Sunday 4 October 2015

Women's ELO Rankings 05/10/2015

As the WTA Finals approach later this year, the Asian swing of the WTA tour is in full force, with tournaments in Wuhan and Tashkent held this week.

Venus Williams, © Getty Images

The Big Gainer of the week award this week goes to Venus Williams. She won the tournament in Wuhan as an unseeded player, with wins over Agnieszka Radwanska, and then successfully taking advantage of other upsets to win the title. Her wins gave Venus 54 ELO rating points, which puts her at #6 in my rankings, 9 places higher than last week.

This week's Upset player of the week is Maria Sharapova. She isn't ranked right now as she hasn't played enough matches since I started collecting matches played data after the French Open (she only needs 1 more to be ranked), but she is still one of the highest rated players in my database. However, her loss to Barbora Strycova in Wuhan cost her 15 ELO rating points. Her current rating would put her in #3 on my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Garbine Muguruza, Roberta Vinci, Johanna Konta, Nao Hibino and Donna Vekic.

Now, the the full rankings. New players in my rankings are marked with "NEW" in the ± column.

#NameELO±
1Serena Williams18080
2Simona Halep17250
3Angelique Kerber16970
4Belinda Bencic16780
5Petra Kvitova16780
6Venus Williams16709
7Victoria Azarenka1666-1
8Agnieszka Radwanska1661-1
9Lucie Safarova1639-1
10Garbine Muguruza163111
11Jelena Jankovic1630-2
12Flavia Pennetta16221
13Caroline Wozniacki1620-3
14Sloane Stephens1620-2
15Timea Bacsinszky1619-1
16Anna Schmiedlova16192
17Sara Errani1615-6
18Karolina Pliskova1611-2
19Elina Svitolina16060
20Ekaterina Makarova1603-3
21Roberta Vinci159811
22Madison Keys15930
23Kristina Mladenovic15922
24Carla Suarez Navarro1591-1
25Samantha Stosur1587-5
26Ana Ivanovic15870
27Irina-Camelia Begu1583-3
28Sabine Lisicki15770
29Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova15711
30Andrea Petkovic1569-3
31Johanna Konta156611
32Dominika Cibulkova1565-3
33Camila Giorgi15630
34Lesia Tsurenko1552-3
35Barbora Strycova15522
36Yanina Wickmayer1544-1
37Denisa Allertova1544-1
38Eugenie Bouchard15400
39Coco Vandeweghe153816
40Svetlana Kuznetsova1537-6
41Monica Niculescu1537-2
42Karin Knapp1535-2
43Annika Beck15340
44Johanna Larsson15310
45Daria Gavrilova15291
46Margarita Gasparyan1528NEW
47Teliana Pereira1524-6
48Ana Konjuh15230
49Caroline Garcia15231
50Aliaksandra Sasnovich1522-3
51Patricia Maria Tig1518NEW
52Varvara Lepchenko1517-1
53Lucie Hradecka1515-1
54Jelena Ostapenko1514-9
55Tsvetana Pironkova1512-6
56Madison Brengle15111
57Naomi Broady1508-1
58Mariana Duque Marino1506-4
59Mona Barthel1506-1
60Christina McHale1504-1
61Evgeniya Rodina150411
62Alize Cornet1503-9
63Bethanie Mattek-Sands1503-3
64Julia Gorges14990
65Donna Vekic1496NEW
66Magda Linette14930
67Yaroslava Shvedova14920
68Ajla Tomljanovic1491-5
69Anett Kontaveit1490-8
70Danka Kovinic1490-8
71Heather Watson1488-6
72Casey Dellacqua1486-2
73Alison Van Uytvanck1486-2
74Polona Hercog1483-6
75Alexandra Panova1482NEW
76Kateryna Bondarenko14792
77Kurumi Nara14792
78Urszula Radwanska1478-9
79Lara Arruabarrena14781
80Anna Tatishvili14771
81Magdalena Rybarikova1476-7
82Alexandra Dulgheru1476-7
83Irina Falconi1476-1
84Bojana Jovanovski147616
85Elizaveta Kulichkova1475-12
86Daniela Hantuchova1474-10
87Carina Witthoft1474-4
88Zarina Diyas1473-11
89Kirsten Flipkens1472-4
90Olga Govortsova1467-4
91Katerina Siniakova1465-3
92Sesil Karatantcheva1463-2
93Klara Koukalova1462-9
94Alison Riske1459-7
95Aleksandra Krunic1459-4
96Lauren Davis1458-7
97Mirjana Lucic-Baroni14584
98Yulia Putintseva1455-4
99Vitalia Diatchenko1455-4
100Misaki Doi1454-4
101Tatjana Maria1454-4
102Jarmila Gajdosova1452-4
103Nicole Gibbs1452-4
104Anna-Lena Friedsam14503
105Zheng Saisai1449-12
106Andreea Mitu1448-14
107Tereza Smitkova1448-3
108Monica Puig1446-3
109Marina Erakovic1444-3
110Timea Babos1443-8
111Kiki Bertens1439-8
112Francesca Schiavone1432-4
113Wang Qiang1417-4
114Stefanie Vogele1391-4