Aryna Sabalenka holds a sizeable lead over her rivals in the WTA Rankings, however another rankings listing suggests her benefit is way narrower.
Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula are each above Iga Swiatek, who has slipped down the listing, whereas Coco Gauff is properly under her WTA rating place.
With the WTA 1000 match in Indian Wells underway, we have a look at how the UTR ranking methods ranks the highest gamers in ladies’s tennis.
What is the UTR rating system?
While the WTA Rankings rely factors earned in the final 52 weeks, Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) is predicated on an algorithm that locations extra weight on current outcomes and wins in opposition to higher-ranked gamers.
The UTR Rating system is open to gamers in any respect ranges of tennis, and all gamers — no matter age, gender, geography, or talent stage — are rated on the identical scale between 1.00 and 16.50 primarily based on match outcomes.
Only matches inside the final 12 months are counted in direction of the ranking, and the algorithm makes use of the final 30 matches a participant competes in (or fewer in the event that they performed fewer than 30 in the final 12 months).
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The ladies’s UTR scores
Sabalenka has not performed since her defeat to Rybakina in the Australian Open ultimate on the finish of January, whereas she received the Brisbane International in her solely different occasion in 2026. The world No 1 has 10,675 factors in the WTA Rankings, which provides her a 3,087-point benefit over second-ranked Swiatek.
The Belarusian additionally tops the UTR scores with a rating of 13.26, however her closest challenger on this listing is Rybakina.
Rybakina, who secured the primary Grand Slam title of the 12 months in Australia, is simply behind Sabalenka with a 13.21 UTR ranking.
Pegula has climbed to third on the UTR listing — two locations above her WTA rating — after her victory on the WTA 1000 occasion in Dubai final month took her UTR ranking to 12.99. The American was additionally a semi-finalist on the 2026 Australian Open.
Swiatek, who exited each the Australian Open and the Dubai Championships in the quarter-finals, has a 12.97 ranking, and he or she has fallen to the No 4 spot.
Amanda Anisimova, who’s ranked sixth on the ladies’s tour, is fifth on the UTR listing with a ranking of 12.91.
World No 4 Gauff is ranked eighth by UTR with a ranking of 12.83, which places her under Elina Svitolina and Karolina Muchova.
UTR Ratings Women’s Top 20
1. Aryna Sabalenka – 13.26 (WTA Ranking – 1)
2. Elena Rybakina – 13.21 (WTA Ranking – 3)
3. Jessica Pegula – 12.99 (WTA Ranking – 5)
4. Iga Swiatek – 12.97 (WTA Ranking – 2)
5. Amanda Anisimova – 12.91 (WTA Ranking – 6)
6. Elina Svitolina – 12.90 (WTA Ranking – 9)
7. Karolina Muchova – 12.84 (WTA Ranking – 13)
8. Coco Gauff – 12.83 (WTA Ranking – 4)
9. Mirra Andreeva – 12.72 (WTA Ranking – 8)
10. Marketa Voundrousova – 12.72 (WTA Ranking – 46)
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