Women's ELO Rankings 09/01/2017

This blog welcomes the return of the tennis season with 3 tournaments on the WTA Tour, held in Brisbane, Shenzhen and Auckland.

Katerina Siniakova, © AFP

The first Big Gainer of the week award this season is awarded to Katerina Siniakova. Playing in Shenzhen, she defeated ELO #3 Simona Halep, and also defeated Johanna Konta before winning the title with a win over Alison Riske. This title gives Katerina 60 ELO rating points, and she climbs 33 places in my rankings to #36!

The Upset player of the week this week is Serena Williams. Making it to the 2nd round just isn't good enough for the ELO #1, her performance at Auckland has cost Serena 16 ELO rating points, but while the gap to #2 had closed slightly, it only closed by 6 points as the ELO #2 Angelique Kerber also disappointed this week.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Lauren Davis, Alize Cornet, Jelena Ostapenko, Wang Qiang and Kristyna Pliskova.

Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1857	0	-16
2	Angelique Kerber	1799	0	-10
3	Petra Kvitova	1772	1	0
4	Simona Halep	1762	-1	-11
5	Agnieszka Radwanska	1758	0	-8
6	Karolina Pliskova	1739	3	31
7	Dominika Cibulkova	1736	-1	-10
8	Madison Keys	1729	-1	0
9	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1721	-1	-3
10	Elina Svitolina	1713	0	15
11	Johanna Konta	1695	0	-1
12	Caroline Wozniacki	1686	0	-5
13	Garbine Muguruza	1684	0	13
14	Venus Williams	1645	0	-6
15	Barbora Strycova	1643	0	0
16	Carla Suarez Navarro	1642	0	0
17	Daria Gavrilova	1632	0	0
18	Timea Bacsinszky	1622	0	0
19	Sloane Stephens	1616	1	0
20	Monica Puig	1608	1	-8
21	Ekaterina Makarova	1604	-2	-13
22	Ana Konjuh	1604	8	25
23	Daria Kasatkina	1603	1	1
24	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1602	-2	-12
25	Monica Niculescu	1599	-2	-8
26	Lauren Davis	1594	24	50
27	Jelena Jankovic	1589	-2	-5
28	Naomi Osaka	1589	1	10
29	Alison Riske	1585	12	30
30	Caroline Garcia	1582	-3	0
31	Roberta Vinci	1582	4	11
32	Alize Cornet	1582	21	44
33	Elena Vesnina	1580	-7	-12
34	Kristina Mladenovic	1575	-2	0
35	Coco Vandeweghe	1574	-2	0
36	Katerina Siniakova	1571	33	60
37	Laura Siegemund	1569	-9	-11
38	Viktorija Golubic	1565	-7	-13
39	Zhang Shuai	1565	1	6
40	Samantha Stosur	1564	-6	-7
41	Lesia Tsurenko	1562	-3	0
42	Johanna Larsson	1558	-6	-12
43	Irina-Camelia Begu	1558	-6	-9
44	Julia Gorges	1558	15	25
45	Belinda Bencic	1551	-3	0
46	Ana Ivanovic	1551	-3	0
47	Christina McHale	1550	-3	0
48	Yaroslava Shvedova	1549	-3	0
49	Lucie Safarova	1549	-2	3
50	Timea Babos	1548	-11	-12
51	Andrea Petkovic	1545	-3	0
52	Camila Giorgi	1543	8	16
53	CiCi Bellis	1535	2	0
54	Eugenie Bouchard	1534	-8	-13
55	Denisa Allertova	1533	-4	-10
56	Lara Arruabarrena	1533	1	0
57	Anastasija Sevastova	1532	-8	-12
58	Kiki Bertens	1530	-6	-10
59	Yulia Putintseva	1528	-1	-5
60	Kirsten Flipkens	1526	-6	-9
61	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1525	1	0
62	Sara Errani	1524	-6	-10
63	Sabine Lisicki	1521	1	0
64	Yanina Wickmayer	1518	2	4
65	Misaki Doi	1518	2	4
66	Nao Hibino	1517	-1	0
