Milan, Jan. 5 (LaPresse) – All positive changes in tricolour key in the women’s world ranking published this morning by the WTA, the first of 2026. This week, there are still two Italian players in the top one hundred. The leading Italian is still Jasmine Paolini: the 29-year-old from Bagni di Lucca remains in eighth place. Behind her, Elisabetta Cocciaretto gains two positions, now at number 81, while Lucia Bronzetti recovers three spots, having left the top one hundred at the end of last October: the Romagna native is now number 105. In the first ranking of the new year, there is immediately a change at the top, due to a delayed start of the 2026 season compared to the previous one. At the top is still Aryna Sabalenka, for the sixty-fourth consecutive week: the 27-year-old from Minsk, awarded in Riyadh as number one of 2025, maintains a 2,312-point lead over Iga Swiatek, the 24-year-old from Warsaw, former queen of world tennis, who lost the lead in October 2024 after a total of 125 weeks (the last 50 consecutively). On the third step of the podium is the American Amanda Anisimova. The 24-year-old from Freehold surpasses her compatriot Coco Gauff, fourth, who loses the points from last year’s United Cup victory.
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