2016 Tennis ELO Awards - Winners

The voting is over, and it's time to announce the winners! Find out who won the inaugural Tennis ELO awards after the jump.

2016 Tennis ELO Awards - Voting

Starting from this year, I'm going to be awarding some virtual prizes to 4 players based on my Big Gainer and Upset player awards that are handed out every week. Below the jump are the players I've shortlisted for the 4 awards this year and where you can vote for the winner.

For the "Player of the Year" awards, I've listed why each player has been nominated, which I haven't done for the "Disappointment of the year" awards. How you choose who you vote for is up to you, the winners of the awards will be the player who gets the most votes.

The deadline for voting will be 04/12/2016 23;59:59 UTC. (Edit: Polls have now closed, winners are announced here)

Men's ELO Rankings 21/11/2016

It's the final week of the season, and for the last of my weekly blogs this season I shall take a look at what happened at the ATP World Tour Finals.

Andy Murray, © Getty Images

2016 ATP World Tour Finals preview

As I've got a bit of time, I'll do a quick post before the start of the ATP World Tour Finals, looking at the ratings of the players playing in it.

The 8 finalists, © Getty Images

Men's ELO Rankings 07/11/2016

This week was the last week of tournaments for most players, with a high quality tournament taking place in Paris.

John Isner, © AP Photo

Women's ELO Rankings 07/11/2016

The final event of the WTA tour took place this season, with 12 highly rated players playing in the WTA Elite Trophy, at Zhuhai.

Petra Kvitova. © Getty Images

Men's ELO Rankings 31/10/2016

This week saw 2 tournaments, in Basel and Vienna.

Marin Cilic, © AP

Women's ELO Rankings 31/10/2016

This week saw the WTA Finals take place in Singapore, where 8 of the top ranked players competed for the last time this season.

Angelique Kerber, © SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images

Men's ELO Rankings 24/10/2016

With the ATP World Tour Finals approaching, 3 tournaments were held this week, in Moscow, Antwerp and Stockholm.

Juan Martin del Potro, © Getty Images

Women's ELO Rankings 24/10/2016

This week was the final week for most of the Women, with tournaments in Moscow and Luxembourg taking place on the week before the WTA Finals.

Monica Niculescu, © AAP

2016 WTA Finals Preview

As I've got a bit of time, I'll do a quick post before the start of the WTA Finals, looking at the ratings of the players playing in it. A full update for the Women's ratings will be completed tomorrow.

7 of the 8 finalists and the trophy, Kuznetsova is missing as she was still competing at the time of the draw. © Getty Images

Women's ELO Rankings 17/10/2016

Another week on the WTA Tour saw 3 tournaments held, in Tianjin, Hong Kong and Linz.

Peng Shuai, © Tianjin Open

Men's ELO Rankings 17/10/2016

This week saw one of the bigger tournaments out side of Grand Slam season, located in Shanghai.

Roberto Bautista Agut, © Reuters

Men's ELO Rankings 10/10/2016

As the players on the ATP World Tour head towards the end of the season, there were 2 tournaments on this week, in Beijing and Tokyo.

Nick Kyrgios, © Reuters

Women's ELO Rankings 10/10/2016

As the top players look forward to the WTA Finals, there was 1 tournament held this week, in Beijing.

Agnieszka Radwanska, © VCG / Getty Images

Men's ELO Rankings 03/10/2016

Another week on the ATP World Tour has finished, with 2 tournaments held, in Chengdu and Shenzhen.

Karen Khachanov, © Chengdu Open

Women's ELO Rankings 03/10/2016

The Tennis finished early this week at the 2 tournaments held, a big tournament in Wuhan and a smaller one in Tashkent.

Petra Kvitova, © Getty Images

Men's ELO Rankings 26/09/2016

Last week, there were no tournaments on, but this week saw 2 tournaments, in St Petersburg and Metz.

Alexander Zverev, © AP

Women's ELO Rankings 26/09/2016

The Tennis season isn't over yet, there were 3 more tournaments on the WTA tour this week, in Tokyo, Seoul and Guangzhou.

Lara Arruabarrena, © EPA

Women's ELO Rankings 19/09/2016

With the Grand Slams all over, the rest of the season continues with tournaments in Quebec City and Tokyo.

Oceane Dodin, © DOMINIQUE FAGET / AFP/GETTY IMAGES FILES

Men's ELO Rankings 12/09/2016

This update saw the final of the Grand Slam tournaments take place, the US Open, in New York.

Stan Wawrinka, © AFP / Getty Images

Women's ELO Rankings 12/09/2016

This update saw the final of the Grand Slam tournaments take place, the US Open, in New York.

Caroline Wozniacki, © BPI / Ella Ling

2016 US Open Final update

The semi finals finished on time, so it's time for a quick update to my ELO ratings for the finals of the US Open.

