Women's ELO Rankings 23/10/2017

With the WTA Finals taking place next week, let's have a look at what happened this week, in Moscow and Luxembourg.

Carina Witthoft, © Presse-Sports

This week's Big Gainer of the week award goes to Carina Witthoft. She entered the tournament in Luxembourg, and after defeating Varvara Lepchenko and Kiki Bertens among others, she won the title! This title gave Carina 47 ELO rating points, and she moves up 17 places in my rankings to #39.

The Upset player of the week this week is Maria Sharapova. She received a wildcard to Moscow, but lost in the first round to Magdalena Rybarikova. This loss cost Maria 14 ELO rating points, but she stays as #7 in my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Natalia Vikhlyantseva, Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Pauline Parmentier, Naomi Broady and Irina-Camelia Begu.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Simona Halep	1804	0	0
2	Elina Svitolina	1784	0	0
3	Karolina Pliskova	1768	0	0
4	Garbine Muguruza	1764	0	0
5	Caroline Wozniacki	1760	0	0
6	Caroline Garcia	1754	0	0
7	Maria Sharapova	1740	0	-14
8	Venus Williams	1737	0	0
9	Petra Kvitova	1734	0	0
10	Madison Keys	1717	0	0
11	Jelena Ostapenko	1710	0	0
12	Sloane Stephens	1705	0	0
13	Barbora Strycova	1699	0	0
14	Johanna Konta	1694	0	0
15	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1690	0	0
16	Agnieszka Radwanska	1679	2	0
17	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1675	-1	-11
18	Daria Kasatkina	1671	6	20
19	Angelique Kerber	1670	-2	-14
20	Julia Gorges	1669	9	38
21	Ashleigh Barty	1668	-1	0
22	Ekaterina Makarova	1662	-3	-13
23	Coco Vandeweghe	1654	-2	-13
24	Timea Bacsinszky	1653	-1	0
25	Daria Gavrilova	1645	-3	-9
26	Dominika Cibulkova	1644	-1	0
27	Peng Shuai	1639	-1	0
28	Lucie Safarova	1637	0	0
29	Anastasija Sevastova	1625	-2	-13
30	Laura Siegemund	1614	0	0
31	Carla Suarez Navarro	1607	0	0
32	Magdalena Rybarikova	1606	0	3
33	Elise Mertens	1592	4	12
34	Samantha Stosur	1591	0	0
35	Alize Cornet	1590	4	12
36	Ana Konjuh	1584	-1	0
37	Elena Vesnina	1583	-4	-12
38	Monica Puig	1578	9	29
39	Carina Witthoft	1578	17	47
40	Zhang Shuai	1572	1	0
41	Sorana Cirstea	1571	-5	-13
42	Catherine Bellis	1571	0	0
43	Wang Qiang	1568	0	0
44	Kristina Mladenovic	1567	-6	-12
45	Anett Kontaveit	1567	-5	-6
46	Camila Giorgi	1566	-2	0
47	Naomi Osaka	1565	-2	0
48	Lesia Tsurenko	1554	3	15
49	Irina-Camelia Begu	1553	9	24
50	Shelby Rogers	1552	-4	0
51	Sara Errani	1547	-3	0
52	Kiki Bertens	1546	0	7
53	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1545	-4	0
54	Aryna Sabalenka	1545	-4	0
55	Katerina Siniakova	1538	-2	2
56	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1525	30	27
57	Kirsten Flipkens	1524	-3	-11
58	Timea Babos	1524	-3	-11
59	Marketa Vondrousova	1523	2	0
60	Sabine Lisicki	1521	0	-2
61	Heather Watson	1521	17	14
62	Monica Niculescu	1518	-5	-12
63	Maria Sakkari	1518	2	0
64	Varvara Lepchenko	1516	-5	-10
