coco Gauff United States \u2013 5,649<br \/>\n5. Mirra Andreeva \u2013 5,293<br \/>\n6. Karolina Muchova Czechia \u2013 5,618<br \/>\n7. Linda Noskova Czechia \u2013 5,016<br \/>\n8. Iga Swiatek Poland \u2013 4,539<br \/>\n9. Amanda Anisimova United States \u2013 4,353<br \/>\n10. Elina Svitolina Ukraine \u2013 4,351<br \/>\n11. Marta Kostyuk Ukraine \u2013 3,925<br \/>\n12. Victoria Mboko Canada \u2013 3,520<br \/>\n13. Naomi Osaka Japan \u2013 3,086<br \/>\n14. Belinda Bencic Switzerland \u2013 2,845<br \/>\n15. Jasmine Paolini Italy \u2013 2,783<br \/>\n16. Iva Jovic United States \u2013 2,636<br \/>\n17. Sorana Cirstea Romania \u2013 2,502<br \/>\n18. Diana Shnaider \u2013 2,458<br \/>\n19. Ekaterina Alexandrova \u2013 2,301<br \/>\n20. Anna Kalinskaya \u2013 2,007<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTA Rankings: Respite for Aryna Sabalenka, Alex Eala +1, teen Lilli Tagger +29, Emma Raducanu -12 Shahida Jacobs 27 Jul 2026 7:00 AM Aryna Sabalenka, Lilli Tagger and Emma Raducanu Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s lead at the top of the WTA Rankings has increased slightly, title winners Tamara Korpatsch and Lilli Tagger have earned massive jumps while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2063293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2063293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}