Women's ELO Rankings 16/05/2016

With the French Open starting in a few weeks time, many of the top players on the WTA tour competed in Rome, the last high quality tournament before Roland Garros.

Madison Keys, © Matthew Lewis/Getty Images

The Big Gainer of the week this week is finalist Madison Keys. After defeating Petra Kvitova in the 2nd round, she made it all the way to the final with a win over Garbine Muguruza, despite being unseeded. Madison eventually lost to the ELO #1 Serena Williams in the final, a performance that gave her 43 ELO rating points and a new ranking of #12, 7 places higher than last week..

This week's Upset player of the week award goes to Victoria Azarenka. Like the other top 8 seeds, she received a bye to the 2nd round, but she lost her 1st match. This loss cost Victoria 15 ELO rating points, which combined with the ELO #1 winning the tournament (see above), now means that she is 91 points behind Serena Williams in my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Irina-Camelia Begu, Christina McHale, Misaki Doi and Mariana Duque-Marino.

Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Serena Williams	1847	0
2	Victoria Azarenka	1756	0
3	Agnieszka Radwanska	1746	0
4	Maria Sharapova	1737	1
5	Angelique Kerber	1731	-1
6	Simona Halep	1696	0
7	Timea Bacsinszky	1693	0
8	Sloane Stephens	1667	0
9	Garbine Muguruza	1659	4
10	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1657	4
11	Dominika Cibulkova	1649	0
12	Madison Keys	1648	7
13	Venus Williams	1646	-4
14	Carla Suarez Navarro	1645	-4
15	Petra Kvitova	1636	-3
16	Samantha Stosur	1630	0
17	Karolina Pliskova	1624	-2
18	Irina-Camelia Begu	1624	10
19	Belinda Bencic	1619	-2
20	Barbora Strycova	1614	1
21	Daria Kasatkina	1605	2
22	Elina Svitolina	1597	-4
23	Ekaterina Makarova	1596	2
24	Roberta Vinci	1592	-4
25	Lucie Safarova	1591	1
26	Ana Ivanovic	1591	1
27	Johanna Konta	1591	2
28	Jelena Jankovic	1588	-6
29	Eugenie Bouchard	1586	4
30	Sara Errani	1585	-6
31	Laura Siegemund	1584	-1
32	Caroline Wozniacki	1578	0
33	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1574	-2
34	Daria Gavrilova	1571	2
35	Camila Giorgi	1559	-1
36	Elena Vesnina	1559	-1
37	Timea Babos	1559	4
38	Jelena Ostapenko	1548	8
39	Denisa Allertova	1547	1
40	Christina McHale	1543	15
41	Heather Watson	1542	2
42	Johanna Larsson	1540	-5
43	Andrea Petkovic	1540	-5
44	Coco Vandeweghe	1540	-5
45	Monica Puig	1539	0
46	Madison Brengle	1531	4
47	Danka Kovinic	1530	-3
48	Monica Niculescu	1528	-6
49	Naomi Broady	1528	3
50	Margarita Gasparyan	1527	-3
51	Caroline Garcia	1526	-3
52	Hseih Su-Wei	1526	2
53	Sabine Lisicki	1524	-4
54	Cagla Buyukakcay	1522	2
55	Yulia Putintseva	1522	2
56	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1522	5
57	Mona Barthel	1519	2
58	Louisa Chirico	1518	2
59	Alize Cornet	1517	-8
60	Julia Gorges	1516	-7
61	Ana Konjuh	1516	1
62	Kirsten Flipkens	1515	1
63	Yanina Wickmayer	1514	-5
64	Nicole Gibbs	1514	0
65	Nao Hibino	1514	0
66	Sorana Cirstea	1512	0
67	Kateryna Bondarenko	1511	0
68	Anett Kontaveit	1511	0
69	Patricia Maria Tig	1510	1
70	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1507	1
71	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1506	1
72	Lesia Tsurenko	1506	5
73	Kristina Kucova	1504	0
74	Karin Knapp	1503	-5
75	Magda Linette	1503	-1
76	Varvara Lepchenko	1502	-1
77	Kateryna Kozlova	1501	-1
78	Naomi Osaka	1500	0
79	Irina Falconi	1500	0
80	Anastasija Sevastova	1499	0
81	Magdalena Rybarikova	1498	0
82	Misaki Doi	1498	26
83	Yaroslava Shvedova	1497	-1
84	Lara Arruabarrena	1492	2
85	Zhang Shuai	1490	2
86	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1489	2
87	Maria Sakkari	1488	2
88	Samantha Crawford	1487	2
89	Alexandra Panova	1487	2
90	Kristina Mladenovic	1486	-7
91	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1486	-7
92	Kurumi Nara	1485	0
93	Rebecca Peterson	1482	0
94	Annika Beck	1481	-9
95	Olga Savchuk	1481	-1
96	Tsvetana Pironkova	1480	-1
97	Marina Erakovic	1480	-1
98	Risa Ozaki	1479	-1
99	Casey Dellacqua	1479	-1
100	Lauren Davis	1478	-1
101	Duan Yingying	1475	-1
102	Sachia Vickery	1474	-1
103	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1473	-1
104	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	-1
105	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1473	-1
106	Pauline Parmentier	1471	0
107	Alison Van Uytvanck	1469	0
108	Bojana Jovanovski	1467	1
109	Francesca Schiavone	1466	-4
110	Kristyna Pliskova	1465	1
111	Julia Glushko	1465	1
112	Zarina Diyas	1465	1
113	Tamira Paszek	1465	1
114	Lucie Hradecka	1465	1
115	Richel Hogenkamp	1465	1
116	Vania King	1464	2
117	Evgeniya Rodina	1464	2
118	Teliana Pereira	1463	8
119	Urszula Radwanska	1461	1
120	Paula Kania	1461	1
121	Ana Bogdan	1460	1
122	Wang Yafan	1460	1
123	Kiki Bertens	1459	-13
124	Alison Riske	1459	-7
125	Mariana Duque Marino	1459	8
126	Wang Qiang	1458	-2
127	Aleksandra Krunic	1458	-2
128	Shelby Rogers	1457	-1
129	Mandy Minella	1456	-1
130	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1455	-1
131	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	-1
132	Sesil Karatantcheva	1454	-1
133	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1453	-1
134	Laura Robson	1451	0
135	Donna Vekic	1448	0
136	Stefanie Vogele	1448	0
137	Polona Hercog	1447	0
138	Anna Tatishvili	1445	0
139	Oceane Dodin	1444	0
140	Katerina Siniakova	1443	0
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