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| Alison Riske, © PC |
The Big Gainer of the week for the 1st week of this season goes to the Shenzhen finalist Alison Riske. She wasn't highly rated going in to the tournament, but beat the odds in all of her matches up to the semi final, where she won an evenly rated match to make it to the final, where she lost to the new ELO #2 Agnieszka Radwanska. Alison's performance in Shenzhen gave her 40 ELO rating points, and puts her at a new ranking of #70, 31 places higher than at the last week of the previous season.
The Upset player of the week in the 1st week is Petra Kvitova. She was the 2nd seed at Shenzhen, but lost in the 1st round to the lowest ranked player on my lists at the time, Zheng Saisai. This loss cost Petra 16 ELO rating points and she fell 1 place in my rankings to #11.
Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Samantha Crawford, Naomi Broady, Julia Gorges, Anna-Lena Friedsam and Tamira Paszek.
Now, the full rankings.
| # | Name | ELO | ± |
| 1 | Serena Williams | 1808 | 0 |
| 2 | Agnieszka Radwanska | 1736 | 1 |
| 3 | Maria Sharapova | 1723 | -1 |
| 4 | Angelique Kerber | 1711 | 0 |
| 5 | Victoria Azarenka | 1701 | 4 |
| 6 | Simona Halep | 1695 | -1 |
| 7 | Venus Williams | 1677 | -1 |
| 8 | Garbine Muguruza | 1674 | -1 |
| 9 | Belinda Bencic | 1662 | -1 |
| 10 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 1651 | 2 |
| 11 | Petra Kvitova | 1644 | -1 |
| 12 | Sloane Stephens | 1643 | 8 |
| 13 | Jelena Jankovic | 1641 | -2 |
| 14 | Karolina Pliskova | 1628 | 0 |
| 15 | Timea Bacsinszky | 1627 | -2 |
| 16 | Caroline Wozniacki | 1615 | 5 |
| 17 | Lucie Safarova | 1610 | -1 |
| 18 | Carla Suarez Navarro | 1610 | 9 |
| 19 | Flavia Pennetta | 1607 | -1 |
| 20 | Madison Keys | 1600 | 3 |
| 21 | Ekaterina Makarova | 1599 | 1 |
| 22 | Sara Errani | 1598 | -3 |
| 23 | Anna Karolina Schmiedlova | 1597 | -8 |
| 24 | Ana Ivanovic | 1597 | -7 |
| 25 | Elina Svitolina | 1597 | 0 |
| 26 | Samantha Stosur | 1594 | -2 |
| 27 | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 1588 | -1 |
| 28 | Roberta Vinci | 1586 | 2 |
| 29 | Sabine Lisicki | 1577 | 0 |
| 30 | Kristina Mladenovic | 1567 | -2 |
| 31 | Dominika Cibulkova | 1567 | 0 |
| 32 | Lesia Tsurenko | 1565 | 1 |
| 33 | Irina-Camelia Begu | 1562 | -1 |
| 34 | Johanna Konta | 1549 | 0 |
| 35 | Andrea Petkovic | 1549 | 5 |
| 36 | Camila Giorgi | 1546 | -1 |
| 37 | Nao Hibino | 1545 | 4 |
| 38 | Denisa Allertova | 1544 | 1 |
| 39 | Barbora Strycova | 1543 | -3 |
| 40 | Darya Kasatkina | 1540 | 2 |
| 41 | Margarita Gasparyan | 1539 | -4 |
| 42 | Eugenie Bouchard | 1536 | 4 |
| 43 | Karin Knapp | 1535 | 0 |
| 44 | Caroline Garcia | 1535 | 0 |
| 45 | Johanna Larsson | 1534 | -7 |
| 46 | Daria Gavrilova | 1530 | 3 |
| 47 | Samantha Crawford | 1527 | NEW |
| 48 | Yanina Wickmayer | 1525 | -3 |
| 49 | Mona Barthel | 1523 | -1 |
| 50 | Ana Konjuh | 1523 | 3 |
