Saturday 13 January 2018

Women's ELO Rankings 15/01/2018

As players were preparing for the Australian Open (see my predictions for the grand slam here), there were 2 tournaments on this week, in Sydney and Hobart.

Angelique Kerber, © Getty Images


This week's Player of the Week award goes to Angelique Kerber. She won the tournament in Sydney, defeating Venus Williams among others on her way to the title This run gave Angelique 51 ELO rating points, and she moves up 12 places in my rankings to #12.

The Upset player of the week this week is Sloane Stephens. Also at Sydney, she was the 6th seed, but lost in the 1st round. This loss cost Sloane 14 ELO rating points, and she loses 5 places in my rankings to #21.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Camila Giorgi, Mihaela Buzarnescu, Heather Watson, Donna Vekic and Lesia Tsurenko.

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Now, the full rankings.


#NameELO± #± ELO
1Simona Halep180900
2Elina Svitolina180500
3Caroline Wozniacki179000
4Karolina Pliskova176400
5Caroline Garcia174210
6Venus Williams1737-1-13
7Maria Sharapova173700
8Julia Gorges173510
9Garbine Muguruza1728-1-7
10Petra Kvitova17240-10
11Madison Keys170600
12Angelique Kerber17021251
13Barbora Strycova169907
14Johanna Konta1690-2-11
15Svetlana Kuznetsova169000
16Ashleigh Barty1685421
17Jelena Ostapenko1680-3-11
18Agnieszka Radwanska1680-15
19Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova1675-10
20Coco Vandeweghe1672-10
21Sloane Stephens1669-5-14
22Ekaterina Makarova1664-12
23Daria Gavrilova1660315
24Timea Bacsinszky1653-10
25Dominika Cibulkova165228
26Daria Kasatkina1648-4-9
27Anastasija Sevastova1641-2-10
28Peng Shuai163700
29Elise Mertens1631539
30Lucie Safarova1627-1-10
31Laura Siegemund1614-10
32Carla Suarez Navarro160100
33Magdalena Rybarikova1596-2-11
34Alize Cornet1588-1-13
35Ana Konjuh158800
36Camila Giorgi15881434
37Samantha Stosur1584-12
38Catherine Bellis1578-14
39Lesia Tsurenko1572916
40Monica Puig157100
41Elena Vesnina156720
42Zhang Shuai15650-2
43Anett Kontaveit156430
44Aryna Sabalenka156458
45Katerina Siniakova1563-7-11
46Irina-Camelia Begu1561-7-12
47Sorana Cirstea1559-6-12
48Carina Witthoft1556-4-10
49Wang Qiang1556-20
50Naomi Osaka1553-5-12
51Shelby Rogers155200
52Aliaksandra Sasnovich155100
53Mihaela Buzarnescu1545NEW36
54Sara Errani154100
55Kiki Bertens154114
56Mirjana Lucic-Baroni1538-3-5
57Heather Watson15341222
58Alison Riske1533311
59Aleksandra Krunic1532-10
60Kristina Mladenovic1529-5-11
61Zarina Diyas1526-20
62Timea Babos1524-5-9
63Monica Niculescu1523914
64Kirsten Flipkens1521-20
65Sabine Lisicki1521-20
66Natalia Vikhlyantseva1515-6-10
67Johanna Larsson1515-10
68Varvara Lepchenko1514-3-1
69Anna-Lena Friedsam1513-2-1
70Viktorija Golubic1513-20
71Yanina Wickmayer1512-10
72Marketa Vondrousova1511-1-1
73Beatriz Haddad Maia151102
74Oceane Dodin150900
75Belinda Bencic150900
76Tsvetana Pironkova150800
77Kristyna Pliskova1507-13-10
78Sachia Vickery1506-10
79Maria Sakkari1505-10
80Bethanie Mattek-Sands1502-10
81Christina McHale1501-10
82Yaroslava Shvedova1501-10
83Sara Sorribes Tormo1500-10
84Kateryna Bondarenko149800
85Hseih Su-Wei149710
86Han Xinyun149310
87Lauren Davis149210
88Yulia Putintseva149284
89Lara Arruabarrena1491-6-8
90Julia Boserup1491-10
91Magda Linette1490-6-8
92Roberta Vinci1490-20
93Jennifer Brady148900
94Zhu Lin148900
95Ana Bogdan148900
96Duan Yingying148610
97Petra Martic148610
98Veronica Cepede Royg1485-7-5
99Francesca Schiavone148410
100Pauline Parmentier148310
101Donna Vekic14831011
102Tereza Martincova148200
103Jelena Jankovic148200
104Kateryna Kozlova148100
105Mona Barthel1480-13-9
106Denisa Allertova1480-10
107Lucie Hradecka1478-10
108Andrea Petkovic1478-10
109Eugenie Bouchard1477-10-8
110Ekaterina Alexandrova1477-20
111Mariana Duque Marino1476-20
112Nao Hibino1472-20
113Miyu Kato146910
114Wang Yafan146910
115Ajla Tomljanovic146910
116Taylor Townsend146610
117Rebecca Peterson146510
118Naomi Broady146410
119Nicole Gibbs146310
120Madison Brengle146310
121Misaki Doi146310
122Alison Van Uytvanck1462-10-9
123Kurumi Nara1462-10-7
124Richel Hogenkamp1461-10
125Evgeniya Rodina1459-10
126Polona Hercog1458-10
127Ons Jabeur1454-10
128Cagla Buyukakcay1454-10
129Stefanie Vogele144300
130Alexandra Dulgheru144100
131Tatjana Maria1440-3-9
132Annika Beck1439-10
133Chang Kai-Chen1431-10
134Risa Ozaki1429-10
135Jana Cepelova1416-10
136Danka Kovinic1414-10
137Laura Robson1410-10
138Maryna Zanevska139100