Women's ELO Rankings 05/10/2015

As the WTA Finals approach later this year, the Asian swing of the WTA tour is in full force, with tournaments in Wuhan and Tashkent held this week.

Venus Williams, © Getty Images

The Big Gainer of the week award this week goes to Venus Williams. She won the tournament in Wuhan as an unseeded player, with wins over Agnieszka Radwanska, and then successfully taking advantage of other upsets to win the title. Her wins gave Venus 54 ELO rating points, which puts her at #6 in my rankings, 9 places higher than last week.

This week's Upset player of the week is Maria Sharapova. She isn't ranked right now as she hasn't played enough matches since I started collecting matches played data after the French Open (she only needs 1 more to be ranked), but she is still one of the highest rated players in my database. However, her loss to Barbora Strycova in Wuhan cost her 15 ELO rating points. Her current rating would put her in #3 on my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Garbine Muguruza, Roberta Vinci, Johanna Konta, Nao Hibino and Donna Vekic.

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

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1808	0
2	Simona Halep	1725	0
3	Angelique Kerber	1697	0
4	Belinda Bencic	1678	0
5	Petra Kvitova	1678	0
6	Venus Williams	1670	9
7	Victoria Azarenka	1666	-1
8	Agnieszka Radwanska	1661	-1
9	Lucie Safarova	1639	-1
10	Garbine Muguruza	1631	11
11	Jelena Jankovic	1630	-2
12	Flavia Pennetta	1622	1
13	Caroline Wozniacki	1620	-3
14	Sloane Stephens	1620	-2
15	Timea Bacsinszky	1619	-1
16	Anna Schmiedlova	1619	2
17	Sara Errani	1615	-6
18	Karolina Pliskova	1611	-2
19	Elina Svitolina	1606	0
20	Ekaterina Makarova	1603	-3
21	Roberta Vinci	1598	11
22	Madison Keys	1593	0
23	Kristina Mladenovic	1592	2
24	Carla Suarez Navarro	1591	-1
25	Samantha Stosur	1587	-5
26	Ana Ivanovic	1587	0
27	Irina-Camelia Begu	1583	-3
28	Sabine Lisicki	1577	0
29	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1571	1
30	Andrea Petkovic	1569	-3
31	Johanna Konta	1566	11
32	Dominika Cibulkova	1565	-3
33	Camila Giorgi	1563	0
34	Lesia Tsurenko	1552	-3
35	Barbora Strycova	1552	2
36	Yanina Wickmayer	1544	-1
37	Denisa Allertova	1544	-1
38	Eugenie Bouchard	1540	0
39	Coco Vandeweghe	1538	16
40	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1537	-6
41	Monica Niculescu	1537	-2
42	Karin Knapp	1535	-2
43	Annika Beck	1534	0
44	Johanna Larsson	1531	0
45	Daria Gavrilova	1529	1
46	Margarita Gasparyan	1528	NEW
47	Teliana Pereira	1524	-6
48	Ana Konjuh	1523	0
49	Caroline Garcia	1523	1
50	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1522	-3
51	Patricia Maria Tig	1518	NEW
52	Varvara Lepchenko	1517	-1
53	Lucie Hradecka	1515	-1
54	Jelena Ostapenko	1514	-9
55	Tsvetana Pironkova	1512	-6
56	Madison Brengle	1511	1
57	Naomi Broady	1508	-1
58	Mariana Duque Marino	1506	-4
59	Mona Barthel	1506	-1
60	Christina McHale	1504	-1
61	Evgeniya Rodina	1504	11
62	Alize Cornet	1503	-9
63	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1503	-3
64	Julia Gorges	1499	0
65	Donna Vekic	1496	NEW
66	Magda Linette	1493	0
67	Yaroslava Shvedova	1492	0
68	Ajla Tomljanovic	1491	-5
69	Anett Kontaveit	1490	-8
70	Danka Kovinic	1490	-8
71	Heather Watson	1488	-6
72	Casey Dellacqua	1486	-2
73	Alison Van Uytvanck	1486	-2
74	Polona Hercog	1483	-6
75	Alexandra Panova	1482	NEW
76	Kateryna Bondarenko	1479	2
77	Kurumi Nara	1479	2
78	Urszula Radwanska	1478	-9
79	Lara Arruabarrena	1478	1
80	Anna Tatishvili	1477	1
81	Magdalena Rybarikova	1476	-7
82	Alexandra Dulgheru	1476	-7
83	Irina Falconi	1476	-1
84	Bojana Jovanovski	1476	16
85	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1475	-12
86	Daniela Hantuchova	1474	-10
87	Carina Witthoft	1474	-4
88	Zarina Diyas	1473	-11
89	Kirsten Flipkens	1472	-4
90	Olga Govortsova	1467	-4
91	Katerina Siniakova	1465	-3
92	Sesil Karatantcheva	1463	-2
93	Klara Koukalova	1462	-9
94	Alison Riske	1459	-7
95	Aleksandra Krunic	1459	-4
96	Lauren Davis	1458	-7
97	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1458	4
98	Yulia Putintseva	1455	-4
99	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	-4
100	Misaki Doi	1454	-4
101	Tatjana Maria	1454	-4
102	Jarmila Gajdosova	1452	-4
103	Nicole Gibbs	1452	-4
104	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1450	3
105	Zheng Saisai	1449	-12
106	Andreea Mitu	1448	-14
107	Tereza Smitkova	1448	-3
108	Monica Puig	1446	-3
109	Marina Erakovic	1444	-3
110	Timea Babos	1443	-8
111	Kiki Bertens	1439	-8
112	Francesca Schiavone	1432	-4
113	Wang Qiang	1417	-4
114	Stefanie Vogele	1391	-4