Playing in her first tournament since capturing the US Open last month, Bianca Andreescu has improved her world ranking yet again.
Andreescu had her remarkable 17-match winning streak come to an end in the quarter-finals in Beijing, losing in three sets to reigning Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka. Osaka went on to win the tournament.
The 19-year-old Canadian picked up +215 WTA ranking points and earned $178,665 in prize money for her troubles.
As a result, Andreescu moved up one spot on the WTA rankings, passing Simona Halep, to No. 5 in the world. That’s the highest ranking ever achieved by a Canadian woman, matching the national record set by Genie Bouchard in 2014.
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Andreescu is the only teenager ranked inside the top 20, and is nearly three years younger Osaka, the next youngest top 10 player.
Australia’s Ashleigh Barty retained her No. 1 spot, followed by Karolina Pliskova, Osaka, and Elina Svitolina. Serena Williams, who Andreescu defeated in the US Open final, is ranked ninth.
Andreescu has enjoyed a meteoric rise up the world rankings, in the last 12 months, moving up 235 spots from where she was ranked at this time last year. Andreescu has earned $6.2 million in prize money this season, which is the second only to Barty in 2019.