Women's ELO Rankings 01/10/2018

This week, there were 2 tournaments held, a large tournament in Wuhan and a tournament in Tashkent.

Aryna Sabalenka, © Wuhan Open

This week's Player of the week is Aryna Sabalenka. She was unseeded at Wuhan, and won the title here, defeating Elina Svitolina and Ashleigh Barty among others. This title meant that Aryna earned 56 ELO rating points, and she gains 12 places in my rankings to #8.

This week's Upset player of the week is Simona Halep. Also at Wuhan, she was the top seed and had a bye to round 2, but lost in her first match. to Dominika Cibulkova. This loss cost Simona 15 ELO rating points, and she loses the ELO #1 position to Serena Williams.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Anett Kontaveit, Katerina Siniakova, Margarita Gasparyan, Kateryna Kozlova and Mona Barthel.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1858	1	0
2	Simona Halep	1849	-1	-15
3	Angelique Kerber	1787	3	-3
4	Elina Svitolina	1784	-1	-12
5	Petra Kvitova	1783	-1	-10
6	Karolina Pliskova	1777	-1	-14
7	Kiki Bertens	1755	0	-9
8	Aryna Sabalenka	1755	12	56
9	Ashleigh Barty	1749	2	20
10	Maria Sharapova	1741	-1	0
11	Caroline Wozniacki	1740	-3	-10
12	Naomi Osaka	1733	-2	0
13	Madison Keys	1724	-1	-4
14	Venus Williams	1713	3	0
15	Sloane Stephens	1713	-1	-13
16	Caroline Garcia	1712	-3	-15
17	Anastasija Sevastova	1708	-2	-13
18	Victoria Azarenka	1705	1	0
19	Elise Mertens	1702	-3	-13
20	Julia Gorges	1701	-2	-9
21	Daria Kasatkina	1694	1	3
22	Garbine Muguruza	1692	-1	-4
23	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1681	0	0
24	Dominika Cibulkova	1679	2	23
25	Wang Qiang	1670	6	30
26	Carla Suarez Navarro	1667	-2	-9
27	Anett Kontaveit	1661	10	42
28	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1653	8	33
29	Jelena Ostapenko	1650	-4	-11
30	Ekaterina Makarova	1641	0	0
31	Lesia Tsurenko	1638	-3	-9
32	Camila Giorgi	1638	-5	-13
33	Johanna Konta	1638	-4	-7
34	Barbora Strycova	1635	-2	-2
35	Agnieszka Radwanska	1634	-1	0
36	Daria Gavrilova	1631	2	12
37	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1630	-2	0
38	Monica Puig	1629	3	23
39	Hsieh Su-Wei	1623	-6	-12
40	Lucie Safarova	1618	-1	0
41	Donna Vekic	1614	-1	0
42	Catherine Bellis	1598	0	0
43	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1589	2	5
44	Petra Martic	1586	0	0
45	Katerina Siniakova	1585	11	28
46	Coco Vandeweghe	1582	-3	-10
47	Timea Bacsinszky	1582	0	0
48	Sofia Kenin	1580	6	19
49	Laura Siegemund	1576	0	0
50	Alize Cornet	1575	-4	-8
51	Ajla Tomljanovic	1573	-1	0
52	Maria Sakkari	1573	-4	-8
53	Magdalena Rybarikova	1567	-1	0
54	Ana Konjuh	1566	-1	0
55	Amanda Anisimova	1559	0	0
56	Samantha Stosur	1556	-5	-11
57	Aleksandra Krunic	1556	4	9
58	Margarita Gasparyan	1556	26	48
59	Alison Riske	1551	-1	0
60	Elena Vesnina	1550	-1	0
61	Pauline Parmentier	1549	-1	0
62	Kirsten Flipkens	1548	-5	-9
63	Zhang Shuai	1548	6	11
