{"id":392946,"date":"2026-01-05T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392946\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:54:07","slug":"elina-svitolina-leads-ukrainian-womens-tennis-in-2026-wta-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392946\/","title":{"rendered":"Elina Svitolina Leads Ukrainian Women\u2019s Tennis In 2026 WTA Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-end=\"142\" data-start=\"40\">In the first tennis ranking of 2026, Elina Svitolina remains the top Ukrainian female tennis player.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"230\" data-start=\"144\">In the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings, Svitolina rose to 13th place (+1).<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"350\" data-start=\"232\">Marta Kostyuk and Dayana Yastremska retained their positions in the WTA top 30, ranking 26th and 27th, respectively.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"500\" data-start=\"352\">The fourth-ranked Ukrainian player remains Oleksandra Oliynikova, who again set a personal record by moving up to 90th in the world rankings (+6).<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"725\" data-start=\"502\">Yuliya Starodubtseva improved her ranking to 111th (+2) and Darya Snigur to 149th (+4). Meanwhile, Angelina Kalinina, having failed to defend her points from last year\u2019s Brisbane semifinal, dropped sharply to 174th (-47).<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"807\" data-start=\"727\">Eighteen-year-old Veronika Podrez set a personal best by rising to 284th (+4).<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"909\" data-start=\"809\">In the doubles world rankings, Lyudmyla Kichenok remains Ukraine\u2019s top player, holding 30th place.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"966\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"911\">Nadiia Kichenok is ranked 53rd, and Marta Kostyuk 88th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first tennis ranking of 2026, Elina Svitolina remains the top Ukrainian female tennis player. In the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-392946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}