Women's ELO Rankings 27/04/2015

Like last week, there was only 1 tournament being held, however, unlike last week, this one was in Europe (Stuttgart to be precise), and had a lot of good quality tennis players in it.

Angelique Kerber © Getty Images

The Big Gainer of the Week this week is the tournament winner Angelique Kerber. After performing the upset of the week (see below), she carried on playing great tennis all the way through the tournament to win the title at Stuttgart. Her victory led to a gain of 51 ELO points, resulting in a new ranking of #7, 8 places higher than last week.

This week's Upset player of the week is Maria Sharapova. She was the top seed, and lost in her 1st match to our big gainer of the week (see above). This is the 2nd time in the past 3 weeks that Maria has won this award. This time, she lost 12 ELO points and fell 1 places in the rankings to #4.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Madison Brengle, and that's it. This week mostly went to expectations, with a small amount of variance.

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)

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Simona Halep	1740	0
2	Serena Williams	1715	0
3	Carla Suarez Navarro	1653	1
4	Maria Sharapova	1647	-1
5	Caroline Wozniacki	1646	1
6	Timea Bacsinszky	1640	-1
7	Angelique Kerber	1636	8
8	Karolina Pliskova	1619	-1
9	Venus Williams	1615	-1
10	Ekaterina Makarova	1612	0
11	Petra Kvitova	1601	-2
12	Lucie Safarova	1598	-1
13	Eugenie Bouchard	1598	-1
14	Victoria Azarenka	1596	-1
15	Sara Errani	1596	1
16	Andrea Petkovic	1588	-2
17	Flavia Pennetta	1581	1
18	Agnieszka Radwanska	1574	-1
19	Garbine Muguruza	1573	0
20	Dominika Cibulkova	1568	0
21	Li Na	1563	0
22	Madison Brengle	1561	11
23	Madison Keys	1560	-1
24	Caroline Garcia	1556	6
25	Sloane Stephens	1554	0
26	Jelena Jankovic	1552	0
27	Elina Svitolina	1551	0
28	Ana Ivanovic	1548	-5
29	Peng Shuai	1548	0
30	Irina-Camelia Begu	1545	1
31	Sabine Lisicki	1544	-7
32	Anna Schmiedlova	1541	0
33	Barbora Strycova	1539	-5
34	Belinda Bencic	1536	2
35	Daniela Hantuchova	1535	-1
36	Alize Cornet	1535	-1
37	Camila Giorgi	1534	0
38	Yaroslava Shvedova	1533	0
39	Zarina Diyas	1531	1
40	Lucie Hradecka	1530	-1
41	Johanna Larsson	1527	0
42	Heather Watson	1523	0
43	Varvara Lepchenko	1521	0
44	Teliana Pereira	1519	0
45	CiCi Bellis	1518	0
46	Daria Gavrilova	1518	0
47	Mariana Duque Marino	1514	0
48	Kurumi Nara	1513	0
49	Paula Badosa Gibert	1511	0
50	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1510	0
51	Veronica Cepede Royg	1510	0
52	Carina Witthoft	1510	1
53	Sesil Karatantcheva	1509	-1
54	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1509	0
55	Lauren Davis	1508	1
56	Tsvetana Pironkova	1507	1
57	Danka Kovinic	1507	1
58	Samantha Stosur	1506	1
59	Tatjana Maria	1506	1
60	Coco Vandeweghe	1504	1
61	Hseih Su-wei	1504	1
62	Irina Falconi	1504	1
63	Alexandra Panova	1503	1
64	Jarmila Gajdosova	1503	2
65	Michelle Larcher de Brito	1503	2
66	Lesia Tsurenko	1503	2
67	Chang Kai-Chen	1502	2
68	Oceane Dodin	1502	2
69	Marina Melnikova	1502	170
70	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1501	1
71	Alexandra Dulgheru	1500	1
72	Ayumi Morita	1500	1
73	Claire Feuerstein	1500	1
74	Galina Voskoboeva	1500	1
75	Naomi Broady	1500	1
76	Vesna Dolonc	1500	1
77	Victoria Duval	1500	1
78	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1500	1
79	Gabriela Ce	1499	1
80	Elena Bogdan	1499	1
81	Mona Barthel	1498	-26
82	Magda Linette	1498	0
83	Kaia Kanepi	1498	0
84	Nicole Vaidisova	1496	0
85	Julia Glushko	1496	0
86	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1495	0
87	Julia Gorges	1494	-22
88	Casey Dellacqua	1493	-1
89	Danielle Collins	1493	-1
90	Wang Yafan	1493	-1
91	Zhu Lin	1493	-1
92	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1493	0
93	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1492	0
94	Indy De Vroome	1492	0
95	Samantha Murray	1492	0
96	Sachia Vickery	1492	0
97	Andreea Mitu	1492	0
98	Alexa Glatch	1492	142
99	Dinah Pfizenmaier	1491	-1
100	Urszula Radwanska	1491	-1
101	Yvonne Meusburger	1491	-1
102	Vitalia Diatchenko	1491	-1
103	Alize Lim	1491	-1
104	Anett Kontaveit	1491	-1
