Women's ELO Rankings 12/01/2015

The 1st week of the 2015 season saw Maria Sharapova, Simona Halep and Venus Williams win the 1st available titles of the season. Sharapova and Halep climbed to #1 and #2 following their victories, overtaking Eugenie Bouchard, who did not play this week, while Venus Williams climbed 27 places to #11, a strong performance that is deserving of the Big Gainer of the Week award. Well done!

On the other side, our Upset player of the Week goes to Victoria Azarenka, who lost her 1st round match to Karolina Pliskova in a close 3-set match, and lost 5 places in the rankings in the process and is now at #17.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings this week were Timea Bacsinszky, Lauren Davis, Elina Svitolina and Alla Kudryavtseva.

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	Maria Sharapova	1641	1
2	Simona Halep	1640	1
3	Eugenie Bouchard	1623	-2
4	Serena Williams	1593	0
5	Ekaterina Makarova	1591	0
6	Caroline Wozniacki	1590	3
7	Petra Kvitova	1588	0
8	Lucie Safarova	1580	-2
9	Angelique Kerber	1576	-1
10	Li Na	1563	0
11	Venus Williams	1561	27
12	Ana Ivanovic	1560	7
13	Agnieszka Radwanska	1558	-2
14	Carla Suarez Navarro	1554	3
15	Flavia Pennetta	1553	-2
16	Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova	1549	9
17	Victoria Azarenka	1544	-5
18	Dominika Cibulkova	1539	-4
19	Alize Cornet	1539	2
20	Casey Dellacqua	1537	3
21	Peng Shuai	1536	-6
22	Zarina Diyas	1536	4
23	Andrea Petkovic	1535	-7
24	Belinda Bencic	1535	0
25	Timea Bacsinszky	1535	21
26	Sabine Lisicki	1532	-8
27	Aleksandra Krunic	1532	2
28	Varvara Lepchenko	1531	8
29	Jelena Jankovic	1530	-9
30	Sara Errani	1528	-8
31	Zheng Saisai	1526	16
32	Garbine Muguruza	1524	-4
33	Sloane Stephens	1523	-6
34	Tereza Smitkova	1520	3
35	Kaia Kanepi	1519	4
36	Lauren Davis	1519	36
37	Elina Svitolina	1514	85
38	Daniela Hantuchova	1512	-5
39	Karolina Pliskova	1512	-5
40	Coco Vandeweghe	1512	5
41	Nicole Gibbs	1511	-6
42	Elena Vesnina	1511	8
43	Vera Zvonareva	1511	25
44	Samantha Stosur	1509	-14
45	Mona Barthel	1507	-14
46	Kurumi Nara	1507	-6
47	Yaroslava Shvedova	1505	8
48	Alla Kudryavtseva	1504	32
49	CiCi Bellis	1503	-6
50	Michelle Larcher de Brito	1503	-6
51	Alison Riske	1502	-19
52	Ajla Tomljanovic	1502	-4
53	Daria Gavrilova	1502	130
54	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1502	130
55	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1501	-6
56	Madison Keys	1501	8
57	Madison Brengle	1500	-5
58	Ana Konjuh	1500	-2
59	Anastasia Rodionova	1500	-2
60	Ayumi Morita	1500	-2
61	Claire Feuerstein	1500	-2
62	Galina Voskoboeva	1500	-2
63	Irina Falconi	1500	-2
64	Kirsten Flipkens	1500	-2
65	Lucie Hradecka	1500	-2
66	Naomi Broady	1500	-1
67	Olivia Rogowska	1500	-1
68	Vesna Dolonc	1500	1
69	Victoria Duval	1500	1
70	Yvonne Meusburger	1500	1
71	Chang Kai-Chen	1500	110
72	Oceane Dodin	1500	110
73	Cagla Buyukakcay	1500	112
74	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1499	0
75	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1498	-2
76	Julia Gorges	1495	53
77	Johanna Larsson	1494	-36
78	Polona Hercog	1494	-2
79	Sorana Cirstea	1494	-2
80	Bojana Jovanovski	1494	1
81	Alexandra Dulgheru	1493	-39
