Women's ELO Rankings 02/03/2015

Lucie Safarova, © Reuters

This week saw 2 WTA tournaments being held, in Doha and Acapulco. Like in last week, most of the big names were in the Middle East, playing in Doha, though Maria Sharapova chose to play in Acapulco this week.

Our Big Gainer of the Week award this week goes to Doha winner Lucie Safarova. Playing in a tough tournament as an unseeded player, she defeated some very strong players on her way to the title, which gained her 48 ELO points, giving her a rise in the rankings of 8 places to #5.

This week, our Upset player of the Week is Alize Cornet. Also playing in Doha, she lost her 1st round match to qualifier Alexandra Dulgheru in 3 sets. This loss caused her to lose 12 ELO points and she fell 2 places in the rankings to #29.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Timea Bacsinszky, Caroline Garcia, Sesil Karatancheva, Mariana Duque and Monica Puig.

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	0
2	Maria Sharapova	1674	0
3	Serena Williams	1653	0
4	Eugenie Bouchard	1624	1
5	Lucie Safarova	1620	8
6	Ekaterina Makarova	1617	-2
7	Petra Kvitova	1613	-1
8	Carla Suarez Navarro	1605	1
9	Karolina Pliskova	1603	-2
10	Venus Williams	1600	0
11	Victoria Azarenka	1594	6
12	Caroline Wozniacki	1590	-4
13	Timea Bacsinszky	1586	16
14	Garbine Muguruza	1572	-3
15	Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova	1572	-3
16	Agnieszka Radwanska	1571	-2
17	Dominika Cibulkova	1568	-1
18	Sara Errani	1565	-3
19	Li Na	1563	-1
20	Daniela Hantuchova	1563	-1
21	Andrea Petkovic	1556	5
22	Zarina Diyas	1550	-1
23	Angelique Kerber	1549	-3
24	Flavia Pennetta	1548	-2
25	Peng Shuai	1548	-2
26	Ana Ivanovic	1548	-2
27	Madison Keys	1548	-2
28	Varvara Lepchenko	1540	2
29	Alize Cornet	1533	-2
30	Madison Brengle	1531	-2
31	Johanna Larsson	1528	9
32	Caroline Garcia	1526	61
33	Irina-Camelia Begu	1525	-1
34	Casey Dellacqua	1523	-3
35	Aleksandra Krunic	1521	-1
36	Elina Svitolina	1521	-1
37	Jelena Jankovic	1521	0
38	Sesil Karatantcheva	1520	180
39	Yaroslava Shvedova	1517	0
40	Tsvetana Pironkova	1515	1
41	Heather Watson	1513	1
42	Anna Schmiedlova	1511	-6
43	Coco Vandeweghe	1511	3
44	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1511	4
45	Ajla Tomljanovic	1510	-12
46	Alison Riske	1510	3
47	Veronica Cepede Royg	1510	3
48	Vera Zvonareva	1508	3
49	Tereza Smitkova	1507	-11
50	Julia Gorges	1507	2
51	Camila Giorgi	1507	2
52	Mona Barthel	1506	2
53	Kurumi Nara	1505	2
54	Marina Erakovic	1505	3
55	Belinda Bencic	1505	3
56	Samantha Stosur	1504	-11
57	Alexandra Panova	1504	2
58	Kateryna Kozlova	1504	2
59	Sabine Lisicki	1503	-12
60	CiCi Bellis	1503	1
61	Michelle Larcher de Brito	1503	1
62	Sloane Stephens	1502	-19
63	Lauren Davis	1502	-19
64	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1502	-1
65	Chang Kai-Chen	1502	-1
66	Oceane Dodin	1502	-1
67	Evgeniya Rodina	1502	-1
68	Indy De Vroome	1502	-1
69	Nicole Gibbs	1501	0
70	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1501	0
71	Irina Falconi	1501	0
72	Carina Witthoft	1501	0
73	Cagla Buyukakcay	1501	0
74	Anastasia Rodionova	1500	0
75	Ayumi Morita	1500	0
76	Claire Feuerstein	1500	0
77	Galina Voskoboeva	1500	0
78	Naomi Broady	1500	0
79	Vesna Dolonc	1500	0
80	Victoria Duval	1500	0
81	Denisa Allertova	1500	0
82	Gabriela Ce	1499	0
83	Elena Bogdan	1499	136
84	Yanina Wickmayer	1498	-1
85	Kaia Kanepi	1496	-1
86	Zheng Saisai	1495	-30
87	Kiki Bertens	1495	-1
88	Mariana Duque	1495	21
89	Jarmila Gajdosova	1494	-2
90	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1494	-2
91	Lucie Hradecka	1493	-23
92	Danielle Collins	1493	-3
93	Petra Cetkovska	1493	-3
94	Monica Puig	1493	72
95	Samantha Murray	1492	-4
96	Kateryna Bondarenko	1492	-4
97	Dinah Pfizenmaier	1492	-3
98	Yvonne Meusburger	1491	-3
99	Vitalia Diatchenko	1491	-3
