April 21, 2025
The latest edition of the PIF WTA Rankings features a mix of breakthroughs and resurgences following the Miami Open — the fourth WTA 1000 event of 2025 — along with results from two busy weeks of WTA 125 and ITF action.
Miami champion Aryna Sabalenka and runner-up Jessica Pegula both remain at No. 1 and No. 4, respectively. But the biggest move in the Top 200 comes from the tournament’s breakout star, Alexandra Eala. The 19-year-old Filipina took down a series of Grand Slam champions — Jelena Ostapenko, Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek — to reach her first career semifinal.
Eala, the 2022 US Open junior champion, had never won back-to-back tour-level matches until now. Her reward: a 65-spot jump from No. 140 to a career-high No. 75, marking her Top 100 debut.
Eala’s milestone isn’t just a personal one but a national one. She’s the first player from the Philippines ever to reach the Top 100. By now, she’s used to making history for her country. She became the first Filipina to compete in a WTA main draw (and win a match at that level) back in 2021 in Cluj-Napoca. And she overtook the country’s previous ranking benchmark — the career high of No. 284 set by Maricris Gentz in 1999 — back in July 2022.
Coming into Miami, Emma Raducanu had won just three of nine matches in 2024. But she turned things around with a resurgent run to the quarterfinals, highlighted by her third career Top 10 win, this latest coming over Emma Navarro.
The run marked Raducanu’s biggest quarterfinal since winning the 2021 US Open — and the first time she had won four consecutive matches since then. She’s up 12 spots from No. 60 to No. 48, returning to the Top 50 for the first time since September 2022.
Elina Svitolina has had a solid Sunshine Double, backing up an Indian Wells quarterfinal run by making the fourth round in Miami. The Ukrainian is up four spots to No. 18, returning to the Top 20 for the first time since last May.
New career highs for Krueger, Danilovic, Kessler, Todoni
The American pair of Ashlyn Krueger and McCartney Kessler have been steadily rising all year, and they both continued to impress on home soil in Miami. Krueger, 20, upset two-time finalist Elena Rybakina for her first Top 10 win en route to the fourth round, while Kessler, 25, battled past Marie Bouzkova and Linda Noskova to make the third round before an injury halted her run.
Both move up six places to new career highs this week: Krueger from No. 40 to No. 34, and Kessler from No. 48 to No. 42.
Two Antalya WTA 125 events were held over the past two weeks (with a third to come this week), and both champions have now hit new career highs. Romania’s Anca Todoni claimed her third WTA 125 trophy at Antalya 1. After breaking into the Top 100 two weeks ago, she’s now up another 17 places from No. 100 to No. 83.
Olga Danilovic took Antalya 2 as the top seed without dropping a set. She advances six spots from No. 41 to No. 35.
Jaqueline Cristian collected her first WTA 125 title last week in Puerto Vallarta, and the Romanian climbs 15 places to equal her career high of No. 57.
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