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| Maria Sharapova, © Reuters |
This week's Big Gainer of the week this week is Maria Sharapova. She's had some bad weeks recently, but this week, she finally got to the top form she's well known for, winning the tournament at Rome. Her victory gave Maria 37 ELO points, but this wasn't enough to change her ranking from #3. She'll be hoping to do just as well in Paris in a few week's time.
Our Upset Player of the week award goes to Caroline Garcia. The opposite of Maria above, she had been in great form with impressive wins over the past few months, but this week, she lost in the 1st round to qualifier Bojana Joanovski. This loss caused Caroline to lose 13 ELO points, which led to a fall of 4 places in my rankings to #25.
In other news, the world #1 position has changed again, with Simona Halep re-taking the position after losing it last week.
Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Daria Gavrilova, Alexandra Dulgheru, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Heather Watson and Christina McHale.
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 | 1730 | 1 |
| 2 | Serena Williams | 1717 | -1 |
| 3 | Maria Sharapova | 1704 | 0 |
| 4 | Carla Suarez Navarro | 1694 | 0 |
| 5 | Petra Kvitova | 1653 | 1 |
| 6 | Caroline Wozniacki | 1644 | -1 |
| 7 | Karolina Pliskova | 1633 | 0 |
| 8 | Timea Bacsinszky | 1633 | 0 |
| 9 | Victoria Azarenka | 1627 | 1 |
| 10 | Angelique Kerber | 1618 | -1 |
| 11 | Venus Williams | 1614 | 0 |
| 12 | Ekaterina Makarova | 1592 | 0 |
| 13 | Lucie Safarova | 1590 | 0 |
| 14 | Eugenie Bouchard | 1587 | 1 |
| 15 | Elina Svitolina | 1587 | 1 |
| 16 | Sara Errani | 1586 | -2 |
| 17 | Andrea Petkovic | 1586 | 0 |
| 18 | Agnieszka Radwanska | 1582 | 0 |
| 19 | Dominika Cibulkova | 1568 | 1 |
| 20 | Irina-Camelia Begu | 1567 | 8 |
| 21 | Garbine Muguruza | 1563 | 1 |
| 22 | Li Na | 1563 | 1 |
| 23 | Flavia Pennetta | 1562 | -4 |
| 24 | Jelena Jankovic | 1560 | 6 |
| 25 | Caroline Garcia | 1555 | -4 |
| 26 | Daria Gavrilova | 1554 | 16 |
| 27 | Anna Schmiedlova | 1551 | -2 |
| 28 | Ana Ivanovic | 1550 | -4 |
| 29 | Lucie Hradecka | 1548 | -3 |
| 30 | Madison Keys | 1546 | 1 |
| 31 | Barbora Strycova | 1544 | -4 |
| 32 | Sloane Stephens | 1544 | -3 |
| 33 | Sabine Lisicki | 1537 | 2 |
| 34 | Peng Shuai | 1536 | -1 |
| 35 | Madison Brengle | 1534 | -3 |
| 36 | Yaroslava Shvedova | 1533 | 0 |
| 37 | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 1531 | 0 |
| 38 | Alize Cornet | 1528 | -4 |
