Women's ELO Rankings 16/01/2017

On the week before the Australian Open, 2 tournaments were held, in Sydney and Hobart.

Elise Mertens, © Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images

The Big Gainer of the week award this week goes to Elise Mertens. She won the tournament in Hobart after qualifying for it, defeating Kiki Bertens, and then Monica Niculescu in the final. These wins gave Elise 54 ELO rating points, but she still hasn't played enough on the WTA Tour to be ranked yet, she only need 1 more match to do so, but she would be at #40 today if she were ranked.

The Upset player of the week this week is Angelique Kerber. Her 2nd round loss in Sydney after a bye cost her 15 ELO rating points. She is still at #2 in my rankings, but she's a lot closer to falling to #3 than she is to getting to #1.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Eugenie Bouchard, Veronica Cepede Royg, Shelby Rogers, Jana Fett and Duan Yingying.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1857	0	0
2	Angelique Kerber	1784	0	-15
3	Petra Kvitova	1772	0	0
4	Simona Halep	1762	0	0
5	Agnieszka Radwanska	1762	0	4
6	Karolina Pliskova	1739	0	0
7	Johanna Konta	1733	4	38
8	Madison Keys	1729	0	0
9	Dominika Cibulkova	1727	-2	-9
10	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1714	-1	-7
11	Elina Svitolina	1713	-1	0
12	Caroline Wozniacki	1689	0	3
13	Garbine Muguruza	1684	0	0
14	Barbora Strycova	1664	1	21
15	Venus Williams	1645	-1	0
16	Carla Suarez Navarro	1642	0	0
17	Daria Gavrilova	1629	0	-3
18	Timea Bacsinszky	1622	0	0
19	Monica Niculescu	1621	6	22
20	Daria Kasatkina	1618	3	15
21	Sloane Stephens	1616	-2	0
22	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1612	2	10
23	Ana Konjuh	1604	-1	0
24	Monica Puig	1600	-4	-8
25	Ekaterina Makarova	1595	-4	-9
26	Lauren Davis	1594	0	0
27	Naomi Osaka	1589	1	0
28	Alison Riske	1585	1	0
29	Caroline Garcia	1582	1	0
30	Alize Cornet	1582	2	0
31	Roberta Vinci	1580	0	-2
32	Jelena Jankovic	1579	-5	-10
33	Lesia Tsurenko	1577	8	15
34	Coco Vandeweghe	1572	1	-2
35	Katerina Siniakova	1571	1	0
36	Elena Vesnina	1570	-3	-10
37	Eugenie Bouchard	1566	17	32
38	Kristina Mladenovic	1563	-4	-12
39	Laura Siegemund	1563	-2	-6
40	Julia Gorges	1558	4	0
41	Johanna Larsson	1556	1	-2
42	Viktorija Golubic	1555	-4	-10
43	Samantha Stosur	1555	-3	-9
44	Zhang Shuai	1554	-5	-11
45	Christina McHale	1553	2	3
46	Irina-Camelia Begu	1552	-3	-6
47	Ana Ivanovic	1551	-1	0
48	Yaroslava Shvedova	1549	0	0
49	Lucie Safarova	1547	0	-2
50	Camila Giorgi	1543	2	0
51	Belinda Bencic	1540	-6	-11
52	Timea Babos	1540	-2	-8
53	Andrea Petkovic	1540	-2	-5
54	Kiki Bertens	1536	4	6
55	CiCi Bellis	1535	-2	0
56	Denisa Allertova	1533	-1	0
57	Yulia Putintseva	1533	2	5
58	Lara Arruabarrena	1528	-2	-5
59	Kirsten Flipkens	1527	1	1
60	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1525	1	0
61	Sara Errani	1524	1	0
62	Sabine Lisicki	1521	1	0
63	Anastasija Sevastova	1520	-6	-12
64	Yanina Wickmayer	1518	0	0
65	Nao Hibino	1517	1	0
