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)

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Simona Halep	1692	1
2	Maria Sharapova	1673	-1
3	Serena Williams	1653	0
4	Ekaterina Makarova	1628	1
5	Eugenie Bouchard	1624	-1
6	Petra Kvitova	1616	0
7	Karolina Pliskova	1608	5
8	Caroline Wozniacki	1594	0
9	Carla Suarez Navarro	1583	1
10	Venus Williams	1582	-3
11	Garbine Muguruza	1582	8
12	Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova	1574	-3
13	Lucie Safarova	1572	7
14	Agnieszka Radwanska	1570	-3
15	Sara Errani	1569	16
16	Dominika Cibulkova	1568	-3
17	Victoria Azarenka	1564	-3
18	Li Na	1563	-3
19	Daniela Hantuchova	1563	-2
20	Angelique Kerber	1559	-4
21	Zarina Diyas	1552	5
22	Flavia Pennetta	1550	8
23	Peng Shuai	1548	-2
24	Ana Ivanovic	1548	-2
25	Madison Keys	1548	-2
26	Andrea Petkovic	1547	-8
27	Alize Cornet	1545	1
28	Madison Brengle	1543	-4
29	Timea Bacsinszky	1543	-4
30	Varvara Lepchenko	1540	-3
31	Casey Dellacqua	1532	-2
32	Irina-Camelia Begu	1525	19
33	Ajla Tomljanovic	1522	0
34	Aleksandra Krunic	1521	0
35	Elina Svitolina	1521	3
36	Anna Schmiedlova	1521	61
37	Jelena Jankovic	1519	-1
38	Tereza Smitkova	1518	-1
39	Yaroslava Shvedova	1517	1
40	Johanna Larsson	1517	41
41	Tsvetana Pironkova	1515	18
42	Heather Watson	1513	-10
43	Sloane Stephens	1512	1
44	Lauren Davis	1512	1
45	Samantha Stosur	1512	3
46	Coco Vandeweghe	1511	-11
47	Sabine Lisicki	1511	0
48	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1511	159
49	Alison Riske	1510	0
50	Veronica Cepede Royg	1510	160
51	Vera Zvonareva	1508	-12
52	Julia Gorges	1507	-11
53	Camila Giorgi	1507	-1
54	Mona Barthel	1506	-11
55	Kurumi Nara	1505	-13
56	Zheng Saisai	1505	-3
57	Marina Erakovic	1505	-3
58	Belinda Bencic	1505	-3
59	Alexandra Panova	1504	-3
60	Kateryna Kozlova	1504	18
61	CiCi Bellis	1503	-4
62	Michelle Larcher de Brito	1503	-4
63	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1502	-3
64	Chang Kai-Chen	1502	-3
65	Oceane Dodin	1502	-3
66	Evgeniya Rodina	1502	-2
67	Indy De Vroome	1502	-2
68	Lucie Hradecka	1501	-22
69	Nicole Gibbs	1501	-3
70	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1501	-3
71	Irina Falconi	1501	-3
72	Carina Witthoft	1501	-3
73	Cagla Buyukakcay	1501	4
74	Anastasia Rodionova	1500	-4
75	Ayumi Morita	1500	-4
76	Claire Feuerstein	1500	-4
77	Galina Voskoboeva	1500	-4
78	Naomi Broady	1500	-4
79	Vesna Dolonc	1500	-4
80	Victoria Duval	1500	-4
81	Denisa Allertova	1500	-2
82	Gabriela Ce	1499	126
83	Yanina Wickmayer	1498	-3
84	Kaia Kanepi	1496	-34
85	Daria Gavrilova	1495	-3
86	Kiki Bertens	1495	-3
87	Jarmila Gajdosova	1494	-24
88	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1494	-4
89	Danielle Collins	1493	-4
90	Petra Cetkovska	1493	-4
91	Samantha Murray	1492	-3
92	Kateryna Bondarenko	1492	-2
93	Caroline Garcia	1492	22
94	Dinah Pfizenmaier	1492	57
95	Yvonne Meusburger	1491	-4
96	Vitalia Diatchenko	1491	-4
97	Tatjana Maria	1491	-4
98	Alize Lim	1491	-4
99	Anett Kontaveit	1491	-3
100	Francoise Abanda	1491	-2
101	Tamira Paszek	1491	-2
102	Ana Bogdan	1491	112
103	Anabel Medina Garrigues	1490	-3
104	Andrea Hlavackova	1490	-3
105	Fiona Ferro	1490	-1
106	Iveta Melzer	1490	-1
107	Laura Robson	1490	-1
108	Mandy Minella	1490	-1
109	Mariana Duque	1490	-1
110	Mathilde Johansson	1490	-1
111	Sachia Vickery	1490	-1
