Women's ELO Rankings 12/09/2016

This update saw the final of the Grand Slam tournaments take place, the US Open, in New York.

Caroline Wozniacki, © BPI / Ella Ling

The Big Gainer of the week award for these 2 weeks goes to Caroline Wozniacki. Unseeded at New York, she defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova and Madison Keys on her way to the semi finals, where she lost to eventual champion and the new ELO #2 Angelique Kerber. This run gave Caroline 48 ELO rating points, and she gains 15 places in my rankings to #25.

This (2) week's Upset player of the week is Monica Puig. She was the 32nd and last seed at the tournament, but she lost her 1st round match to Zhang Shuai. This loss cost her 15 ELO rating points, and she falls, wait, she GAINS a place on my rankings to #17??? How did this happen? Oh right, Azarenka dropped off due to pregnancy.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Anastasija Sevastova, Ana Konjuh, Naomi Osaka, Lesia Tsurenko and Yaroslava Shvedova

Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1873	0	6
2	Angelique Kerber	1810	1	36
3	Simona Halep	1795	-1	12
4	Agnieszka Radwanska	1739	1	-1
5	Karolina Pliskova	1738	2	39
6	Madison Keys	1726	0	0
7	Petra Kvitova	1690	4	12
8	Garbine Muguruza	1686	0	-9
9	Dominika Cibulkova	1684	0	-6
10	Venus Williams	1679	2	10
11	Carla Suarez Navarro	1674	2	13
12	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1673	-2	-8
13	Johanna Konta	1657	3	7
14	Timea Bacsinszky	1644	1	-9
15	Elina Svitolina	1644	2	2
16	Barbora Strycova	1640	-2	-14
17	Monica Puig	1626	1	-15
18	Elena Vesnina	1626	3	5
19	Samantha Stosur	1622	0	-7
20	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1622	4	7
21	Ekaterina Makarova	1619	-1	-4
22	Sloane Stephens	1616	0	0
23	Laura Siegemund	1615	3	6
24	Coco Vandeweghe	1603	-1	-13
25	Caroline Wozniacki	1602	15	48
26	Daria Kasatkina	1598	-1	-14
27	Irina-Camelia Begu	1589	0	-13
28	Timea Babos	1588	2	9
29	Roberta Vinci	1587	6	28
30	Belinda Bencic	1586	1	8
31	Caroline Garcia	1583	1	10
32	Anastasija Sevastova	1582	10	32
33	Eugenie Bouchard	1576	-5	-13
34	Johanna Larsson	1573	3	15
35	Daria Gavrilova	1570	-6	-11
36	Lucie Safarova	1565	0	7
37	Jelena Jankovic	1556	2	1
38	Ana Konjuh	1553	30	39
39	Ana Ivanovic	1551	-6	-12
40	Kiki Bertens	1550	-6	-11
41	Kirsten Flipkens	1549	0	-4
42	Andrea Petkovic	1545	3	1
43	Sara Errani	1543	-5	-12
44	Kristina Mladenovic	1539	3	1
45	Yanina Wickmayer	1535	-1	-10
46	Naomi Osaka	1535	17	18
47	Viktorija Golubic	1534	-4	-11
48	Tsvetana Pironkova	1533	5	3
49	Julia Gorges	1533	5	4
50	Yulia Putintseva	1531	-1	-2
51	Vania King	1531	8	6
52	Misaki Doi	1528	-6	-13
53	Christina McHale	1528	3	0
54	Monica Niculescu	1528	12	14
55	Jelena Ostapenko	1526	-3	-6
56	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1525	-8	-9
57	Camila Giorgi	1525	-7	-7
58	Annika Beck	1525	2	2
59	Duan Yingying	1524	-2	-2
60	Kristina Kucova	1522	-9	-10
61	Lesia Tsurenko	1522	26	29
62	Madison Brengle	1518	-7	-11
63	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1517	7	6
64	Sabine Lisicki	1515	-6	-10
65	Risa Ozaki	1514	0	0
66	Yaroslava Shvedova	1514	31	26
67	Alize Cornet	1513	-6	-10