105	Tamira Paszek	1491	-1
106	Ana Bogdan	1491	-1
107	Edina Gallovits-Hall	1491	-1
108	Laura Siegemund	1491	-1
109	Alberta Brianti	1491	129
110	Anastasia Rodionova	1490	-2
111	Denisa Allertova	1490	-2
112	Aleksandra Krunic	1490	-2
113	Anabel Medina Garrigues	1490	-2
114	Andrea Hlavackova	1490	-2
115	Fiona Ferro	1490	-2
116	Iveta Melzer	1490	-2
117	Laura Robson	1490	-2
118	Mathilde Johansson	1490	-2
119	Sofia Shapatava	1490	-2
120	Tadeja Majeric	1490	-2
121	Tang Haochen	1490	-2
122	Tara Moore	1490	-2
123	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai	1490	-2
124	Misa Eguchi	1490	-2
125	Klaartje Liebens	1490	-2
126	Gabriela Dabrowski	1490	-2
127	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1490	-2
128	Maria Irigoyen	1490	-2
129	Marcela Zacarias	1490	-2
130	Marie Bouzkova	1490	-2
131	Jessica Pegula	1490	-2
132	Nigina Abduraimova	1490	-2
133	Monica Puig	1490	-2
134	Maria Paulina Perez Garcia	1490	-2
135	Maria Herazo Gonzalez	1490	-2
136	Yuliana Lizarazo	1490	-2
137	Nastja Kolar	1490	-2
138	Kristina Kucova	1489	-2
139	Alison Riske	1489	-2
140	Ana Konjuh	1489	-2
141	Stephanie Foretz	1489	-2
142	Renata Voracova	1489	-2
143	Tamarine Tanasugarn	1489	-2
144	Montserrat Gonzalez	1489	-2
145	Jawairiah Noordin	1489	-2
146	Junri Namigata	1489	-2
147	Magdalena Frech	1489	-2
148	Cindy Burger	1489	-2
149	Mandy Minella	1488	-2
150	Kateryna Bondarenko	1486	-59
151	Lara Arruabarrena	1486	-3
152	Marina Erakovic	1485	-3
153	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1485	-3
154	Vera Zvonareva	1484	-3
155	Taylor Townsend	1484	-3
156	Maria Kirilenko	1484	-3
157	Alison Van Uytvanck	1484	-3
158	Kateryna Kozlova	1483	-3
159	Ksenia Pervak	1483	-3
160	Paula Kania	1482	-2
161	Paula Ormaechea	1482	-2
162	Ajla Tomljanovic	1481	-2
163	Francoise Abanda	1481	-2
164	Zheng Jie	1481	-2
165	Alisa Kleybanova	1481	-2
166	Amandine Hesse	1481	-2
167	Luksika Kumkhum	1481	-2
168	Cagla Buyukakcay	1480	-2
169	Xu Yifan	1480	-2
170	Estrella Cabeza Candela	1480	-2
171	Kristyna Pliskova	1480	-2
172	Nadiia Kichenok	1480	-2
173	Nicole Gibbs	1479	-2
174	Ana Sofia Sanchez	1479	-2
175	Arina Rodionova	1479	-2
176	Johanna Konta	1479	-2
177	Ons Jabeur	1479	-2
178	Kristina Mladenovic	1478	-2
179	Yanina Wickmayer	1478	-2
180	Evgeniya Rodina	1477	-23
181	Tereza Smitkova	1477	-3
182	Bojana Jovanovski	1477	-3
183	Elena Vesnina	1476	-3
184	Richel Hogenkamp	1476	-3
185	An-Sophie Mestach	1476	-3
186	Duan Yingying	1475	-3
187	Pauline Parmentier	1474	-3
188	Petra Cetkovska	1473	-3
189	Aleksandra Wozniak	1473	-3
190	Sharon Fichman	1473	-3
191	Vania King	1473	-3
192	Katerina Siniakova	1473	-3
193	Monica Niculescu	1472	-3
194	Ashleigh Barty	1472	-3
195	Maryna Zanevska	1471	-3
196	Louisa Chirico	1471	-3
197	Yuliya Beygelzimer	1471	-3
198	Alexandra Cadantu	1471	-3
199	Virgine Razzano	1471	-3
200	Roberta Vinci	1470	-3
201	Jovana Jaksic	1470	-3
202	Olivia Rogowska	1470	-3
203	Chan Yung-jan	1470	-3
204	Polona Hercog	1470	-3
205	Storm Sanders	1469	-3
206	Zheng Saisai	1467	-3
207	Alla Kudryavtseva	1467	-3
208	Misaki Doi	1466	-3
209	Sorana Cirstea	1465	-3
210	Yulia Putintseva	1465	-3
211	Wang Qiang	1465	-2
212	Olga Govortsova	1465	-2
213	Anna Tatishvili	1464	-2
214	Romina Oprandi	1464	-2
215	Katarzyna Piter	1463	-2
216	Kirsten Flipkens	1460	-2
217	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1459	-9
218	Christina McHale	1459	-3
219	Kiki Bertens	1458	-3
220	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1457	-3
221	Grace Min	1455	-2
222	Shahar Pe'er	1454	-2
223	Magdalena Rybarikova	1453	-2
224	Klara Koukalova	1453	-2
225	Donna Vekic	1452	-2
226	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1448	-2
227	Petra Martic	1446	-9
228	Francesca Schiavone	1445	-3
229	Maria Teresa Torro Flor	1445	-3
230	Jana Cepelova	1445	-3
231	Zhang Shuai	1444	-3
232	Stefanie Vogele	1443	-3
233	Chanelle Scheepers	1443	-3
234	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	1442	-3
235	Karin Knapp	1439	-3
236	Timea Babos	1435	-3
237	Kimiko Date-Krumm	1435	-3
238	Annika Beck	1435	-3
239	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1431	-3
240	Shelby Rogers	1430	-3