Women's ELO Rankings 21/03/2016

With next week's tournament in Miami taking place over 2 weeks, there won't be an update next week, just like last week, when Indian Wells took place over 2 weeks.

Magdalena Rybarikova. © Christopher Levy/ @tennis_shots

This update's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Magdalena Rybarikova. She came in to this tournament very lowly rated, but managed to upset the odds multiple times, defeating Belinda Bencic and Roberta Vinci before losing to the eventual champion Victoria Azarenka. Her run to the quarter finals earned Magdalena 46 ELO rating points, which sees her climb 50 places in my rankings to #75.

The Upset player of the week this week is Angelique Kerber. Coming in to the tournament as the 2nd seed, she was hoping to make the final, but she was defeated in the 2nd round by Denisa Allertova. This upset cost Angelique 15 ELO rating points, and she falls 1 place in my rankings to #5.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Daria Kasaktina, Coco Vandeweghe, Kateryna Bondarenko, Nicole Gibbs and Zhang Shuai

Now, the full rankings:

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1836	0
2	Agnieszka Radwanska	1768	0
3	Victoria Azarenka	1743	2
4	Maria Sharapova	1737	-1
5	Angelique Kerber	1720	-1
6	Venus Williams	1676	0
7	Simona Halep	1667	4
8	Carla Suarez Navarro	1655	2
9	Sloane Stephens	1649	-2
10	Belinda Bencic	1647	-1
11	Garbine Muguruza	1645	-3
12	Karolina Pliskova	1642	4
13	Petra Kvitova	1634	2
14	Jelena Jankovic	1627	0
15	Elina Svitolina	1622	-3
16	Timea Bacsinszky	1617	2
17	Roberta Vinci	1612	5
18	Sara Errani	1608	-5
19	Ana Ivanovic	1606	2
20	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1602	-3
21	Eugenie Bouchard	1602	5
22	Daria Kasatkina	1601	10
23	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1597	-4
24	Ekaterina Makarova	1596	-1
25	Madison Keys	1595	-5
26	Barbora Strycova	1594	5
27	Dominika Cibulkova	1592	0
28	Samantha Stosur	1592	0
29	Johanna Konta	1591	1
30	Lucie Safarova	1583	-6
31	Caroline Wozniacki	1580	-6
32	Andrea Petkovic	1572	-3
33	Margarita Gasparyan	1560	1
34	Denisa Allertova	1559	6
35	Sabine Lisicki	1553	-2
36	Johanna Larsson	1552	5
37	Alize Cornet	1550	1
38	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1547	-3
39	Coco Vandeweghe	1545	12
40	Jelena Ostapenko	1542	2
41	Irina-Camelia Begu	1541	-5
42	Yanina Wickmayer	1541	1
43	Naomi Broady	1541	2
44	Camila Giorgi	1541	2
45	Monica Niculescu	1540	5
46	Caroline Garcia	1539	-9
47	Heather Watson	1538	0
48	Karin Knapp	1535	1
49	Lesia Tsurenko	1535	5
50	Daria Gavrilova	1534	-11
51	Kristina Mladenovic	1530	-7
52	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1528	-4
53	Kirsten Flipkens	1526	0
54	Monica Puig	1525	8
55	Madison Brengle	1523	0
56	Kateryna Bondarenko	1523	20
57	Mona Barthel	1519	-1
58	Hseih Su-Wei	1517	0
59	Nao Hibino	1515	-7
60	Anastasija Sevastova	1515	0
61	Christina McHale	1515	12
62	Ana Konjuh	1514	-1
63	Anett Kontaveit	1511	0
64	Annika Beck	1511	0
65	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1510	-8
66	Julia Gorges	1508	-7
67	Laura Siegemund	1508	3
68	Danka Kovinic	1506	0
69	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1505	-2
70	Kurumi Nara	1505	10
71	Varvara Lepchenko	1502	-2
72	Yulia Putintseva	1501	14
73	Naomi Osaka	1500	-2
74	Nicole Gibbs	1499	28
75	Magdalena Rybarikova	1498	50
76	Timea Babos	1497	-11
77	Elena Vesnina	1497	-3
78	Samantha Crawford	1496	-12
79	Patricia Maria Tig	1496	-4
80	Yaroslava Shvedova	1495	3
81	Misaki Doi	1490	-9
82	Zhang Shuai	1486	21
83	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1481	-6
84	Olga Savchuk	1481	3
85	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1480	-7
86	Risa Ozaki	1479	-5
87	Casey Dellacqua	1479	1
88	Cagla Buyukakcay	1479	1
89	Tsvetana Pironkova	1479	3
90	Alison Van Uytvanck	1478	-11
91	Lauren Davis	1478	10
92	Magda Linette	1477	-1
93	Duan Yingying	1475	0
94	Kateryna Kozlova	1474	0
95	Julia Glushko	1474	0
96	Alison Riske	1473	-14
97	Teliana Pereira	1473	-13
98	Evgeniya Rodina	1473	-2
99	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	-2
100	Donna Vekic	1472	-15
101	Alexandra Panova	1472	-3
102	Lara Arruabarrena	1471	-2
103	Mariana Duque Marino	1468	-13
104	Bojana Jovanovski	1467	0
105	Shelby Rogers	1467	4
106	Francesca Schiavone	1465	-1
107	Tamira Paszek	1465	-1
108	Sesil Karatantcheva	1463	-1
109	Sachia Vickery	1463	-1
110	Alexandra Dulgheru	1462	-11
111	Lucie Hradecka	1462	8
112	Urszula Radwanska	1461	-1
113	Ana Bogdan	1460	0
114	Wang Yafan	1460	0
115	Louisa Chirico	1459	1
116	Aleksandra Krunic	1458	1
117	Wang Qiang	1458	1
118	Mandy Minella	1456	2
119	Polona Hercog	1455	-9
120	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	1
121	Zheng Saisai	1454	1
122	Zarina Diyas	1454	7
123	Anna Tatishvili	1453	1
124	Kristyna Pliskova	1451	-12
125	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1450	1
126	Irina Falconi	1448	-11
127	Petra Cetkovska	1448	NEW
128	Daniela Hantuchova	1446	-5
129	Carina Witthoft	1446	2
130	Marina Erakovic	1444	0
131	Olga Govortsova	1441	-4
132	Katerina Siniakova	1441	-4
133	Tereza Smitkova	1438	-1
134	Pauline Parmentier	1433	NEW
135	Jana Cepelova	1429	-2
136	Petra Martic	1429	-2
137	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	-1
138	Klara Koukalova	1425	-1
139	Stefanie Vogele	1423	-1
140	Kiki Bertens	1419	-5
141	Andreea Mitu	1418	-1
142	Tatjana Maria	1416	-3