| 39 | Johanna Larsson | 1527 | -1 |
| 40 | Zarina Diyas | 1526 | -1 |
| 41 | Alexandra Dulgheru | 1521 | 61 |
| 42 | CiCi Bellis | 1518 | -1 |
| 43 | Mariana Duque Marino | 1518 | 0 |
| 44 | Teliana Pereira | 1516 | 1 |
| 45 | Danka Kovinic | 1513 | 3 |
| 46 | Varvara Lepchenko | 1510 | -6 |
| 47 | Beatriz Haddad Maia | 1510 | 4 |
| 48 | Veronica Cepede Royg | 1510 | 4 |
| 49 | Tatjana Maria | 1510 | 4 |
| 50 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 1510 | 11 |
| 51 | Sesil Karatantcheva | 1509 | 3 |
| 52 | Elizaveta Kulichkova | 1509 | 3 |
| 53 | Samantha Stosur | 1508 | -9 |
| 54 | Lauren Davis | 1508 | 2 |
| 55 | Daniela Hantuchova | 1507 | -9 |
| 56 | Yanina Wickmayer | 1505 | 1 |
| 57 | Heather Watson | 1505 | 12 |
| 58 | Belinda Bencic | 1504 | -11 |
| 59 | Hseih Su-wei | 1504 | -1 |
| 60 | Irina Falconi | 1504 | -1 |
| 61 | Denisa Allertova | 1504 | -1 |
| 62 | Camila Giorgi | 1503 | -13 |
| 63 | Paula Badosa Gibert | 1503 | -1 |
| 64 | Alexandra Panova | 1503 | -1 |
| 65 | Michelle Larcher de Brito | 1503 | -1 |
| 66 | Lesia Tsurenko | 1503 | -1 |
| 67 | Chang Kai-Chen | 1502 | -1 |
| 68 | Oceane Dodin | 1502 | -1 |
| 69 | Marina Melnikova | 1502 | -1 |
| 70 | Kristina Mladenovic | 1502 | 9 |
| 71 | Tsvetana Pironkova | 1501 | -21 |
| 72 | Aliaksandra Sasnovich | 1501 | -2 |
| 73 | Christina McHale | 1501 | 134 |
| 74 | Carina Witthoft | 1500 | -3 |
| 75 | Ayumi Morita | 1500 | -3 |
| 76 | Claire Feuerstein | 1500 | -3 |
| 77 | Galina Voskoboeva | 1500 | -3 |
| 78 | Naomi Broady | 1500 | -3 |
| 79 | Vesna Dolonc | 1500 | -3 |
| 80 | Victoria Duval | 1500 | -3 |
| 81 | Sara Sorribes Tormo | 1500 | -3 |
| 82 | Jarmila Gajdosova | 1500 | 3 |
| 83 | Gabriela Ce | 1499 | -3 |
| 84 | Elena Bogdan | 1499 | -3 |
| 85 | Magda Linette | 1498 | -3 |
| 86 | Coco Vandeweghe | 1498 | -2 |
| 87 | Nicole Vaidisova | 1496 | -1 |
| 88 | Julia Glushko | 1496 | -1 |
| 89 | Casey Dellacqua | 1494 | -1 |
| 90 | Kurumi Nara | 1493 | -1 |
| 91 | Danielle Collins | 1493 | -1 |
| 92 | Wang Yafan | 1493 | -1 |
| 93 | Zhu Lin | 1493 | -1 |
| 94 | Lourdes Domingues Lino | 1493 | -1 |
| 95 | Laura Siegemund | 1493 | -1 |
| 96 | Natalia Vikhlyantseva | 1492 | -1 |
| 97 | Indy De Vroome | 1492 | -1 |
| 98 | Samantha Murray | 1492 | -1 |
| 99 | Sachia Vickery | 1492 | -1 |
| 100 | Alexa Glatch | 1492 | -1 |
| 101 | Darya Kasatkina | 1492 | -1 |
| 102 | Kaia Kanepi | 1492 | -1 |
| 103 | Katerina Siniakova | 1491 | -20 |
| 104 | Dinah Pfizenmaier | 1491 | -1 |
