Top five players with most wins in 2024 WTA season

Five of the top six ranked players make this list of most wins in 2024 WTA season.

With the regular season of the WTA Tour winding down, a trip back in time to take a deep dive and review the numbers is likely to reveal a few surprises. The 2024 season came together in an intriguing mix of events marked by expected results and a resurgence from unexpected quarters. 

Iga Swiatek winning her fifth Grand Slam to Aryna Sabalenka making further inroads into the hard-court season by defending her Australian Open title and picking up the US Open trophy in 2024 were among the results that were on expected lines.

On the other hand, Barbora Krejicokva winning her second Grand Slam title at Wimbledon three years after winning her Roland Garros was a pleasant surprise. Joining her was another veteran, Danielle Collins, who has put her retirement plans on hold after winning the WTA 1000 Miami Open (her biggest win), and the WTA 500 Charleston Open for another welcome turn of events.

The 2024 season will likely end in a cliffhanger as the tussle for the year-ending World No. 1 ranking will continue at the WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The big names kept busy stitching together wins and records, along with adding to their silverware throughout the 2024 season. Here are five women on the tour with the most wins in 2024 WTA season.

WTA singles players with most wins in 2024

Jessica Pegula (38-15)

Jessica Pegula’s 2024 got off to a sluggish start, and like last season, gathered steam towards the end. Winning the National Bank Open in Canada was the turning point for the American in 2023, while this year, it began when she won the Ecotrans Ladies Open in June.

The month of August saw the World No. #4 with a 15-2 win-loss record. Jessica Pegula went on to defend her National Bank Open title, collecting her second title of the season after Berlin. She went on to reach the Cincinnati Open finals and for the first time, the title round at the US Open for her maiden Grand Slam final.

She is 38-13 in the ongoing season ahead of the year-ending Finals. Pegula has won a WTA 1000 title every year from 2022 and has been a top 10 player since June 2022. Following her second consecutive title in Canada, Pegula joined Martina Hingis (1999-2000) as the second player this century to reach the milestone. 

Elena Rybakina (42-11)

Elena Rybakina, winner of the 2022 Wimbledon title, got off to a solid start in 2024 by winning the Brisbane Open. It was the first of her three titles this season. Rybakina later secured title wins at Abu Dhabi and Stuttgart.

However, the injury-prone player could not turn up to defend her WTA 1000 titles at Indian Wells and Rome. The Kazakh also withdrew from the Olympics and Toronto due to a bout of bronchitis and from the US Open with a lower back injury.

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Despite being sidelined for a better part of the season, Rybakina put together a 41-9 record. The World No. #5 is the only player this season apart from Swiatek with losses in the single digits, who, with seven defeats, has lost two fewer matches.

Bookended by wins at the Abu Dhabi Open and the Tennis Grand Prix, Rybakina finished the two-month period between February and April with a 19-3 record. She also returned to the last four at Wimbledon before losing to eventual champion Barbora Krejcikova in three sets. 

Coco Gauff (52-16)

Coco Gauff has experienced oscillating fortunes in 2024. She reached a career-high ranking of No. #2 in June, lost it by mid-August, fell out of the top five in September and currently finds herself at No. #3, the position she occupied in May.

The 20-year-old Gauff reached back-to-back semi-finals at Melbourne and Paris, losing to Sabalenka and Swiatek, respectively. She also failed to make it past the fourth round in New York, losing to fellow countrywoman Emma Navarro in three sets.

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The American won the WTA 1000 China Open for the first time, 45 days after losing to Yulia Putintseva in the round of 32 at the Cincinnati Open. Gauff won the WTA 1000 event last year with a straight-set win over  Karolina Muchova in the finals.

Her semi-final runs at Melbourne, Indian Wells, Rome, Paris, Berlin, and Wuhan, along with the title run at Beijing, contributed significantly to her favourable 48-15 win-loss record this season.

Aryna Sabalenka (56-14)

While Swiatek dominated the first half of the 2024 season, the second half was all about Aryna Sabalenka. The 26-year-old put together a remarkable run since mid-August. During the stretch, she compiled a 20-1 record, winning WTA 1000 titles at Cincinnati and Wuhan, won the US Open and reached the last four at the WTA 1000 China Open. Sabalenka became the first player to pull off a three-peat in Wuhan.

The recent World No. #1 began the season by winning her second straight Australian Open. She is now in her 10th week as No. #1 after taking over from Swiatek. Sabalenka was the second to qualify for the year-end Finals in September, a month after Swiatek.

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Swiatek and Sabalenka are the only players on tour to have won multiple WTA 1000 titles in 2024. The World No. #2 took home four trophies at the WTA 1000 level, while Sabalenka claimed two. 

Like last year, the Minsk native has been a consistent performer in Grand Slams, reached at least the quarter-finals when she turned up to play. In 2023, Sabalenka reached the last four or better at all the Majors. The gutsy Sabalenka has won a total of 46 matches across the Grand Slams and WTA 1000 events, just ahead of Swiatek (45).

Iga Swiatek (56-8)

Iga Swiatek leads the list for players with most wins in 2024 WTA season. Her win-loss of 54-7 and five titles makes her the most dominant player this season. She was the first to qualify for the year-ending Finals shortly after the Paris Olympics ended. While she and Sabalenka lead the field with 54 match wins each, Swiatek has five fewer losses than the Belarusian.   

Swiatek went on a winning spree in the first half of the season, between February and June. She won four WTA 1000 titles (Qatar, Indian Wells, Madrid, and Rome) and her fourth French Open title during those five months. The Pole came away with impressive figures of 39-3 between winning the Qatar Open and the French Open. 

Unfortunately for Swiatek, following her quarter-final exit in New York, she skipped the entire Asian swing, missed out on defending her 2023 China Open crown and surrendered the World No. #1 ranking to Aryna Sabalenka. 

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