Women's ELO Rankings 29/01/2018

The first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open, took place in the past 2 weeks, how did that effect my ratings?

Elise Mertens, © AFP

This (2) week's Player of the week is Elise Mertens. Unseeded at Melbourne, she made it all the way to the semi finals before losing to the eventual champion and new ELO #1 Caroline Wozniacki, defeating Daria Gavrilova and Elina Svitolina on her way there. This performance gave Elise 40 ELO rating points, and she moves up 10 places in my rankings to #19.

This (2) week's Upset player of the week is Venus Williams. She was the 5th seed at the tournament, but she lost her 1st round match to Belinda Bencic. This loss meant that Venus lost 16 ELO rating points, and she falls 4 places in my rankings to #10.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Naomi Osaka, Hseih Su-Wei, Kateryna Bondarenko, Petra Matric and Denisa Allertova.

Now, the full rankings. As it's the end of a Grand Slam, I have removed some inactive and retired players from the ranking list.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Caroline Wozniacki	1828	2	38
2	Simona Halep	1827	-1	18
3	Elina Svitolina	1804	-1	-1
4	Karolina Pliskova	1776	0	12
5	Caroline Garcia	1745	0	3
6	Maria Sharapova	1736	1	-1
7	Angelique Kerber	1731	5	29
8	Julia Gorges	1725	0	-10
9	Madison Keys	1722	2	16
10	Venus Williams	1721	-4	-16
11	Garbine Muguruza	1716	-2	-12
12	Petra Kvitova	1708	-2	-16
13	Barbora Strycova	1705	0	6
14	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1690	1	0
15	Ashleigh Barty	1685	1	0
16	Johanna Konta	1679	-2	-11
17	Jelena Ostapenko	1677	0	-3
18	Agnieszka Radwanska	1677	0	-3
19	Elise Mertens	1671	10	40
20	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1665	-1	-10
21	Coco Vandeweghe	1658	-1	-14
22	Sloane Stephens	1656	-1	-13
23	Daria Gavrilova	1653	0	-7
24	Timea Bacsinszky	1653	0	0
25	Ekaterina Makarova	1651	-3	-13
26	Anastasija Sevastova	1640	1	-1
27	Daria Kasatkina	1639	-1	-9
28	Dominika Cibulkova	1638	-3	-14
29	Lucie Safarova	1635	1	8
30	Carla Suarez Navarro	1628	2	27
31	Peng Shuai	1623	-3	-14
32	Laura Siegemund	1614	-1	0
33	Magdalena Rybarikova	1613	0	17
34	Alize Cornet	1601	0	13
35	Ana Konjuh	1588	0	0
36	Camila Giorgi	1588	0	0
37	Anett Kontaveit	1585	6	21
38	Naomi Osaka	1581	12	28
39	Samantha Stosur	1574	-2	-10
40	Lesia Tsurenko	1573	-1	1
41	Monica Puig	1570	-1	-1
42	Catherine Bellis	1567	-4	-11
43	Katerina Siniakova	1567	2	4
44	Zhang Shuai	1566	-2	1
45	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1565	7	14
46	Elena Vesnina	1564	-5	-3
47	Irina-Camelia Begu	1562	-1	1
48	Sorana Cirstea	1560	-1	1
49	Aryna Sabalenka	1557	-5	-7
50	Kiki Bertens	1556	5	15
51	Carina Witthoft	1551	-3	-5
52	Wang Qiang	1550	-3	-6
53	Shelby Rogers	1542	-2	-10
54	Kaia Kanepi	1542	NEW	17
55	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1541	-2	-4
56	Sara Errani	1541	-2	0
57	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	-1	0
58	Hseih Su-Wei	1533	27	36
59	Timea Babos	1530	3	6
60	Heather Watson	1523	-3	-11
61	Alison Riske	1523	-3	-10
62	Aleksandra Krunic	1523	-3	-9
63	Kirsten Flipkens	1523	1	2
64	Sabine Lisicki	1521	1	0
65	Kristina Mladenovic	1518	-5	-11
66	Zarina Diyas	1517	-5	-9
67	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1517	6	6
68	Marketa Vondrousova	1516	4	5
69	Kateryna Bondarenko	1515	15	17
70	Belinda Bencic	1514	5	5
71	Monica Niculescu	1512	-8	-11
72	Yanina Wickmayer	1512	-1	0
73	Petra Martic	1510	24	24
74	Denisa Allertova	1509	32	29
75	Varvara Lepchenko	1508	-7	-6
76	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1508	-7	-5
77	Tsvetana Pironkova	1508	-1	0
78	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1507	-12	-8
79	Lauren Davis	1507	8	15
80	Sachia Vickery	1506	-2	0
81	Ana Bogdan	1505	14	16
82	Johanna Larsson	1504	-15	-11
83	Magda Linette	1504	8	14
84	Jana Fett	1504	NEW	6
85	Viktorija Golubic	1503	-15	-10
86	Kristyna Pliskova	1502	-9	-5
87	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1502	-7	0
88	Yaroslava Shvedova	1501	-6	0
89	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1500	-6	0
90	Oceane Dodin	1498	-16	-11
91	Maria Sakkari	1497	-12	-8
92	Lara Arruabarrena	1495	-3	4
93	Han Xinyun	1493	-7	0
94	Yulia Putintseva	1493	-6	1
95	Christina McHale	1492	-14	-9
96	Julia Boserup	1491	-6	0
97	Duan Yingying	1491	-1	5
98	Roberta Vinci	1490	-6	0
99	Donna Vekic	1488	2	5
100	Eugenie Bouchard	1485	9	8
101	Andrea Petkovic	1484	7	6
102	Mona Barthel	1483	3	3
103	Veronica Cepede Royg	1482	-5	-3
104	Tereza Martincova	1482	-2	0
105	Jelena Jankovic	1482	-2	0
106	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1482	4	5
107	Jennifer Brady	1479	-14	-10
108	Zhu Lin	1479	-14	-10
109	Francesca Schiavone	1479	-10	-5
110	Lucie Hradecka	1478	-3	0
111	Kateryna Kozlova	1476	-7	-5
112	Pauline Parmentier	1473	-12	-10
113	Miyu Kato	1469	0	0
114	Wang Yafan	1469	0	0
115	Mariana Duque Marino	1466	-4	-10
116	Nicole Gibbs	1466	3	3
117	Rebecca Peterson	1465	0	0
118	Naomi Broady	1464	0	0
119	Ajla Tomljanovic	1463	-4	-6
120	Misaki Doi	1463	1	0
121	Nao Hibino	1462	-9	-10
122	Taylor Townsend	1460	-6	-6
123	Kristina Kucova	1460	NEW	-8
124	Madison Brengle	1459	-4	-4
125	Evgeniya Rodina	1459	0	0
126	Cagla Buyukakcay	1454	2	0
127	Alison Van Uytvanck	1453	-5	-9
128	Kurumi Nara	1453	-5	-9
129	Richel Hogenkamp	1452	-5	-9
130	Polona Hercog	1449	-4	-9
131	Ons Jabeur	1447	-4	-7
132	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1444	NEW	-5
133	Stefanie Vogele	1443	-4	0
134	Alexandra Dulgheru	1441	-4	0
135	Annika Beck	1439	-3	0
136	Tatjana Maria	1437	-5	-3
137	Irina Falconi	1435	NEW	-4
138	Chang Kai-Chen	1431	-5	0
139	Risa Ozaki	1429	-5	0
140	Danka Kovinic	1414	-4	0
141	Laura Robson	1410	-4	0
142	Jana Cepelova	1408	-7	-8
143	Maryna Zanevska	1391	-5	0