112	Sofia Shapatava	1490	-1
113	Tadeja Majeric	1490	-1
114	Tang Haochen	1490	-1
115	Tara Moore	1490	-1
116	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai	1490	0
117	Xu Yifan	1490	0
118	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1490	0
119	Misa Eguchi	1490	0
120	Klaartje Liebens	1490	0
121	Gabriela Dabrowski	1490	85
122	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1490	87
123	Maria Irigoyen	1490	90
124	Zhu Lin	1489	-2
125	Ana Konjuh	1489	-1
126	Stephanie Foretz	1489	0
127	Renata Voracova	1489	0
128	Tamarine Tanasugarn	1489	0
129	Roberta Vinci	1489	0
130	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1489	81
131	Montserrat Gonzalez	1489	81
132	Alla Kudryavtseva	1486	-1
133	Misaki Doi	1486	-1
134	Polona Hercog	1485	-1
135	Julia Glushko	1485	28
136	Sorana Cirstea	1484	-2
137	Bojana Jovanovski	1484	-2
138	Taylor Townsend	1484	-2
139	Richel Hogenkamp	1484	-2
140	Maria Kirilenko	1484	-2
141	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1484	2
142	Katerina Siniakova	1483	-53
143	Alexandra Dulgheru	1483	-4
144	Urszula Radwanska	1483	-4
145	Ksenia Pervak	1483	-4
146	An-Sophie Mestach	1482	-59
147	Ons Jabeur	1482	-5
148	Paula Kania	1482	-4
149	Paula Ormaechea	1482	-1
150	Elena Vesnina	1481	-29
151	Yuliya Beygelzimer	1481	-28
152	Zheng Jie	1481	-7
153	Alisa Kleybanova	1481	-7
154	Amandine Hesse	1481	-7
155	Lara Arruabarrena	1481	-6
156	Andreea Mitu	1480	-61
157	Danka Kovinic	1480	-55
158	Estrella Cabeza Candela	1480	-55
159	Luksika Kumkhum	1480	-9
160	Hseih Su-wei	1480	-8
161	Jovana Jaksic	1480	-8
162	Kristyna Pliskova	1480	-8
163	Maryna Zanevska	1480	-8
164	Nadiia Kichenok	1480	-8
165	Arina Rodionova	1479	-40
166	Monica Puig	1479	-36
167	Johanna Konta	1479	-7
168	Duan Yingying	1475	-7
169	Wang Qiang	1474	4
170	Grace Min	1473	-8
171	Aleksandra Wozniak	1473	-7
172	Sharon Fichman	1473	-7
173	Vania King	1473	-7
174	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1473	5
175	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1472	-16
176	Shelby Rogers	1472	-8
177	Ashleigh Barty	1472	-8
178	Alexandra Cadantu	1471	-3
179	Virgine Razzano	1471	-3
180	Pauline Parmentier	1470	-23
181	Olivia Rogowska	1470	-23
182	Yulia Putintseva	1470	-5
183	Chan Yung-jan	1470	-5
184	Kristina Mladenovic	1470	-4
185	Storm Sanders	1469	-3
186	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1466	-1
187	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1466	-1
188	Petra Martic	1466	-1
189	Olga Govortsova	1465	-1
190	Teliana Pereira	1464	-20
191	Christina McHale	1464	-2
192	Anna Tatishvili	1464	-2
193	Romina Oprandi	1464	-2
194	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1463	-27
195	Monica Niculescu	1463	-24
196	Kirsten Flipkens	1463	-24
197	Shahar Pe'er	1463	-5
198	Katarzyna Piter	1463	-5
199	Maria Teresa Torro Flor	1462	-25
200	Stefanie Vogele	1462	-6
201	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	1462	-6
202	Francesca Schiavone	1461	-6
203	Karin Knapp	1460	-22
204	Timea Babos	1459	-21
205	Alison Van Uytvanck	1458	-21
206	Lesia Tsurenko	1458	-8
207	Jana Cepelova	1457	-8
208	Magdalena Rybarikova	1454	-8
209	Annika Beck	1451	-12
210	Zhang Shuai	1448	-8
211	Chanelle Scheepers	1445	-10
212	Donna Vekic	1444	-8
213	Kimiko Date-Krumm	1444	-8
214	Klara Koukalova	1437	-11