Women's ELO Rankings 07/08/2017

The North American hard court season is fully under way, with 2 tournaments this week, in Stanford and Washington D. C.

Ekaterina Makarova, © Geoff Burke/USA Today 

This week's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Ekaterina Makarova. She was the 7th seed at Washington, and won the whole tournament, defeating ELO #1 Simona Halep, and Julia Gorges in the final. This title gave Ekaterina 49 ELO rating points, and she moves up 12 places in my rankings to #23.

The Upset player of the week this week is Heather Watson. She qualified for the tournament in D.C., but then lost her 1st main draw match to low ranked player Patricia Maria Tig. This loss cost Heather 13 ELO rating points, which sees her fall 3 places in my rankings to #53.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Oceane Dodin, Mariana Duque Marino, Andrea Petkovic and Kateryna Bondarenko.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Simona Halep	1795	0	-7
2	Karolina Pliskova	1782	0	0
3	Elina Svitolina	1768	0	0
4	Johanna Konta	1760	0	0
5	Petra Kvitova	1760	NEW	-12
6	Caroline Wozniacki	1750	-1	0
7	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1743	-1	0
8	Garbine Muguruza	1738	-1	-1
9	Venus Williams	1738	-1	0
10	Angelique Kerber	1721	-1	0
11	Madison Keys	1693	2	35
12	Agnieszka Radwanska	1686	-1	0
13	Kristina Mladenovic	1679	-3	-11
14	Jelena Ostapenko	1676	-2	0
15	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1653	-1	-3
16	Barbora Strycova	1653	-1	0
17	Timea Bacsinszky	1653	-1	0
18	Coco Vandeweghe	1648	4	22
19	Anett Kontaveit	1645	-2	0
20	Peng Shuai	1642	-2	0
21	Caroline Garcia	1637	-2	0
22	Dominika Cibulkova	1632	-2	0
23	Ekaterina Makarova	1631	12	49
24	Anastasija Sevastova	1626	-3	0
25	Carla Suarez Navarro	1621	-2	0
26	Samantha Stosur	1620	-2	0
27	Daria Gavrilova	1617	-2	0
28	Ana Konjuh	1615	0	5
29	Lucie Safarova	1614	-3	0
30	Laura Siegemund	1614	-3	0
31	Julia Gorges	1612	2	18
32	Daria Kasatkina	1607	-3	0
33	Kiki Bertens	1604	-3	0
34	Catherine Bellis	1600	4	23
35	Sloane Stephens	1599	-4	-5
36	Elena Vesnina	1596	-4	0
37	Ashleigh Barty	1593	-3	0
38	Lesia Tsurenko	1592	1	15
39	Katerina Siniakova	1580	-3	0
40	Alison Riske	1578	-3	-1
41	Elise Mertens	1572	1	0
42	Magdalena Rybarikova	1571	2	0
43	Irina-Camelia Begu	1568	3	0
44	Monica Puig	1567	-1	-4
45	Lauren Davis	1560	-5	-12
46	Naomi Osaka	1560	-5	-12
47	Sorana Cirstea	1560	0	0
48	Camila Giorgi	1558	-3	-12
49	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1556	-1	0
50	Carina Witthoft	1546	2	0
51	Shelby Rogers	1541	-2	-12
52	Lara Arruabarrena	1540	-1	-9
53	Heather Watson	1537	-3	-13
54	Kristyna Pliskova	1537	-1	0
55	Monica Niculescu	1534	8	9
56	Sabine Lisicki	1533	4	7
57	Yulia Putintseva	1532	-1	0
58	Sara Errani	1528	-1	-3
59	Alize Cornet	1527	-5	-9
60	Wang Qiang	1527	-2	0
61	Kirsten Flipkens	1526	0	0
62	Mona Barthel	1525	0	0
63	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1525	1	0
64	Eugenie Bouchard	1524	-5	-3