| 105 | Yvonne Meusburger | 1491 | -1 |
| 106 | Vitalia Diatchenko | 1491 | -1 |
| 107 | Alize Lim | 1491 | -1 |
| 108 | Anett Kontaveit | 1491 | -1 |
| 109 | Tamira Paszek | 1491 | -1 |
| 110 | Ana Bogdan | 1491 | -1 |
| 111 | Edina Gallovits-Hall | 1491 | -1 |
| 112 | Alberta Brianti | 1491 | -1 |
| 113 | Maria Irigoyen | 1491 | -1 |
| 114 | Kristina Schmiedlova | 1491 | -1 |
| 115 | Anastasia Rodionova | 1490 | -1 |
| 116 | Anabel Medina Garrigues | 1490 | -1 |
| 117 | Andrea Hlavackova | 1490 | -1 |
| 118 | Fiona Ferro | 1490 | -1 |
| 119 | Iveta Melzer | 1490 | -1 |
| 120 | Laura Robson | 1490 | -1 |
| 121 | Mathilde Johansson | 1490 | -1 |
| 122 | Sofia Shapatava | 1490 | -1 |
| 123 | Tadeja Majeric | 1490 | -1 |
| 124 | Tang Haochen | 1490 | -1 |
| 125 | Tara Moore | 1490 | -1 |
| 126 | Nicha Lertpitaksinchai | 1490 | -1 |
| 127 | Misa Eguchi | 1490 | -1 |
| 128 | Klaartje Liebens | 1490 | -1 |
| 129 | Gabriela Dabrowski | 1490 | -1 |
| 130 | Paula Cristina Goncalves | 1490 | -1 |
| 131 | Marcela Zacarias | 1490 | -1 |
| 132 | Marie Bouzkova | 1490 | -1 |
| 133 | Jessica Pegula | 1490 | -1 |
| 134 | Nigina Abduraimova | 1490 | -1 |
| 135 | Maria Paulina Perez Garcia | 1490 | -1 |
| 136 | Maria Herazo Gonzalez | 1490 | -1 |
| 137 | Yuliana Lizarazo | 1490 | -1 |
| 138 | Nastja Kolar | 1490 | -1 |
| 139 | Rita Atik | 1490 | -1 |
| 140 | Bojana Jovanovski | 1490 | 61 |
| 141 | Lara Arruabarrena | 1489 | -2 |
| 142 | Aleksandra Krunic | 1489 | -2 |
| 143 | Kristina Kucova | 1489 | -2 |
| 144 | Ana Konjuh | 1489 | -2 |
| 145 | Stephanie Foretz | 1489 | -2 |
| 146 | Renata Voracova | 1489 | -2 |
| 147 | Tamarine Tanasugarn | 1489 | -2 |
| 148 | Montserrat Gonzalez | 1489 | -2 |
| 149 | Jawairiah Noordin | 1489 | -2 |
| 150 | Junri Namigata | 1489 | -2 |
| 151 | Magdalena Frech | 1489 | -2 |
| 152 | Cindy Burger | 1489 | -2 |
| 153 | Alison Riske | 1489 | 9 |
| 154 | Nastassja Burnett | 1489 | 90 |
| 155 | Mandy Minella | 1488 | -4 |
| 156 | Julia Gorges | 1487 | -4 |
| 157 | Kateryna Bondarenko | 1486 | -4 |
| 158 | Ajla Tomljanovic | 1485 | -3 |
| 159 | Vera Zvonareva | 1484 | -3 |
| 160 | Taylor Townsend | 1484 | -3 |
| 161 | Maria Kirilenko | 1484 | -3 |
| 162 | Andreea Mitu | 1483 | -3 |
| 163 | Kateryna Kozlova | 1483 | -3 |
| 164 | Ksenia Pervak | 1483 | -3 |
| 165 | Paula Kania | 1482 | -2 |
| 166 | Paula Ormaechea | 1482 | -2 |
| 167 | Francoise Abanda | 1481 | -2 |
| 168 | Zheng Jie | 1481 | -2 |
| 169 | Alisa Kleybanova | 1481 | -2 |
| 170 | Amandine Hesse | 1481 | -2 |
