Sunday 22 February 2015

Women's ELO Rankings 23/02/2015

Sara Errani, © AP/Felipe Dana
This week saw the 1st of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments being held, in Dubai, and a second tournament, in Rio de Janeiro. Most of the big names went to Dubai to make that tournament one of the strongest seen this year.

Our Big Gainer of the Week award goes to Sara Errani. She decided not to travel to Dubai, instead, she was the top see at Rio de Janeiro. Despite a scare in the 3rd round against wildcard Beatriz Haddad Maia, Sara won the tournament to give her 44 ELO points and a new ranking of #15, 16 places higher than last week.

This week, our Upset player of the Week is former Big Gainer of the Week Heather Watson. She hasn't been in good form since winning at Hobart, but her loss to Kateryna Kozlova is surely the worst one so far. Heather loss of 11 ELO points caused her to fall 10 places to #42 in my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Irina-Camelia Begu, Anna Schmiedlova, Johanna Larsson, Tsvetana Pironkova and Veronica Cepede Royg,

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±
1Simona Halep16921
2Maria Sharapova1673-1
3Serena Williams16530
4Ekaterina Makarova16281
5Eugenie Bouchard1624-1
6Petra Kvitova16160
7Karolina Pliskova16085
8Caroline Wozniacki15940
9Carla Suarez Navarro15831
10Venus Williams1582-3
11Garbine Muguruza15828
12Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova1574-3
13Lucie Safarova15727
14Agnieszka Radwanska1570-3
15Sara Errani156916
16Dominika Cibulkova1568-3
17Victoria Azarenka1564-3
18Li Na1563-3
19Daniela Hantuchova1563-2
20Angelique Kerber1559-4
21Zarina Diyas15525
22Flavia Pennetta15508
23Peng Shuai1548-2
24Ana Ivanovic1548-2
25Madison Keys1548-2
26Andrea Petkovic1547-8
27Alize Cornet15451
28Madison Brengle1543-4
29Timea Bacsinszky1543-4
30Varvara Lepchenko1540-3
31Casey Dellacqua1532-2
32Irina-Camelia Begu152519
33Ajla Tomljanovic15220
34Aleksandra Krunic15210
35Elina Svitolina15213
36Anna Schmiedlova152161
37Jelena Jankovic1519-1
38Tereza Smitkova1518-1
39Yaroslava Shvedova15171
40Johanna Larsson151741
41Tsvetana Pironkova151518
42Heather Watson1513-10
43Sloane Stephens15121
44Lauren Davis15121
45Samantha Stosur15123
46Coco Vandeweghe1511-11
47Sabine Lisicki15110
48Beatriz Haddad Maia1511159
49Alison Riske15100
50Veronica Cepede Royg1510160
51Vera Zvonareva1508-12
52Julia Gorges1507-11
53Camila Giorgi1507-1
54Mona Barthel1506-11
55Kurumi Nara1505-13
56Zheng Saisai1505-3
57Marina Erakovic1505-3
58Belinda Bencic1505-3
59Alexandra Panova1504-3
60Kateryna Kozlova150418
61CiCi Bellis1503-4
62Michelle Larcher de Brito1503-4
63Natalia Vikhlyantseva1502-3
64Chang Kai-Chen1502-3
65Oceane Dodin1502-3
66Evgeniya Rodina1502-2
67Indy De Vroome1502-2
68Lucie Hradecka1501-22
69Nicole Gibbs1501-3
70Aliaksandra Sasnovich1501-3
71Irina Falconi1501-3
72Carina Witthoft1501-3
73Cagla Buyukakcay15014
74Anastasia Rodionova1500-4
75Ayumi Morita1500-4
76Claire Feuerstein1500-4
77Galina Voskoboeva1500-4
78Naomi Broady1500-4
79Vesna Dolonc1500-4
80Victoria Duval1500-4
81Denisa Allertova1500-2
82Gabriela Ce1499126
83Yanina Wickmayer1498-3
84Kaia Kanepi1496-34
85Daria Gavrilova1495-3
86Kiki Bertens1495-3
87Jarmila Gajdosova1494-24
