Women's ELO Rankings 08/01/2018

The Tennis season has started again, and we have 3 tournaments to start the season off, in Brisbane, Shenzhen and Auckland.

Aliaksandra Sasnovich, © Getty Images

The first Player of the Week award goes to Aliaksandra Sasnovich. She qualified for the tournament in Brisbane, and made it all the way to the final, defeating Kristina Mladenovic and Anastasija Sevastova along the way, before she lost to Elina Svitolina. This performance gave Aliaksandra 44 ELO rating points, and she moves up 26 places in my rankings to a new ranking of 52.

The first Upset player of the week is Garbine Muguruza. Also at Brisbane, she received a bye to round 2, but then lost her opening match after she withdrew from the match. This loss cost Garbine 16 ELO rating points, and she loses 2 places in my rankings to #8.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Katerina Siniakova, Sachia Vickery, Hseih Su-Wei, Aleksandra Krunic and Kristyna Pliskova.

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Now, the full rankings. I removed a few lower ranked inactive players from my rankings this week, and a new requirement for players to play at least once a year.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Simona Halep	1809	0	18
2	Elina Svitolina	1805	1	32
3	Caroline Wozniacki	1790	-1	0
4	Karolina Pliskova	1764	0	0
5	Venus Williams	1750	2	0
6	Caroline Garcia	1742	-1	-14
7	Maria Sharapova	1737	1	-3
8	Garbine Muguruza	1735	-2	-16
9	Julia Gorges	1735	3	32
10	Petra Kvitova	1734	-1	0
11	Madison Keys	1706	-1	-11
12	Johanna Konta	1701	2	7
13	Barbora Strycova	1692	0	-5
14	Jelena Ostapenko	1691	-3	-15
15	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1690	0	0
16	Sloane Stephens	1683	0	0
17	Agnieszka Radwanska	1675	0	-4
18	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1675	1	0
19	Coco Vandeweghe	1672	1	0
20	Ashleigh Barty	1664	-2	-13
21	Ekaterina Makarova	1662	1	0
22	Daria Kasatkina	1657	-1	-14
23	Timea Bacsinszky	1653	0	0
24	Angelique Kerber	1651	0	0
25	Anastasija Sevastova	1651	2	11
26	Daria Gavrilova	1645	-1	0
27	Dominika Cibulkova	1644	-1	0
28	Peng Shuai	1637	0	0
29	Lucie Safarova	1637	0	0
30	Laura Siegemund	1614	0	0
31	Magdalena Rybarikova	1607	1	0
32	Carla Suarez Navarro	1601	-1	-6
33	Alize Cornet	1601	2	11
34	Elise Mertens	1592	-1	0
35	Ana Konjuh	1588	1	4
36	Samantha Stosur	1582	-2	-9
37	Catherine Bellis	1574	4	3
38	Katerina Siniakova	1574	17	36
39	Irina-Camelia Begu	1573	9	20
40	Monica Puig	1571	-3	-7
41	Sorana Cirstea	1571	-1	0
42	Zhang Shuai	1567	-3	-5
43	Elena Vesnina	1567	0	0
44	Carina Witthoft	1566	-6	-12
45	Naomi Osaka	1565	1	0
46	Anett Kontaveit	1564	-2	-3
47	Wang Qiang	1556	-5	-12
48	Lesia Tsurenko	1556	-1	2
49	Aryna Sabalenka	1556	5	11
50	Camila Giorgi	1554	-5	-12
51	Shelby Rogers	1552	-2	0
52	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1551	26	44
53	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1543	0	-2
54	Sara Errani	1541	-3	-6
55	Kristina Mladenovic	1540	-5	-11
56	Kiki Bertens	1537	-4	-9
57	Timea Babos	1533	1	9
58	Aleksandra Krunic	1532	13	21
59	Zarina Diyas	1526	17	18
60	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1525	-4	0
61	Alison Riske	1522	4	8
62	Kirsten Flipkens	1521	-5	-3
63	Sabine Lisicki	1521	-4	0
64	Kristyna Pliskova	1517	17	15
65	Varvara Lepchenko	1515	-2	-1
66	Johanna Larsson	1515	6	4
67	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1514	-1	0
68	Viktorija Golubic	1513	-1	0
69	Heather Watson	1512	-9	-9
70	Yanina Wickmayer	1512	-2	0
71	Marketa Vondrousova	1512	NEW	-11
72	Monica Niculescu	1509	-11	-9
73	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1509	-9	-6
74	Oceane Dodin	1509	0	0
75	Belinda Bencic	1509	0	0
76	Tsvetana Pironkova	1508	1	0
77	Sachia Vickery	1506	36	34
78	Maria Sakkari	1505	-16	-13
79	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1502	3	0
80	Christina McHale	1501	-11	-11
81	Yaroslava Shvedova	1501	2	0
82	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1500	2	0
83	Lara Arruabarrena	1499	-10	-11
84	Kateryna Bondarenko	1498	-5	-8
85	Magda Linette	1498	1	-1
86	Hseih Su-Wei	1497	37	33
87	Han Xinyun	1493	2	0
88	Lauren Davis	1492	-8	-11
89	Julia Boserup	1491	3	0
90	Roberta Vinci	1490	4	0
91	Veronica Cepede Royg	1490	4	0
92	Mona Barthel	1489	-7	-10
93	Jennifer Brady	1489	-5	-8
94	Zhu Lin	1489	2	0
95	Ana Bogdan	1489	2	3
96	Yulia Putintseva	1488	-9	-11
97	Duan Yingying	1486	10	7
98	Petra Martic	1486	NEW	8
99	Eugenie Bouchard	1485	-1	0
100	Francesca Schiavone	1484	-1	0
101	Pauline Parmentier	1483	-11	-10
102	Tereza Martincova	1482	-1	0
103	Jelena Jankovic	1482	-1	0
104	Kateryna Kozlova	1481	1	0
105	Denisa Allertova	1480	1	0
106	Lucie Hradecka	1478	3	0
107	Andrea Petkovic	1478	3	0
108	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1477	4	1
109	Mariana Duque Marino	1476	2	0
110	Nao Hibino	1472	-10	-11
111	Donna Vekic	1472	-7	-9
112	Alison Van Uytvanck	1471	-9	-11
113	Kurumi Nara	1469	-5	-9
114	Miyu Kato	1469	0	0
115	Wang Yafan	1469	3	3
116	Ajla Tomljanovic	1469	10	7
117	Taylor Townsend	1466	NEW	6
118	Rebecca Peterson	1465	3	0
119	Naomi Broady	1464	5	0
120	Nicole Gibbs	1463	-1	-3
121	Madison Brengle	1463	-1	-3
122	Misaki Doi	1463	3	0
123	Richel Hogenkamp	1461	5	0
124	Evgeniya Rodina	1459	-8	-10
125	Polona Hercog	1458	14	19
126	Ons Jabeur	1454	1	-8
127	Cagla Buyukakcay	1454	5	0
128	Tatjana Maria	1449	3	-7
129	Stefanie Vogele	1443	5	-9
130	Alexandra Dulgheru	1441	7	0
131	Annika Beck	1439	7	0
132	Chang Kai-Chen	1431	10	0
133	Risa Ozaki	1429	10	0
134	Jana Cepelova	1416	11	-8
135	Danka Kovinic	1414	15	7
136	Laura Robson	1410	12	0
137	Teliana Pereira	1409	12	0
138	Maryna Zanevska	1391	15	0