Saturday 17 January 2015

Women's ELO Rankings 19/01/2015

With the tournament finishing on Saturday this week to allow players to prepare for the Australian Open, I can post my rankings a day early. This also means that there will be no rankings posted next week, as the Australian Open will still be in progress. I have an idea for things to fill this blog with over the next 2 weeks until then.

Now, for the Big Gainer of the Week. Petra Kvitova, Karolina Pliskova and Madison Brengle have all done well this week, climbing 3, 23 and 27 places to new rankings of #4, #16 and #30 respectively, but they were all outshone by the winner of the Hobart tournament. Britain's Heather Watson! (I try to avoid bias towards my home country but I have no choice here), with great wins against high ranked players, she has climbed a massive 104 places from last week to #28, moving from a below average ELO to an above average ELO. She's a deserving winner of the Big Gainer of the week award, and I hope to see her do even better at the Australian Open.


On the other side, our Upset player of the Week goes to Lucie Safarova, who lost her 1st round match to Samantha Stosur in a very strong tournament. She only lost 1 place in the rankings to #9, as most of the players around her either didn't play or also lost early at Sydney.


Other strong performers relative to their rankings this week were Tsvetana Pironkova, Camila Giorgi, Karin Knapp and Jarmila Gajdosova.


Now, the the full rankings. (± is for ranking, not rating. Some players who are new to the rankings will have artificially high ± scores as I add them to the bottom before sorting them in to their new position)



