Saturday 16 January 2016

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.)

#NameELO±
1Serena Williams18080
2Agnieszka Radwanska17360
3Maria Sharapova17230
4Angelique Kerber17050
5Victoria Azarenka17010
6Simona Halep16960
7Venus Williams16770
8Garbine Muguruza16740
9Belinda Bencic16660
10Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova16450
11Petra Kvitova16440
12Sloane Stephens16430
13Karolina Pliskova16401
14Jelena Jankovic1637-1
15Svetlana Kuznetsova163612
16Timea Bacsinszky1616-1
17Caroline Wozniacki1615-1
18Ekaterina Makarova16113
19Lucie Safarova1610-2
20Sara Errani16092
21Flavia Pennetta1607-2
22Carla Suarez Navarro1600-4
23Madison Keys1600-3
24Samantha Stosur15962
25Anna Karolina Schmiedlova1594-2
26Elina Svitolina1590-1
27Ana Ivanovic1588-3
28Dominika Cibulkova15793
29Roberta Vinci1576-1
30Sabine Lisicki1574-1
31Eugenie Bouchard156411
32Irina-Camelia Begu15621
33Kristina Mladenovic1556-3
34Alize Cornet155633
35Camila Giorgi15541
36Lesia Tsurenko1553-4
37Johanna Larsson15528
38Andrea Petkovic1549-3
39Nao Hibino1542-2
40Johanna Konta1540-6
41Darya Kasatkina1540-1
42Caroline Garcia15402
43Margarita Gasparyan1538-2
44Karin Knapp1535-1
45Denisa Allertova1533-7
46Barbora Strycova1533-7
47Mona Barthel15312
48Daria Gavrilova1530-2
49Samantha Crawford1527-2
50Yanina Wickmayer1525-2
51Ana Konjuh1523-1
52Naomi Broady1523-1
53Julia Gorges15191
54Monica Niculescu1517-1
55Jelena Ostapenko15153
56Aliaksandra Sasnovich15143
57Coco Vandeweghe1512-5
58Anastasija Sevastova15122
59Anna-Lena Friedsam15122
60Kirsten Flipkens15113
61Danka Kovinic1507-6
62Bethanie Mattek-Sands1507-6
63Patricia Maria Tig15071
64Heather Watson150713
65Varvara Lepchenko15060
66Teliana Pereira1505-9
67Alison Van Uytvanck1504-1
68Monica Puig150242
69Annika Beck1500-1
70Mariana Duque Marino1500-1
71Alison Riske1500-1
72Tsvetana Pironkova15004
73Madison Brengle1499-11
74Anett Kontaveit1497-2
75Laura Siegemund1496-2
76Magda Linette1495-1
77Hseih Su-Wei14941
78Elizaveta Kulichkova14922
79Evgeniya Rodina14902
80Misaki Doi1489-9
81Christina McHale1487-7
82Donna Vekic14871
83Lucie Hradecka1486-4
84Mirjana Lucic-Baroni1484-2
85Ajla Tomljanovic14840
86Bojana Jovanovski14830
87Tamira Paszek14830
88Alexandra Panova14820
89Anna Tatishvili14820
90Timea Babos14820
91Yaroslava Shvedova14810
92Olga Savchuk14810
93Casey Dellacqua14790
94Kurumi Nara1476-10
95Alexandra Dulgheru14761
96Irina Falconi14751
97Lara Arruabarrena1473-3
98Polona Hercog1469-3
99Urszula Radwanska14690
100Daniela Hantuchova1468-2
101Kateryna Bondarenko1465-1
102Aleksandra Krunic1465-1
103Sesil Karatantcheva14630
104Elena Vesnina14621
105Katerina Siniakova14621
106Ana Bogdan14591
107Olga Govortsova14581
108Kateryna Kozlova14581
109Magdalena Rybarikova1455-7
110Zarina Diyas1455-6
111Vitalia Diatchenko14550
112Nicole Gibbs14540
113Wang Qiang14540
114Lauren Davis14501
115Jana Cepelova14481
116Klara Koukalova14471
117Tatjana Maria14461
118Marina Erakovic14451
119Carina Witthoft1444-5
120Kiki Bertens14425
121Tereza Smitkova14380
122Andreea Mitu14360
123Jarmila Wolfe1434-3
124Zheng Saisai1431-1
125Yulia Putintseva1430-1
126Francesca Schiavone14190
127Stefanie Vogele14190
128Zhang Shuai14180