# Rybakina secures year-end number one ranking

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/rybakina-secures-year-end-number-one-ranking/
- Published: 2026-10-29T10:38:08+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T10:03:34+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC Sport (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c6x2qr1v11xyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Sport, TV, World

## Key points

- Rybakina is guaranteed to finish 2026 as world number one.
- She won the Australian Open and US Open this year.
- Her next tournament is the WTA Finals in Indian Wells.

## Summary

Elena Rybakina secured the year-end women’s singles number one ranking by beating Yulia Putintseva 6-2, 6-3 in the last 16 of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. The result means no player can overtake her in the remaining weeks of the season, capping a year in which she won the Australian Open and US Open.

The 27-year-old has won four titles in 2026, including last week’s Ningbo Open, and took the top ranking from Aryna Sabalenka in September. Rybakina also won the season-ending WTA Finals last year; she next faces Leylah Fernandez in Tokyo before defending her WTA Finals title in Indian Wells from 8 to 15 November.

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