With Rybakina and Kostyuk’s titles, No. 1 seeds have won the last seven WTA events in a row

It was a good day for No. 1 seeds on Sunday, as Elena Rybakina defeated Karolina Muchova to win the title in Stuttgart, 7-5, 6-1, and Marta Kostyuk outdid Veronika Podrez to win in Rouen, 6-3, 6-4.

And with that, an incredible trend continues on the women’s tour, as No. 1 seeds have now won the last seven WTA events in a row.

The streak began in early March with Aryna Sabalenka's run to the Indian Wells title, and now—seven weeks later–it’s still going.

CHAMPIONS AT THE LAST SEVEN WTA EVENTS:

• Indian Wells: Aryna Sabalenka (No. 1 seed)
• Miami: Aryna Sabalenka (No. 1 seed)
• Charleston: Jessica Pegula (No. 1 seed)
• Bogota: Marie Bouzkova (No. 1 seed)
• Linz: Mirra Andreeva (No. 1 seed)
• Stuttgart: Elena Rybakina (No. 1 seed)
• Rouen: Marta Kostyuk (No. 1 seed)

Top seeds are now a combined total of 35-0 at WTA events over the last seven weeks—Sabalenka 6-0 at Indian Wells and 6-0 in Miami, Pegula 5-0 in Charleston, Bouzkova 5-0 in Bogota, Andreeva 4-0 in Linz, Rybakina 4-0 in Stuttgart and Kostyuk 5-0 in Rouen.

Those 35 wins in a row haven’t all come easily, of course.

In the very first tournament of the streak, Indian Wells, Sabalenka faced a match point against Rybakina down 6-5 in the third set tie-break in the final before sneaking out the win, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6).

In Stuttgart two nights ago, Rybakina saved two match points in the third set—one down 5-4, another down 6-5 in the breaker—to survive Leylah Fernandez in the quarterfinals, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (6).

And in addition to those there have been plenty of three-set wins, including four in a row from Pegula in her first four rounds in Charleston, before she cruised in the final in straight sets.

But at the end of the day, the top seeds at WTA events have come up with the win an incredible 35 times in a row now.

The future of the winning streak now shifts back to Sabalenka, who will be the top seed in Madrid and Rome over the next month.

The world No. 1 has had a lot of success in Madrid before, winning the title three times in 2021, 2023 and 2025, as well as reaching another final in 2024 (finishing runner-up to Iga Swiatek).

Rome has been more of a challenge for her, as her best result there is one final in 2024 (also finishing runner-up to Swiatek).

She'll return to action in the Spanish capital later this week.