65	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1515	3	1
66	Alison Riske	1514	0	0
67	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1514	0	0
68	Viktorija Golubic	1513	1	0
69	Yanina Wickmayer	1512	-7	-10
70	Christina McHale	1512	-6	-10
71	Margarita Gasparyan	1511	-1	0
72	Aleksandra Krunic	1511	-1	0
73	Johanna Larsson	1511	9	9
74	Lara Arruabarrena	1510	-11	-12
75	Oceane Dodin	1509	-3	0
76	Belinda Bencic	1509	-3	0
77	Zarina Diyas	1508	-3	0
78	Tsvetana Pironkova	1508	-2	0
79	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1507	17	17
80	Kateryna Bondarenko	1506	-1	0
81	Lauren Davis	1503	-1	0
82	Kristyna Pliskova	1502	-7	-6
83	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1502	-2	0
84	Yaroslava Shvedova	1501	-1	0
85	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1500	-8	-8
86	Mona Barthel	1499	-2	0
87	Magda Linette	1499	-2	0
88	Yulia Putintseva	1499	1	4
89	Jennifer Brady	1497	-2	0
90	Han Xinyun	1493	0	0
91	Pauline Parmentier	1493	27	26
92	Vania King	1492	-1	0
93	Julia Boserup	1491	-1	0
94	Karin Knapp	1491	-1	0
95	Roberta Vinci	1490	0	0
96	Veronica Cepede Royg	1490	3	2
97	Zhu Lin	1489	1	0
98	Ana Bogdan	1486	2	0
99	Eugenie Bouchard	1485	-11	-10
100	Francesca Schiavone	1484	1	0
101	Nao Hibino	1483	1	0
102	Tereza Martincova	1482	1	0
103	Jelena Jankovic	1482	1	0
104	Alison Van Uytvanck	1482	2	2
105	Donna Vekic	1481	-11	-9
106	Kateryna Kozlova	1481	-1	0
107	Denisa Allertova	1480	-10	-9
108	Duan Yingying	1479	-1	0
109	Kurumi Nara	1478	-1	0
110	Lucie Hradecka	1478	-1	0
111	Andrea Petkovic	1478	1	2
112	Petra Martic	1478	NEW	-10
113	Mariana Duque Marino	1476	-3	0
114	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1476	-3	0
115	Sachia Vickery	1472	-2	0
116	Miyu Kato	1469	-1	0
117	Samantha Crawford	1469	-1	0
118	Evgeniya Rodina	1469	4	4
119	Kristina Kucova	1468	-2	0
120	Wang Yafan	1466	-1	0
121	Nicole Gibbs	1466	0	0
122	Madison Brengle	1466	7	5
123	Rebecca Peterson	1465	0	0
124	Bojana Jovanovski	1464	0	0
125	Hseih Su-Wei	1464	0	0
126	Naomi Broady	1464	10	15
127	Misaki Doi	1463	-1	0
128	Ajla Tomljanovic	1462	-14	-10
129	Ons Jabeur	1462	-2	0
130	Richel Hogenkamp	1461	-2	0
131	Urszula Radwanska	1459	-1	0
132	Elizaveta Kulichkova	1459	-1	0
133	Tatjana Maria	1456	-13	-10
134	Cagla Buyukakcay	1454	-2	0
135	Tamira Paszek	1453	-2	0
136	Stefanie Vogele	1452	-2	0
137	Patricia Maria Tig	1450	-2	0
138	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1449	-1	0
139	Alexandra Dulgheru	1441	-1	0
140	Annika Beck	1439	-1	0
141	Polona Hercog	1439	-1	0
142	Irina Falconi	1439	-1	0
143	Louisa Chirico	1437	-1	0
144	Chang Kai-Chen	1431	-1	0
145	Risa Ozaki	1429	0	0
146	Anna Tatishvili	1425	0	0
147	Jana Cepelova	1424	-3	-6
148	Marina Erakovic	1419	-1	0
149	Zheng Saisai	1416	-1	0
150	Laura Robson	1410	-1	0
151	Teliana Pereira	1409	-1	0
152	Danka Kovinic	1407	-1	0
153	Andreea Mitu	1407	-1	0
154	Olga Govortsova	1404	-1	0
155	Maryna Zanevska	1391	NEW	-8
156	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1390	-2	0