Women's ELO Rankings 29/02/2016

With the tournament in Indian Wells being only 2 weeks away, many of the top players on the Women's tour were playing this week in preparation, in tournaments located in Doha and Acapulco.

Jelena Ostapenko, © AFP / Getty Images

This week's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Jelena Ostapenko. With Doha having twice as many entrants than most tournaments, the best performance was always likely to come from here, and that's exactly what Jelena did here, making it to the final by beating Svetlana Kuznetsova and Petra Kvitova among others, before losing to 6th seed Carla Suarez Navarro. Jelena gained 48 ELO rating points for her run to the final, which sees her climb 32 places in my rankings to #41.

The Upset player of the week this week is Angelique Kerber. After winning the Australian Open, she returned to action in Doha as the #1 seed and was given a bye in the 1st round, but lost in the 1st round to the low ranked player Zheng Saisai. This loss cost Angelique 17 ELO rating points, and she fell from #3 to #4 in my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Andrea Petkovic, Yanina Wickmayer, Monica Niculescu, Christina McHale and Elena Vesnina.

Now, the full rankings:

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1826	0
2	Agnieszka Radwanska	1753	0
3	Maria Sharapova	1737	1
4	Angelique Kerber	1735	-1
5	Victoria Azarenka	1702	0
6	Venus Williams	1691	0
7	Sloane Stephens	1661	7
8	Garbine Muguruza	1659	1
9	Belinda Bencic	1657	-2
10	Carla Suarez Navarro	1655	8
11	Simona Halep	1652	-3
12	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1630	-1
13	Sara Errani	1629	-3
14	Jelena Jankovic	1620	-1
15	Roberta Vinci	1620	8
16	Petra Kvitova	1619	-1
17	Karolina Pliskova	1616	-5
18	Timea Bacsinszky	1612	2
19	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1609	-3
20	Madison Keys	1609	1
21	Ana Ivanovic	1608	1
22	Dominika Cibulkova	1605	7
23	Ekaterina Makarova	1598	-6
24	Lucie Safarova	1596	-5
25	Caroline Wozniacki	1593	0
26	Elina Svitolina	1588	-2
27	Samantha Stosur	1582	0
28	Andrea Petkovic	1582	11
29	Johanna Konta	1578	-3
30	Barbora Strycova	1576	0
31	Daria Kasatkina	1575	-3
32	Eugenie Bouchard	1571	1
33	Margarita Gasparyan	1562	1
34	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1558	-3
35	Sabine Lisicki	1558	-3
36	Johanna Larsson	1553	5
37	Irina-Camelia Begu	1552	-1
38	Alize Cornet	1550	0
39	Daria Gavrilova	1546	1
40	Denisa Allertova	1546	2
41	Jelena Ostapenko	1542	32
42	Kristina Mladenovic	1541	-5
43	Yanina Wickmayer	1541	20
44	Caroline Garcia	1540	-9
45	Camila Giorgi	1540	-2
46	Nao Hibino	1539	-2
47	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1537	-2
48	Karin Knapp	1535	-2
49	Monica Niculescu	1535	15
50	Coco Vandeweghe	1534	7
51	Lesia Tsurenko	1524	-3
52	Madison Brengle	1523	-5
53	Naomi Broady	1523	-1
54	Hseih Su-Wei	1521	0
55	Annika Beck	1520	-6
56	Mona Barthel	1519	-1
57	Timea Babos	1519	11
58	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1518	0
59	Julia Gorges	1517	-8
60	Monica Puig	1517	0
61	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1516	1
62	Anastasija Sevastova	1515	-12
63	Danka Kovinic	1515	-4
64	Ana Konjuh	1514	-11
65	Laura Siegemund	1511	1
66	Misaki Doi	1510	-10
67	Samantha Crawford	1506	-6
68	Varvara Lepchenko	1502	-3
69	Naomi Osaka	1500	7
70	Christina McHale	1498	25
71	Elena Vesnina	1497	36
72	Patricia Maria Tig	1496	-1
73	Kirsten Flipkens	1495	-6
74	Kateryna Bondarenko	1492	6
75	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1491	-5
76	Alison Van Uytvanck	1489	-7
77	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1488	14
78	Kurumi Nara	1487	-1
79	Heather Watson	1485	-7
80	Anett Kontaveit	1485	-6
81	Mariana Duque Marino	1485	-3
82	Magda Linette	1485	-3
83	Alison Riske	1484	-2
84	Yaroslava Shvedova	1483	-9
85	Teliana Pereira	1483	-3
86	Alexandra Panova	1482	-3
87	Alexandra Dulgheru	1482	-3
88	Donna Vekic	1482	2
89	Yulia Putintseva	1482	3
90	Olga Savchuk	1481	-3
91	Casey Dellacqua	1479	-3
92	Tsvetana Pironkova	1475	-6
93	Kateryna Kozlova	1474	0
94	Francesca Schiavone	1474	0
95	Evgeniya Rodina	1473	1
96	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	1
97	Lara Arruabarrena	1471	-12
98	Lauren Davis	1471	0
99	Irina Falconi	1468	-10
100	Zhang Shuai	1468	0
101	Bojana Jovanovski	1467	0
102	Tamira Paszek	1465	1
103	Sesil Karatantcheva	1463	3
104	Sachia Vickery	1463	4
105	Shelby Rogers	1463	5
106	Zheng Saisai	1463	25
107	Daniela Hantuchova	1462	2
108	Urszula Radwanska	1461	-6
109	Polona Hercog	1460	-5
110	Kristyna Pliskova	1460	1
111	Ana Bogdan	1460	1
112	Louisa Chirico	1459	NEW
113	Aleksandra Krunic	1458	0
114	Lucie Hradecka	1457	-15
115	Magdalena Rybarikova	1457	-1
116	Nicole Gibbs	1457	-1
117	Mandy Minella	1456	-1
118	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	-1
119	Olga Govortsova	1454	1
120	Anna Tatishvili	1453	-15
121	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1450	NEW
122	Katerina Siniakova	1447	-1
123	Wang Qiang	1445	-4
124	Zarina Diyas	1444	-6
125	Marina Erakovic	1444	-3
126	Carina Witthoft	1440	-2
127	Tereza Smitkova	1438	-1
128	Jana Cepelova	1437	-5
129	Petra Martic	1436	-2
130	Klara Koukalova	1432	-1
131	Stefanie Vogele	1432	-1
132	Tatjana Maria	1431	-7
133	Kiki Bertens	1426	-5
134	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	-2
135	Andreea Mitu	1418	-2