64	Kaia Kanepi	1547	-2	0
65	Marketa Vondrousova	1540	-2	-6
66	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	1	0
67	Yulia Putintseva	1537	1	0
68	Belinda Bencic	1536	-2	-4
69	Sorana Cirstea	1533	1	0
70	Vera Lapko	1532	4	5
71	Bernada Pera	1532	-7	-12
72	Shelby Rogers	1531	0	0
73	Danielle Collins	1530	-8	-12
74	Johanna Larsson	1525	1	0
75	Andrea Petkovic	1524	1	0
76	Zarina Diyas	1524	2	0
77	Sabine Lisicki	1522	2	0
78	Kristina Mladenovic	1521	-5	-9
79	Irina-Camelia Begu	1520	-8	-11
80	Alison Van Uytvanck	1519	-3	-5
81	Dalila Jakupovic	1516	4	9
82	Lara Arruabarrena	1510	0	0
83	Wang Yafan	1509	-2	-4
84	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1508	-1	0
85	Tamara Zidansek	1505	-5	-11
86	Magda Linette	1504	1	0
87	Yanina Wickmayer	1503	1	0
88	Viktoria Kuzmova	1498	2	0
89	Denisa Allertova	1498	2	0
90	Rebecca Peterson	1497	8	6
91	Ana Bogdan	1496	1	0
92	Sachia Vickery	1496	1	0
93	Kateryna Kozlova	1495	14	22
94	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1495	1	0
95	Timea Babos	1495	-9	-10
96	Monica Niculescu	1494	-7	-5
97	Kristyna Pliskova	1493	-1	0
98	Evgeniya Rodina	1493	-4	-3
99	Varvara Lepchenko	1492	-2	0
100	Mona Barthel	1491	13	23
101	Arantxa Rus	1491	-1	1
102	Heather Watson	1490	-3	0
103	Zheng Saisai	1481	5	9
104	Zhu Lin	1479	-1	0
105	Taylor Townsend	1475	0	0
106	Vania King	1474	0	0
107	Eugenie Bouchard	1473	-6	-11
108	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1473	11	11
109	Han Xinyun	1472	0	0
110	Jana Fett	1471	-8	-11
111	Carina Witthoft	1469	0	0
112	Lauren Davis	1469	0	0
113	Tatjana Maria	1469	1	1
114	Duan Yingying	1466	1	0
115	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1465	-11	-10
116	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1464	0	0
117	Jennifer Brady	1462	0	0
118	Kateryna Bondarenko	1462	0	0
119	Polona Hercog	1462	-9	-8
120	Viktorija Golubic	1461	6	6
121	Oceane Dodin	1460	-1	0
122	Christina McHale	1456	0	0
123	Naomi Broady	1456	0	0
124	Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic	1456	NEW	-8
125	Nao Hibino	1453	3	2
126	Alexandra Dulgheru	1452	1	0
127	Ons Jabeur	1450	3	0
128	Stefanie Vogele	1449	-7	-8
129	Misaki Doi	1448	2	0
130	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1446	-6	-10
131	Mariana Duque Marino	1445	1	0
132	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1445	-7	-10
133	Anna Blinkova	1443	-4	-8
134	Nicole Gibbs	1439	-1	0
135	Veronica Cepede Royg	1439	-1	0
136	Madison Brengle	1438	-1	0
137	Kristina Kucova	1438	-1	0
138	Cagla Buyukakcay	1435	0	0
139	Miyu Kato	1430	0	0
140	Magdalena Frech	1428	-3	-8
141	Tereza Martincova	1427	-1	0
142	Richel Hogenkamp	1425	-1	0
143	Irina Falconi	1423	-1	0
144	Risa Ozaki	1414	-1	0
145	Olga Govortsova	1411	-1	0
146	Jana Cepelova	1409	-1	0
147	Danka Kovinic	1408	-1	0
148	Kurumi Nara	1389	-1	-6
149	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1370	-1	0