Women's ELO Rankings 20/02/2017

Back to regular action on the tours, and we begin this week with a look at what happened on the WTA Tour in Doha.

Karolina Pliskova,  © AFP / Getty Images

This week's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Karolina Pliskova. She entered as the 2nd seed, and won the tournament, beating Dominika Cibulkova on her way tot he title. This title gave Karolina 29 ELO rating points, and she gains 3 places in my rankings to #2! Can she get to #1?

This week's Upset player of the week is Angelique Kerber. She was the top seed at Doha, but lost her opening match, after getting a bye to the 2nd round. This loss cost Angelique 15 ELO rating points, and she falls to #3 on my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Zhang Shuai, Samantha Stosur and Monica Puig.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1885	0	0
2	Karolina Pliskova	1772	3	29
3	Angelique Kerber	1765	-1	-15
4	Johanna Konta	1752	-1	0
5	Agnieszka Radwanska	1738	-1	-12
6	Simona Halep	1735	0	0
7	Elina Svitolina	1731	0	0
8	Madison Keys	1729	0	0
9	Dominika Cibulkova	1723	0	5
10	Caroline Wozniacki	1710	2	22
11	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1709	-1	0
12	Garbine Muguruza	1681	-1	-10
13	Barbora Strycova	1671	0	-8
14	Venus Williams	1669	0	0
15	Daria Gavrilova	1645	0	0
16	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1641	0	0
17	Carla Suarez Navarro	1634	0	0
18	Coco Vandeweghe	1618	1	0
19	Sloane Stephens	1616	1	0
20	Timea Bacsinszky	1614	-2	-12
21	Monica Puig	1614	5	21
22	Daria Kasatkina	1613	2	13
23	Ana Konjuh	1608	-2	0
24	Ekaterina Makarova	1606	-2	0
25	Kristina Mladenovic	1605	-2	0
26	Monica Niculescu	1598	-1	0
27	Lauren Davis	1593	4	13
28	Naomi Osaka	1589	-1	0
29	Alison Riske	1589	-1	0
30	Elena Vesnina	1585	-1	-1
31	Caroline Garcia	1582	-1	1
32	Alize Cornet	1574	2	0
33	Eugenie Bouchard	1573	2	0
34	Yulia Putintseva	1573	3	3
35	Lesia Tsurenko	1572	1	0
36	Zhang Shuai	1571	7	18
37	Jelena Jankovic	1570	-5	-8
38	Roberta Vinci	1568	-5	-10
39	Lucie Safarova	1566	-1	0
40	Samantha Stosur	1566	5	17
41	Julia Gorges	1559	-2	0
42	Katerina Siniakova	1557	-2	0
43	Peng Shuai	1554	-2	0
44	Johanna Larsson	1545	2	0
45	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1545	2	0
46	Laura Siegemund	1544	-4	-9
47	Viktorija Golubic	1543	1	0
48	Andrea Petkovic	1543	1	0
49	Camila Giorgi	1535	3	0
50	Christina McHale	1533	0	-9
51	Irina-Camelia Begu	1532	0	-8
52	Belinda Bencic	1529	2	0
53	Yaroslava Shvedova	1528	2	0
54	Denisa Allertova	1528	2	0
55	Sara Errani	1526	2	0
56	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1525	2	0
57	Julia Boserup	1525	2	0
58	Duan Yingying	1524	2	0
59	Anastasija Sevastova	1522	-6	-10
60	Sabine Lisicki	1521	1	0
61	Lara Arruabarrena	1518	2	0
62	Jelena Ostapenko	1515	2	0
63	Kirsten Flipkens	1514	2	0
64	Margarita Gasparyan	1511	3	0
65	Kristina Kucova	1511	3	0
66	Timea Babos	1509	-4	-9
67	Yanina Wickmayer	1509	2	0
68	Hseih Su-Wei	1509	2	0
69	Kiki Bertens	1508	-3	-5
70	Jessica Pegula	1508	1	0
71	Misaki Doi	1508	1	0
72	Tsvetana Pironkova	1507	1	0
73	Varvara Lepchenko	1506	1	0
74	Sorana Cirstea	1501	1	0
75	Vania King	1501	1	0
76	Risa Ozaki	1501	1	0
77	Nao Hibino	1497	1	0
78	Kristyna Pliskova	1497	1	0
79	Patricia Maria Tig	1496	1	0
80	Oceane Dodin	1495	1	0
81	Mona Barthel	1492	1	0
82	Karin Knapp	1491	1	0
83	Shelby Rogers	1489	2	0
84	Magdalena Rybarikova	1489	2	0
85	Heather Watson	1489	2	0
86	Tereza Martincova	1488	2	0
87	Alexandra Panova	1487	2	0
88	Anett Kontaveit	1486	2	0
89	Madison Brengle	1484	-5	-7
90	Louisa Chirico	1484	1	0
91	Veronica Cepede Royg	1484	1	0
92	Danka Kovinic	1482	1	0
93	Casey Dellacqua	1479	1	0
94	Kateryna Kozlova	1478	1	0
95	Zhu Lin	1477	1	0
96	Evgeniya Rodina	1475	1	0
97	Mariana Duque Marino	1475	1	0
98	Wang Qiang	1474	1	0
99	Annika Beck	1474	1	0
100	Naomi Broady	1473	1	0
101	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1473	1	0
102	Ajla Tomljanovic	1473	1	0
103	Alla Kudryavtseva	1473	1	0
104	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1472	1	0
105	Richel Hogenkamp	1471	1	0
106	Mandy Minella	1471	1	0
107	Rebecca Peterson	1470	1	0
108	Samantha Crawford	1469	1	0
109	Kurumi Nara	1469	1	0
110	Kateryna Bondarenko	1468	1	0
111	Han Xinyun	1467	1	0
112	Sachia Vickery	1467	2	0
113	Carina Witthoft	1467	3	0
114	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1466	3	0
115	Irina Falconi	1466	3	0
116	Pauline Parmentier	1465	3	0
117	Jana Cepelova	1464	3	0
118	Bojana Jovanovski	1464	3	0
119	Cagla Buyukakcay	1463	-6	-4
120	Zarina Diyas	1461	2	0
121	Magda Linette	1460	2	0
122	Ana Bogdan	1459	2	0
123	Urszula Radwanska	1459	2	0
124	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1457	2	0
125	Lucie Hradecka	1457	2	0
126	Nicole Gibbs	1454	4	0
127	Wang Yafan	1454	4	0
128	Tamira Paszek	1453	4	0
129	Maria Sakkari	1451	4	0
130	Marina Erakovic	1450	4	0
131	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1449	4	0
132	Francesca Schiavone	1446	4	0
133	Elitsa Kostova	1444	4	0
134	Sesil Karatantcheva	1443	4	0
135	Alison Van Uytvanck	1440	5	0
136	Vitalia Diatchenko	1436	5	0
137	Tereza Smitkova	1435	5	0
138	Donna Vekic	1432	6	0
139	Anna Tatishvili	1430	6	0
140	Polona Hercog	1429	6	0
141	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1425	7	0
142	Laura Robson	1425	7	0
143	Alexandra Dulgheru	1425	7	0
144	Daniela Hantuchova	1419	7	0
145	Aleksandra Krunic	1413	7	0
146	Stefanie Vogele	1413	7	0
147	Teliana Pereira	1409	7	0
148	Andreea Mitu	1407	7	0
149	Olga Govortsova	1404	7	0
150	Zheng Saisai	1402	7	0
151	Tatjana Maria	1397	7	0