Tennis player Mirra Andreeva rose to eighth place in the WTA rankings.

Russian tennis player Mirra Andreeva has improved her position in the updated ranking of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), rising from ninth to eighth place. This was announced on January 12 on the official website of the organization.

Last week, Andreeva reached the quarterfinals at the Brisbane tournament, which allowed her to score 4232 rating points. At the same time, another Russian, Ekaterina Alexandrova, dropped from 10th to 11th place with a score of 3375 points.

Arina Sobolenko, a representative of Belarus, continues to be the leader of the world ranking, with 10,990 points. The second place is taken by Polish tennis player Iga Sventek with 8328 points.

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On January 9, the champion of the annual professional tennis tournament "Grand Slam" Wimbledon-2022 and the fifth racket of the world, Kazakhstani tennis player Elena Rybakina, completed her performance at the WTA-500 tournament in Brisbane, Australia, losing in the quarterfinals to the representative of the Czech Republic Karolina Mukhova, who occupies the 20th line of the ranking.

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