Women's ELO Rankings 11/05/2015

Like last week, all the tennis finished on Saturday, but because of other things I've been doing, this post is up a day later than originally planned. This week we saw most of the top players at Madrid, and most of them will also be at Rome next week.

Svetlana Kuznetsova, © Getty Images

This week's Big Gainer of the week this week is Svetlana Kuznetsova. She was unseeded after a series of poor performances, but after defeating Ekaterina Makarova, she was in top form, and could only be stopped in the final by Petra Kvitova. Her run to the final gave Svetlana 57 ELO points, and a new ranking of #37, which is a massive 150 places higher than last week.

Our Upset Player of the week award doesn't go to Ekaterina Makarova, it isn't going to Angelique Kerber either. It's being awarded to former ELO #1 Simona Halep, for her 1st round loss to Alize Cornet. When you're one of the best players in the world, 1st round losses are unforgivable, even at this level. Simona lost 15 ELO points for this loss, which sees he fall 1 place in my rankings to #2, which means that Serena Williams is now the #1 Female tennis player according to my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Samantha Stosur, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Roberta Vinci.

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	Serena Williams	1729	1
2	Simona Halep	1725	-1
3	Maria Sharapova	1667	2
4	Carla Suarez Navarro	1665	-1
5	Caroline Wozniacki	1655	1
6	Petra Kvitova	1649	5
7	Karolina Pliskova	1643	-3
8	Timea Bacsinszky	1629	-1
9	Angelique Kerber	1622	-1
10	Victoria Azarenka	1607	3
11	Venus Williams	1604	-2
12	Ekaterina Makarova	1598	-2
13	Lucie Safarova	1594	4
14	Sara Errani	1591	0
15	Eugenie Bouchard	1587	-3
16	Elina Svitolina	1587	-1
17	Andrea Petkovic	1586	-1
18	Agnieszka Radwanska	1582	1
19	Flavia Pennetta	1572	-1
20	Dominika Cibulkova	1568	1
21	Caroline Garcia	1568	5
22	Garbine Muguruza	1563	-2
23	Li Na	1563	-1
24	Ana Ivanovic	1561	6
25	Anna Schmiedlova	1560	-1
26	Lucie Hradecka	1557	-1
27	Barbora Strycova	1556	5
28	Irina-Camelia Begu	1556	6
29	Sloane Stephens	1555	-2
30	Jelena Jankovic	1552	-2
31	Madison Keys	1548	-8
32	Madison Brengle	1544	-3
33	Peng Shuai	1536	-2
34	Alize Cornet	1536	1
35	Sabine Lisicki	1533	-2
36	Yaroslava Shvedova	1533	0
37	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1531	150
38	Johanna Larsson	1527	0
39	Zarina Diyas	1524	-2
40	Varvara Lepchenko	1521	2
41	CiCi Bellis	1518	2
42	Daria Gavrilova	1518	2
43	Mariana Duque Marino	1518	3
44	Samantha Stosur	1518	13
45	Teliana Pereira	1516	0
46	Daniela Hantuchova	1515	-6
47	Belinda Bencic	1514	-8
48	Danka Kovinic	1513	-1
49	Camila Giorgi	1512	-8
50	Tsvetana Pironkova	1511	5
51	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1510	-1
52	Veronica Cepede Royg	1510	-1
53	Tatjana Maria	1510	-1
54	Sesil Karatantcheva	1509	-1
55	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1509	-1
56	Lauren Davis	1508	0
57	Yanina Wickmayer	1505	1
58	Hseih Su-wei	1504	1
59	Irina Falconi	1504	1
60	Denisa Allertova	1504	1
61	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1504	93
62	Paula Badosa Gibert	1503	-13
63	Alexandra Panova	1503	-1
64	Michelle Larcher de Brito	1503	0
65	Lesia Tsurenko	1503	0
66	Chang Kai-Chen	1502	1
67	Oceane Dodin	1502	1
68	Marina Melnikova	1502	1
69	Heather Watson	1501	-21
70	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1501	0
71	Carina Witthoft	1500	0
72	Ayumi Morita	1500	1
73	Claire Feuerstein	1500	1
74	Galina Voskoboeva	1500	1
75	Naomi Broady	1500	1
76	Vesna Dolonc	1500	1
77	Victoria Duval	1500	1
78	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1500	1
79	Kristina Mladenovic	1500	1
80	Gabriela Ce	1499	1
81	Elena Bogdan	1499	1
82	Magda Linette	1498	1
83	Katerina Siniakova	1498	1
84	Coco Vandeweghe	1498	4
85	Jarmila Gajdosova	1497	-22
86	Nicole Vaidisova	1496	0
87	Julia Glushko	1496	0
88	Casey Dellacqua	1494	1
89	Kurumi Nara	1493	-23
90	Danielle Collins	1493	0
91	Wang Yafan	1493	0
92	Zhu Lin	1493	0
93	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1493	0
94	Laura Siegemund	1493	0
95	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1492	0
96	Indy De Vroome	1492	0
97	Samantha Murray	1492	0
98	Sachia Vickery	1492	0