88Bethanie Mattek-Sands1494-4
89Danielle Collins1493-4
90Petra Cetkovska1493-4
91Samantha Murray1492-3
92Kateryna Bondarenko1492-2
93Caroline Garcia149222
94Dinah Pfizenmaier149257
95Yvonne Meusburger1491-4
96Vitalia Diatchenko1491-4
97Tatjana Maria1491-4
98Alize Lim1491-4
99Anett Kontaveit1491-3
100Francoise Abanda1491-2
101Tamira Paszek1491-2
102Ana Bogdan1491112
103Anabel Medina Garrigues1490-3
104Andrea Hlavackova1490-3
105Fiona Ferro1490-1
106Iveta Melzer1490-1
107Laura Robson1490-1
108Mandy Minella1490-1
109Mariana Duque1490-1
110Mathilde Johansson1490-1
111Sachia Vickery1490-1
112Sofia Shapatava1490-1
113Tadeja Majeric1490-1
114Tang Haochen1490-1
115Tara Moore1490-1
116Nicha Lertpitaksinchai14900
117Xu Yifan14900
118Elizaveta Kulichkova14900
119Misa Eguchi14900
120Klaartje Liebens14900
121Gabriela Dabrowski149085
122Paula Cristina Goncalves149087
123Maria Irigoyen149090
124Zhu Lin1489-2
125Ana Konjuh1489-1
126Stephanie Foretz14890
127Renata Voracova14890
128Tamarine Tanasugarn14890
129Roberta Vinci14890
130Sara Sorribes Tormo148981
131Montserrat Gonzalez148981
132Alla Kudryavtseva1486-1
133Misaki Doi1486-1
134Polona Hercog1485-1
135Julia Glushko148528
136Sorana Cirstea1484-2
137Bojana Jovanovski1484-2
138Taylor Townsend1484-2
139Richel Hogenkamp1484-2
140Maria Kirilenko1484-2
141Lourdes Domingues Lino14842
142Katerina Siniakova1483-53
143Alexandra Dulgheru1483-4
144Urszula Radwanska1483-4
145Ksenia Pervak1483-4
146An-Sophie Mestach1482-59
147Ons Jabeur1482-5
148Paula Kania1482-4
149Paula Ormaechea1482-1
150Elena Vesnina1481-29
151Yuliya Beygelzimer1481-28
152Zheng Jie1481-7
153Alisa Kleybanova1481-7
154Amandine Hesse1481-7
155Lara Arruabarrena1481-6
156Andreea Mitu1480-61
157Danka Kovinic1480-55
158Estrella Cabeza Candela1480-55
159Luksika Kumkhum1480-9
160Hseih Su-wei1480-8
161Jovana Jaksic1480-8
162Kristyna Pliskova1480-8
163Maryna Zanevska1480-8
164Nadiia Kichenok1480-8
165Arina Rodionova1479-40
166Monica Puig1479-36
167Johanna Konta1479-7
168Duan Yingying1475-7
169Wang Qiang14744
170Grace Min1473-8
171Aleksandra Wozniak1473-7
172Sharon Fichman1473-7
173Vania King1473-7
174Svetlana Kuznetsova14735
175Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova1472-16
176Shelby Rogers1472-8
177Ashleigh Barty1472-8
178Alexandra Cadantu1471-3
179Virgine Razzano1471-3
180Pauline Parmentier1470-23
181Olivia Rogowska1470-23
182Yulia Putintseva1470-5
183Chan Yung-jan1470-5
184Kristina Mladenovic1470-4
185Storm Sanders1469-3
186Silvia Soler Espinosa1466-1
187Anna-Lena Friedsam1466-1
188Petra Martic1466-1
189Olga Govortsova1465-1
190Teliana Pereira1464-20
191Christina McHale1464-2
192Anna Tatishvili1464-2
193Romina Oprandi1464-2
194Mirjana Lucic-Baroni1463-27
195Monica Niculescu1463-24
196Kirsten Flipkens1463-24
197Shahar Pe'er1463-5
198Katarzyna Piter1463-5
199Maria Teresa Torro Flor1462-25
200Stefanie Vogele1462-6
201Patricia Mayr-Achleitner1462-6
202Francesca Schiavone1461-6
203Karin Knapp1460-22
204Timea Babos1459-21
205Alison Van Uytvanck1458-21
206Lesia Tsurenko1458-8
207Jana Cepelova1457-8
208Magdalena Rybarikova1454-8
209Annika Beck1451-12
210Zhang Shuai1448-8
211Chanelle Scheepers1445-10
212Donna Vekic1444-8
213Kimiko Date-Krumm1444-8
214Klara Koukalova1437-11