Monday 7 March 2016

Women's ELO Rankings 07/03/2016

With next week's tournament in Indian Wells taking place over 2 weeks, there won't be an update next week, but this week, there were 2 tournaments held, in Monterrey and Kuala Lumpur.

Heather Watson, © Getty

This week's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Heather Watson. Unseeded at Monterrey, she defeated Caroline Wozniacki and Caroline Garcia on her way to winning the title. Her wins gave Heather 54 ELO rating points, which sees her climb to #47 in my rankings, 32 places higher than last week.

The Upset player of the week this week is Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. She was also at Monterrey, but as the 3rd seed, she lost in the 1st round to Pauline Parmentier, who was then the lowest rated player not listed on my rankings. Anastasia lost 15 ELO rating points for this loss, and fell 5 places in my rankings to #17.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Elina Svitolina, Kirsten Flipkens, Anett Kontaveit, Nicole Gibbs and Zhu Lin.

Now, the full rankings:

Late Update: Following the recent news regarding ELO #3 Maria Sharapova, she will keep her ELO rating, but she will be removed from my rankings after the French Open.

#NameELO±
1Serena Williams18260
2Agnieszka Radwanska17530
3Maria Sharapova17370
4Angelique Kerber17350
5Victoria Azarenka17020
6Venus Williams16910
7Sloane Stephens16610
8Garbine Muguruza16590
9Belinda Bencic16570
10Carla Suarez Navarro16550
11Simona Halep16520
12Elina Svitolina162614
13Sara Errani16200
14Jelena Jankovic16200
15Petra Kvitova16191
16Karolina Pliskova16161
17Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova1615-5
18Timea Bacsinszky16120
19Svetlana Kuznetsova16090
20Madison Keys16090
21Ana Ivanovic16080
22Roberta Vinci1606-7
23Ekaterina Makarova15980
24Lucie Safarova15960
25Caroline Wozniacki15930
26Eugenie Bouchard15936
27Dominika Cibulkova1592-5
28Samantha Stosur1582-1
29Andrea Petkovic1582-1
30Johanna Konta1582-1
31Barbora Strycova1576-1
32Daria Kasatkina1575-1
33Sabine Lisicki15632
34Margarita Gasparyan1562-1
35Anna Karolina Schmiedlova1558-1
36Irina-Camelia Begu15521
37Caroline Garcia15517
38Alize Cornet15500
39Daria Gavrilova15460
40Denisa Allertova15460
41Johanna Larsson1543-5
42Jelena Ostapenko1542-1
43Yanina Wickmayer15420
44Kristina Mladenovic1541-2
45Naomi Broady15418
46Camila Giorgi1540-1
47Heather Watson153932
48Anna-Lena Friedsam1537-1
49Karin Knapp1535-1
50Monica Niculescu1535-1
51Coco Vandeweghe1534-1
52Nao Hibino1527-6
53Kirsten Flipkens152620
54Lesia Tsurenko1524-3
55Madison Brengle1523-3
56Mona Barthel15190
57Aliaksandra Sasnovich15181
58Hseih Su-Wei1517-4
59Julia Gorges15170
60Anastasija Sevastova15152
61Ana Konjuh15143
62Monica Puig1513-2
63Anett Kontaveit151117
64Annika Beck1508-9
65Timea Babos1507-8
66Samantha Crawford15061
67Elizaveta Kulichkova1505-6
68Danka Kovinic1503-5
69Varvara Lepchenko1502-1
70Laura Siegemund1500-5
71Naomi Osaka1500-2
72Misaki Doi1499-6
73Christina McHale1497-3
74Elena Vesnina1497-3
75Patricia Maria Tig1496-3
76Kateryna Bondarenko1492-2
77Bethanie Mattek-Sands1491-2
78Mirjana Lucic-Baroni1489-1
79Alison Van Uytvanck1488-3
80Kurumi Nara1488-2
81Risa Ozaki1486NEW
82Alison Riske14841
83Yaroslava Shvedova14831
84Teliana Pereira14831
85Donna Vekic14823
86Yulia Putintseva14823
87Olga Savchuk14813
88Casey Dellacqua14793
89Cagla Buyukakcay1479NEW
90Mariana Duque Marino1478-9
91Magda Linette1477-9
92Tsvetana Pironkova14750
93Duan Yingying1475NEW
94Kateryna Kozlova1474-1
95Julia Glushko1474NEW
96Evgeniya Rodina1473-1
97Ajla Tomljanovic1473-1
98Alexandra Panova1472-12
99Alexandra Dulgheru1472-12
100Lara Arruabarrena1471-3
101Lauren Davis1471-3
102Nicole Gibbs147114
103Zhang Shuai1468-3
104Bojana Jovanovski1467-3
105Francesca Schiavone1465-11
106Tamira Paszek1465-4
107Sesil Karatantcheva1463-4
108Sachia Vickery1463-4
109Shelby Rogers1463-4
110Polona Hercog1463-1
111Urszula Radwanska1461-3
112Kristyna Pliskova1460-2
113Ana Bogdan1460-2
114Wang Yafan1460NEW
115Irina Falconi1459-16
116Louisa Chirico1459-4
117Aleksandra Krunic1458-4
118Wang Qiang14585
119Lucie Hradecka1457-5
120Mandy Minella1456-3
121Vitalia Diatchenko1455-3
122Zheng Saisai1454-16
123Daniela Hantuchova1453-16
124Anna Tatishvili1453-4
125Magdalena Rybarikova1452-10
126Lourdes Domingues Lino1450-5
127Olga Govortsova1448-8
128Katerina Siniakova1447-6
129Zarina Diyas1447-5
130Marina Erakovic1444-5
131Carina Witthoft1440-5
132Tereza Smitkova1438-5
133Jana Cepelova1429-5
134Petra Martic1429-5
135Kiki Bertens1426-2
136Jarmila Wolfe1426-2
137Klara Koukalova1425-7
138Stefanie Vogele1423-7
139Tatjana Maria1423-7
140Andreea Mitu1418-5