Women's ELO Rankings 19/03/2018

2 weeks after the last rankings update, the tournament in Indian Wells has finished. Let's take a look at what happened there.

Naomi Osaka, © EPA

This week's Player of the Week is Naomi Osaka. She won the tournament as an unseeded player, defeating Karolina Pliskova, Simona Halep and Daria Kasatkina among others. his title gave Naomi a huge 80 ELO rating points, and she moves up 18 places in my rankings to #16.

The Upset player of the week award this week goes to Garbine Muguruza. She was the 3rd seed at Indian Wells, but after getting a bye to round 2, she lost her opening match. This loss cost Garbine 16 ELO rating points, and she loses 3 places in my rankings to #10.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Wang Qiang, Petra Martic, Marketa Vondrousova, Sachia Vickery and Maria Sakkari.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Simona Halep	1826	0	-2
2	Caroline Wozniacki	1812	1	-7
3	Elina Svitolina	1808	-1	-12
4	Petra Kvitova	1783	0	-14
5	Angelique Kerber	1763	1	9
6	Karolina Pliskova	1762	-1	0
7	Venus Williams	1745	3	24
8	Caroline Garcia	1739	1	3
9	Julia Gorges	1730	-1	-9
10	Garbine Muguruza	1729	-3	-16
11	Daria Kasatkina	1719	6	41
12	Maria Sharapova	1707	-1	-13
13	Madison Keys	1697	-1	-16
14	Barbora Strycova	1678	-1	-14
15	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1677	-1	-13
16	Naomi Osaka	1677	18	80
17	Ashleigh Barty	1670	-2	-15
18	Johanna Konta	1668	-2	-14
19	Sloane Stephens	1655	4	4
20	Daria Gavrilova	1654	0	-2
21	Ekaterina Makarova	1653	1	0
22	Anastasija Sevastova	1652	4	13
23	Agnieszka Radwanska	1651	-5	-12
24	Coco Vandeweghe	1651	-5	-7
25	Carla Suarez Navarro	1648	4	22
26	Jelena Ostapenko	1641	-2	-7
27	Elise Mertens	1640	-6	-13
28	Dominika Cibulkova	1634	-3	-13
29	Timea Bacsinszky	1627	-2	-12
30	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1621	-2	-14
31	Lucie Safarova	1621	-1	0
32	Laura Siegemund	1614	-1	0
33	Catherine Bellis	1605	-1	-5
34	Magdalena Rybarikova	1594	-1	-13
35	Ana Konjuh	1588	2	0
36	Camila Giorgi	1588	2	0
37	Peng Shuai	1586	2	0
38	Lesia Tsurenko	1584	-3	-13
39	Wang Qiang	1582	11	31
40	Alize Cornet	1576	-4	-13
41	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1576	3	15
42	Elena Vesnina	1570	1	7
43	Aryna Sabalenka	1568	3	11
44	Katerina Siniakova	1566	-3	1
45	Anett Kontaveit	1565	-5	-10
46	Monica Puig	1565	-4	1
47	Petra Martic	1561	19	41
48	Sorana Cirstea	1558	-1	3
49	Zhang Shuai	1555	2	4
50	Irina-Camelia Begu	1554	2	4
51	Samantha Stosur	1553	-3	-2
52	Kristina Mladenovic	1549	1	0
53	Timea Babos	1547	-8	-12
54	Sara Errani	1547	0	0
55	Marketa Vondrousova	1546	10	23
56	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1543	-7	-12
57	Kaia Kanepi	1542	-1	0
58	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	0	0
59	Hseih Su-Wei	1535	3	2
60	Sabine Lisicki	1534	1	0
61	Kiki Bertens	1533	-2	-2
62	Shelby Rogers	1531	-7	-11
63	Carina Witthoft	1530	-6	-10
64	Monica Niculescu	1525	-4	-9
65	Sachia Vickery	1525	17	19
66	Alison Riske	1523	-2	0
67	Kirsten Flipkens	1520	-4	-7
68	Maria Sakkari	1516	35	32
69	Johanna Larsson	1515	2	0
70	Yanina Wickmayer	1515	4	3
71	Zarina Diyas	1513	-2	-2
72	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1513	8	6
73	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1509	-6	-9
74	Heather Watson	1509	-1	-4
75	Denisa Allertova	1509	0	0
76	Belinda Bencic	1509	7	6
77	Aleksandra Krunic	1508	-9	-9
78	Kateryna Bondarenko	1508	-2	0
79	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1508	-1	0
80	Tsvetana Pironkova	1508	-1	0
81	Ana Bogdan	1507	0	0
82	Magda Linette	1506	-12	-9
83	Mona Barthel	1506	4	7
84	Alison Van Uytvanck	1503	-12	-11
85	Viktorija Golubic	1503	-1	0
86	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1502	-1	0
87	Yaroslava Shvedova	1501	-1	0
88	Varvara Lepchenko	1499	-11	-9
89	Kristyna Pliskova	1498	5	7
90	Yulia Putintseva	1498	7	8
91	Jana Fett	1494	1	0
92	Rebecca Peterson	1493	1	0
93	Julia Boserup	1491	2	0
94	Wang Yafan	1491	2	0
95	Lauren Davis	1490	-6	-8
96	Veronica Cepede Royg	1489	-8	-10
97	Kateryna Kozlova	1488	2	0
98	Roberta Vinci	1488	2	0
99	Oceane Dodin	1487	2	0
100	Jennifer Brady	1487	8	8
101	Lara Arruabarrena	1487	10	10
102	Eugenie Bouchard	1485	-12	-10
103	Duan Yingying	1485	-12	-10
104	Han Xinyun	1483	0	0
105	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1482	-7	-7
106	Jelena Jankovic	1482	-1	0
107	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1482	-1	0
108	Stefanie Vogele	1482	-1	0
109	Francesca Schiavone	1479	0	0
110	Lucie Hradecka	1478	0	0
111	Christina McHale	1476	-9	-8
112	Andrea Petkovic	1476	0	0
113	Tereza Martincova	1472	1	0
114	Zhu Lin	1469	1	0
115	Nao Hibino	1467	1	0
116	Mariana Duque Marino	1466	1	0
117	Nicole Gibbs	1466	1	0
118	Donna Vekic	1465	-5	-10
119	Anna Blinkova	1465	0	0
120	Naomi Broady	1464	0	0
121	Ajla Tomljanovic	1463	0	0
122	Misaki Doi	1463	0	0
123	Miyu Kato	1460	0	0
124	Kristina Kucova	1460	1	0
125	Evgeniya Rodina	1459	2	0
126	Richel Hogenkamp	1452	3	0
127	Cagla Buyukakcay	1451	3	0
128	Taylor Townsend	1450	-4	-10
129	Pauline Parmentier	1450	-3	-9
130	Polona Hercog	1449	1	0
131	Madison Brengle	1446	-3	-8
132	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1444	1	0
133	Alexandra Dulgheru	1441	1	0
134	Arina Rodionova	1441	1	0
135	Annika Beck	1439	1	0
136	Kurumi Nara	1437	-4	-7
137	Irina Falconi	1435	0	0
138	Chang Kai-Chen	1434	0	0
139	Ons Jabeur	1430	0	0
140	Risa Ozaki	1420	0	0
141	Jana Cepelova	1416	0	0
142	Danka Kovinic	1414	0	0
143	Tatjana Maria	1399	0	-7