Halep maintains 1st spot in WTA rankings

Madrid April 30 (IANS) Romania s Simona Halep continued to lead the Women s Tennis Association (WTA) singles rankings released on Monday despite exiting the Stuttgart Open in the quarter-finals.

Although Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic clinched the Stuttgart Open title on Sunday after defeating the United States wildcard Coco Vandeweghe 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 her ranking has not changed from the sixth place reports Efe.

This week s ranking list brought no changes in the top 10 as Denmark s Caroline Wozniacki comes one spot ahead of Halep while Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza followed in the third place.

The current WTA rankings and point scores are as follows:

1. Simona Halep (Romania) 8 055

2. Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 6 790

3. Garbiñe Muguruza (Spain) 6 065

4. Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 5 450

5. Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) 5 382

6. Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 5 100

7. Caroline Garcia (France) 4 700

8. Venus Williams (US) 4 276

9. Sloane Stephens (US) 3 939

10. Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)3 271.

--IANS
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