100	Tatjana Maria	1491	-3
101	Alize Lim	1491	-3
102	Anett Kontaveit	1491	-3
103	Francoise Abanda	1491	-3
104	Tamira Paszek	1491	-3
105	Ana Bogdan	1491	-3
106	Anabel Medina Garrigues	1490	-3
107	Andrea Hlavackova	1490	-3
108	Fiona Ferro	1490	-3
109	Iveta Melzer	1490	-3
110	Laura Robson	1490	-3
111	Mandy Minella	1490	-3
112	Mathilde Johansson	1490	-2
113	Sachia Vickery	1490	-2
114	Sofia Shapatava	1490	-2
115	Tadeja Majeric	1490	-2
116	Tang Haochen	1490	-2
117	Tara Moore	1490	-2
118	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai	1490	-2
119	Xu Yifan	1490	-2
120	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1490	-2
121	Misa Eguchi	1490	-2
122	Klaartje Liebens	1490	-2
123	Gabriela Dabrowski	1490	-2
124	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1490	-2
125	Maria Irigoyen	1490	-2
126	Marcela Zacarias	1490	89
127	Marie Bouzkova	1490	90
128	Louisa Chirico	1490	92
129	Zhu Lin	1489	-5
130	Ana Konjuh	1489	-5
131	Stephanie Foretz	1489	-5
132	Renata Voracova	1489	-5
133	Tamarine Tanasugarn	1489	-5
134	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1489	-4
135	Montserrat Gonzalez	1489	-4
136	Ana Sofia Sanchez	1489	80
137	Alexandra Dulgheru	1488	6
138	Daria Gavrilova	1486	-53
139	Alla Kudryavtseva	1486	-7
140	Misaki Doi	1486	-7
141	Julia Glushko	1485	-6
142	Sorana Cirstea	1484	-6
143	Bojana Jovanovski	1484	-6
144	Taylor Townsend	1484	-6
145	Maria Kirilenko	1484	-5
146	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1484	-5
147	Katerina Siniakova	1483	-5
148	Urszula Radwanska	1483	-4
149	Ksenia Pervak	1483	-4
150	An-Sophie Mestach	1482	-4
151	Paula Kania	1482	-3
152	Paula Ormaechea	1482	-3
153	Elena Vesnina	1481	-3
154	Yuliya Beygelzimer	1481	-3
155	Zheng Jie	1481	-3
156	Alisa Kleybanova	1481	-3
157	Amandine Hesse	1481	-3
158	Andreea Mitu	1480	-2
159	Danka Kovinic	1480	-2
160	Estrella Cabeza Candela	1480	-2
161	Luksika Kumkhum	1480	-2
162	Hseih Su-wei	1480	-2
163	Jovana Jaksic	1480	-2
164	Kristyna Pliskova	1480	-2
165	Maryna Zanevska	1480	-2
166	Nadiia Kichenok	1480	-2
167	Roberta Vinci	1479	-38
168	Arina Rodionova	1479	-3
169	Johanna Konta	1479	-2
170	Richel Hogenkamp	1476	-31
171	Polona Hercog	1475	-37
172	Duan Yingying	1475	-4
173	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1475	21
174	Ons Jabeur	1474	-27
175	Wang Qiang	1474	-6
176	Grace Min	1473	-6
177	Aleksandra Wozniak	1473	-6
178	Sharon Fichman	1473	-6
179	Vania King	1473	-6
180	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1472	-5
181	Ashleigh Barty	1472	-4
182	Magdalena Rybarikova	1472	26
183	Alexandra Cadantu	1471	-5
184	Virgine Razzano	1471	-5
185	Lara Arruabarrena	1470	-30
186	Pauline Parmentier	1470	-6
187	Olivia Rogowska	1470	-6
188	Yulia Putintseva	1470	-6
189	Chan Yung-jan	1470	-6
190	Kristina Mladenovic	1470	-6
191	Storm Sanders	1469	-6
192	Shelby Rogers	1467	-16
193	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1466	-7
194	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1466	-7
195	Petra Martic	1466	-7
196	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1465	-22
197	Olga Govortsova	1465	-8
198	Teliana Pereira	1464	-8
199	Christina McHale	1464	-8
200	Anna Tatishvili	1464	-8
201	Romina Oprandi	1464	-8
202	Maria Teresa Torro Flor	1464	-3
203	Monica Niculescu	1463	-8
204	Shahar Pe'er	1463	-7
205	Katarzyna Piter	1463	-7
206	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	1462	-5
207	Francesca Schiavone	1461	-5
208	Lesia Tsurenko	1461	-2
209	Karin Knapp	1460	-6
210	Timea Babos	1459	-6
211	Alison Van Uytvanck	1458	-6
212	Jana Cepelova	1457	-5
213	Stefanie Vogele	1456	-13
214	Kirsten Flipkens	1455	-18
215	Annika Beck	1451	-6
216	Zhang Shuai	1448	-6
217	Chanelle Scheepers	1445	-6
218	Donna Vekic	1444	-6
219	Kimiko Date-Krumm	1444	-6
220	Klara Koukalova	1437	-6