#NameELO±
1Maria Sharapova16410
2Simona Halep16400
3Eugenie Bouchard16230
4Petra Kvitova16203
5Serena Williams1593-1
6Ekaterina Makarova1588-1
7Angelique Kerber15882
8Caroline Wozniacki1579-2
9Lucie Safarova1568-1
10Li Na15630
11Carla Suarez Navarro15633
12Venus Williams1561-1
13Ana Ivanovic1560-1
14Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova15572
15Agnieszka Radwanska1556-2
16Karolina Pliskova154623
17Victoria Azarenka15440
18Zarina Diyas15424
19Flavia Pennetta1541-4
20Peng Shuai15361
21Garbine Muguruza153611
22Dominika Cibulkova1535-4
23Timea Bacsinszky15352
24Heather Watson1535104
25Casey Dellacqua1534-5
26Aleksandra Krunic15321
27Varvara Lepchenko15311
28Alize Cornet1530-9
29Jelena Jankovic15300
30Madison Brengle152927
31Kurumi Nara152615
32Belinda Bencic1524-8
33Andrea Petkovic1523-10
34Sabine Lisicki1523-8
35Sloane Stephens1521-2
36Alison Riske152115
37Tereza Smitkova1520-3
38Sara Errani1518-8
39Kaia Kanepi1517-4
40Zheng Saisai1515-9
41Daniela Hantuchova1513-3
42Coco Vandeweghe1512-2
43Samantha Stosur15121
44Elena Vesnina1511-2
45Vera Zvonareva1511-2
46Lauren Davis1510-10
47Tsvetana Pironkova151077
48Elina Svitolina1506-11
49Yaroslava Shvedova1505-2
50Daria Gavrilova15053
51Alla Kudryavtseva1504-3
52CiCi Bellis1503-3
53Michelle Larcher de Brito1503-3
54Natalia Vikhlyantseva15020
55Nicole Gibbs1501-14
56Aliaksandra Sasnovich1501-1
57Madison Keys1501-1
58Ana Konjuh15000
59Anastasia Rodionova15000
60Ayumi Morita15000
61Claire Feuerstein15000
62Galina Voskoboeva15000
63Irina Falconi15000
64Lucie Hradecka15001
65Naomi Broady15001
66Vesna Dolonc15002
67Victoria Duval15002
68Yvonne Meusburger15002
69Chang Kai-Chen15002
70Oceane Dodin15002
71Cagla Buyukakcay15002
72Camila Giorgi150050
73Kateryna Kozlova1500114
74Vitalia Diatchenko1500115
75An-Sophie Mestach1500115
76Arina Rodionova1500115
77Denisa Allertova1500115
78Stephanie Foretz1500115
79Renata Voracova1500115
80Tatjana Maria1500115
81Alexandra Panova1500115
82Evgeniya Rodina1500115
83Jarmila Gajdosova149854
84Mona Barthel1497-39
85Julia Gorges1495-9
86Johanna Larsson1495-9
87Sorana Cirstea1494-8
88Bojana Jovanovski1494-8
89Alexandra Dulgheru1493-8
90Danielle Collins1493-8
91Petra Cetkovska1493-8
92Samantha Murray1492-8
93Marina Erakovic1492-8
94Taylor Townsend1492-8
95Urszula Radwanska1492-8
96Ajla Tomljanovic1491-44
97Kiki Bertens1491-9
98Alize Lim1491-9
99Andreea Mitu1491-9
100Anett Kontaveit1491-9
101Anna Schmiedlova1491-9
102Francoise Abanda1491-9
103Ons Jabeur1491-9
104Tamira Paszek1491-9
105Zheng Jie1491-9
106Katerina Siniakova1491-9
107Zhu Lin1491-9
108Kirsten Flipkens1490-44
109Pauline Parmentier1490-10
110Wang Qiang1490-10
111Anabel Medina Garrigues1490-9
112Andrea Hlavackova1490-9
113Carina Witthoft1490-9
114Danka Kovinic1490-9
115Estrella Cabeza Candela1490-9
116Fiona Ferro1490-9
117Iveta Melzer1490-9
118Laura Robson1490-9
119Luksika Kumkhum1490-9
120Mandy Minella1490-9
121Mariana Duque1490-9
122Mathilde Johansson1490-9
123Sachia Vickery1490-9
124Sofia Shapatava1490-9
125Tadeja Majeric1490-8
126Tang Haochen1490-8
127Tara Moore1490-8
128Yulia Putintseva1490-8
129Yuliya Beygelzimer1490-8
130Richel Hogenkamp149058
131Olivia Rogowska1489-64
132Mirjana Lucic-Baroni1489-58
133Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova1489-58
134Karin Knapp148634
135Polona Hercog1485-57
136Roberta Vinci148518
137Maria Kirilenko1484-12
138Grace Min1483-11
139Ksenia Pervak1483-10
140Shelby Rogers1482-10
141Lourdes Domingues Lino1482-10
142Paula Kania1482-10
143Yanina Wickmayer1481-10
144Alisa Kleybanova1481-10
145Amandine Hesse1481-10
146Paula Ormaechea1481-10
147Svetlana Kuznetsova1480-46
148Storm Sanders1480-32
149Bethanie Mattek-Sands1480-11
150Irina-Camelia Begu1480-11
151Lara Arruabarrena1480-11
152Chan Yung-jan1480-11
153Dinah Pfizenmaier1480-11
154Hseih Su-wei1480-11
155Jovana Jaksic1480-11
156Kristyna Pliskova1480-11
157Maryna Zanevska1480-11
158Nadiia Kichenok1480-11
159Monica Niculescu1479-36
160Maria Teresa Torro Flor1479-12
161Johanna Konta1479-12
162Caroline Garcia1476-12
163Silvia Soler Espinosa1475-37
164Timea Babos1475-13
165Duan Yingying1473-9
166Julia Glushko1473-9
167Aleksandra Wozniak1473-9
168Alison Van Uytvanck1473-9
169Misaki Doi1473-9
170Sharon Fichman1473-9
171Vania King1473-9
172Anna-Lena Friedsam1472-9
173Ashleigh Barty1472-9
174Romina Oprandi1472-9
175Shahar Pe'er1472-9
176Teliana Pereira1472-9
177Stefanie Vogele1471-6
178Alexandra Cadantu1471-6
179Petra Martic1471-6
180Virgine Razzano1471-6
181Lesia Tsurenko1467-28
182Kristina Mladenovic1466-30
183Olga Govortsova1465-7
184Annika Beck1465-7
185Monica Puig1464-30
186Chanelle Scheepers1463-8
187Donna Vekic1463-8
188Katarzyna Piter1463-8
189Kimiko Date-Krumm1463-8
190Christina McHale1462-21
191Anna Tatishvili1462-9
192Patricia Mayr-Achleitner1462-8
193Magdalena Rybarikova1461-23
194Jana Cepelova1457-19
195Zhang Shuai1454-10
196Klara Koukalova1453-13
197Francesca Schiavone1453-11