| 171 | Luksika Kumkhum | 1481 | -2 |
| 172 | Tereza Smitkova | 1481 | -2 |
| 173 | Xu Yifan | 1480 | -1 |
| 174 | Estrella Cabeza Candela | 1480 | -1 |
| 175 | Kristyna Pliskova | 1480 | -1 |
| 176 | Nadiia Kichenok | 1480 | -1 |
| 177 | Nicole Gibbs | 1479 | 0 |
| 178 | Ana Sofia Sanchez | 1479 | 0 |
| 179 | Arina Rodionova | 1479 | 0 |
| 180 | Johanna Konta | 1479 | 0 |
| 181 | Ons Jabeur | 1479 | 0 |
| 182 | Timea Babos | 1477 | 1 |
| 183 | Roberta Vinci | 1476 | -29 |
| 184 | Richel Hogenkamp | 1476 | 0 |
| 185 | An-Sophie Mestach | 1476 | 0 |
| 186 | Duan Yingying | 1475 | 1 |
| 187 | Alison Van Uytvanck | 1474 | 1 |
| 188 | Petra Cetkovska | 1473 | 1 |
| 189 | Aleksandra Wozniak | 1473 | 1 |
| 190 | Sharon Fichman | 1473 | 1 |
| 191 | Vania King | 1473 | 1 |
| 192 | Urszula Radwanska | 1472 | -21 |
| 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 | Monica Puig | 1470 | -25 |
| 202 | Mona Barthel | 1470 | -16 |
| 203 | Jovana Jaksic | 1470 | -1 |
| 204 | Olivia Rogowska | 1470 | -1 |
| 205 | Chan Yung-jan | 1470 | -1 |
| 206 | Cagla Buyukakcay | 1469 | -1 |
| 207 | Storm Sanders | 1469 | -1 |
| 208 | Elena Vesnina | 1468 | -26 |
| 209 | Zheng Saisai | 1467 | -1 |
| 210 | Alla Kudryavtseva | 1467 | -1 |
| 211 | Klara Koukalova | 1467 | -1 |
| 212 | Marina Erakovic | 1465 | 0 |
| 213 | Sorana Cirstea | 1465 | 0 |
| 214 | Yulia Putintseva | 1465 | 0 |
| 215 | Wang Qiang | 1465 | 0 |
| 216 | Pauline Parmentier | 1464 | 0 |
| 217 | Anna Tatishvili | 1464 | 0 |
| 218 | Romina Oprandi | 1464 | 0 |
| 219 | Monica Niculescu | 1463 | 0 |
| 220 | Katarzyna Piter | 1463 | 0 |
| 221 | Kirsten Flipkens | 1460 | 0 |
| 222 | Kiki Bertens | 1458 | 0 |
| 223 | Karin Knapp | 1458 | 3 |
| 224 | Misaki Doi | 1457 | -13 |
| 225 | Anna-Lena Friedsam | 1457 | -2 |
| 226 | Magdalena Rybarikova | 1457 | 1 |
| 227 | Grace Min | 1455 | -3 |
| 228 | Shahar Pe'er | 1454 | -3 |
| 229 | Bethanie Mattek-Sands | 1452 | -1 |
| 230 | Olga Govortsova | 1450 | -1 |
| 231 | Zhang Shuai | 1447 | -1 |
| 232 | Petra Martic | 1446 | -1 |
| 233 | Donna Vekic | 1445 | -1 |
| 234 | Stefanie Vogele | 1443 | -1 |
| 235 | Chanelle Scheepers | 1443 | -1 |
| 236 | Patricia Mayr-Achleitner | 1442 | -1 |
| 237 | Maria Teresa Torro Flor | 1438 | -1 |
| 238 | Jana Cepelova | 1436 | 0 |
| 239 | Kimiko Date-Krumm | 1435 | 0 |
| 240 | Mirjana Lucic-Baroni | 1432 | 0 |
| 241 | Annika Beck | 1430 | 0 |
| 242 | Shelby Rogers | 1430 | 0 |
| 243 | Francesca Schiavone | 1427 | -6 |
| 244 | Silvia Soler Espinosa | 1420 | -1 |
