Kazakh tennis player Rybakina rose to fourth place in the ranking

Elena Rybakina has officially risen to a record place in the WTA rankings. Elena Rybakina has risen to fourth place in the ranking of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Kazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina set a personal record thanks to the victory at the tournament in Rome, reports Sports.kz Rybakina scored 5,090 points and rose to fourth place in the WTA ranking, ahead of Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia - she has 5,025 points. It should be noted that before the start of the tournament, the Kazakhstani woman took the sixth place. The leader at the moment is Polish tennis player Iga Schwentek - 8940 points, in second place - Belarusian Arina Sobolenko - 7541 points, in third - American Jessica Pegula - 5205 points. As previously reported, Elena Rybakina won the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome. Her opponent in the final, Ukrainian Angelina Kalinina (47 WTA), withdrew due to an injury to her left hip with the score 6:4, 1:0 in favor of Rybakina. During the tournament, Rybakina beat Yasmin Paolini (Italy), Anna Kalinskaya (Russia), Marketa Vondrusova (Czech Republic), Iga Sventek (Poland), Elena Ostapenko (Latvia). Elena won her second WTA 1000 title of the season and career. In total, this is her fifth title and second on clay in singles (2023 WTA 1000 Indian Wells, 2022 Grand Slam Wibledon, 2020 WTA 250 Hobart and 2019 WTA Bucharest). The Kazakh woman also has finals at the Australian Open and Miami Open WTA 1000 this year. Thanks to the victory in Rome, the leader of the women's national team of Kazakhstan earned 521,754 euros in prize money, 1000 rating points. In addition, Rybakina is the record holder of the season for the number of wins at the WTA 1000 tournaments (19 wins). She is ahead of Arina Sobolenko and Iga Sventek, who have won 15 meetings each, the Tennis Federation of Kazakhstan reported.