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.

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1826	0
2	Agnieszka Radwanska	1753	0
3	Maria Sharapova	1737	0
4	Angelique Kerber	1735	0
5	Victoria Azarenka	1702	0
6	Venus Williams	1691	0
7	Sloane Stephens	1661	0
8	Garbine Muguruza	1659	0
9	Belinda Bencic	1657	0
10	Carla Suarez Navarro	1655	0
11	Simona Halep	1652	0
12	Elina Svitolina	1626	14
13	Sara Errani	1620	0
14	Jelena Jankovic	1620	0
15	Petra Kvitova	1619	1
16	Karolina Pliskova	1616	1
17	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1615	-5
18	Timea Bacsinszky	1612	0
19	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1609	0
20	Madison Keys	1609	0
21	Ana Ivanovic	1608	0
22	Roberta Vinci	1606	-7
23	Ekaterina Makarova	1598	0
24	Lucie Safarova	1596	0
25	Caroline Wozniacki	1593	0
26	Eugenie Bouchard	1593	6
27	Dominika Cibulkova	1592	-5
28	Samantha Stosur	1582	-1
29	Andrea Petkovic	1582	-1
30	Johanna Konta	1582	-1
31	Barbora Strycova	1576	-1
32	Daria Kasatkina	1575	-1
33	Sabine Lisicki	1563	2
34	Margarita Gasparyan	1562	-1
35	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1558	-1
36	Irina-Camelia Begu	1552	1
37	Caroline Garcia	1551	7
38	Alize Cornet	1550	0
39	Daria Gavrilova	1546	0
40	Denisa Allertova	1546	0
41	Johanna Larsson	1543	-5
42	Jelena Ostapenko	1542	-1
43	Yanina Wickmayer	1542	0
44	Kristina Mladenovic	1541	-2
45	Naomi Broady	1541	8
46	Camila Giorgi	1540	-1
47	Heather Watson	1539	32
48	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1537	-1
49	Karin Knapp	1535	-1
50	Monica Niculescu	1535	-1
51	Coco Vandeweghe	1534	-1
52	Nao Hibino	1527	-6
53	Kirsten Flipkens	1526	20
54	Lesia Tsurenko	1524	-3
55	Madison Brengle	1523	-3
56	Mona Barthel	1519	0
57	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1518	1
58	Hseih Su-Wei	1517	-4
59	Julia Gorges	1517	0
60	Anastasija Sevastova	1515	2
61	Ana Konjuh	1514	3
62	Monica Puig	1513	-2
63	Anett Kontaveit	1511	17
64	Annika Beck	1508	-9
65	Timea Babos	1507	-8
66	Samantha Crawford	1506	1
67	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1505	-6
68	Danka Kovinic	1503	-5
69	Varvara Lepchenko	1502	-1
70	Laura Siegemund	1500	-5
71	Naomi Osaka	1500	-2
72	Misaki Doi	1499	-6
73	Christina McHale	1497	-3
74	Elena Vesnina	1497	-3
75	Patricia Maria Tig	1496	-3
76	Kateryna Bondarenko	1492	-2
77	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1491	-2
78	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1489	-1
79	Alison Van Uytvanck	1488	-3
80	Kurumi Nara	1488	-2
81	Risa Ozaki	1486	NEW
82	Alison Riske	1484	1
83	Yaroslava Shvedova	1483	1
84	Teliana Pereira	1483	1
85	Donna Vekic	1482	3
86	Yulia Putintseva	1482	3
87	Olga Savchuk	1481	3
88	Casey Dellacqua	1479	3
89	Cagla Buyukakcay	1479	NEW
90	Mariana Duque Marino	1478	-9
91	Magda Linette	1477	-9
92	Tsvetana Pironkova	1475	0
93	Duan Yingying	1475	NEW
94	Kateryna Kozlova	1474	-1
95	Julia Glushko	1474	NEW
96	Evgeniya Rodina	1473	-1
97	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	-1
98	Alexandra Panova	1472	-12
99	Alexandra Dulgheru	1472	-12
100	Lara Arruabarrena	1471	-3
101	Lauren Davis	1471	-3
102	Nicole Gibbs	1471	14
103	Zhang Shuai	1468	-3
104	Bojana Jovanovski	1467	-3
105	Francesca Schiavone	1465	-11
106	Tamira Paszek	1465	-4
107	Sesil Karatantcheva	1463	-4
108	Sachia Vickery	1463	-4
109	Shelby Rogers	1463	-4
110	Polona Hercog	1463	-1
111	Urszula Radwanska	1461	-3
112	Kristyna Pliskova	1460	-2
113	Ana Bogdan	1460	-2
114	Wang Yafan	1460	NEW
115	Irina Falconi	1459	-16
116	Louisa Chirico	1459	-4
117	Aleksandra Krunic	1458	-4
118	Wang Qiang	1458	5
119	Lucie Hradecka	1457	-5
120	Mandy Minella	1456	-3
121	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	-3
122	Zheng Saisai	1454	-16
123	Daniela Hantuchova	1453	-16
124	Anna Tatishvili	1453	-4
125	Magdalena Rybarikova	1452	-10
126	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1450	-5
127	Olga Govortsova	1448	-8
128	Katerina Siniakova	1447	-6
129	Zarina Diyas	1447	-5
130	Marina Erakovic	1444	-5
131	Carina Witthoft	1440	-5
132	Tereza Smitkova	1438	-5
133	Jana Cepelova	1429	-5
134	Petra Martic	1429	-5
135	Kiki Bertens	1426	-2
136	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	-2
137	Klara Koukalova	1425	-7
138	Stefanie Vogele	1423	-7
139	Tatjana Maria	1423	-7
140	Andreea Mitu	1418	-5