By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday October 12, 2020
Welcome to the Top 20, Iga Swiatek! Well, it seems a bit anticlimactic after the 19-year-old became the first player from Poland to ever win a Grand Slam singles title on Saturday in Paris...
But nevertheless, it’s quite an accomplishment for the talented teen, who had topped out in the WTA rankings at 48 in the world prior to Monday’s ranking release.
Swiatek, who defeated Sofia Kenin in Saturday’s final in Paris, dropped just 28 games over the course of the Paris fortnight to become the youngest women’s singles champion at Roland Garros since Monica Seles in 1992.
Other risers inside the Top 50 were France’s Fiona Ferro, who reached the round of 16 in Paris for the first time, and Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska, who became the first qualifier to reach the women’s singles semifinals at Roland Garros.
Italian qualifier Martina Trevisan also made her Top 100 debut after reaching the quarterfinals in Paris. The player that defeated Camila Giorgi, Coco Gauff, Maria Sakkari and Kiki Bertens in succession rises 83 spots to No.76, while Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic also makes her Top 100 singles debut. The former World No.1 in doubles (and current World No.7) rises 29 spots to No.85.
Some other nice bumps outside the top 49:
Laura Siegemund rises 16 to 50
Paula Badosa rises 18, to 69
Leylah Fernandez, rises 11 to 89
Eugenie Bouchard, rises 28 to 140
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, rises 33 to 138
Tsvetana Pironkova rises 25 to 132
Renata Zarazua rises 29 to 149
Kamilla Rakhimova rises 30 to 152
Clara Tauson rises 33 to 155