{"id":393610,"date":"2026-01-05T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393610\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:59:09","slug":"first-big-change-in-wtas-tennis-ranking-as-amanda-anisimova-passes-coco-gauff-in-the-top-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393610\/","title":{"rendered":"First big change in WTA&#8217;s tennis ranking as Amanda Anisimova passes Coco Gauff in the top 3 &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re only starting the first full week of 2025, but there&#8217;s already been a significant change in tennis women&#8217;s rankings, as the World No. 3 and 4 have swapped places. On Monday, January 5, as the ranks update, Amanda Anisimova moves up to a career-high third place, while fellow American Coco Gauff drops to fourth place in the WTA rankings.<\/p>\n<p>No new points were given this week, but some points were dropped: Gauff won 500 points from the United Cup last year (representing Team USA), points that she has now lost, dropping from 6,763 to 6,273. Anisimova remains at 6,287.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, 21 years old, won Roland Garros and reached Australian Open semi-finals last year. She could return to the top 3 next week, if Team USA defends their United Cup title. Gauff lost to Jessica Bouzas on Monday, but Taylor Fritz saved a match point and the doubles couple, made of Christian Harrison and Gauff herself, ended up giving the victory to Team USA over Team Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, however, Anisimova, three years older than Gauff, becomes the third player born in the 2000s to reach the top 3 in WTA, after Swiatek and Gauff (and Alcaraz and Sinner counting ATP rankings too). Gauff, however, remains the youngest player to have been World No. 2, as she was born in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1656503-4775123\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/51\/_4775123b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/51\/_4775123_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1656503','4775123',false,'b62a3ad876173e9cdfa736b6ff74a8e6');\" height=\"433\" alt=\"First big change in WTA's tennis ranking as Amanda Anisimova passes Coco Gauff in the top 3\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-119ebcf3c3f19f4521ab1fa9-=\"\"\/>Colin McPhedran \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re only starting the first full week of 2025, but there&#8217;s already been a significant change in tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-393610","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\/393610","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=393610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}