Women's ELO Rankings 23/05/2016

This week saw 2 tournaments held, in Nuremberg and Strasbourg, in the final week of preparations for the French Open.

Kiki Bertens, © AP

The Big Gainer of the week this week is Kiki Bertens. Her ranking was so low, that she had to qualify for the tournament in Nuremberg, and then once she got in to the main draw, she won the whole thing. She achieved a win over Roberta Vinci on her way to the title. This run gave Kiki 55 ELO rating points, which sees her climb 59 places in my rankings to #64.

This week's Upset player of the week award goes to Alize Cornet. After a few players pulled out of Strasbourg, she was given a seeding here, but she lost her 1st match to low rated, unranked qualifier Alla Kudryavtseva. This loss cost Alize 12 ELO rating points, and she falls 15 places in my rankings, from #59 to #74

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Caroline Garcia, Julia Gorges, Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Mariana Duque-Marino and Kristina Mladenovic

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	0
5	Angelique Kerber	1731	0
6	Simona Halep	1696	0
7	Timea Bacsinszky	1693	0
8	Garbine Muguruza	1659	1
9	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1657	1
10	Sloane Stephens	1656	-2
11	Dominika Cibulkova	1649	0
12	Madison Keys	1648	0
13	Venus Williams	1646	0
14	Carla Suarez Navarro	1645	0
15	Petra Kvitova	1636	0
16	Samantha Stosur	1630	0
17	Karolina Pliskova	1624	0
18	Irina-Camelia Begu	1624	0
19	Belinda Bencic	1619	0
20	Barbora Strycova	1614	0
21	Daria Kasatkina	1605	0
22	Elina Svitolina	1597	0
23	Ekaterina Makarova	1596	0
24	Lucie Safarova	1591	1
25	Ana Ivanovic	1591	1
26	Johanna Konta	1591	1
27	Jelena Jankovic	1588	1
28	Eugenie Bouchard	1586	1
29	Roberta Vinci	1585	-5
30	Laura Siegemund	1578	1
31	Caroline Wozniacki	1578	1
32	Caroline Garcia	1576	19
33	Sara Errani	1574	-3
34	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1574	-1
35	Daria Gavrilova	1571	-1
36	Elena Vesnina	1563	0
37	Camila Giorgi	1559	-2
38	Timea Babos	1553	-1
39	Jelena Ostapenko	1548	-1
40	Denisa Allertova	1547	-1
41	Christina McHale	1541	-1
42	Andrea Petkovic	1540	1
43	Coco Vandeweghe	1540	1
44	Monica Puig	1539	1
45	Julia Gorges	1534	15
46	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1533	10
47	Heather Watson	1531	-6
48	Danka Kovinic	1530	-1
49	Johanna Larsson	1529	-7
50	Monica Niculescu	1528	-2
51	Naomi Broady	1528	-2
52	Margarita Gasparyan	1527	-2
53	Hseih Su-Wei	1527	-1
54	Sabine Lisicki	1522	-1
55	Cagla Buyukakcay	1522	-1
56	Yulia Putintseva	1521	-1
57	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1521	29
58	Madison Brengle	1520	-12
59	Mona Barthel	1519	-2
60	Louisa Chirico	1518	-2
61	Ana Konjuh	1516	0
62	Yanina Wickmayer	1514	1
63	Lesia Tsurenko	1514	9
64	Kiki Bertens	1514	59
65	Kateryna Bondarenko	1513	2
66	Nicole Gibbs	1512	-2
67	Sorana Cirstea	1512	-1
68	Varvara Lepchenko	1512	8
69	Anett Kontaveit	1511	-1
70	Patricia Maria Tig	1510	-1
71	Irina Falconi	1509	8
72	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1507	-2
73	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1506	-2
74	Alize Cornet	1505	-15
75	Kirsten Flipkens	1505	-13
76	Nao Hibino	1505	-11
77	Kristina Mladenovic	1505	13
78	Kristina Kucova	1504	-5
79	Karin Knapp	1503	-5
80	Magda Linette	1503	-5
81	Kateryna Kozlova	1501	-4
82	Annika Beck	1501	12
83	Naomi Osaka	1500	-5
84	Anastasija Sevastova	1499	-4
85	Magdalena Rybarikova	1498	-4
86	Misaki Doi	1498	-4
87	Mariana Duque Marino	1493	38
88	Maria Sakkari	1488	-1
89	Yaroslava Shvedova	1487	-6
90	Samantha Crawford	1487	-2
91	Alexandra Panova	1487	-2
92	Pauline Parmentier	1487	14
93	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1486	-2
94	Lara Arruabarrena	1483	-10
95	Rebecca Peterson	1482	-2
96	Olga Savchuk	1481	-1
97	Tsvetana Pironkova	1480	-1
98	Marina Erakovic	1480	-1
99	Zhang Shuai	1479	-14
100	Risa Ozaki	1479	-2
101	Casey Dellacqua	1479	-2
102	Kurumi Nara	1475	-10
103	Duan Yingying	1475	-2
104	Sachia Vickery	1474	-2
105	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1473	-2
106	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	-2
107	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1473	-2
108	Lauren Davis	1472	-8
109	Alison Van Uytvanck	1469	-2
110	Bojana Jovanovski	1467	-2
111	Francesca Schiavone	1466	-2
112	Julia Glushko	1465	-1
113	Tamira Paszek	1465	0
114	Lucie Hradecka	1465	0
115	Richel Hogenkamp	1465	0
116	Zarina Diyas	1464	-4
117	Vania King	1464	-1
118	Evgeniya Rodina	1464	-1
119	Urszula Radwanska	1461	0
120	Paula Kania	1461	0
121	Alison Riske	1461	3
122	Ana Bogdan	1460	-1
123	Wang Yafan	1460	-1
124	Aleksandra Krunic	1458	3
125	Kristyna Pliskova	1456	-15
126	Mandy Minella	1456	3
127	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1455	3
128	Vitalia Diatchenko	1455	3
129	Teliana Pereira	1454	-11
130	Sesil Karatantcheva	1454	2
131	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1453	2
132	Laura Robson	1451	2
133	Polona Hercog	1451	4
134	Marina Melnikova	1451	NEW
135	Wang Qiang	1449	-9
136	Stefanie Vogele	1448	0
137	Shelby Rogers	1447	-9
138	Anna Tatishvili	1445	0
139	Donna Vekic	1444	-4
140	Oceane Dodin	1444	-1
141	Katerina Siniakova	1443	-1
142	Petra Cetkovska	1441	-1
143	Daniela Hantuchova	1439	0
144	Jana Cepelova	1436	1
145	Alexandra Dulgheru	1433	1
146	Carina Witthoft	1431	-4
147	Tereza Smitkova	1431	0
148	Zheng Saisai	1430	-4
149	Petra Martic	1429	-1
150	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	-1
151	Andreea Mitu	1417	1
152	Klara Koukalova	1417	1
153	Olga Govortsova	1412	-3
154	Tatjana Maria	1409	-3