But before the rankings, some stats I calculated for the top 150 players:

Men's Rank	± ELO
1-10	63
11-20	-25
21-50	13
51-100	37
101-150	-10

Women's Rank	± ELO
1-10	69
11-20	-5
21-50	23
51-100	3
101-150	-34

All 4 finalists are in the top 10, so these are the final numbers, with the last change being a 5 point gain for the top 10 women from the 21-50 group. Now all that's left is to see which top 10 player will win the title.

2016 US Open Semi Final update

The quarter finals finished on time, so it's time for a quick update to my ELO ratings for the semi finals of the US Open.

But before the rankings, some stats I calculated for the top 150 players:

Men's Rank	± ELO
1-10	63
11-20	-25
21-50	13
51-100	37
101-150	-10

Women's Rank	± ELO
1-10	64
11-20	-5
21-50	28
51-100	3
101-150	-34

The 4 men who remain in the tournament are all in the top 10 above, so this is the final version of those stats. The only changes are that the top 10 gained ELO mainly at the expense of the 21-50 group. The top 10 women make up 3 out of the 4 semi finalists, and they gained points from the last round at the expense of the 21-50 and 51-100 groups.

2016 US Open Quarter Final update

Round 4 has finished on time, so it's time for a quick update to my ELO ratings for the quarter finals of the US Open.

But before the rankings, some stats I calculated for the top 150 players:

Men's Rank	± ELO
1-10	47
11-20	-22
21-50	26
51-100	37
101-150	-10

Women's Rank	± ELO
1-10	53
11-20	-5
21-50	33
51-100	9
101-150	-34

The big change for the men this round is that the 21-50 ranked players have improved at the expense of the top 10 players. For the Women, the 11-20 ranked players suffered in the last round, with the 21-50 ranked players benefiting.

2016 US Open Round 4 update

Round 3 has finished on time, so it's time for a quick update to my ELO ratings for round 4 of the US Open.

But before the rankings, some stats I calculated for the top 150 players:

Men's Rank	± ELO
1-10	57
11-20	-25
21-50	15
51-100	38
101-150	-7

Women's Rank	± ELO
1-10	56
11-20	32
21-50	-2
51-100	4
101-150	-34

The big change for the Women is the dominance of the top 20 players, at the expense of the 21-50 and the 101-150 players. For the Men, it's the 11-20 ranked players who have suffered, with the top 10 and the 21-50 ranked players benefiting.

2016 US Open Round 3 update

Round 2 has finished on time, so it's time for a quick update to my ELO ratings for round 3 of the US Open.

But before the rankings, some stats I calculated for the top 150 players:

Men's Rank	± ELO
1-10	31
11-20	28
21-50	-14
51-100	49
101-150	-16

Women's Rank	± ELO
1-10	40
11-20	7
21-50	21
51-100	2
101-150	-18

The 11-20 ranked men have done much better this round than the previous round, taking most of those points from players ranked 21-50, such as David Ferrer's win over Fabio Fognini, and those outside of the top 150.

The big change for the women this time is an improvement in the 21-50 group, at the expense of the 51-100 group, such as Johanna Larsson's win over Denisa Allertova and the 101-150 group, such as Timea Babos' win over Richel Hogenkamp.

2016 US Open Round 2 update

It's Grand Slam time again, this time it's the US Open. Here is my latest ELO rankings update following the 1st round.

But before the rankings, some stats I calculated for the top 150 players:

Men's Rank	± ELO
1-10	27
11-20	-8
21-50	8
51-100	53
101-150	-30

Women's Rank	± ELO
1-10	38
11-20	4
21-50	-30
51-100	19
101-150	21

Women's ELO Rankings 29/08/2016

With the US Open on next week, there was a last chance for players to prepare, in New Haven.

Agnieszka Radwanska, © David Silpa / UPI

Men's ELO Rankings 29/08/2016

With the US Open on next week, there was a last chance for players to prepare, in Winston-Salem.

Pablo Carreno Busta, © Bruce Chapman / Winston-Salem Journal

Men's ELO Rankings 22/08/2016

After the Olympics, and before the US Open, there was 1 tournament held this week, in Cincinnati.

Marin Cilic, © Reuters

Women's ELO Rankings 22/08/2016

After the Olympics, and before the US Open, there was 1 tournament held this week, in Cincinnati.

Karolina Pliskova. © AP Photo/John Minchillo

Men's ELO Rankings 15/08/2016

As I have decided to update my ratings for the Olympics, despite the ATP not doing so, there will be 2 tournaments updated for this week, the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and the ATP tournament in Cabo San Lucas.

Juan Martin del Potro, © Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

Women's ELO Rankings 15/08/2016

I took a bit of time to decide whether the Olympics should count to my rankings or not; I decided that they would, so here's this week's update from Rio de Janeiro.

Monica Puig, © Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

Men's ELO Rankings 08/08/2016

A short update this week, as there was only 1 tournament on just before the Olympics, in Atlanta.

