MOSCOW, May 4. /TASS/. Russia’s top female tennis player Mirra Andreeva climbed a spot in the new WTA (the Women’s Tennis Association) Rankings list published on Monday.

Andreeva reached the final of the tournament in the Spanish capital, Madrid, last week, but lost to Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk. The Russian, who is playing as a neutral athlete at international tournaments, is now 7th in the WTA Rankings with 4,181 points.

This week’s WTA Top-10 is as follows: 1st Aryna Sabalenka (a Belarusian player competing under a neutral status; 10,110 points); 2nd Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan; 8,555 points); 3rd Iga Swiatek (Poland; 6,948 points); 4th Coco Gauff (the United States; 6,749 points); 5th Jessica Pegula (the United States; 6,136 points), 6th Amanda Anisimova (the United States; 5,985 points); 7th Mirra Andreeva (a Russian player competing under a neutral status; 4,181 points); 8th Jasmine Paoline (Italy; 3,722 points); 9th Victoria Mboko (Canada; 3,531 points) and 10th Elina Svitolina (Ukraine; 3,530 points).

Andreeva, 19, is a five-time WTA champion and is currently the 8th-ranked player in the world. Her best finish at Grand Slams was at the 2024 French Open when she reached the semifinals. In 2023, the WTA named Andreeva rookie of the year. Playing at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, she won a silver medal in women’s doubles paired with Diana Shnaider.

In the newly-updated WTA Top-100, Russian Yekaterina Alexandrova holds 14th place with 2,669 points. Diana Shnaider is 20th with 1,946, Lyudmila Samsonova is 21st with 1,895, Anna Kalinskaya is 24th with 1,758, Veronika Kudermetova is 70th with 933, Anastasia Zakharova is 81st with 888, Oksana Selekhmetyeva is 84th with 871, and Anna Blinkova is 97th with 823.

Russian and Belarusian players’ neutral status at tennis tournaments

On February 28, 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued recommendations to international sports federations to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from taking part in international tournaments, citing Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine as the reason.

Following the IOC's recommendations in late February 2022, the majority of global sports federations excluded athletes from Russia and Belarus from all international sports tournaments.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) ruled on March 1, 2022, to suspend the membership of the Russian and Belarusian national tennis federations while also canceling all previously scheduled tennis tournaments in the two countries.

On March 14, 2022, the ITF also confirmed its prohibition on the Russian and Belarusian national tennis teams from participating in the 2022 Davis Cup and the 2022 Billie Jean King Cup.