Roberta Vinci's strong grass court season, highlighted by the 's-Hertogenbosch title and a third round showing at Wimbledon, led to her achieving a career-high on the new rankings. The Italian, ranked No.55 this time a year ago, got up to No.29 at the start of the fortnight and then went up four more spots on Monday. With Francesca Schiavone at No.8 and Flavia Pennetta at No.21, this is the first week since July 2005 that three Italians are in the Top 25.
Sabine Lisicki didn't best her career-high of No.22, but she did make a huge leap following her semifinal showing at the All-England Club. The German was outside the Top 200 as recently as April, got up to No.100 at the start of the grass court season, then to No.62 before Wimbledon and No.27 now.
Ascending even more places was Tamira Paszek, who was outside the Top 150 as recently as September, was No.80 before her run to the Wimbledon quarters and is now No.41, just six spots shy of her career-high. Also, Anna Tatishvili reached a new career-high and made her Top 100 debut in going from No.118 to No.84.
Although her ranking stayed the same at No.31, Bethanie Mattek-Sands became the top-ranked American for the first time, with the Williamses descending. In fact, this is the first time since January 2007 that the top-ranked American is not a Williams sister.
Within the Top 10, Wimbledon semifinalist Victoria Azarenka went up one spot to No.4, matching her career-high, runner-up Maria Sharapova went up a spot to No.5, tied for her highest ranking since September 2008, and champion Petra Kvitova went up a spot to a career-high No.7.
After capturing their first Grand Slam title together, Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik climbed from co-No.6 to co-No.1 on the doubles rankings, making them the 27th and 28th players to reach the doubles top spot. Peschke, who will turn 36 on Saturday, is the oldest No.1 in singles or doubles, surpassing former doubles No.1 Liezel Huber, who was 34 when she was last atop the rankings. As for Srebotnik, she is the first-ever Slovenian No.1.
