Monday 28 September 2015

Men's ELO Rankings 28/09/2015

We return to our regular schedule of weekly updates for both the Men's tour and the Women's tour, with a look at the ATP tournaments held this week, in Metz and St. Petersburg.

Joao Sousa, © Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
The Big Gainer of the week award this week goes to Joao Sousa. He was the 7th seed at St. Petersburg, and was the one who took advantage of the upset player of the week's loss to make it to the final, with a win over Dominic Thiem on the way before losing to 2nd seed Milos Raonic. His run to the final gave Joao 35 ELO rating points, which puts him at #38 in my rankings, 17 places higher than last week.

This week's Upset player of the week is Tomas Berdych. He was the 1st seed at St. Petersburg, but lost in his 1st match (after receiving a bye) to Simone Bolelli, a loss that cost Tomas 14 ELO rating points. He fell 1 place in my rankings from #7 to #8.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Martin Klizan, Lucas Pouille, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Paolo Lorenzi and Benjamin Becker.

Now, the the full rankings. New players in my rankings are marked with "NEW" in the ± column.

#NameELO±
1Novak Djokovic19080
2Roger Federer18450
3Andy Murray18110
4Kei Nishikori17301
5Stan Wawrinka1723-1
6Rafael Nadal17170
7Richard Gasquet17001
8Tomas Berdych1690-1
9Kevin Anderson16820
10Jo-Wilfried Tsonga16662
11Milos Raonic16622
12Marin Cilic1654-2
13John Isner1650-2
14Gilles Simon16290
15Gael Monfils16150
16Philipp Kohlschreiber16095
17David Goffin1606-1
18Dominic Thiem1604-1
19Roberto Bautista-Agut16000
20Grigor Dimitrov1595-2
21Ivo Karlovic1592-1
22Nick Kyrgios15850
23Feliciano Lopez15850
24Jack Sock15820
25Tommy Robredo15792
26Jeremy Chardy1577-1
27Bernard Tomic15721
28Thomaz Bellucci15721
29Andreas Seppi15711
30Fabio Fognini15691
31Benoit Paire1564-5
32Simone Bolelli15620
33Gilles Muller15610
34Leonardo Mayer15500
35Guillermo Garcia-Lopez15480
36Alexandr Dolgopolov15460
37Victor Troicki15450
38Joao Sousa154217
39Fernando Verdasco1540-1
40Steve Johnson1540-1
41Marcos Baghdatis1537-1
42Borna Coric15370
43Rajeev Ram1526-2
44Denis Istomin15253
45Sam Querrey1521-2
46Donald Young15180
47Sam Groth15171
48Adrian Mannarino1516-3
49Martin Klizan151513
50Nicolas Almagro1514-1
51Pierre-Hugues Herbert1513-1
52Pablo Cuevas1513-1
53Juan Monaco15120
54Aljaz Bedene1511-10
55Jerzy Janowicz1511-1
56Teymuraz Gabashvili15071
57Nicolas Mahut15057
58Vasek Pospisil1504-2
59Alexander Zverev1503-7
60Chung Hyeon1503-2
61Lucas Pouille1501NEW
62Marcel Granollers1494-3
63Santiago Giraldo1491-2
64Dusan Lajovic14891
65Victor Estrella Burgos14871
66Radek Stepanek14861
67Thanasi Kokkinakis1483-7
68Jiri Vesely14821
69Tatsuma Ito14812
70Federico Delbonis1480-7
71Steve Darcis1478NEW
72Sergiy Stakhovsky1477-4
73Pablo Andujar14760
74Dustin Brown14767
75Andreas Haider-Maurer14750
76Robin Haase1474-2
77Michael Berrer1472-1
78Paul-Henri Mathieu1471-8
79Malek Jaziri1471-2
80Ricardas Berankis1470-8
81Denis Kudla1469-1
82Jared Donaldson14670
83Marsel Ilhan14670
84Yen-Hsun Lu14650
85Dudi Sela14640
86Pablo Carreno Busta1462-8
87Mikhail Kukushkin1462-8
88Lukas Rosol1458-2
89Diego Schwartzman1456-2
90Albert Ramos-Vinolas1455-2
91Blaz Kavcic14500
92Ernests Gulbis1445-3
93Daniel Gimeno-Traver1443-3
94Tommy Haas1440-2
95Mikhail Youzhny1431-2
96Lleyton Hewitt1431-2
97James Ward1430-2
98Tim Smyczek1427-2
99Joao Souza1412-2
100Paolo Lorenzi1410NEW
101Benjamin Becker1409-3
102Lukas Lacko1397-3

Sunday 27 September 2015

Women's ELO Rankings 28/09/2015

We return to our regular schedule of weekly updates for both the Men's tour and the Women's tour, with a look at the WTA tournaments held this week, in Tokyo, Seoul and Guangzhou.

