RRI.CO.ID, Jakarta - Janice Tjen has carved her name into the Indonesian tennis history, becoming the second player from the country to reach the world’s Top 50 rankings after Yayuk Basuki.

Just a year ago, the 23-year-old was ranked No. 395. This week, she makes her Top 50 debut at No. 47 following a breakthrough run at the Australian Open, where she advanced to the second round.

According to the WTA, Janice jumped 12 spots after stunning 22nd seed Leylah Fernandez of Canada in straight sets during her Grand Slam debut in Melbourne.

Her rise continues a remarkable trajectory that began last November when she captured her first WTA title in Chennai. She now joins Yayuk Basuki, who peaked at No. 19 in 1997, the same year she reached her lone Grand Slam quarterfinal at Wimbledon, as Indonesia’s only representatives in the Top 50.

The Australian Open also reshaped the rankings at the top of the women’s game. Champion Elena Rybakina claimed her second major title with a three-set victory over world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final on Saturday, January 31. The Kazakh star climbed two places to No. 3, equaling her career-high first achieved in June 2023 and last held in January 2024.

Rybakina has been in blistering form, winning 20 of her last 21 matches since October. Her only defeat in that span came against Karolina Muchova in the Brisbane quarterfinals. She has also strung together 10 consecutive wins against Top 10 opponents.

This surge comes after a mid-2025 slump that saw her fall out of the Top 10 for four months, bottoming at No. 13 in July. She now sits just 368 points behind world No. 2 Iga Swiatek.

Meanwhile, former world No. 4 Belinda Bencic continued her comeback, returning to the Top 10 last month after an unbeaten run at the United Cup, 14 months after maternity leave. The Swiss reached the second round in Melbourne and rose one spot to No. 9 this week.

Elina Svitolina also enjoyed a strong campaign, advancing to her fourth Grand Slam semifinal at the Australian Open. She defeated rising star Mirra Andreeva and U.S. Open champion Coco Gauff before her 10-match winning streak was halted by Sabalenka.

Svitolina, who returned from maternity leave in April 2023, has now reached two of her four career Grand Slam semifinals as a mother. She re-enters the Top 10 this week at No. 10, her first appearance since October 2021.

With Bencic and Svitolina’s resurgence, they join Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Kim Clijsters, and Serena Williams as the fifth and sixth mothers to break into the Top 10. ***