Women's ELO Rankings 21/05/2018

With the French Open taking place in a week's time, many of the top players prepared this week with a large tournament in Rome.

Anett Kontaveit, © AP / Scanpix

The Player of the week award this week goes to Anett Kontaveit. She was unseeded at the tournament, and made it to the semi finals, defeating Coco Vandeweghe, Venus Williams and Caroline Wozniacki before losing to the eventual champion Eli a Svitolina. This run gave Anett 45 ELO rating points, and she gains 13 places in my rankings to #24.

This week's Upset player of the week is Karolina Pliskova. She was the 6th seed, but after getting a bye to round 2, she lost her opening match. This loss cost Karolina 16 ELO rating points, and she loses 3 places in my rankings to #4.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Maria Sakkari and Donna Vekic.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Elina Svitolina	1830	3	36
2	Simona Halep	1828	1	17
3	Petra Kvitova	1813	-1	0
4	Karolina Pliskova	1799	-3	-16
5	Caroline Wozniacki	1780	0	-4
6	Angelique Kerber	1763	0	5
7	Caroline Garcia	1752	1	6
8	Victoria Azarenka	1743	-1	-12
9	Maria Sharapova	1730	4	26
10	Venus Williams	1725	0	-7
11	Garbine Muguruza	1722	-2	-13
12	Julia Gorges	1718	-1	0
13	Sloane Stephens	1708	-1	4
14	Elise Mertens	1699	0	0
15	Daria Kasatkina	1697	0	4
16	Naomi Osaka	1680	0	5
17	Jelena Ostapenko	1675	1	8
18	Madison Keys	1674	1	9
19	Anastasija Sevastova	1667	2	6
20	Ashleigh Barty	1665	-3	-9
21	Johanna Konta	1659	1	5
22	Coco Vandeweghe	1651	-2	-12
23	Agnieszka Radwanska	1649	1	0
24	Anett Kontaveit	1639	13	45
25	Daria Gavrilova	1638	4	12
26	Kiki Bertens	1637	-3	-13
27	Ekaterina Makarova	1635	0	0
28	Carla Suarez Navarro	1632	-3	-14
29	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1631	-3	-5
30	Lucie Safarova	1621	1	0
31	Barbora Strycova	1620	-3	-8
32	Timea Bacsinszky	1618	0	0
33	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1615	-3	-9
34	Dominika Cibulkova	1612	-1	-1
35	Camila Giorgi	1606	-1	0
36	Catherine Bellis	1598	0	0
37	Monica Puig	1593	1	0
38	Laura Siegemund	1592	-3	-11
39	Ana Konjuh	1588	0	0
40	Alize Cornet	1583	1	0
41	Magdalena Rybarikova	1577	-1	-8
42	Irina-Camelia Begu	1577	1	5
43	Petra Martic	1572	2	6
44	Peng Shuai	1570	-2	-10
45	Timea Babos	1563	4	5
46	Elena Vesnina	1561	5	5
47	Aryna Sabalenka	1560	-3	-10
48	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1560	0	0
49	Danielle Collins	1560	1	4
50	Hseih Su-Wei	1559	2	3
51	Zhang Shuai	1559	2	3
52	Maria Sakkari	1559	14	24
53	Sara Errani	1553	-7	-10
54	Lesia Tsurenko	1553	-7	-10
55	Wang Qiang	1553	-1	0
56	Marketa Vondrousova	1547	1	0
57	Kristyna Pliskova	1544	1	0
58	Katerina Siniakova	1543	1	0
59	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1541	-3	-10
60	Samantha Stosur	1540	-5	-12
61	Monica Niculescu	1539	0	0
62	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	0	0
63	Ana Bogdan	1536	1	0
64	Bernada Pera	1536	1	0
65	Sabine Lisicki	1534	2	0
66	Kaia Kanepi	1534	4	4
67	Sachia Vickery	1532	1	0
68	Sorana Cirstea	1531	-8	-10
69	Shelby Rogers	1531	0	0
70	Kristina Mladenovic	1530	-7	-7
71	Alison Riske	1528	0	0
72	Kirsten Flipkens	1525	0	0
73	Sofia Kenin	1525	0	0
74	Wang Yafan	1524	0	0
75	Aleksandra Krunic	1520	2	3
76	Johanna Larsson	1519	-1	0
77	Yanina Wickmayer	1515	1	0
78	Zarina Diyas	1514	-2	-4
79	Donna Vekic	1513	11	8
80	Pauline Parmentier	1512	0	0
81	Carina Witthoft	1511	0	0
82	Lara Arruabarrena	1510	0	0
83	Denisa Allertova	1509	0	0
84	Belinda Bencic	1509	0	0
85	Ajla Tomljanovic	1508	-6	-5
86	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1508	-1	0
87	Tsvetana Pironkova	1508	-1	0
88	Varvara Lepchenko	1505	0	0
89	Jana Fett	1505	0	0
90	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1502	1	0
91	Alison Van Uytvanck	1502	4	9
92	Yaroslava Shvedova	1501	0	0
93	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1500	-6	-7
94	Christina McHale	1494	-1	0
95	Mona Barthel	1492	1	0
96	Stefanie Vogele	1492	1	0
97	Julia Boserup	1491	1	0
98	Kateryna Bondarenko	1489	1	0
99	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1489	1	0
100	Polona Hercog	1488	-6	-6
101	Kateryna Kozlova	1488	0	0
102	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1485	1	0
103	Duan Yingying	1485	1	0
104	Magda Linette	1484	1	0
105	Han Xinyun	1483	1	0
106	Jelena Jankovic	1482	1	0
107	Viktorija Golubic	1481	1	0
108	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1480	1	0
109	Roberta Vinci	1479	-7	-9
110	Heather Watson	1478	1	0
111	Lucie Hradecka	1478	1	0
112	Eugenie Bouchard	1477	1	0
113	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1476	1	0
114	Oceane Dodin	1474	1	0
115	Francesca Schiavone	1473	-5	-6
116	Jennifer Brady	1473	0	0
117	Yulia Putintseva	1471	0	0
118	Lauren Davis	1469	0	0
119	Zhu Lin	1469	0	0
120	Anna Blinkova	1469	0	0
121	Naomi Broady	1466	0	0
122	Rebecca Peterson	1464	0	0
123	Andrea Petkovic	1463	0	0
124	Misaki Doi	1463	0	0
125	Veronica Cepede Royg	1461	0	0
126	Kristina Kucova	1455	0	0
127	Taylor Townsend	1454	0	0
128	Tereza Martincova	1453	0	0
129	Mariana Duque Marino	1451	0	0
130	Miyu Kato	1450	0	0
131	Nicole Gibbs	1450	0	0
132	Nao Hibino	1449	0	0
133	Alexandra Dulgheru	1446	0	0
134	Cagla Buyukakcay	1443	0	0
135	Evgeniya Rodina	1442	0	0
136	Annika Beck	1439	0	0
137	Kurumi Nara	1437	0	0
138	Richel Hogenkamp	1436	0	0
139	Chang Kai-Chen	1434	0	0
140	Madison Brengle	1432	0	0
141	Ons Jabeur	1426	0	0
142	Danka Kovinic	1421	0	0
143	Irina Falconi	1418	0	0
144	Risa Ozaki	1414	0	0
145	Jana Cepelova	1409	0	0
146	Tatjana Maria	1407	0	0
147	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1375	0	0