Monday 18 April 2016

Women's ELO Rankings 18/04/2016

With Fed Cup matches taking place this week, there was only 1 WTA tournament taking place, held in Bogota.

Irina Falconi, © PAP / EPA / Leonardo Munoz


This week's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Irina Falconi. She entered the tournament as the 5th seed, and won the tournament. It may have been a weak field, but as a WTA tournament, it counts just as much as any other. This victory gave Irina 54 ELO rating points, which sees her rise to #77 in my rankings, 51 places higher than last week.

The Upset player of the week for this week is Elina Svitolina. She was the top seed here, and the highest ranked player by a huge margin, but she lost her 1st match. This loss cost Elina 14 ELO rating points, and she fell 3 places in my rankings from #15 to #18.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Lara Arruabarrena, Alexandra Panova, Sachia Vickery, Silvia Soler Espinosa and Paula Cristina Goncalves.

Now, the full rankings:

#NameELO±
1Serena Williams18250
2Victoria Azarenka17810
3Agnieszka Radwanska17630
4Maria Sharapova17370
5Angelique Kerber17350
6Sloane Stephens16780
7Simona Halep16770
8Garbine Muguruza16530
9Venus Williams16520
10Timea Bacsinszky16500
11Carla Suarez Navarro16420
12Svetlana Kuznetsova16420
13Karolina Pliskova16280
14Petra Kvitova16280
15Dominika Cibulkova16271
16Belinda Bencic16191
17Ekaterina Makarova16161
18Elina Svitolina1613-3
19Jelena Jankovic16130
20Daria Kasatkina16120
21Johanna Konta16100
22Roberta Vinci16080
23Sara Errani16080
24Ana Ivanovic16030
25Madison Keys16020
26Barbora Strycova15950
27Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova15870
28Samantha Stosur15830
29Eugenie Bouchard15800
30Irina-Camelia Begu15790
31Caroline Wozniacki15780
32Margarita Gasparyan15600
33Lucie Safarova15590
34Camila Giorgi15590
35Jelena Ostapenko15570
36Elena Vesnina15570
37Coco Vandeweghe15560
38Yanina Wickmayer15520
39Monica Niculescu15510
40Andrea Petkovic15500
41Heather Watson15480
42Alize Cornet15480
43Denisa Allertova15470
44Johanna Larsson15430
45Caroline Garcia15390
46Sabine Lisicki15390
47Monica Puig15390
48Naomi Broady15380
49Timea Babos15330
50Daria Gavrilova15330
51Kirsten Flipkens15310
52Laura Siegemund15300
53Madison Brengle15280
54Anna Karolina Schmiedlova15240
55Julia Gorges15240
56Lesia Tsurenko15220
57Anna-Lena Friedsam15200
58Mona Barthel15190
59Yulia Putintseva15180
60Hseih Su-Wei15170
61Karin Knapp15150
62Kristina Mladenovic15150
63Ana Konjuh15150
64Nicole Gibbs15140
65Kateryna Bondarenko15130
66Danka Kovinic15120
67Anett Kontaveit15110
68Christina McHale15090
69Elizaveta Kulichkova15070
70Paula Cristina Goncalves1506NEW
71Nao Hibino1505-1
72Magda Linette1503-1
73Anastasija Sevastova1502-1
74Annika Beck1502-1
75Varvara Lepchenko1502-1
76Naomi Osaka1500-1
77Irina Falconi150051
78Magdalena Rybarikova1498-2
79Lara Arruabarrena149812
80Yaroslava Shvedova1497-3
81Kristina Kucova1497-3
82Kurumi Nara1495-3
83Zhang Shuai1490-3
84Aliaksandra Sasnovich1489-3
85Samantha Crawford1487-3
86Alexandra Panova148716
87Mirjana Lucic-Baroni1485-3
88Rebecca Peterson1482NEW
89Olga Savchuk1481-4
90Risa Ozaki1479-4
91Casey Dellacqua1479-4
92Tsvetana Pironkova1479-4
93Alison Riske1479-4
94Lauren Davis1478-4
95Louisa Chirico1477-3
96Patricia Maria Tig1475-13
97Duan Yingying1475-4
98Kateryna Kozlova1474-4
99Julia Glushko1474-4
100Kristyna Pliskova1474-4
101Sachia Vickery147411
102Ajla Tomljanovic1473-5
103Vania King1473-5
104Bethanie Mattek-Sands1473-5
105Francesca Schiavone1473-5
106Misaki Doi1472-5
107Cagla Buyukakcay1470-4
108Alison Van Uytvanck1469-4
109Bojana Jovanovski1467-2
110Zarina Diyas1465-2
111Tamira Paszek1465-2
112Evgeniya Rodina1464-2
113Donna Vekic1464-2
114Lucie Hradecka1462-1
115Silvia Soler Espinosa1462NEW
116Urszula Radwanska1461-2
117Paula Kania1461-2
118Ana Bogdan1460-2
119Wang Yafan1460-2
120Lourdes Domingues Lino1460-2
121Mariana Duque Marino1459-16
122Teliana Pereira1458-16
123Wang Qiang1458-4
124Shelby Rogers1457-4
125Pauline Parmentier1457-4
126Mandy Minella1456-4
127Polona Hercog1455-4
128Vitalia Diatchenko1455-4
129Sesil Karatantcheva1454-4
130Aleksandra Krunic1451-4
131Alexandra Dulgheru1448-4
132Carina Witthoft1446-3
133Anna Tatishvili1445-3
134Marina Erakovic1444-3
135Kiki Bertens1442-3
136Petra Cetkovska1441-3
137Katerina Siniakova1441-3
138Daniela Hantuchova1439-3
139Tereza Smitkova1438-3
140Zheng Saisai1437-3
141Olga Govortsova1431-3
142Petra Martic1429-3
143Stefanie Vogele1428-3
144Jana Cepelova1428-3
145Jarmila Wolfe1426-3
146Andreea Mitu1422-3
147Klara Koukalova1417-3
148Tatjana Maria1413-3