Muguruza maintains top spot in WTA rankings

Madrid Sep 25 (IANS) Spanish tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza for the third straight week headed the Women s Tennis Association (WTA) singles rankings released on Monday.

The Spanish star topped the rankings despite having been eliminated from the Tokyo Open semi-finals after her defeat against Danish Caroline Wozniacki who claimed the title on Sunday reports Efe.

This week s standings witnessed no changes as Romanian Simona Halep came in second followed by Ukrainian Elina Svitolina.

Czech Karolina Pliskova held the fourth position ahead of fifth-placed American Venus Williams.

The current WTA rankings and point scores are as follows:

1.Garbiñe Muguruza (Spain) 6 115 points

2.Simona Halep (Romania) 5 965

3.Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 5 640

4.Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 5 520

5.Venus Williams (United States) 4 756

6.Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 4 640

7.Johanna Konta (Britain) 4 520

8.Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 4 410

9.Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) 3 810

10.Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) 3 781.

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