Women's ELO Rankings 30/01/2017

The 1st Grand Slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open, took place in the past 2 weeks in Melbourne.

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, © AFP

The Big Gainer of the week award for these 2 weeks goes to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. After defeating Agnieszka Radwanska in the 2nd round, she went on to make it all the way to the semi finals, beating Karolina Pliskova before losing to the ELO #1 and eventual champion Serena Williams in the semi finals. This run gave Mirjana 57 ELO rating points, and she is now ranked #44 on my rankings, 43 places higher than before the tournament.

This (2) week's Upset player of the week is Simona Halep. She was 4th seed at the tournament, but lost in her opening match to Shelby Rogers. This loss cost Simona 17 ELO rating points, which sees her fall 1 place in my rankings to #5.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Coco Vandeweghe, Sorana Cirstea, Kristyna Pliskova, Mona Barthel and Nicole Gibbs.

Now, the full rankings. As it's the end of a Grand Slam, I have removed some inactive and retired players from the ranking list.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1885	0	28
2	Angelique Kerber	1780	0	-4
3	Johanna Konta	1752	4	19
4	Agnieszka Radwanska	1750	1	-12
5	Simona Halep	1745	-1	-17
6	Karolina Pliskova	1743	0	4
7	Madison Keys	1729	1	0
8	Dominika Cibulkova	1723	1	-4
9	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1716	1	2
10	Elina Svitolina	1709	1	-4
11	Garbine Muguruza	1691	2	7
12	Caroline Wozniacki	1688	0	-1
13	Venus Williams	1682	2	37
14	Barbora Strycova	1679	0	15
15	Daria Gavrilova	1647	2	18
16	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1641	6	29
17	Carla Suarez Navarro	1634	-1	-8
18	Timea Bacsinszky	1626	0	4
19	Coco Vandeweghe	1618	15	46
20	Ekaterina Makarova	1617	5	22
21	Sloane Stephens	1616	0	0
22	Monica Niculescu	1608	-3	-13
23	Daria Kasatkina	1605	-3	-13
24	Ana Konjuh	1604	-1	0
25	Monica Puig	1593	-1	-7
26	Jelena Jankovic	1591	6	12
27	Naomi Osaka	1589	0	0
28	Alison Riske	1589	0	4
29	Caroline Garcia	1589	0	7
30	Lauren Davis	1580	-4	-14
31	Alize Cornet	1576	-1	-6
32	Eugenie Bouchard	1573	5	7
33	Lesia Tsurenko	1572	0	-5
34	Elena Vesnina	1571	2	1
35	Roberta Vinci	1570	-4	-10
36	Katerina Siniakova	1561	-1	-10
37	Julia Gorges	1559	3	1
38	Johanna Larsson	1556	3	0
39	Kristina Mladenovic	1554	-1	-9
40	Laura Siegemund	1553	-1	-10
41	Zhang Shuai	1553	3	-1
42	Lucie Safarova	1553	7	6
43	Irina-Camelia Begu	1550	3	-2
44	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1545	43	57
45	Viktorija Golubic	1543	-3	-12
46	Samantha Stosur	1543	-3	-12
47	Christina McHale	1542	-2	-11
48	Andrea Petkovic	1542	5	2
49	Yaroslava Shvedova	1539	-1	-10
50	Belinda Bencic	1537	1	-3
51	Camila Giorgi	1535	-1	-8
52	Anastasija Sevastova	1534	11	14
53	Yulia Putintseva	1532	4	-1
54	Denisa Allertova	1528	2	-5
55	Jelena Ostapenko	1528	12	15
56	Timea Babos	1527	-4	-13
57	Sara Errani	1526	4	2
58	Kiki Bertens	1525	-4	-11
59	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1525	1	0