| 51 | Naomi Broady | 1523 | 10 |
| 52 | Coco Vandeweghe | 1519 | -5 |
| 53 | Monica Niculescu | 1519 | 2 |
| 54 | Julia Gorges | 1519 | 31 |
| 55 | Danka Kovinic | 1517 | -3 |
| 56 | Bethanie Mattek-Sands | 1516 | -6 |
| 57 | Teliana Pereira | 1516 | -6 |
| 58 | Jelena Ostapenko | 1515 | 1 |
| 59 | Aliaksandra Sasnovich | 1514 | -1 |
| 60 | Anastasija Sevastova | 1512 | -6 |
| 61 | Anna-Lena Friedsam | 1512 | 20 |
| 62 | Madison Brengle | 1511 | 1 |
| 63 | Kirsten Flipkens | 1511 | 3 |
| 64 | Patricia Maria Tig | 1507 | 0 |
| 65 | Varvara Lepchenko | 1506 | 19 |
| 66 | Alison Van Uytvanck | 1505 | -10 |
| 67 | Alize Cornet | 1503 | 1 |
| 68 | Annika Beck | 1502 | -11 |
| 69 | Mariana Duque Marino | 1500 | -9 |
| 70 | Alison Riske | 1500 | 31 |
| 71 | Misaki Doi | 1498 | -9 |
| 72 | Anett Kontaveit | 1497 | 7 |
| 73 | Laura Siegemund | 1496 | -3 |
| 74 | Christina McHale | 1496 | 0 |
| 75 | Magda Linette | 1495 | -4 |
| 76 | Tsvetana Pironkova | 1494 | -4 |
| 77 | Heather Watson | 1494 | -4 |
| 78 | Hseih Su-Wei | 1494 | NEW |
| 79 | Lucie Hradecka | 1493 | -14 |
| 80 | Elizaveta Kulichkova | 1492 | -4 |
| 81 | Evgeniya Rodina | 1490 | -14 |
| 82 | Mirjana Lucic-Baroni | 1489 | -2 |
| 83 | Donna Vekic | 1487 | -14 |
| 84 | Kurumi Nara | 1486 | -1 |
| 85 | Ajla Tomljanovic | 1484 | -7 |
| 86 | Bojana Jovanovski | 1483 | -11 |
| 87 | Tamira Paszek | 1483 | NEW |
| 88 | Alexandra Panova | 1482 | -1 |
| 89 | Anna Tatishvili | 1482 | -1 |
| 90 | Timea Babos | 1482 | 15 |
| 91 | Yaroslava Shvedova | 1481 | -14 |
| 92 | Olga Savchuk | 1481 | -3 |
| 93 | Casey Dellacqua | 1479 | -3 |
| 94 | Lara Arruabarrena | 1478 | -12 |
| 95 | Polona Hercog | 1476 | -9 |
| 96 | Alexandra Dulgheru | 1476 | 4 |
| 97 | Irina Falconi | 1475 | -4 |
| 98 | Daniela Hantuchova | 1474 | -6 |
| 99 | Urszula Radwanska | 1469 | -5 |
| 100 | Kateryna Bondarenko | 1465 | -9 |
| 101 | Aleksandra Krunic | 1465 | -6 |
| 102 | Magdalena Rybarikova | 1465 | -5 |
| 103 | Sesil Karatantcheva | 1463 | -5 |
| 104 | Zarina Diyas | 1463 | -5 |
| 105 | Elena Vesnina | 1462 | -9 |
| 106 | Katerina Siniakova | 1462 | 5 |
| 107 | Ana Bogdan | 1459 | -5 |
| 108 | Olga Govortsova | 1458 | -5 |
| 109 | Kateryna Kozlova | 1458 | -5 |
| 110 | Monica Puig | 1456 | -4 |
| 111 | Vitalia Diatchenko | 1455 | -3 |
| 112 | Nicole Gibbs | 1454 | -2 |
| 113 | Wang Qiang | 1454 | 7 |
| 114 | Carina Witthoft | 1452 | -1 |
| 115 | Lauren Davis | 1450 | -3 |
| 116 | Jana Cepelova | 1448 | -7 |
| 117 | Klara Koukalova | 1447 | -2 |
| 118 | Tatjana Maria | 1446 | -11 |
| 119 | Marina Erakovic | 1445 | -2 |
| 120 | Jarmila Wolfe | 1443 | -2 |
| 121 | Tereza Smitkova | 1438 | -7 |
| 122 | Andreea Mitu | 1436 | -6 |
| 123 | Zheng Saisai | 1431 | 1 |
| 124 | Yulia Putintseva | 1430 | -5 |
| 125 | Kiki Bertens | 1424 | -4 |
| 126 | Francesca Schiavone | 1419 | -4 |
| 127 | Stefanie Vogele | 1419 | -4 |
| 128 | Zhang Shuai | 1418 | NEW |
