Women's ELO Rankings 09/05/2016

Most of the top Women's tennis players played in the only WTA tournament held this week in Madrid, as they prepare for the French Open later this month.

Simona Halep, © Julian Finney/Getty Images

The Big Gainer of the week this week is the tournament winner, Simona Halep. In a good week for Romanians, Simona did the best of them all, winning the title in Madrid as the 6th seed. Her wins over Timea Bacsinszky and Dominika Cibulkova, among others, led to Simona gaining 47 ELO rating points this week, which sees her climb 2 places in my ranking to #6.

This week's Upset player of the week award goes to Agnieszka Radwanska. She entered Madrid as the top seed, but she lost her 1st match to eventual finalist Dominika Cibulkova. There were a few similar upsets this week (Kerber, Jankovic, Kasaktina), but Agniezksa gets the award as the highest ranked player. This loss cost her 14 ELO rating points, but she stays as the ELO #3 in my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Daria Gavrilova, Christina McHale, Louisa Chirico (who was 1 point off winning the Big Gainer award), Sorana Cirstea and Patricia Maria Tig.

Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1825	0
2	Victoria Azarenka	1771	0
3	Agnieszka Radwanska	1746	0
4	Angelique Kerber	1745	0
5	Maria Sharapova	1737	0
6	Simona Halep	1710	2
7	Timea Bacsinszky	1684	-1
8	Sloane Stephens	1667	-1
9	Venus Williams	1652	0
10	Carla Suarez Navarro	1649	2
11	Dominika Cibulkova	1649	6
12	Petra Kvitova	1647	1
13	Garbine Muguruza	1643	-2
14	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1638	-4
15	Karolina Pliskova	1635	-1
16	Samantha Stosur	1635	5
17	Belinda Bencic	1619	-2
18	Elina Svitolina	1609	0
19	Madison Keys	1605	4
20	Roberta Vinci	1602	-4
21	Barbora Strycova	1600	7
22	Jelena Jankovic	1599	-3
23	Daria Kasatkina	1598	-3
24	Sara Errani	1597	-2
25	Ekaterina Makarova	1597	0
26	Lucie Safarova	1597	0
27	Ana Ivanovic	1593	-3
28	Irina-Camelia Begu	1589	5
29	Johanna Konta	1585	-2
30	Laura Siegemund	1584	1
31	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1584	1
32	Caroline Wozniacki	1578	-2
33	Eugenie Bouchard	1570	-4
34	Camila Giorgi	1559	0
35	Elena Vesnina	1559	0
36	Daria Gavrilova	1556	11
37	Johanna Larsson	1549	3
38	Andrea Petkovic	1548	-1
39	Coco Vandeweghe	1547	-3
40	Denisa Allertova	1547	3
41	Timea Babos	1546	-2
42	Monica Niculescu	1541	-4
43	Heather Watson	1538	-2
44	Danka Kovinic	1538	2
45	Monica Puig	1537	-3
46	Jelena Ostapenko	1536	-1
47	Margarita Gasparyan	1535	-3
48	Caroline Garcia	1533	1
49	Sabine Lisicki	1533	1
50	Madison Brengle	1531	-2
51	Alize Cornet	1529	5
52	Naomi Broady	1528	0
53	Julia Gorges	1527	0
54	Hseih Su-Wei	1526	1
55	Christina McHale	1525	11
56	Cagla Buyukakcay	1522	1
57	Yulia Putintseva	1522	1
58	Yanina Wickmayer	1520	-7
59	Mona Barthel	1519	0
60	Louisa Chirico	1518	46
61	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1516	-7
62	Ana Konjuh	1516	-2
63	Kirsten Flipkens	1515	-2
64	Nicole Gibbs	1514	-2
65	Nao Hibino	1514	-2
66	Sorana Cirstea	1512	26
67	Kateryna Bondarenko	1511	-3
68	Anett Kontaveit	1511	-3
69	Karin Knapp	1510	2
70	Patricia Maria Tig	1510	28
71	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1507	-3
72	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1506	-2
73	Kristina Kucova	1504	-1
74	Magda Linette	1503	-1
75	Varvara Lepchenko	1502	-1
76	Kateryna Kozlova	1501	0
77	Lesia Tsurenko	1500	-10
78	Naomi Osaka	1500	-1
79	Irina Falconi	1500	-1
80	Anastasija Sevastova	1499	-1
81	Magdalena Rybarikova	1498	0
82	Yaroslava Shvedova	1497	1
83	Kristina Mladenovic	1495	-14
84	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1495	-9
85	Annika Beck	1492	-5
86	Lara Arruabarrena	1492	-4
87	Zhang Shuai	1490	-3
88	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1489	1
89	Maria Sakkari	1488	-4
90	Samantha Crawford	1487	-4
91	Alexandra Panova	1487	-4
92	Kurumi Nara	1485	-4
93	Rebecca Peterson	1482	-3
94	Olga Savchuk	1481	-3
95	Tsvetana Pironkova	1480	-2
96	Marina Erakovic	1480	-2
97	Risa Ozaki	1479	-2
98	Casey Dellacqua	1479	-2
99	Lauren Davis	1478	-2
100	Duan Yingying	1475	-1
101	Sachia Vickery	1474	-1
102	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1473	-1
103	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	-1
104	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1473	-1
105	Francesca Schiavone	1473	-1
106	Pauline Parmentier	1471	1
107	Alison Van Uytvanck	1469	2
108	Misaki Doi	1467	-3
109	Bojana Jovanovski	1467	1
110	Kiki Bertens	1467	1
111	Kristyna Pliskova	1465	1
112	Julia Glushko	1465	1
113	Zarina Diyas	1465	1
114	Tamira Paszek	1465	1
115	Lucie Hradecka	1465	1
116	Richel Hogenkamp	1465	1
117	Alison Riske	1464	-9
118	Vania King	1464	0
119	Evgeniya Rodina	1464	0
120	Urszula Radwanska	1461	0
121	Paula Kania	1461	0
122	Ana Bogdan	1460	1
123	Wang Yafan	1460	1
124	Wang Qiang	1458	2
125	Aleksandra Krunic	1458	2
126	Teliana Pereira	1457	-4
127	Shelby Rogers	1457	1
128	Mandy Minella	1456	1
129	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1455	-4
130	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	0
131	Sesil Karatantcheva	1454	0
132	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1453	1
133	Mariana Duque Marino	1452	1
134	Laura Robson	1451	-2
135	Donna Vekic	1448	1
136	Stefanie Vogele	1448	1
137	Polona Hercog	1447	1
138	Anna Tatishvili	1445	1
139	Oceane Dodin	1444	1
140	Katerina Siniakova	1443	-5
141	Petra Cetkovska	1441	0
142	Carina Witthoft	1440	0
143	Daniela Hantuchova	1439	0
144	Zheng Saisai	1437	0
145	Jana Cepelova	1436	0
146	Alexandra Dulgheru	1433	0
147	Tereza Smitkova	1431	0
148	Petra Martic	1429	0
149	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	0
150	Olga Govortsova	1418	0
151	Tatjana Maria	1418	0
152	Andreea Mitu	1417	0
153	Klara Koukalova	1417	0