99	Alexa Glatch	1492	1
100	Darya Kasatkina	1492	1
101	Kaia Kanepi	1492	38
102	Alexandra Dulgheru	1491	-30
103	Dinah Pfizenmaier	1491	-1
104	Yvonne Meusburger	1491	-1
105	Vitalia Diatchenko	1491	-1
106	Alize Lim	1491	-1
107	Anett Kontaveit	1491	-1
108	Tamira Paszek	1491	-1
109	Ana Bogdan	1491	-1
110	Edina Gallovits-Hall	1491	-1
111	Alberta Brianti	1491	-1
112	Maria Irigoyen	1491	-1
113	Kristina Schmiedlova	1491	-1
114	Anastasia Rodionova	1490	-1
115	Anabel Medina Garrigues	1490	-1
116	Andrea Hlavackova	1490	-1
117	Fiona Ferro	1490	-1
118	Iveta Melzer	1490	-1
119	Laura Robson	1490	-1
120	Mathilde Johansson	1490	-1
121	Sofia Shapatava	1490	-1
122	Tadeja Majeric	1490	-1
123	Tang Haochen	1490	-1
124	Tara Moore	1490	-1
125	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai	1490	-1
126	Misa Eguchi	1490	-1
127	Klaartje Liebens	1490	-1
128	Gabriela Dabrowski	1490	-1
129	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1490	-1
130	Marcela Zacarias	1490	-1
131	Marie Bouzkova	1490	-1
132	Jessica Pegula	1490	-1
133	Nigina Abduraimova	1490	-1
134	Maria Paulina Perez Garcia	1490	0
135	Maria Herazo Gonzalez	1490	0
136	Yuliana Lizarazo	1490	0
137	Nastja Kolar	1490	0
138	Rita Atik	1490	0
139	Lara Arruabarrena	1489	-54
140	Aleksandra Krunic	1489	0
141	Kristina Kucova	1489	0
142	Ana Konjuh	1489	1
143	Stephanie Foretz	1489	1
144	Renata Voracova	1489	1
145	Tamarine Tanasugarn	1489	1
146	Montserrat Gonzalez	1489	1
147	Jawairiah Noordin	1489	1
148	Junri Namigata	1489	1
149	Magdalena Frech	1489	1
150	Cindy Burger	1489	1
151	Mandy Minella	1488	1
152	Julia Gorges	1487	7
153	Kateryna Bondarenko	1486	2
154	Roberta Vinci	1486	48
155	Ajla Tomljanovic	1485	9
156	Vera Zvonareva	1484	0
157	Taylor Townsend	1484	0
158	Maria Kirilenko	1484	0
159	Andreea Mitu	1483	-60
160	Kateryna Kozlova	1483	0
161	Ksenia Pervak	1483	0
162	Alison Riske	1482	-20
163	Paula Kania	1482	-1
164	Paula Ormaechea	1482	-1
165	Francoise Abanda	1481	0
166	Zheng Jie	1481	0
167	Alisa Kleybanova	1481	0
168	Amandine Hesse	1481	0
169	Luksika Kumkhum	1481	0
170	Tereza Smitkova	1481	0
171	Urszula Radwanska	1480	0
172	Xu Yifan	1480	0
173	Estrella Cabeza Candela	1480	0
174	Kristyna Pliskova	1480	0
175	Nadiia Kichenok	1480	0
176	Monica Puig	1479	-43
177	Nicole Gibbs	1479	-1
178	Ana Sofia Sanchez	1479	-1
179	Arina Rodionova	1479	-1
180	Johanna Konta	1479	-1
181	Ons Jabeur	1479	-1
182	Elena Vesnina	1477	-1
183	Timea Babos	1477	-1
184	Richel Hogenkamp	1476	-1
185	An-Sophie Mestach	1476	-1
186	Mona Barthel	1475	-33
187	Duan Yingying	1475	-1
188	Alison Van Uytvanck	1474	0
189	Petra Cetkovska	1473	0
190	Aleksandra Wozniak	1473	0
191	Sharon Fichman	1473	0
192	Vania King	1473	0
193	Ashleigh Barty	1472	0
194	Polona Hercog	1472	0
195	Evgeniya Rodina	1471	0
196	Maryna Zanevska	1471	0
197	Louisa Chirico	1471	0
198	Yuliya Beygelzimer	1471	0
199	Alexandra Cadantu	1471	0
200	Virgine Razzano	1471	0
201	Bojana Jovanovski	1470	0
202	Jovana Jaksic	1470	1
203	Olivia Rogowska	1470	1
204	Chan Yung-jan	1470	1
205	Cagla Buyukakcay	1469	1
206	Storm Sanders	1469	1
207	Christina McHale	1469	13
208	Zheng Saisai	1467	0
209	Alla Kudryavtseva	1467	0
210	Klara Koukalova	1467	0
211	Misaki Doi	1466	0
212	Marina Erakovic	1465	-27
213	Sorana Cirstea	1465	-1
214	Yulia Putintseva	1465	-1
215	Wang Qiang	1465	-1
216	Pauline Parmentier	1464	-1
217	Anna Tatishvili	1464	-1
218	Romina Oprandi	1464	-1
219	Monica Niculescu	1463	-1
220	Katarzyna Piter	1463	-1
221	Kirsten Flipkens	1460	0
222	Kiki Bertens	1458	1
223	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1457	1
224	Grace Min	1455	2
225	Shahar Pe'er	1454	2
226	Karin Knapp	1454	2
227	Magdalena Rybarikova	1453	2
228	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1452	-6
229	Olga Govortsova	1450	-4
230	Zhang Shuai	1447	0
231	Petra Martic	1446	0
232	Donna Vekic	1445	0
233	Stefanie Vogele	1443	2
234	Chanelle Scheepers	1443	2
235	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	1442	2
236	Maria Teresa Torro Flor	1438	-2
237	Francesca Schiavone	1436	-4
238	Jana Cepelova	1436	1
239	Kimiko Date-Krumm	1435	1
240	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1432	-2
241	Annika Beck	1430	0
242	Shelby Rogers	1430	0
243	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1420	0