60	Julia Boserup	1525	NEW	3
61	Duan Yingying	1524	11	13
62	Kirsten Flipkens	1522	-3	-5
63	Sabine Lisicki	1521	-1	0
64	Peng Shuai	1520	2	4
65	Lara Arruabarrena	1518	-7	-10
66	Margarita Gasparyan	1511	4	0
67	Kristina Kucova	1511	6	1
68	Sorana Cirstea	1511	35	33
69	Yanina Wickmayer	1509	-5	-9
70	Hseih Su-Wei	1509	7	6
71	Jessica Pegula	1508	3	0
72	Nao Hibino	1507	-7	-10
73	Tsvetana Pironkova	1507	-4	-4
74	Varvara Lepchenko	1506	2	1
75	Vania King	1501	-7	-11
76	Risa Ozaki	1501	-5	-10
77	Kristyna Pliskova	1497	29	21
78	Misaki Doi	1496	-3	-11
79	Patricia Maria Tig	1496	-1	-7
80	Oceane Dodin	1495	3	1
81	Mona Barthel	1492	40	30
82	Karin Knapp	1491	-3	-10
83	Madison Brengle	1491	-3	-8
84	Danka Kovinic	1490	2	2
85	Shelby Rogers	1490	9	7
86	Kateryna Kozlova	1489	-4	-6
87	Magdalena Rybarikova	1489	-2	0
88	Heather Watson	1489	2	2
89	Tereza Martincova	1488	-1	0
90	Alexandra Panova	1487	-1	0
91	Anett Kontaveit	1486	-10	-12
92	Louisa Chirico	1484	-8	-8
93	Veronica Cepede Royg	1484	0	0
94	Evgeniya Rodina	1479	-3	-6
95	Casey Dellacqua	1479	4	0
96	Jana Cepelova	1475	-1	-6
97	Mariana Duque Marino	1475	1	-4
98	Wang Qiang	1474	-6	-10
99	Naomi Broady	1473	1	-6
100	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1473	2	-5
101	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	10	0
102	Alla Kudryavtseva	1473	10	0
103	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1472	5	-4
104	Richel Hogenkamp	1471	9	0
105	Magda Linette	1470	-9	-11
106	Annika Beck	1470	-9	-10
107	Rebecca Peterson	1470	7	0
108	Samantha Crawford	1469	18	9
109	Zhu Lin	1468	-5	-9
110	Kateryna Bondarenko	1468	-1	-7
111	Han Xinyun	1467	-6	-10
112	Cagla Buyukakcay	1467	-5	-9
113	Sachia Vickery	1467	3	0
114	Zhang Kailin	1467	3	0
115	Carina Witthoft	1467	10	7
116	Kurumi Nara	1466	-15	-12
117	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1466	-7	-8
118	Irina Falconi	1466	-3	-1
119	Pauline Parmentier	1465	3	4
120	Nicole Gibbs	1465	15	22
121	Bojana Jovanovski	1464	-2	0
122	Zarina Diyas	1461	1	0
123	Ana Bogdan	1459	-5	-7
124	Urszula Radwanska	1459	3	0
125	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1457	3	0
126	Marina Erakovic	1456	-2	-4
127	Francesca Schiavone	1455	-7	-8
128	Wang Yafan	1454	1	0
129	Tamira Paszek	1453	1	0
130	Maria Sakkari	1451	14	18
131	Lucie Hradecka	1450	0	0
132	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1449	0	0
133	Elitsa Kostova	1444	1	0
134	Sesil Karatantcheva	1443	2	0
135	Paula Kania	1442	2	0
136	Alison Van Uytvanck	1440	2	0
137	Mandy Minella	1439	5	5
138	Vitalia Diatchenko	1436	2	0
139	Tereza Smitkova	1435	2	0
140	Marina Melnikova	1434	3	0
141	Anna Tatishvili	1430	-2	-9
142	Polona Hercog	1429	3	0
143	Luksika Kumkhum	1426	NEW	-6
144	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1425	3	0
145	Laura Robson	1425	3	0
146	Alexandra Dulgheru	1425	3	0
147	Donna Vekic	1422	6	8
148	Aleksandra Krunic	1419	2	0
149	Daniela Hantuchova	1419	2	0
150	Stefanie Vogele	1413	6	8
151	Zheng Saisai	1409	1	-8
152	Teliana Pereira	1409	2	0
153	Andreea Mitu	1407	2	0
154	Olga Govortsova	1404	3	0
155	Tatjana Maria	1397	3	0