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.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Simona Halep	1809	0	0
2	Elina Svitolina	1805	0	0
3	Caroline Wozniacki	1790	0	0
4	Karolina Pliskova	1764	0	0
5	Caroline Garcia	1742	1	0
6	Venus Williams	1737	-1	-13
7	Maria Sharapova	1737	0	0
8	Julia Gorges	1735	1	0
9	Garbine Muguruza	1728	-1	-7
10	Petra Kvitova	1724	0	-10
11	Madison Keys	1706	0	0
12	Angelique Kerber	1702	12	51
13	Barbora Strycova	1699	0	7
14	Johanna Konta	1690	-2	-11
15	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1690	0	0
16	Ashleigh Barty	1685	4	21
17	Jelena Ostapenko	1680	-3	-11
18	Agnieszka Radwanska	1680	-1	5
19	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1675	-1	0
20	Coco Vandeweghe	1672	-1	0
21	Sloane Stephens	1669	-5	-14
22	Ekaterina Makarova	1664	-1	2
23	Daria Gavrilova	1660	3	15
24	Timea Bacsinszky	1653	-1	0
25	Dominika Cibulkova	1652	2	8
26	Daria Kasatkina	1648	-4	-9
27	Anastasija Sevastova	1641	-2	-10
28	Peng Shuai	1637	0	0
29	Elise Mertens	1631	5	39
30	Lucie Safarova	1627	-1	-10
31	Laura Siegemund	1614	-1	0
32	Carla Suarez Navarro	1601	0	0
33	Magdalena Rybarikova	1596	-2	-11
34	Alize Cornet	1588	-1	-13
35	Ana Konjuh	1588	0	0
36	Camila Giorgi	1588	14	34
37	Samantha Stosur	1584	-1	2
38	Catherine Bellis	1578	-1	4
39	Lesia Tsurenko	1572	9	16
40	Monica Puig	1571	0	0
41	Elena Vesnina	1567	2	0
42	Zhang Shuai	1565	0	-2
43	Anett Kontaveit	1564	3	0
44	Aryna Sabalenka	1564	5	8
45	Katerina Siniakova	1563	-7	-11
46	Irina-Camelia Begu	1561	-7	-12
47	Sorana Cirstea	1559	-6	-12
48	Carina Witthoft	1556	-4	-10
49	Wang Qiang	1556	-2	0
50	Naomi Osaka	1553	-5	-12
51	Shelby Rogers	1552	0	0
52	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1551	0	0
53	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1545	NEW	36
54	Sara Errani	1541	0	0
55	Kiki Bertens	1541	1	4
56	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	-3	-5
57	Heather Watson	1534	12	22
58	Alison Riske	1533	3	11
59	Aleksandra Krunic	1532	-1	0
60	Kristina Mladenovic	1529	-5	-11
61	Zarina Diyas	1526	-2	0
62	Timea Babos	1524	-5	-9
63	Monica Niculescu	1523	9	14
64	Kirsten Flipkens	1521	-2	0
65	Sabine Lisicki	1521	-2	0
66	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1515	-6	-10
67	Johanna Larsson	1515	-1	0
68	Varvara Lepchenko	1514	-3	-1
69	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1513	-2	-1
70	Viktorija Golubic	1513	-2	0
71	Yanina Wickmayer	1512	-1	0
72	Marketa Vondrousova	1511	-1	-1
73	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1511	0	2
74	Oceane Dodin	1509	0	0
75	Belinda Bencic	1509	0	0
76	Tsvetana Pironkova	1508	0	0
77	Kristyna Pliskova	1507	-13	-10
78	Sachia Vickery	1506	-1	0
79	Maria Sakkari	1505	-1	0
80	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1502	-1	0
81	Christina McHale	1501	-1	0
82	Yaroslava Shvedova	1501	-1	0
83	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1500	-1	0
84	Kateryna Bondarenko	1498	0	0
85	Hseih Su-Wei	1497	1	0
86	Han Xinyun	1493	1	0
87	Lauren Davis	1492	1	0
88	Yulia Putintseva	1492	8	4
89	Lara Arruabarrena	1491	-6	-8
90	Julia Boserup	1491	-1	0
91	Magda Linette	1490	-6	-8
92	Roberta Vinci	1490	-2	0
93	Jennifer Brady	1489	0	0
94	Zhu Lin	1489	0	0
95	Ana Bogdan	1489	0	0
96	Duan Yingying	1486	1	0
97	Petra Martic	1486	1	0
98	Veronica Cepede Royg	1485	-7	-5
99	Francesca Schiavone	1484	1	0
100	Pauline Parmentier	1483	1	0
101	Donna Vekic	1483	10	11
102	Tereza Martincova	1482	0	0
103	Jelena Jankovic	1482	0	0
104	Kateryna Kozlova	1481	0	0
105	Mona Barthel	1480	-13	-9
106	Denisa Allertova	1480	-1	0
107	Lucie Hradecka	1478	-1	0
108	Andrea Petkovic	1478	-1	0
109	Eugenie Bouchard	1477	-10	-8
110	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1477	-2	0
111	Mariana Duque Marino	1476	-2	0
112	Nao Hibino	1472	-2	0
113	Miyu Kato	1469	1	0
114	Wang Yafan	1469	1	0
115	Ajla Tomljanovic	1469	1	0
116	Taylor Townsend	1466	1	0
117	Rebecca Peterson	1465	1	0
118	Naomi Broady	1464	1	0
119	Nicole Gibbs	1463	1	0
120	Madison Brengle	1463	1	0
121	Misaki Doi	1463	1	0
122	Alison Van Uytvanck	1462	-10	-9
123	Kurumi Nara	1462	-10	-7
124	Richel Hogenkamp	1461	-1	0
125	Evgeniya Rodina	1459	-1	0
126	Polona Hercog	1458	-1	0
127	Ons Jabeur	1454	-1	0
128	Cagla Buyukakcay	1454	-1	0
129	Stefanie Vogele	1443	0	0
130	Alexandra Dulgheru	1441	0	0
131	Tatjana Maria	1440	-3	-9
132	Annika Beck	1439	-1	0
133	Chang Kai-Chen	1431	-1	0
134	Risa Ozaki	1429	-1	0
135	Jana Cepelova	1416	-1	0
136	Danka Kovinic	1414	-1	0
137	Laura Robson	1410	-1	0
138	Maryna Zanevska	1391	0	0