Heather Watson climbs to 51 in WTA world rankings
Monday 13 July 2015 08:48, UK
British No 1 Heather Watson has climbed eight places to No 51 in the WTA world rankings.
Watson reached the third round at Wimbledon before losing a three-set thriller to champion and world No 1 Serena Williams and has been rewarded with a rise to the brink of the top 50.
She is still some way off her highest ever ranking of 38 – which she achieved in January this year - but she is once again moving in the right direction.
British No 2 Johanna Konta, beaten in the first round by Maria Sharapova, drops one place to 127, whilst Laura Robson, who was effectively unranked after a long break from the game because of injury, has a new world ranking of 906.
Williams is the runaway world No 1 on 13,161 points, nearly 7000 ahead of Maria Sharapova who is back up to No 2, up two places. The biggest mover is Wimbledon runner-up Garbine Muguruza, who is up 11 places to No 9, breaking into the top 10 for the first time.
Petra Kvitova, last year’s Wimbledon champion, drops from No 2 to No 5.
1 Serena Williams (US) 13161
2 Maria Sharapova (Rus) 6490
3 Simona Halep (Rom) 5151
4 Caroline Wozniacki (Den) 5000
5 Petra Kvitova (Cze) 5000
6 Ana Ivanovic (Ser) 3835
7 Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) 3560
8 Lucie Safarova (Cze) 3515
9 Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Esp) 3365
10 Carla Suarez Navarro (Esp) 3285
