Following her first-round exit at the 2022 US Open, last year’s champion Emma Raducanu has dropped 72 spots in the WTA rankings, while American teenager Coco Gauff is making her Top 10 debut after reaching the quarterfinals.
Emma Raducanu absolutely unexpectedly won the US Open last year. The teenager has since been overwhelmingly hyped up and it’s been clear for a long time that after New York her lack of consistently good results would finally show up in her rankings.
It felt as a glitch in the system when Raducanu entered the Top 10 after Wimbledon, and now that she’s down to No.