Players who improved their ranking the most in 2025

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Starting the year outside the top 300 and finishing it in the top 20. Can you imagine that? Well, in the 2025 season, more than one player has achieved such a feat. Let's list the players who climbed the most positions in the ranking this season.

Once the season is over, it is a classic to review the names of those players who made the biggest leap in the rankings from January to December. In the case of the WTA circuit, today we bring you a list of women who rose more than 200 positions thanks to sublime work that led them, in many cases, to sign their best professional performance. Can you mention at least three players who made it onto this list? Don't worry, we have much more in store for you.

We'll leave out great players like Alexandra Eala (+108), Emiliana Arango (+132), Lois Boisson (+152), or Iva Jovic (+171). In case you are new here, in parentheses we indicate the number of positions they climbed in 2025. The point is that all of them started the season outside the top 150 and all four of them ended up inside the top 50, some even with a title included. However, they all missed out on the top 7 of women who, taking it a step further, offered a increase of more than 200 positions.

TEREZA VALENTOVA (From #261 to #56)

We start the article with a breath of fresh air, that of an 18-year-old girl from the Czech Republic determined to show that her country is still a hotbed of champions. Last season we discovered her after winning the Junior Roland Garros, but she has only needed one season to firmly establish herself among the best. A leap of 205 positions where her semifinals in Prague or her final in Osaka stand out.

VICTORIA MBOKO (From #350 to #18)

It is impossible to find a more exciting project on the entire list. Because of her youth, her potential, and her results. A girl who started the season playing ITF tournaments and by summer was already the champion of a WTA 1000. It is hard to temper the expectations of a Mboko who, at 19, has climbed 332 positions to break into the top 20 and threaten with new successes in the coming season.

JULIA GRABHER (From #523 to #92)

The Austrian needed almost sixty victories to climb out of the hole she had fallen into the previous season. A remarkable comeback for Julia, ascending 431 positions and even managing to finish the year among the top one hundred in the ranking. Approaching her thirties, who knows if the best strokes of her racket are yet to come. Be very careful with her on the clay court circuit, where she is always a rival to be wary of.

KAJA JUVAN (From #599 to #98)

Here the comeback is particularly special, since the Slovenian had come from a 2024 where she decided to step aside due to personal issues. All that rest and recovery time served her well to then face the season from a renewed energy. Juvan's response has been a total of 501 positions climbed to remind us that at 25 years old, she is ready to make up for lost time in the past. Just making it, she managed to end the season within the top 100.

JANICE TJEN (From #578 to #53)

The Indonesian miracle, that's what they called her at the WTA after seeing her lift the title in Chennai in her last tournament of the season. There is no better way to close the calendar for a Tjen who went from being unknown to knocking on the door of the top 50. How is something like this achieved? By climbing 525 positions and collecting 77 professional victories along the way. A different style, a different story, a completely different movie from what we normally see.

CATY McNALLY (From #817 to #81)

We are approaching the top with another breakthrough that causes a stir. Impressive what City McNally accomplished in 2025 with a jump of 736 positions to re-enter the top 100. It's no wonder that many lost sight of this fantastic doubles player who still needs to demonstrate that she holds the same value for the singles circuit. Now that she has regained the privileges to access the main draws of the Grand Slam events, we can say she's right where she wanted to be.

BELINDA BENCIC (From #913 to #11)

And finally, after a long journey, we reach the top of the pyramid, the woman who climbed the most positions this season. A total of 902 places, almost dizzying to think about. Only a talent of Belinda Bencic's caliber could achieve such numbers, a mother who returned to the world circuit to win the title in Abu Dhabi, make quarterfinals in Indian Wells, semifinals at Wimbledon, and become champion in Tokyo. A modest record (38-17) but well utilized, leaving the Swiss just 207 points away from the top 10. The biggest leap of 2025.

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