What the WTA’s year-end Top 30 would look like if there had been points at Wimbledon

One of the big “what ifs” of the 2022 season was what if there had been ranking points awarded at Wimbledon?

Well, the official WTA year-end rankings were published on November 7th, and below is what the year-end Top 30 would look like if players had been awarded points at Wimbledon this year.

(click here for the ATP version of this list)

WTA YEAR-END TOP 30 IF THERE WERE POINTS AT WIMBLEDON:
No. 1 Iga Swiatek
No. 2 Ons Jabeur
No. 3 Jessica Pegula
No. 4 Caroline Garcia
No. 5 Maria Sakkari [+1]
No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka [-1]
No. 7 Elena Rybakina [+15]
No. 8 Coco Gauff [-1]
No. 9 Daria Kasatkina [-1]
No. 10 Simona Halep

No. 11 Veronika Kudermetova [-2]
No. 12 Paula Badosa [+1]
No. 13 Madison Keys [-2]
No. 14 Belinda Bencic [-2]
No. 15 Danielle Collins [-1]
No. 16 Petra Kvitova
No. 17 Jelena Ostapenko [+1]
No. 18 Beatriz Haddad Maia [-3]
No. 19 Amanda Anisimova [+4]
No. 20 Anett Kontaveit [-3]

No. 21 Marie Bouzkova [+5]
No. 22 Barbora Krejcikova [-1]
No. 23 Ekaterina Alexandrova [-4]
No. 24 Liudmila Samsonova [-4]
No. 25 Zhang Shuai [-1]
No. 26 Ajla Tomljanovic [+7]
No. 27 Zheng Qinwen [-2]
No. 28 Elise Mertens [+1]
No. 29 Tatjana Maria [+39]
No. 30 Victoria Azarenka [-3]

Elena Rybakina, who won Wimbledon, would have been No. 4 going into the WTA Finals, and could have finished as high as No. 3 had she won the title. But we’ll never know how she would have done in Fort Worth, and on this list she finishes at No. 7 instead of No. 22.

Amanda Anisimova, a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon this year, would be in the Top 20, finishing at No. 19 instead of No. 23. It’s of particular significance given she’s been hovering in the No. 22 to No. 25 range since June, just off her career-high ranking of No. 21.

Tatjana Maria, a semifinalist at the All England Club this year, would finish at No. 29 instead of No. 68, and Ajla Tomljanovic would be No. 26 instead of No. 33. German newcomer Jule Niemeier, a surprise quarterfinalist this year, would finish at No. 41 instead of No. 61.

Seven of the above players weren’t able to compete at Wimbledon this year: six due to the ban on Russians and Belarusians (Sabalenka, Kasatkina, Kudermetova, Alexandrova, Samsonova and Azarenka) and one due to injury (Keys: abdominal injury).

(These calculations are purely a hypothetical and not a statement on whether or not there should have been ranking points awarded at Wimbledon, or whether players representing Russia or Belarus should or shouldn’t have been banned from playing this year.)