82	Danielle Collins	1493	-4
83	Petra Cetkovska	1493	-4
84	Samantha Murray	1492	-2
85	Marina Erakovic	1492	6
86	Taylor Townsend	1492	32
87	Urszula Radwanska	1492	55
88	Kiki Bertens	1491	-37
89	Alize Lim	1491	-3
90	Andreea Mitu	1491	-3
91	Anett Kontaveit	1491	-3
92	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1491	-3
93	Francoise Abanda	1491	-3
94	Ons Jabeur	1491	-2
95	Tamira Paszek	1491	-2
96	Zheng Jie	1491	-1
97	Katerina Siniakova	1491	8
98	Zhu Lin	1491	88
99	Pauline Parmentier	1490	-46
100	Wang Qiang	1490	-46
101	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1490	-34
102	Anabel Medina Garrigues	1490	-6
103	Andrea Hlavackova	1490	-6
104	Carina Witthoft	1490	-5
105	Danka Kovinic	1490	-5
106	Estrella Cabeza Candela	1490	-5
107	Fiona Ferro	1490	-5
108	Iveta Melzer	1490	-4
109	Laura Robson	1490	-2
110	Luksika Kumkhum	1490	-2
111	Mandy Minella	1490	-2
112	Mariana Duque	1490	-2
113	Mathilde Johansson	1490	-2
114	Sachia Vickery	1490	-2
115	Sofia Shapatava	1490	-2
116	Storm Sanders	1490	-2
117	Tadeja Majeric	1490	-2
118	Tang Haochen	1490	-2
119	Tara Moore	1490	-2
120	Yulia Putintseva	1490	-1
121	Yuliya Beygelzimer	1490	-1
122	Camila Giorgi	1489	-1
123	Monica Niculescu	1488	-48
124	Tsvetana Pironkova	1484	-39
125	Maria Kirilenko	1484	1
126	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1483	-42
127	Grace Min	1483	0
128	Heather Watson	1483	0
129	Ksenia Pervak	1483	1
130	Shelby Rogers	1482	-47
131	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1482	3
132	Paula Kania	1482	3
133	Yanina Wickmayer	1481	-39
134	Alisa Kleybanova	1481	2
135	Amandine Hesse	1481	2
136	Paula Ormaechea	1481	5
137	Jarmila Gajdosova	1481	10
138	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1480	-40
139	Irina-Camelia Begu	1480	-36
140	Lara Arruabarrena	1480	-34
141	Chan Yung-jan	1480	2
142	Dinah Pfizenmaier	1480	2
143	Hseih Su-wei	1480	3
144	Jovana Jaksic	1480	4
145	Kristyna Pliskova	1480	5
146	Maryna Zanevska	1480	5
147	Nadiia Kichenok	1480	5
148	Maria Teresa Torro Flor	1479	-25
149	Johanna Konta	1479	5
150	Caroline Garcia	1476	-26
151	Timea Babos	1475	16
152	Kristina Mladenovic	1474	-27
153	Lesia Tsurenko	1474	-22
154	Roberta Vinci	1474	-21
155	Monica Puig	1473	-23
156	Duan Yingying	1473	-11
157	Julia Glushko	1473	-8
158	Aleksandra Wozniak	1473	-1
159	Alison Van Uytvanck	1473	-1
160	Misaki Doi	1473	-1
161	Sharon Fichman	1473	-1
162	Vania King	1473	-1
163	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1472	-25
164	Ashleigh Barty	1472	-1
165	Romina Oprandi	1472	-1
166	Shahar Pe'er	1472	-1
167	Teliana Pereira	1472	-1
168	Karin Knapp	1472	7
169	Christina McHale	1471	-30
170	Magdalena Rybarikova	1471	-30
171	Stefanie Vogele	1471	-18
172	Alexandra Cadantu	1471	-4
173	Petra Martic	1471	0
174	Virgine Razzano	1471	0
175	Jana Cepelova	1467	-20
176	Olga Govortsova	1465	-20
177	Annika Beck	1465	-8
178	Chanelle Scheepers	1463	-8
179	Donna Vekic	1463	-8
180	Katarzyna Piter	1463	-3
181	Kimiko Date-Krumm	1463	-3
182	Anna Tatishvili	1462	-20
183	Klara Koukalova	1462	-11
184	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	1462	-4
185	Zhang Shuai	1454	-9
186	Francesca Schiavone	1453	-7