Agnieszka Radwanska, © AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

The Big Gainer of the week award this week goes to Agnieszka Radwanska. She won the high quality tournament in Tokyo as the 7th seed, with wins over Karolina Pliskova and Belinda Bencic among others. Her victory gave Agnieszka 44 ELO rating points, which puts her at a new ranking of #7, 1 place higher than last week.

This week's Upset player of the week is Andrea Petkovic. She was seeded 2nd at Guangzhou, but lost in the 1st round to Monica Puig. This loss cost Andrea 14 ELO rating points, and she fell 3 places in my rankings to #27.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Jelena Jankovic, Yanina Wickmayer, Denisa Allertova, Alison Van Uytvanck and Aliaksandra Sasnovich.

Now, the the full rankings. New players in my rankings are marked with "NEW" in the ± column.

#NameELO±
1Serena Williams18080
2Simona Halep17340
3Angelique Kerber16870
4Belinda Bencic16872
5Petra Kvitova1685-1
6Victoria Azarenka1675-1
7Agnieszka Radwanska16731
8Lucie Safarova1639-1
9Jelena Jankovic163310
10Caroline Wozniacki16312
11Sara Errani1628-1
12Sloane Stephens1625-3
13Flavia Pennetta1622-2
14Timea Bacsinszky1619-1
15Venus Williams1616-1
16Karolina Pliskova1606-1
17Ekaterina Makarova16031
18Anna Schmiedlova16027
19Elina Svitolina1601-3
20Samantha Stosur1601-3
21Garbine Muguruza1597-1
22Madison Keys1596-1
23Carla Suarez Navarro1591-1
24Irina-Camelia Begu15879
25Kristina Mladenovic1583-2
26Ana Ivanovic15820
27Andrea Petkovic1580-3
28Sabine Lisicki1577-1
29Dominika Cibulkova15772
30Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova1568-2
31Lesia Tsurenko1564-2
32Roberta Vinci1564-2
33Camila Giorgi1547-1
34Svetlana Kuznetsova15462
35Yanina Wickmayer154410
36Denisa Allertova154420
37Barbora Strycova1541-3
38Eugenie Bouchard1540-3
39Monica Niculescu15373
40Karin Knapp1535-3
41Teliana Pereira1534-3
42Johanna Konta1534-3
43Annika Beck15290
44Johanna Larsson15276
45Jelena Ostapenko1526-1
46Daria Gavrilova1525-6
47Aliaksandra Sasnovich1524NEW
48Ana Konjuh1523-1
49Tsvetana Pironkova1521-3
50Caroline Garcia1520-9
51Varvara Lepchenko1517-2
52Lucie Hradecka1515-1
53Alize Cornet1513-1
54Mariana Duque Marino1513NEW
55Coco Vandeweghe1511-7
56Naomi Broady1508-1
57Madison Brengle15073
58Mona Barthel15067
59Christina McHale15042
60Bethanie Mattek-Sands1503-2
61Anett Kontaveit1501-2
62Danka Kovinic1498-9
63Ajla Tomljanovic1496-9
64Julia Gorges1496-1
65Heather Watson1494-8
66Magda Linette1493-4
67Yaroslava Shvedova1493NEW
68Polona Hercog1492-4
69Urszula Radwanska1488-1
70Casey Dellacqua14861
71Alison Van Uytvanck148616
72Evgeniya Rodina14841
73Elizaveta Kulichkova14848
74Magdalena Rybarikova14831
75Alexandra Dulgheru1483NEW
76Daniela Hantuchova1481-9
77Zarina Diyas1480-11
78Kateryna Bondarenko1479-6
79Kurumi Nara1479-2
80Lara Arruabarrena1478-11
81Anna Tatishvili1477-5
82Irina Falconi1476-12
83Carina Witthoft1474-5
84Klara Koukalova1473-10
85Kirsten Flipkens1472-5
86Olga Govortsova1467-1
87Alison Riske1465-5
88Katerina Siniakova14641
89Lauren Davis1463-10
90Sesil Karatantcheva14630
91Aleksandra Krunic1458-8
92Andreea Mitu1457-8
93Zheng Saisai145710
94Yulia Putintseva1455-6
95Vitalia Diatchenko1455-2
96Misaki Doi1454-10
97Tatjana Maria1454-3
98Jarmila Gajdosova1452-3
99Nicole Gibbs1452-3
100Bojana Jovanovski1451-2
101Mirjana Lucic-Baroni1450-9
102Timea Babos1450-1
103Kiki Bertens1449-12
104Tereza Smitkova1448-7
105Monica Puig1446-3
106Marina Erakovic1444-7
107Anna-Lena Friedsam1435-7
108Francesca Schiavone1432-4
109Wang Qiang1417NEW
110Stefanie Vogele1397-5