Women's ELO Rankings 24/09/2018

The Asian leg of the WTA Tour continued, with tournament held in Tokyo, Seoul and Guangzhou.

Wang Qiang, © STR/AFP/Getty Images

This week's Player of the week is Wang Qiang. She was the 3rd seed at Guangzhou, and went on to win the title there. These wins gave Qiang 37 ELO rating points, and she moves up 9 places in my rankings to #31.

This week's Upset player of the week is Caroline Wozniacki. She got a bye to round 2 of Tokyo as the top seed, but then lost her match to Camila Giorgi. This loss meant that Caroline lost 14 ELO rating points, and she falls 1 places in my rankings to #8.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Ajla Tomljanovic, Bernada Pera, Yulia Putintseva, Andrea Petkovic and Ekaterina Alexandrova.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Simona Halep	1864	0	0
2	Serena Williams	1858	0	0
3	Elina Svitolina	1796	0	0
4	Petra Kvitova	1793	0	0
5	Karolina Pliskova	1791	1	26
6	Angelique Kerber	1790	-1	0
7	Kiki Bertens	1764	1	22
8	Caroline Wozniacki	1750	-1	-14
9	Maria Sharapova	1741	0	0
10	Naomi Osaka	1733	5	15
11	Ashleigh Barty	1729	0	-5
12	Madison Keys	1728	1	0
13	Caroline Garcia	1727	-1	-6
14	Sloane Stephens	1726	-4	-14
15	Anastasija Sevastova	1721	-1	0
16	Elise Mertens	1715	0	0
17	Venus Williams	1713	0	0
18	Julia Gorges	1710	0	0
19	Victoria Azarenka	1705	1	1
20	Aryna Sabalenka	1699	1	0
21	Garbine Muguruza	1696	-2	-9
22	Daria Kasatkina	1691	0	0
23	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1681	0	0
24	Carla Suarez Navarro	1676	0	0
25	Jelena Ostapenko	1661	0	-10
26	Dominika Cibulkova	1656	0	-4
27	Camila Giorgi	1651	6	23
28	Lesia Tsurenko	1647	0	0
29	Johanna Konta	1645	-2	-7
30	Ekaterina Makarova	1641	0	0
31	Wang Qiang	1640	9	37
32	Barbora Strycova	1637	2	10
33	Hsieh Su-Wei	1635	-1	4
34	Agnieszka Radwanska	1634	-5	-8
35	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1630	-4	-5
36	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1620	1	2
37	Anett Kontaveit	1619	-2	-2
38	Daria Gavrilova	1619	-2	1
39	Lucie Safarova	1618	-1	0
40	Donna Vekic	1614	8	34
41	Monica Puig	1606	-2	0
42	Catherine Bellis	1598	-1	0
43	Coco Vandeweghe	1592	-1	-6
44	Petra Martic	1586	1	0
45	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1584	-1	-10
46	Alize Cornet	1583	-3	-14
47	Timea Bacsinszky	1582	-1	0
48	Maria Sakkari	1581	4	19
49	Laura Siegemund	1576	0	0
50	Ajla Tomljanovic	1573	14	34
51	Samantha Stosur	1567	-1	0
52	Magdalena Rybarikova	1567	-5	-13
53	Ana Konjuh	1566	-2	0
54	Sofia Kenin	1561	-1	0
55	Amanda Anisimova	1559	0	0
56	Katerina Siniakova	1557	0	0
57	Kirsten Flipkens	1557	-3	-4
58	Alison Riske	1551	13	19
59	Elena Vesnina	1550	-2	0
60	Pauline Parmentier	1549	-2	0
61	Aleksandra Krunic	1547	2	5
62	Kaia Kanepi	1547	-3	0
63	Marketa Vondrousova	1546	-2	0
64	Bernada Pera	1544	10	17
65	Danielle Collins	1542	-3	0
66	Belinda Bencic	1540	-6	-6
67	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	-1	0
68	Yulia Putintseva	1537	15	31
69	Zhang Shuai	1537	-1	0
70	Sorana Cirstea	1533	0	0
71	Irina-Camelia Begu	1531	6	13
72	Shelby Rogers	1531	1	0
73	Kristina Mladenovic	1530	-8	-8
74	Vera Lapko	1527	2	8
75	Johanna Larsson	1525	-8	-13
76	Andrea Petkovic	1524	12	22
77	Alison Van Uytvanck	1524	-8	-10
78	Zarina Diyas	1524	-6	-7
79	Sabine Lisicki	1522	-4	-2
80	Tamara Zidansek	1516	NEW	-1
81	Wang Yafan	1513	-2	-2
82	Lara Arruabarrena	1510	-4	-5
83	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1508	-2	0
84	Margarita Gasparyan	1508	-2	1
85	Dalila Jakupovic	1507	2	5
86	Timea Babos	1505	-2	0
87	Magda Linette	1504	-2	0
88	Yanina Wickmayer	1503	-2	0
89	Monica Niculescu	1499	1	0
90	Viktoria Kuzmova	1498	1	0
91	Denisa Allertova	1498	1	0
92	Ana Bogdan	1496	-12	-12
93	Sachia Vickery	1496	0	0
94	Evgeniya Rodina	1496	12	19
95	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1495	-1	0
96	Kristyna Pliskova	1493	-7	-7
97	Varvara Lepchenko	1492	-1	0
98	Rebecca Peterson	1491	-1	0
99	Heather Watson	1490	-1	0
100	Arantxa Rus	1490	-1	0
101	Eugenie Bouchard	1484	-6	-8
102	Jana Fett	1482	1	0
103	Zhu Lin	1479	-3	-9
104	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1475	-3	-10
105	Taylor Townsend	1475	2	0
106	Vania King	1474	-4	-9
107	Kateryna Kozlova	1473	11	12
108	Zheng Saisai	1472	0	-1
109	Han Xinyun	1472	0	0
110	Polona Hercog	1470	-6	-9
111	Carina Witthoft	1469	1	0
112	Lauren Davis	1469	1	0
113	Mona Barthel	1468	-8	-9
114	Tatjana Maria	1468	0	0
115	Duan Yingying	1466	0	0
116	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1464	-6	-6
117	Jennifer Brady	1462	3	4
118	Kateryna Bondarenko	1462	-1	0
119	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1462	-8	-7
120	Oceane Dodin	1460	-1	0
121	Stefanie Vogele	1457	7	6
122	Christina McHale	1456	4	4
123	Naomi Broady	1456	-1	0
124	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1456	12	24
125	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1455	-2	0
126	Viktorija Golubic	1455	-10	-7
127	Alexandra Dulgheru	1452	-2	0
128	Nao Hibino	1451	-7	-5
129	Anna Blinkova	1451	-2	0
130	Ons Jabeur	1450	-1	0
131	Misaki Doi	1448	-7	-5
132	Mariana Duque Marino	1445	-2	0
133	Nicole Gibbs	1439	-2	-6
134	Veronica Cepede Royg	1439	-2	0
135	Madison Brengle	1438	-2	0
136	Kristina Kucova	1438	-2	0
137	Magdalena Frech	1436	NEW	-8
138	Cagla Buyukakcay	1435	-3	0
139	Miyu Kato	1430	-2	0
140	Tereza Martincova	1427	-2	0
141	Richel Hogenkamp	1425	-2	0
142	Irina Falconi	1423	-2	0
143	Risa Ozaki	1414	-2	0
144	Olga Govortsova	1411	-2	0
145	Jana Cepelova	1409	-2	0
146	Danka Kovinic	1408	-2	0
147	Kurumi Nara	1395	-2	-3
148	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1370	-2	0