In the live race Jo is up to #11 and will go to #9 if she wins the final. Venus is up to #16 and will go to #14 if she wins the final. And Dominika's form this season is shown by the fact that she is up to #6.

As has been said Jo's live ranking is up to WR 14, which is where she will be on Monday whatever. Petra Kvitova WR 13 is out of reach ( for now ).

wimdledont wrote:

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Cibulkova will be tough, but...

The two next targets for Jo should be to make the top ten and/or to make the top 8 in the end of year listings, and play for enormous financial and points rewards in Singapore. With Azarenka now sidelined by pregnancy, and Vinci unlikely, imho, to defend her 1300 points from Flushing Meadows, this pretty much amounts to the same thing.

Currently number 10 in the liverankings, Cibulkova. Can Jo usurp her place? She was beating top-tenners galore during the summer hardcourt swing of 2015. To make the top 10 herself, she needs to beat some more, starting soonish.

Lose to Cibulkova, and she's still around 500 points short of the top 10. If she won this tournament, she'll be wiithin 200 points.

Also, Jo is now up to WR17, WR14 if she makes the final here...

Does anybody know the highest ranking ever achieved by a player who has never won a WTA title?

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 I don't know the answer to what is the highest ranking a player has achieved without ever winning an WTA even, and hopefully after today it may be arbitrary, but Anna Kournikova reached a career high of 8th in the world without ever winning a tour event. 

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I have a vague memory that Steffi Graff made it to No. 3 before her first win.

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 You are certainly in the right region. Steffi was ranked at 6 at the end of 1985, and won her first title in April 1986 - but I have no idea what ranking she was at the time.

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