Shnaider Makes Another Career High After Taking Budapest Title

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday July 23, 2024

Russia’s Diana Shnaider continues to surge up the WTA rankings.

The 20-year-old turned the youngest participant to win three titles on three totally different surfaces in a single season since 2009 on Sunday when she claimed the Budapest title with a win over Aliaksandra Sasnovich within the closing.

Shnaider, who performed faculty tennis at North Carolina State, rises 5 spots to a career-high of No.23 in Monday’s rankings. Exterior of the Prime-100 earlier than she received her first WTA title in February, Shnaider has claimed three titles (additionally Hua Hin on exhausting courts and Dangerous Homburg on grass) total this 12 months, and risen 85 spots within the rankings since late January.

Karolina Muchova, who reached the ultimate at Palermo in her third occasion since coming back from wrist surgical procedure, jumps six spots to No.29.

There was no motion contained in the WTA’s Prime-20 this week. Zheng Qinwen, who efficiently defended her title in Palermo, rises two spots within the Race to the WTA Finals, from No.10 to No.8.

Not many adjustments on the high of the WTA rankings this week, however a pleasant soar for Palermo champ Zheng Qinwen within the Race to the WTA Finals standings. pic.twitter.com/YkhLv6kppi

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On the high of the rankings Iga Swiatek is into her 113th because the WTA’s No.1 – she’s simply 4 weeks behind Justine Henin for eighth all-time and solely eight behind Ash Barty for seventh all-time in week at No.1 of the WTA rankings.