67	Peng Shuai	1516	-6	-10
68	Jelena Ostapenko	1513	18	21
69	Vania King	1512	2	3
70	Tsvetana Pironkova	1511	-2	0
71	Margarita Gasparyan	1511	-1	0
72	Kristina Kucova	1510	-9	-12
73	Jessica Pegula	1508	-1	0
74	Varvara Lepchenko	1505	2	4
75	Hseih Su-Wei	1503	-2	0
76	Patricia Maria Tig	1503	-2	0
77	Karin Knapp	1501	-2	0
78	Madison Brengle	1499	17	18
79	Anett Kontaveit	1498	-1	0
80	Risa Ozaki	1496	1	0
81	Kateryna Kozlova	1495	3	0
82	Oceane Dodin	1494	3	0
83	Duan Yingying	1493	-3	-4
84	Louisa Chirico	1492	-2	-4
85	Annika Beck	1489	-6	-8
86	Magdalena Rybarikova	1489	3	0
87	Danka Kovinic	1488	-10	-11
88	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1488	0	-1
89	Tereza Martincova	1488	1	0
90	Kurumi Nara	1488	1	1
91	Alexandra Panova	1487	1	0
92	Heather Watson	1487	1	0
93	Evgeniya Rodina	1485	-10	-11
94	Wang Qiang	1484	24	16
95	Kristyna Pliskova	1484	26	19
96	Kateryna Bondarenko	1483	-9	-8
97	Jana Cepelova	1481	-1	0
98	Magda Linette	1481	-1	0
99	Mariana Duque Marino	1479	0	0
100	Casey Dellacqua	1479	0	0
101	Naomi Broady	1479	3	3
102	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1478	-1	0
103	Sorana Cirstea	1478	13	9
104	Zhu Lin	1477	-10	-8
105	Irina Falconi	1477	-3	0
106	Han Xinyun	1477	-3	0
107	Cagla Buyukakcay	1476	-9	-4
108	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1476	-3	0
109	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1474	-2	0
110	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	-1	0
111	Alla Kudryavtseva	1473	-1	0
112	Francesca Schiavone	1472	-1	0
113	Pauline Parmentier	1471	-5	-2
114	Veronica Cepede Royg	1471	-2	0
115	Richel Hogenkamp	1471	-2	0
116	Rebecca Peterson	1470	-1	0
117	Sachia Vickery	1467	2	0
118	Shelby Rogers	1467	9	9
119	Zhang Kailin	1467	NEW	-6
120	Ana Bogdan	1466	-14	-9
121	Bojana Jovanovski	1464	1	0
122	Mona Barthel	1462	-8	-9
123	Zarina Diyas	1461	0	0
124	Marina Erakovic	1460	-7	-9
125	Carina Witthoft	1460	-1	0
126	Samantha Crawford	1460	-1	0
127	Urszula Radwanska	1459	-1	0
128	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1457	-8	-9
129	Wang Yafan	1454	0	0
130	Tamira Paszek	1453	0	0
131	Nicole Gibbs	1450	-3	-4
132	Lucie Hradecka	1450	-1	0
133	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1449	-1	0
134	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1445	0	0
135	Elitsa Kostova	1444	0	0
136	Sesil Karatantcheva	1443	0	0
137	Paula Kania	1442	0	0
138	Mandy Minella	1441	0	0
139	Alison Van Uytvanck	1440	0	0
140	Maria Sakkari	1439	-7	-8
141	Anna Tatishvili	1439	-1	0
142	Vitalia Diatchenko	1436	-1	0
143	Tereza Smitkova	1435	-1	0
144	Marina Melnikova	1434	-1	0
145	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1431	-1	0
146	Polona Hercog	1429	-1	0
147	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	1	0
148	Laura Robson	1425	1	0
149	Alexandra Dulgheru	1425	1	0
150	Aleksandra Krunic	1419	-4	-8
151	Donna Vekic	1419	-4	-8
152	Daniela Hantuchova	1419	-1	0
153	Teliana Pereira	1418	-1	0
154	Zheng Saisai	1417	0	5
155	Andreea Mitu	1407	0	0
156	Stefanie Vogele	1405	-3	-9
157	Olga Govortsova	1404	-1	0
158	Tatjana Maria	1397	-1	0