Women's ELO Rankings 25/04/2016

As players continue to prepare for the French Open, there were 2 tournaments on this week, in Stuttgart and Istanbul.

Cagla Buyukakcay, © TEP BNP Paribas Istanbul Cup

This week's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Cagla Buyukakcay. She entered her home tournament of Istanbul, and won the tournament with wins over 2 qualifiers in the 1st 2 round, and other strong wins on her way to the title. This run gave Cagla 52 ELO rating points, which sees her gain 50 places in my rankings to #57

The Upset player of the week for this week is Simona Halep. The 4th seed at the strong tournament in Stuttgart, she got a bye in the 1st round, but lost her 1st match to a qualifier. This loss cost Simona 14 ELO rating points, and she remains at #7 in my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Laura Siegemund, Danka Kovinic, Stefanie Vogele, Nao Hibino and Maria Sakkari

Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1825	0
2	Victoria Azarenka	1781	0
3	Agnieszka Radwanska	1760	0
4	Angelique Kerber	1759	1
5	Maria Sharapova	1737	-1
6	Sloane Stephens	1678	0
7	Simona Halep	1663	0
8	Venus Williams	1652	1
9	Timea Bacsinszky	1650	1
10	Garbine Muguruza	1649	-2
11	Carla Suarez Navarro	1646	0
12	Petra Kvitova	1646	2
13	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1642	-1
14	Karolina Pliskova	1638	-1
15	Dominika Cibulkova	1627	0
16	Belinda Bencic	1619	0
17	Roberta Vinci	1614	5
18	Elina Svitolina	1613	0
19	Jelena Jankovic	1613	0
20	Daria Kasatkina	1612	0
21	Sara Errani	1608	2
22	Ekaterina Makarova	1606	-5
23	Madison Keys	1602	2
24	Ana Ivanovic	1600	0
25	Johanna Konta	1597	-4
26	Barbora Strycova	1595	0
27	Samantha Stosur	1583	1
28	Eugenie Bouchard	1580	1
29	Irina-Camelia Begu	1579	1
30	Caroline Wozniacki	1578	1
31	Laura Siegemund	1578	21
32	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1575	-5
33	Margarita Gasparyan	1560	-1
34	Jelena Ostapenko	1557	1
35	Elena Vesnina	1557	1
36	Coco Vandeweghe	1556	1
37	Andrea Petkovic	1554	3
38	Monica Niculescu	1553	1
39	Lucie Safarova	1551	-6
40	Heather Watson	1548	1
41	Camila Giorgi	1547	-7
42	Denisa Allertova	1547	1
43	Johanna Larsson	1540	1
44	Monica Puig	1539	3
45	Yanina Wickmayer	1538	-7
46	Naomi Broady	1538	2
47	Danka Kovinic	1538	19
48	Alize Cornet	1537	-6
49	Timea Babos	1536	0
50	Daria Gavrilova	1533	0
51	Caroline Garcia	1529	-6
52	Sabine Lisicki	1529	-6
53	Madison Brengle	1528	0
54	Kirsten Flipkens	1527	-3
55	Julia Gorges	1527	0
56	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1526	1
57	Cagla Buyukakcay	1522	50
58	Mona Barthel	1519	0
59	Yulia Putintseva	1518	0
60	Hseih Su-Wei	1516	0
61	Ana Konjuh	1515	2
62	Nicole Gibbs	1514	2
63	Nao Hibino	1514	8
64	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1513	-10
65	Lesia Tsurenko	1511	-9
66	Kateryna Bondarenko	1511	-1
67	Anett Kontaveit	1511	0
68	Anastasija Sevastova	1511	5
69	Annika Beck	1510	5
70	Christina McHale	1509	-2
71	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1507	-2
72	Kristina Mladenovic	1506	-10
73	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1506	-3
74	Karin Knapp	1505	-13
75	Kristina Kucova	1504	6
76	Magda Linette	1503	-4
77	Varvara Lepchenko	1502	-2
78	Naomi Osaka	1500	-2
79	Irina Falconi	1500	-2
80	Magdalena Rybarikova	1498	-2
81	Lara Arruabarrena	1498	-2
82	Yaroslava Shvedova	1497	-2
83	Kateryna Kozlova	1497	15
84	Zhang Shuai	1490	-1
85	Maria Sakkari	1488	NEW
86	Samantha Crawford	1487	-1
87	Alexandra Panova	1487	-1
88	Sorana Cirstea	1487	NEW
89	Kurumi Nara	1485	-7
90	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1485	-3
91	Rebecca Peterson	1482	-3
92	Olga Savchuk	1481	-3
93	Tsvetana Pironkova	1480	-1
94	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1479	-10
95	Risa Ozaki	1479	-5
96	Casey Dellacqua	1479	-5
97	Alison Riske	1479	-4
98	Lauren Davis	1478	-4
99	Patricia Maria Tig	1475	-3
100	Duan Yingying	1475	-3
101	Kristyna Pliskova	1474	-1
102	Sachia Vickery	1474	-1
103	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	-1
104	Vania King	1473	-1
105	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1473	-1
106	Francesca Schiavone	1473	-1
107	Misaki Doi	1472	-1
108	Louisa Chirico	1471	-13
109	Alison Van Uytvanck	1469	-1
110	Bojana Jovanovski	1467	-1
111	Julia Glushko	1465	-12
112	Zarina Diyas	1465	-2
113	Tamira Paszek	1465	-2
114	Evgeniya Rodina	1464	-2
115	Lucie Hradecka	1462	-1
116	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1462	-1
117	Urszula Radwanska	1461	-1
118	Paula Kania	1461	-1
119	Ana Bogdan	1460	-1
120	Wang Yafan	1460	-1
121	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1460	-1
122	Mariana Duque Marino	1459	-1
123	Teliana Pereira	1458	-1
124	Wang Qiang	1458	-1
125	Shelby Rogers	1457	-1
126	Pauline Parmentier	1457	-1
127	Donna Vekic	1456	-14
128	Mandy Minella	1456	-2
129	Polona Hercog	1455	-2
130	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	-2
131	Sesil Karatantcheva	1454	-2
132	Stefanie Vogele	1453	11
133	Oceane Dodin	1453	NEW
134	Anna Tatishvili	1445	-1
135	Marina Erakovic	1444	-1
136	Aleksandra Krunic	1442	-6
137	Kiki Bertens	1442	-2
138	Petra Cetkovska	1441	-2
139	Katerina Siniakova	1441	-2
140	Carina Witthoft	1440	-8
141	Alexandra Dulgheru	1439	-10
142	Daniela Hantuchova	1439	-4
143	Tereza Smitkova	1438	-4
144	Zheng Saisai	1437	-4
145	Petra Martic	1429	-3
146	Jana Cepelova	1428	-2
147	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	-2
148	Andreea Mitu	1426	-2
149	Olga Govortsova	1423	-8
150	Klara Koukalova	1417	-3
151	Tatjana Maria	1413	-3