In 2018, Alison Van Uytvanck was at a career high ranking of thirty-seven. Whenever you see a significant decline in a player’s ranking, often it is because of injury or failure to defend ranking points due to poor play. Although the Belgian had a long injury hiatus between 2016-2017, that was prior to this recent decline in ranking. Interestingly, she came back strong to win her first WTA singles title in 2017.
Alison Van Uytvanck can hold her head high because she is a quality player both in singles and doubles. This was a nice win for Belgian, who defeated the number one seed at the Astana Open to claim her fifth singles title, her first singles title since 2019.
Top 100 ATP & WTA Ranking Changes
| ATP | RANKING CHANGES | TOP 100 |
| John Millman (AUS) | DOWN 35 | 90 |
| Henri Laaksonen (SUI) | UP 20 | |
| Vasek Pospisil (CAN) | DOWN 17 | 85 |
| Marcos Giron (USA) | UP 11 | 56 CAREER HIGH |
| WTA | RANKING CHANGES | TOP 100 |
| Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) | UP 34 | 55 |
| Saisai Zheng (CHN) | DOWN 14 | 89 |
| Andrea Petkovic (GER) | DOWN 10 | 74 |
| Sloane Stephens (USA) | DOWN 10 | 73 |
| Rebecca Peterson (SWE) | UP 10 | 76 |
ATP & WTA Top 10 Ranking Changes
ATP: There were no changes in the rankings of the top members and Novak Djokovic lengthens his stay at #1.
WTA: there was some reshuffling of the top ten members. Garbine Muguruza climbed three spots to #6. Naomi Osaka fell out of the top ten. Elina Svitolina fell one spot to #7, while Maria Sakkari climbed one spot to #9. Belinda Bencic is back in the top ten at #10 and Ashleigh Barty is still #1.
FYI: Serena Williams is currently ranked #41 and Venus Williams’ ranking continues to slide; she is now ranked #172.
THE TOP 4 RANKED AMERICAN MEN: Reilly Opelka [20]; John Isner [23]; Taylor Fritz [39]; and Sebastian Korda [40]. The last American man to be in the top ten was John Isner in May 2019.
THE TOP 4 RANKED AMERICAN WOMEN: Sofia Kenin [8]; Cori “Coco” Gauff [19]; Jennifer Brady [23]; and Jessica Pegula [24].
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