Women's ELO Rankings 20/08/2018

The American hard court season continued this week, with a large tournament in Cincinnati.

Kiki Bertens, © Getty

The Player of the week award this week goes to Kiki Bertens. She won the tournament, defeating Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina, Petra Kvitova among others, and then the ELO #1 Simona Halep in the final. This title gave Kiki 69 ELO rating points, and she moves up 14 places in my rankings to #8.

This week's Upset player of the week is Julia Gorges. She was the 10th seed, but she lost her 1st round match. This loss meant that Julia lost 16 ELO rating points, and she falls 2 places in my rankings to #14.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Aryna Sabalenka, Kristina Mladenovic and Tatjana Maria.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Simona Halep	1882	0	2
2	Serena Williams	1845	0	-8
3	Petra Kvitova	1805	2	10
4	Elina Svitolina	1799	0	-3
5	Angelique Kerber	1797	-2	-7
6	Caroline Wozniacki	1773	0	-13
7	Karolina Pliskova	1765	0	-7
8	Kiki Bertens	1749	14	69
9	Caroline Garcia	1739	-1	-4
10	Maria Sharapova	1737	-1	0
11	Ashleigh Barty	1728	2	3
12	Sloane Stephens	1724	-2	-7
13	Garbine Muguruza	1716	-2	-13
14	Julia Gorges	1710	-2	-16
15	Elise Mertens	1709	2	15
16	Madison Keys	1706	3	14
17	Venus Williams	1703	-2	0
18	Victoria Azarenka	1700	-2	-2
19	Daria Kasatkina	1700	-5	-13
20	Anastasija Sevastova	1682	-2	-12
21	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1681	-1	0
22	Jelena Ostapenko	1669	-1	-12
23	Johanna Konta	1664	0	-12
24	Agnieszka Radwanska	1664	0	-7
25	Aryna Sabalenka	1660	11	47
26	Naomi Osaka	1650	-1	-12
27	Dominika Cibulkova	1648	-1	0
28	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1643	-1	0
29	Anett Kontaveit	1639	4	10
30	Camila Giorgi	1635	-1	3
31	Barbora Strycova	1633	-3	-10
32	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1632	-1	2
33	Lucie Safarova	1631	-3	0
34	Daria Gavrilova	1621	0	-4
35	Coco Vandeweghe	1620	-3	-9
36	Lesia Tsurenko	1619	9	30
37	Ekaterina Makarova	1616	0	8
38	Carla Suarez Navarro	1611	-3	-8
39	Alize Cornet	1609	-1	2
40	Timea Bacsinszky	1604	-1	0
41	Catherine Bellis	1598	-1	0
42	Petra Martic	1595	0	1
43	Hsieh Su-Wei	1594	0	0
44	Laura Siegemund	1592	0	0
45	Magdalena Rybarikova	1589	-4	-7
46	Donna Vekic	1587	1	0
47	Samantha Stosur	1579	1	0
48	Monica Puig	1579	1	0
49	Wang Qiang	1578	1	0
50	Maria Sakkari	1577	1	4
51	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1576	-5	-13
52	Ana Konjuh	1566	1	0
53	Danielle Collins	1561	-1	-9
54	Kirsten Flipkens	1560	0	0
55	Peng Shuai	1556	0	0
56	Alison Riske	1555	0	0
57	Elena Vesnina	1550	1	0
58	Belinda Bencic	1549	1	0
59	Kristina Mladenovic	1544	13	20
60	Katerina Siniakova	1543	-3	-12
61	Alison Van Uytvanck	1542	-1	0
62	Johanna Larsson	1541	-1	0
63	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	-1	0
64	Ajla Tomljanovic	1532	6	8
65	Shelby Rogers	1531	0	0
66	Sofia Kenin	1530	0	0
67	Yulia Putintseva	1527	0	0
68	Sorana Cirstea	1527	0	0
69	Irina-Camelia Begu	1525	-6	-11
70	Zhang Shuai	1525	-1	0
71	Aleksandra Krunic	1525	-7	-7
72	Sabine Lisicki	1524	-1	0
73	Monica Niculescu	1523	1	0
74	Bernada Pera	1522	1	0
75	Zarina Diyas	1520	1	0
76	Marketa Vondrousova	1518	-3	-5
77	Kristyna Pliskova	1515	2	0
78	Kaia Kanepi	1514	6	5
79	Lara Arruabarrena	1514	1	0
80	Dalila Jakupovic	1513	1	0
81	Pauline Parmentier	1513	1	0
82	Margarita Gasparyan	1510	1	0
83	Timea Babos	1510	-6	-10
84	Ana Bogdan	1510	-6	-7
85	Wang Yafan	1509	0	0
86	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1508	0	0
87	Andrea Petkovic	1508	0	0
88	Yanina Wickmayer	1506	0	0
89	Eugenie Bouchard	1504	0	0
90	Viktoria Kuzmova	1503	3	4
91	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1502	-1	0
92	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1501	-1	0
93	Sachia Vickery	1499	-1	0
94	Denisa Allertova	1498	0	0
95	Arantxa Rus	1496	0	0
96	Polona Hercog	1496	0	0
97	Mona Barthel	1494	0	0
98	Evgeniya Rodina	1492	0	0
99	Magda Linette	1491	0	0
100	Jana Fett	1491	0	0
101	Zhu Lin	1488	0	0
102	Vania King	1484	1	0
103	Jelena Jankovic	1482	1	0
104	Lucie Hradecka	1478	1	0
105	Varvara Lepchenko	1476	-3	-9
106	Duan Yingying	1476	0	0
107	Rebecca Peterson	1475	8	8
108	Heather Watson	1472	0	0
109	Han Xinyun	1472	0	0
110	Kateryna Bondarenko	1471	0	0
111	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1470	-4	-4
112	Zheng Saisai	1469	-1	0
113	Lauren Davis	1469	-1	0
114	Kateryna Kozlova	1468	-1	0
115	Taylor Townsend	1467	-1	0
116	Jennifer Brady	1467	0	0
117	Tatjana Maria	1465	10	8
118	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1464	-1	0
119	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1464	-1	0
120	Misaki Doi	1463	-1	0
121	Naomi Broady	1463	-1	0
122	Viktorija Golubic	1462	-1	0
123	Anna Blinkova	1460	0	0
124	Oceane Dodin	1460	0	0
125	Carina Witthoft	1459	0	0
126	Christina McHale	1459	0	0
127	Stefanie Vogele	1457	-5	-5
128	Nao Hibino	1453	0	0
129	Alexandra Dulgheru	1452	0	0
130	Nicole Gibbs	1450	0	0
131	Francesca Schiavone	1448	0	0
132	Ons Jabeur	1447	0	0
133	Antonia Lottner	1447	0	0
134	Mariana Duque Marino	1445	0	0
135	Madison Brengle	1440	0	0
136	Annika Beck	1439	0	0
137	Veronica Cepede Royg	1439	0	0
138	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1438	1	0
139	Kristina Kucova	1438	1	0
140	Tereza Martincova	1436	1	0
141	Cagla Buyukakcay	1435	1	0
142	Richel Hogenkamp	1425	2	0
143	Irina Falconi	1423	2	0
144	Risa Ozaki	1414	2	0
145	Kurumi Nara	1410	2	0
146	Jana Cepelova	1409	2	0
147	Danka Kovinic	1408	2	0
148	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1370	2	0