Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur matched her personal-best seventh in the WTA rankings on Monday after winning the biggest title of her career at last week’s Madrid Open.
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The 27-year-old, the first Arab or African player to break into the men’s or women’s top 10, beat American Jessica Pegula 7-5, 0-6, 6-2 in Saturday’s final.
Pegula has moved up three places to a career-high of 11th in the world.
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka slipped four spots to eighth.
The only place in the top 15 not to change hands was the world-number-one spot, with Iga Swiatek still holding a commanding lead at the top of the rankings despite missing Madrid due to injury.
WTA top 20 on May 9 (players representing Russia and Belarus are banned from competing under the name or flag of Russia or Belarus until further notice):
1. Iga Swiatek (POL) 7,061 pts
2. Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) 5,011 (+1)
3. Paula Badosa (ESP) 4,720 (-1)
4. Maria Sakkari (GRE) 4,596 (+1)
5. Anett Kontaveit (EST) 4,446 (+1)
6. Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 4,152 (+1)
7. Ons Jabeur (TUN) 3,895 (+3)
8. Aryna Sabalenka 3,721 (-4)
9. Danielle Collins (USA) 3,211 (-1)
10. Garbine Muguruza (ESP) 3,135 (-1)
11. Jessica Pegula (USA) 3,040 (+3)
12. Emma Raducanu (GBR) 2,914 (-1)
13. Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 2,725 (-1)
14. Belinda Bencic (SUI) 2,466 (-1)
15. Coco Gauff (USA) 2,410 (+1)
16. Victoria Azarenka 2,336 (+1)
17. Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 2,316 (+1)
18. Leylah Fernandez (CAN) 2,191 (+2)
19. Angelique Kerber (GER) 2,178
20. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 2,092 (-5)
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