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The 29-year-old former world No.1, who was 20th
in the 'Race to Shenzhen' before the grasscourt Grand Slam,
collected 1,300 points and was the biggest mover of the week.
Australian world number one Ash Barty, who beat Pliskova on the
All England Club's Centre Court on Saturday to claim her second
Grand Slam, cemented her spot at the top of the ladder with a
lead of 1,853 points over Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.
The season-ending WTA Finals, contested by the world's top eight
singles players and eight doubles teams, was cancelled last year
due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its fate for 2021 is still
unclear.
The Asian swing of tournaments has been wiped from the WTA
calendar for a second successive year due to the pandemic, with
the governing body saying discussions about the Finals were
ongoing.
The annual showpiece had a prize purse of $14 million in 2019
when it was played in Shenzhen for the first time after ending a
five-year run in Singapore.
Roland Garros winner Barbora Krejcikova lost a place and was at
third spot ahead of last year's French Open champion Iga Swiatek,
while Tunisia's Ons Jabeur, the first Arab woman to reach the
quarter-finals of Wimbledon, is hot on the heels of
eighth-placed Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
American teen Coco Gauff is 10th.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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