{"id":588676,"date":"2026-04-06T07:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588676\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:42:12","slug":"ukrainian-tennis-stars-retain-top-wta-ranks-starodubtseva-jumps-after-charleston-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588676\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian tennis stars retain top WTA ranks, Starodubtseva jumps after Charleston | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">Ukraine\u2019s leading women tennis players retained strong WTA positions this week, while one rising star climbed dramatically after a WTA 500 final.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Ukrainian women\u2019s tennis leaders held their positions in the top 50 of the WTA world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Elina Svitolina remained the world No. 7, Marta Kostyuk at No. 27, and Dayana Yastremska at No. 49.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official WTA rankings, the fourth Ukrainian racket became Yulia Starodubtseva, who after the WTA 500 final in Charleston rose to No. 53 (+36 positions).<\/p>\n<p>Aleksandra Oliynykova this week rose to No. 68 (+3). Daria Snigur dropped three spots and now sits at No. 96 in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Positions of Ukrainian women tennis players in the rankings<\/p>\n<p>In doubles, Lyudmyla Kichenok remains the top Ukrainian tennis player in the world rankings, retaining 26th place.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the stability of Ukrainian representation in the top 50 is supported by this week\u2019s results, which indicate a solid level on the world stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s leading women tennis players retained strong WTA positions this week, while one rising star climbed dramatically after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,41733,287671,287672,100456,44,85,747,40710,26601],"class_list":["post-588676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-elina-svitolina-marta-kostyuk-julia-starodubtseva-wta-rankings-ukrainian-tennis","tag-julia-starodubtseva","tag-marta-kostyuk","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-ukrainian-tennis","tag-wta-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588676","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=588676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}