NEWS
Breaking News: Elina Svitolina has tied Serena Williams’ highest ranking as a mom by rising to No. 7….
Elina Svitolina has been one of the hottest players on the women’s tour this year—in just a few short months she’s already won a title in Auckland, reached a Grand Slam semifinal at the Australian Open, a WTA 1000 final in Dubai and another WTA 1000 semifinal at Indian Wells.
She’s been rewarded for those results on the WTA rankings—after her run in Melbourne, the former No. 3 returned to the Top 10 for the first time since coming back to the tour as a mom three years ago, rising from No. 12 to No. 10.
After giving birth to her first child Olympia in 2017, Williams returned to the tour in 2018, and—after a few years—ended up getting back as high as No. 7 in the world in 2021.
Though she did win one title, in Auckland in 2020, the 23-time Grand Slam champion’s biggest results in her return were four Grand Slam finals, at Wimbledon and the US Open in back-to-back years in 2018 and 2019, plus two more major semifinals at the 2020 US Open and 2021 Australian Open.