66	Peng Shuai	1516	1	0
67	Jelena Ostapenko	1513	1	0
68	Vania King	1512	1	0
69	Tsvetana Pironkova	1511	1	0
70	Margarita Gasparyan	1511	1	0
71	Risa Ozaki	1511	9	15
72	Duan Yingying	1511	11	18
73	Kristina Kucova	1510	-1	0
74	Jessica Pegula	1508	-1	0
75	Misaki Doi	1507	-10	-11
76	Varvara Lepchenko	1505	-2	0
77	Hseih Su-Wei	1503	-2	0
78	Patricia Maria Tig	1503	-2	0
79	Karin Knapp	1501	-2	0
80	Madison Brengle	1499	-2	0
81	Anett Kontaveit	1498	-2	0
82	Kateryna Kozlova	1495	-1	0
83	Oceane Dodin	1494	-1	0
84	Louisa Chirico	1492	0	0
85	Magdalena Rybarikova	1489	1	0
86	Danka Kovinic	1488	1	0
87	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1488	1	0
88	Tereza Martincova	1488	1	0
89	Alexandra Panova	1487	2	0
90	Heather Watson	1487	2	0
91	Evgeniya Rodina	1485	2	0
92	Wang Qiang	1484	2	0
93	Veronica Cepede Royg	1484	21	13
94	Shelby Rogers	1483	24	16
95	Jana Cepelova	1481	2	0
96	Magda Linette	1481	2	0
97	Annika Beck	1480	-12	-9
98	Mariana Duque Marino	1479	1	0
99	Casey Dellacqua	1479	1	0
100	Naomi Broady	1479	1	0
101	Kurumi Nara	1478	-11	-10
102	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1478	0	0
103	Sorana Cirstea	1478	0	0
104	Zhu Lin	1477	0	0
105	Han Xinyun	1477	1	0
106	Kristyna Pliskova	1476	-11	-8
107	Cagla Buyukakcay	1476	0	0
108	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1476	0	0
109	Kateryna Bondarenko	1475	-13	-8
110	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1474	-1	0
111	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	-1	0
112	Alla Kudryavtseva	1473	-1	0
113	Richel Hogenkamp	1471	2	0
114	Rebecca Peterson	1470	2	0
115	Irina Falconi	1467	-10	-10
116	Sachia Vickery	1467	1	0
117	Zhang Kailin	1467	2	0
118	Ana Bogdan	1466	2	0
119	Bojana Jovanovski	1464	2	0
120	Francesca Schiavone	1463	-8	-9
121	Mona Barthel	1462	1	0
122	Pauline Parmentier	1461	-9	-10
123	Zarina Diyas	1461	0	0
124	Marina Erakovic	1460	0	0
125	Carina Witthoft	1460	0	0
126	Samantha Crawford	1460	0	0
127	Urszula Radwanska	1459	0	0
128	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1457	0	0
129	Wang Yafan	1454	0	0
130	Tamira Paszek	1453	0	0
131	Lucie Hradecka	1450	1	0
132	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1449	1	0
133	Lourdes Domingues Lino	1445	1	0
134	Elitsa Kostova	1444	1	0
135	Nicole Gibbs	1443	-4	-7
136	Sesil Karatantcheva	1443	0	0
137	Paula Kania	1442	0	0
138	Alison Van Uytvanck	1440	1	0
139	Anna Tatishvili	1439	2	0
140	Vitalia Diatchenko	1436	2	0
141	Tereza Smitkova	1435	2	0
142	Mandy Minella	1434	-4	-7
143	Marina Melnikova	1434	1	0
144	Maria Sakkari	1433	-4	-6
145	Polona Hercog	1429	1	0
146	Jarmila Wolfe	1426	1	0
147	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1425	-2	-6
148	Laura Robson	1425	0	0
149	Alexandra Dulgheru	1425	0	0
150	Aleksandra Krunic	1419	0	0
151	Daniela Hantuchova	1419	1	0
152	Zheng Saisai	1417	2	0
153	Donna Vekic	1414	-2	-5
154	Teliana Pereira	1409	-1	-9
155	Andreea Mitu	1407	0	0
156	Stefanie Vogele	1405	0	0
157	Olga Govortsova	1404	0	0
158	Tatjana Maria	1397	0	0