Women's ELO Rankings 18/01/2016

As players prepare for the Australian Open which starts next week (1st round predictions post coming tomorrow), there were 2 tournaments on this week, in Hobart and Sydney.

Alize Cornet. © Robert Cianflone/Getty Images

The Big Gainer of the week award this week goes to Alize Cornet. She was the 7th seed in Hobart, and after benefiting from a walkover, she beat Johanna Larsson in the semi finals, and won the title with a win over Eugenie Bouchard. Her title run here gave Alize 53 ELO rating points, and she is now ranked #34 in my rankings, 33 places higher than last week.

The Upset player of the week award this week goes to Lesia Tsurenko. In a strong field in Sydney, Lesia lost in the 1st round to wildcard Tsvetana Pironkova, one of the weaker players in the draw. She lost 12 ELO rating points for her loss, and fell 4 places in my rankings to a new ranking of #36.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Svetlana Kuznetsova, Eugenie Bouchard, Heather Watson, Monica Puig and Kiki Bertens.

Now, the full rankings: (side note: This will be the last week I rank Flavia Pennetta, who retired after the U.S Open last year.)

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1808	0
2	Agnieszka Radwanska	1736	0
3	Maria Sharapova	1723	0
4	Angelique Kerber	1705	0
5	Victoria Azarenka	1701	0
6	Simona Halep	1696	0
7	Venus Williams	1677	0
8	Garbine Muguruza	1674	0
9	Belinda Bencic	1666	0
10	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1645	0
11	Petra Kvitova	1644	0
12	Sloane Stephens	1643	0
13	Karolina Pliskova	1640	1
14	Jelena Jankovic	1637	-1
15	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1636	12
16	Timea Bacsinszky	1616	-1
17	Caroline Wozniacki	1615	-1
18	Ekaterina Makarova	1611	3
19	Lucie Safarova	1610	-2
20	Sara Errani	1609	2
21	Flavia Pennetta	1607	-2
22	Carla Suarez Navarro	1600	-4
23	Madison Keys	1600	-3
24	Samantha Stosur	1596	2
25	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1594	-2
26	Elina Svitolina	1590	-1
27	Ana Ivanovic	1588	-3
28	Dominika Cibulkova	1579	3
29	Roberta Vinci	1576	-1
30	Sabine Lisicki	1574	-1
31	Eugenie Bouchard	1564	11
32	Irina-Camelia Begu	1562	1
33	Kristina Mladenovic	1556	-3
34	Alize Cornet	1556	33
35	Camila Giorgi	1554	1
36	Lesia Tsurenko	1553	-4
37	Johanna Larsson	1552	8
38	Andrea Petkovic	1549	-3
39	Nao Hibino	1542	-2
40	Johanna Konta	1540	-6
41	Darya Kasatkina	1540	-1
42	Caroline Garcia	1540	2
43	Margarita Gasparyan	1538	-2
44	Karin Knapp	1535	-1
45	Denisa Allertova	1533	-7
46	Barbora Strycova	1533	-7
47	Mona Barthel	1531	2
48	Daria Gavrilova	1530	-2
49	Samantha Crawford	1527	-2
50	Yanina Wickmayer	1525	-2
51	Ana Konjuh	1523	-1
52	Naomi Broady	1523	-1
53	Julia Gorges	1519	1
54	Monica Niculescu	1517	-1
55	Jelena Ostapenko	1515	3
56	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1514	3
57	Coco Vandeweghe	1512	-5
58	Anastasija Sevastova	1512	2
59	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1512	2
60	Kirsten Flipkens	1511	3
61	Danka Kovinic	1507	-6
62	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1507	-6
63	Patricia Maria Tig	1507	1
64	Heather Watson	1507	13
65	Varvara Lepchenko	1506	0
66	Teliana Pereira	1505	-9
67	Alison Van Uytvanck	1504	-1
68	Monica Puig	1502	42
69	Annika Beck	1500	-1
70	Mariana Duque Marino	1500	-1
71	Alison Riske	1500	-1
72	Tsvetana Pironkova	1500	4
73	Madison Brengle	1499	-11
74	Anett Kontaveit	1497	-2
75	Laura Siegemund	1496	-2
76	Magda Linette	1495	-1
77	Hseih Su-Wei	1494	1
78	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1492	2
79	Evgeniya Rodina	1490	2
80	Misaki Doi	1489	-9
81	Christina McHale	1487	-7
82	Donna Vekic	1487	1
83	Lucie Hradecka	1486	-4
84	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1484	-2
85	Ajla Tomljanovic	1484	0
86	Bojana Jovanovski	1483	0
87	Tamira Paszek	1483	0
88	Alexandra Panova	1482	0
89	Anna Tatishvili	1482	0
90	Timea Babos	1482	0
91	Yaroslava Shvedova	1481	0
92	Olga Savchuk	1481	0
93	Casey Dellacqua	1479	0
94	Kurumi Nara	1476	-10
95	Alexandra Dulgheru	1476	1
96	Irina Falconi	1475	1
97	Lara Arruabarrena	1473	-3
98	Polona Hercog	1469	-3
99	Urszula Radwanska	1469	0
100	Daniela Hantuchova	1468	-2
101	Kateryna Bondarenko	1465	-1
102	Aleksandra Krunic	1465	-1
103	Sesil Karatantcheva	1463	0
104	Elena Vesnina	1462	1
105	Katerina Siniakova	1462	1
106	Ana Bogdan	1459	1
107	Olga Govortsova	1458	1
108	Kateryna Kozlova	1458	1
109	Magdalena Rybarikova	1455	-7
110	Zarina Diyas	1455	-6
111	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	0
112	Nicole Gibbs	1454	0
113	Wang Qiang	1454	0
114	Lauren Davis	1450	1
115	Jana Cepelova	1448	1
116	Klara Koukalova	1447	1
117	Tatjana Maria	1446	1
118	Marina Erakovic	1445	1
119	Carina Witthoft	1444	-5
120	Kiki Bertens	1442	5
121	Tereza Smitkova	1438	0
122	Andreea Mitu	1436	0
123	Jarmila Wolfe	1434	-3
124	Zheng Saisai	1431	-1
125	Yulia Putintseva	1430	-1
126	Francesca Schiavone	1419	0
127	Stefanie Vogele	1419	0
128	Zhang Shuai	1418	0