Women's ELO Rankings 11/04/2016

This week saw 2 tournaments held in Charleston and Katowice, as some players prepare for next week's Fed Cup matches.

Elena Vesnina, © Volvo Car Open

This week's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Elena Vesnina. She successfully qualified for the tournament in Charleston, and made it to the final, performing the upset of the week (see below) in the 2nd round. She also beat Sara Errani in the semi finals before losing in the final to Sloane Stephens. This run gave Elena 45 ELO rating points, which sees her gain 29 places in my rankings to #36.

The Upset player of the week for this week is Belinda Bencic. She was the 2nd seed at Charleston and got a bye to the 2nd round, but she lost her opening match to the Big Gainer of the week (see above). This loss cost Belinda 13 ELO rating points, and she falls 4 places in my rankings to #17.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Dominika Cibulkova, Camila Giorgi, Laura Siegemund, Yulia Putintseva and Pauline Parmentier.

Now, the full rankings:

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1825	0
2	Victoria Azarenka	1781	0
3	Agnieszka Radwanska	1763	0
4	Maria Sharapova	1737	0
5	Angelique Kerber	1735	0
6	Sloane Stephens	1678	6
7	Simona Halep	1677	-1
8	Garbine Muguruza	1653	0
9	Venus Williams	1652	-2
10	Timea Bacsinszky	1650	-1
11	Carla Suarez Navarro	1642	-1
12	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1642	-1
13	Karolina Pliskova	1628	1
14	Petra Kvitova	1628	1
15	Elina Svitolina	1627	1
16	Dominika Cibulkova	1627	10
17	Belinda Bencic	1619	-4
18	Ekaterina Makarova	1616	-1
19	Jelena Jankovic	1613	0
20	Daria Kasatkina	1612	3
21	Johanna Konta	1610	-1
22	Roberta Vinci	1608	-1
23	Sara Errani	1608	1
24	Ana Ivanovic	1603	-2
25	Madison Keys	1602	-7
26	Barbora Strycova	1595	-1
27	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1587	1
28	Samantha Stosur	1583	1
29	Eugenie Bouchard	1580	-2
30	Irina-Camelia Begu	1579	5
31	Caroline Wozniacki	1578	-1
32	Margarita Gasparyan	1560	2
33	Lucie Safarova	1559	-2
34	Camila Giorgi	1559	15
35	Jelena Ostapenko	1557	9
36	Elena Vesnina	1557	29
37	Coco Vandeweghe	1556	-1
38	Yanina Wickmayer	1552	0
39	Monica Niculescu	1551	0
40	Andrea Petkovic	1550	-8
41	Heather Watson	1548	-8
42	Alize Cornet	1548	-5
43	Denisa Allertova	1547	-2
44	Johanna Larsson	1543	-1
45	Caroline Garcia	1539	-5
46	Sabine Lisicki	1539	-4
47	Monica Puig	1539	3
48	Naomi Broady	1538	-3
49	Timea Babos	1533	4
50	Daria Gavrilova	1533	5
51	Kirsten Flipkens	1531	0
52	Laura Siegemund	1530	17
53	Madison Brengle	1528	-7
54	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1524	-7
55	Julia Gorges	1524	-1
56	Lesia Tsurenko	1522	-8
57	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1520	0
58	Mona Barthel	1519	1
59	Yulia Putintseva	1518	21
60	Hseih Su-Wei	1517	0
61	Karin Knapp	1515	-9
62	Kristina Mladenovic	1515	-4
63	Ana Konjuh	1515	0
64	Nicole Gibbs	1514	0
65	Kateryna Bondarenko	1513	-4
66	Danka Kovinic	1512	2
67	Anett Kontaveit	1511	-1
68	Christina McHale	1509	-12
69	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1507	2
70	Nao Hibino	1505	0
71	Magda Linette	1503	6
72	Anastasija Sevastova	1502	-10
73	Annika Beck	1502	0
74	Varvara Lepchenko	1502	0
75	Naomi Osaka	1500	-8
76	Magdalena Rybarikova	1498	0
77	Yaroslava Shvedova	1497	2
78	Kristina Kucova	1497	NEW
79	Kurumi Nara	1495	-7
80	Zhang Shuai	1490	1
81	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1489	-6
82	Samantha Crawford	1487	0
83	Patricia Maria Tig	1486	-5
84	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1485	15
85	Olga Savchuk	1481	-1
86	Risa Ozaki	1479	-1
87	Casey Dellacqua	1479	-1
88	Tsvetana Pironkova	1479	0
89	Alison Riske	1479	6
90	Lauren Davis	1478	-1
91	Lara Arruabarrena	1477	12
92	Louisa Chirico	1477	24
93	Duan Yingying	1475	-2
94	Kateryna Kozlova	1474	-2
95	Julia Glushko	1474	-2
96	Kristyna Pliskova	1474	10
97	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	0
98	Vania King	1473	0
99	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1473	3
100	Francesca Schiavone	1473	20
101	Misaki Doi	1472	-18
102	Alexandra Panova	1472	-1
103	Cagla Buyukakcay	1470	-16
104	Alison Van Uytvanck	1469	1
105	Mariana Duque Marino	1468	2
106	Teliana Pereira	1467	-16
107	Bojana Jovanovski	1467	1
108	Zarina Diyas	1465	-14
109	Tamira Paszek	1465	1
110	Evgeniya Rodina	1464	-14
111	Donna Vekic	1464	-11
112	Sachia Vickery	1463	0
113	Lucie Hradecka	1462	-9
114	Urszula Radwanska	1461	-1
115	Paula Kania	1461	NEW
116	Ana Bogdan	1460	-2
117	Wang Yafan	1460	-2
118	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1459	13
119	Wang Qiang	1458	-1
120	Shelby Rogers	1457	-11
121	Pauline Parmentier	1457	17
122	Mandy Minella	1456	-3
123	Polona Hercog	1455	-2
124	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	-2
125	Sesil Karatantcheva	1454	-14
126	Aleksandra Krunic	1451	-9
127	Alexandra Dulgheru	1448	-4
128	Irina Falconi	1446	-4
129	Carina Witthoft	1446	-4
130	Anna Tatishvili	1444	-3
131	Marina Erakovic	1444	-3
132	Kiki Bertens	1442	-2
133	Petra Cetkovska	1441	-1
134	Katerina Siniakova	1441	-1
135	Daniela Hantuchova	1439	-9
136	Tereza Smitkova	1438	-2
137	Zheng Saisai	1437	-8
138	Olga Govortsova	1431	-3
139	Petra Martic	1429	-3
140	Stefanie Vogele	1428	0
141	Jana Cepelova	1428	0
142	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	-5
143	Andreea Mitu	1422	-1
144	Klara Koukalova	1417	-5
145	Tatjana Maria	1409	-2