Reilly Opelka, © Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

Women's ELO Rankings 08/08/2016

This week saw 2 tournaments held, in Florianopolis and Nanchang.

Duan Yingying, © Jiangxi Women's Open 

Men's ELO Rankings 01/08/2016

With the Olympics and the US Open approaching, this week saw a tournament held in Toronto.

Gael Monfils, © Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images

Women's ELO Rankings 01/08/2016

With the Olympics and the US Open approaching, this week saw a tournament held in Montreal.

Kristina Kucova. © Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images North America

Women's ELO Rankings 25/07/2016

This week saw 3 tournaments held, in Stanford, Washington and Bastad.

Yanina Wickmayer, © Zach Gibson/EPA

Men's ELO Rankings 25/07/2016

This week, there were 4 tournaments held on the ATP World Tour, in Washington, Gstaad, Kitzbuhel and Umag.

Paolo Lorenzi, © Gallo Images

Men's ELO Rankings 18/07/2016

One week after Wimbledon, some more tournaments are being held on the ATP World Tour, in Hamburg, Newport and Bastad.

Martin Klizan, © Gallo Images

Women's ELO Rankings 18/07/2016

We return to our regular schedule of weekly updates (If I post them on time), with an update from 2 WTA tour tournaments, located in Gstaad and Bucharest.

Viktorija Golubic, © AFP

2016 Wimbledon Final update + ELO Rankings 11/07/2016

I missed the Final, as I was away from home, but I've got enough time now to finish my update now that Wimbledon has finished. From now onwards, I am adding +/- for both Ranking and Elo rating,

Men's Final.

#	Name	ELO
1	Andy Murray	1926
2	Milos Raonic	1814

Women's Final.

#	Name	ELO
1	Serena Williams	1871
2	Angelique Kerber	1748

2016 Wimbledon Semi Finals update

It's time for the Semi Finals update, we're down to the last 4 now.

Men's

#	Name	ELO
1	Andy Murray	1920
2	Roger Federer	1856
3	Milos Raonic	1802
4	Tomas Berdych	1761

Murray and Federer are guaranteed #2 and #3 respectively whatever happens, as they were before the tournament started. Raonic has already overtaken Thiem but needs to beat Federer to overtake Nishikori. Berdych needs to beat Murray to overtake Wawrinka.

Women's

#	Name	ELO
1	Serena Williams	1867
2	Angelique Kerber	1739
3	Venus Williams	1689
4	Elena Vesnina	1628

Serena is guaranteed the #1 spot. Kerber will overtake Radwanska if she defeats Venus, and be in a position to claim the #2 spot from Azarenka. A Venus win over Kerber will move her ahead of Bacsinszky, while a Vesnina win over Serena would see her overtake Makarova, after already overtaking everyone else ranked between her and Kvitova on my last weekly ELO rankings.

2016 Wimbledon Quarter Finals update

I wish I could have been at Wimbledon again, but me not being there lets me get this update in on time for once! Here are my updated ELO ratings for the quarter finals

Men's

#	Name	ELO
1	Andy Murray	1915
2	Roger Federer	1850
3	Milos Raonic	1797
4	Tomas Berdych	1755
5	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	1716
6	Marin Cilic	1690
7	Sam Querrey	1600
8	Lucas Pouille	1598

Women's

#	Name	ELO
1	Serena Williams	1863
2	Angelique Kerber	1729
3	Simona Halep	1723
4	Dominika Cibulkova	1722
5	Venus Williams	1684
6	Elena Vesnina	1615
7	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1602
8	Yaroslava Shvedova	1512

2016 Wimbledon Round 4 update

Another late update, but this time, I'm late because I spent all day in London, as I had tickets to Centre Court in Wimbledon! This is the view I had for the 3 matches that I watched.

Centre Court, © Oxbridge United/tenniseloranking.blogspot.com

2016 Wimbledon Round 3 update

I am heading home from my holiday today, so this update will be delayed until I get home.

I'm home now, so here is my round 3 update.

2016 Wimbledon Round 2 update

I'm on holiday right now, so I'm going to do what I did for the French Open again. Full update coming soon.

Now that all Round 1 matches have been completed, I've updated my ELO ratings for Round 2 (a bit late, sorry!)

Men's ELO Rankings 27/06/2016

The last week before Wimbledon sees 1 grass court tournament held, in Nottingham.

Steve Johnson, © Daniel Smith

Women's ELO Rankings 27/06/2016

With Wimbledon on next week, there was 1 last tournament on for the players on the WTA Tour to prepare, located in Eastbourne.

Dominika Cibulkova, © Getty Images

Men's ELO Rankings 20/06/2016

The Grass court season is under way, with the top players preparing for Wimbledon in tournaments located in Halle and London.

Florian Mayer, © AP

Women's ELO Rankings 20/06/2016

With 2 weeks to go until Wimbledon, 2 more tournaments took place on the WTA tour, in Birmingham and Mallorca.

Caroline Garcia, © Action Images