68	Virgine Razzano	1512	NEW	-10
69	Margarita Gasparyan	1511	0	0
70	Denisa Allertova	1510	3	3
71	Kateryna Bondarenko	1510	8	12
72	Alison Riske	1509	-5	-5
73	Paula Cristina Goncalves	1509	-1	0
74	Varvara Lepchenko	1508	8	13
75	Hseih Su-Wei	1507	-13	-11
76	Danka Kovinic	1503	-12	-11
77	Karin Knapp	1501	-6	-9
78	Jessica Pegula	1501	-4	-4
79	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1498	1	0
80	Lauren Davis	1496	6	3
81	Cagla Buyukakcay	1495	10	5
82	Katerina Siniakova	1495	10	5
83	Evgeniya Rodina	1495	10	5
84	Patricia Maria Tig	1494	-8	-7
85	Heather Watson	1492	-10	-11
86	Zhu Lin	1492	2	0
87	Nao Hibino	1491	-9	-9
88	Naomi Broady	1491	13	4
89	Sorana Cirstea	1489	-12	-11
90	Marina Erakovic	1489	4	0
91	Magdalena Rybarikova	1489	4	0
92	Nicole Gibbs	1489	4	1
93	Anett Kontaveit	1488	-10	-7
94	Louisa Chirico	1487	-10	-7
95	Alexandra Panova	1487	5	0
96	Lara Arruabarrena	1486	-15	-10
97	Pauline Parmentier	1486	-12	-8
98	Kateryna Kozlova	1486	-9	-5
99	Kurumi Nara	1486	3	-1
100	Olga Savchuk	1483	3	0
101	Ana Bogdan	1483	4	2
102	Mona Barthel	1482	-12	-9
103	Veronica Cepede Royg	1482	1	0
104	Mariana Duque Marino	1479	-6	-8
105	Casey Dellacqua	1479	1	0
106	Shelby Rogers	1479	2	3
107	Irina Falconi	1477	-8	-10
108	Andrea Hlavackova	1477	-1	0
109	Zhang Shuai	1477	15	16
110	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	0	0
111	Tamira Paszek	1473	0	0
112	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1471	3	0
113	Richel Hogenkamp	1471	3	4
114	Carina Witthoft	1470	17	18
115	Francesca Schiavone	1468	-3	-5
116	Sachia Vickery	1467	2	0
117	Samantha Crawford	1466	-8	-7
118	Julia Glushko	1465	1	0
119	Rebecca Peterson	1464	1	0
120	Bojana Jovanovski	1464	1	0
121	Elitsa Kostova	1464	1	0
122	Peng Shuai	1463	-9	-9
123	Maria Sakkari	1463	-9	-8
124	Mandy Minella	1462	-7	-5
125	Zarina Diyas	1461	0	0
126	Magda Linette	1459	-3	-4
127	Urszula Radwanska	1459	0	0
128	Alla Kudryavtseva	1458	1	0
129	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1452	-3	-7
130	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1452	0	-5
131	Wang Yafan	1452	1	1
132	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1449	-4	-9
133	Wang Qiang	1449	3	5
134	Zheng Saisai	1448	4	6
135	Lucie Hradecka	1446	-1	0
136	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1445	-1	0
137	Vitalia Diatchenko	1444	-4	-5
138	Sesil Karatantcheva	1443	-1	0
139	Paula Kania	1442	0	0
140	Petra Cetkovska	1441	0	0
141	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1440	0	0
142	Jana Cepelova	1439	0	0
143	Anna Tatishvili	1439	0	0
144	Marina Melnikova	1434	1	0
145	Oceane Dodin	1432	2	0
146	Tereza Smitkova	1431	3	0
147	Polona Hercog	1429	1	-2
148	Petra Martic	1429	3	0
149	Donna Vekic	1428	3	0
150	Alison Van Uytvanck	1427	-6	-10
151	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	2	0
152	Laura Robson	1425	-6	-8
153	Alexandra Dulgheru	1425	1	0
154	Aleksandra Krunic	1422	-4	-8
155	Daniela Hantuchova	1419	1	0
156	Teliana Pereira	1418	-1	-4
157	Kristyna Pliskova	1418	0	0
158	Klara Koukalova	1417	0	0
159	Tatjana Maria	1409	1	0
160	Andreea Mitu	1407	1	0
161	Stefanie Vogele	1406	-2	-8
162	Olga Govortsova	1398	0	0