Tunisian Anas Jaber rose to fourth place in the ranking of the Association of Professional Tennis Players issued on Monday, after winning the American Charleston 500-point championship on Sunday at the expense of Swiss Belinda Bencic.
Jaber (28 years old) was crowned the first title of this year and the fourth in her professional career, as she rose one place at the expense of French Caroline Garcia, who fell to fifth place.
The Tunisian, who missed the Dubai and Doha tournaments due to a minor knee surgery, took revenge after her early exit from the second round of the Australian Open, the first of the four major tournaments, from the Swiss who deprived her of the American tournament title last year.
Jaber returned to the competitions in the American “Indian Wells” tournament for the thousand and exited in the third round, then bid farewell to the Miami tournament for the thousand also from the second round, before she shone remarkably in the Charleston tournament, where she achieved positive results in the past two seasons when she reached the final match 2022 and the semi-finals. 2021. Jaber also reached the final match of the same session in 2021 when it was among the 250 courses.
It is noteworthy that Jaber started the season in second place in the world rankings.
Jaber's rise was the only change to the top ten in the rankings, which was dominated by the Polish Iga Schwyvontec a year ago, in front of the Belarusian Arena Sabalenka and the American Jessica Pegula.
Ranking of the top ten players:
- Iga Schwyntek (Poland) 8975 points
- Arina Sabalenka (Belarus) 6891
- Jessica Pegula (USA) 5735
- Anas Jaber (Tunisia) 5031
- Caroline Garcia (France) 4990
- Coco Gough (USA) 4346
- Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) 4305
- Daria Kasatkina (Russia) 3505
- Maria Saccari (Greece) 3191
- Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 3162