65	Roberta Vinci	1523	0	0
66	Johanna Larsson	1521	0	0
67	Oceane Dodin	1520	21	24
68	Barbora Krejcikova	1516	-1	0
69	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1512	-1	0
70	Margarita Gasparyan	1511	-1	0
71	Tereza Martincova	1510	-1	0
72	Tsvetana Pironkova	1508	-1	0
73	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1508	3	3
74	Varvara Lepchenko	1506	-2	0
75	Zhang Shuai	1505	0	0
76	Veronica Cepede Royg	1504	1	2
77	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1502	1	0
78	Julia Boserup	1501	1	0
79	Yaroslava Shvedova	1501	1	0
80	Donna Vekic	1501	2	0
81	Han Xinyun	1500	2	0
82	Yanina Wickmayer	1499	2	0
83	Viktorija Golubic	1499	2	0
84	Nao Hibino	1497	-10	-9
85	Denisa Allertova	1497	1	0
86	Belinda Bencic	1497	1	0
87	Mariana Duque Marino	1496	10	9
88	Andrea Petkovic	1496	19	25
89	Francesca Schiavone	1495	-16	-11
90	Madison Brengle	1495	0	0
91	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1494	0	0
92	Petra Martic	1493	0	0
93	Christina McHale	1492	-12	-9
94	Vania King	1492	-1	0
95	Karin Knapp	1491	-1	0
96	Hseih Su-Wei	1489	0	0
97	Jelena Jankovic	1486	-8	-10
98	Misaki Doi	1479	-3	-10
99	Duan Yingying	1479	-1	0
100	Ons Jabeur	1479	-1	0
101	Ana Bogdan	1479	-1	0
102	Timea Babos	1477	0	0
103	Pauline Parmentier	1476	0	0
104	Wang Yafan	1476	0	0
105	Zhu Lin	1474	0	0
106	Magda Linette	1471	-5	-7
107	Sachia Vickery	1470	1	0
108	Samantha Crawford	1469	1	0
109	Richel Hogenkamp	1468	1	0
110	Kristina Kucova	1468	1	0
111	Ajla Tomljanovic	1467	-5	-6
112	Bojana Jovanovski	1464	0	0
113	Maria Sakkari	1464	0	0
114	Kateryna Bondarenko	1464	12	8
115	Lucie Hradecka	1463	0	0
116	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1462	0	0
117	Zhang Kailin	1462	0	0
118	Rebecca Peterson	1461	0	0
119	Patricia Maria Tig	1461	5	5
120	Irina Khromacheva	1460	-1	0
121	Urszula Radwanska	1459	-1	0
122	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1459	-1	0
123	Kateryna Kozlova	1458	0	0
124	Zarina Diyas	1456	1	0
125	Naomi Broady	1456	2	0
126	Risa Ozaki	1455	-12	-8
127	Chang Kai-Chen	1455	1	0
128	Cagla Buyukakcay	1454	1	0
129	Tamira Paszek	1453	2	0
130	Jennifer Brady	1450	0	-4
131	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1449	1	0
132	Jana Cepelova	1447	-10	-11
133	Evgeniya Rodina	1445	1	0
134	Annika Beck	1444	1	0
135	Alison Van Uytvanck	1443	6	5
136	Alexandra Dulgheru	1441	1	0
137	Polona Hercog	1439	1	0
138	Irina Falconi	1439	1	0
139	Miyu Kato	1439	1	0
140	Kurumi Nara	1438	-7	-9
141	Louisa Chirico	1437	-5	-6
142	Nicole Gibbs	1434	4	7
143	Elitsa Kostova	1431	-1	0
144	Anna Tatishvili	1430	-1	0
145	Mandy Minella	1427	0	0
146	Tatjana Maria	1426	-2	-4
147	Tereza Smitkova	1422	1	0
148	Aleksandra Krunic	1421	1	0
149	Danka Kovinic	1419	1	0
150	Marina Erakovic	1418	-3	-5
151	Stefanie Vogele	1413	0	0
152	Zheng Saisai	1410	0	0
153	Laura Robson	1410	0	0
154	Teliana Pereira	1409	0	0
155	Andreea Mitu	1407	0	0
156	Olga Govortsova	1404	0	0
157	Maryna Zanevska	1399	0	0
158	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1390	0	0