Women's ELO Rankings 15/10/2018

With the WTA Finals only a week away, there were 3 tournaments this week, in Tianjin, Hong Kong and Linz.

Dayana Yastremska, © Hong Kong Tennis Open

This week's Player of the week is Dayana Yastremska. She was unseeded at Hong Kong, and won the tournament there, defeating Wang Qiang in the final. This title gave Dayana 63 ELO rating points, and she joins my rankings at #83 in the world.

This week's Upset player of the week is Julia Gorges. The top seed at Linz, she lost her 1st round match. This defeat meant that Julia lost 15 ELO rating points, and she moves down 4 places in my rankings to #22.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Andrea Petkovic, Alison Van Uytvanck and Ekaterina Alexandrova.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1858	0	0
2	Simona Halep	1831	0	0
3	Caroline Wozniacki	1782	0	0
4	Angelique Kerber	1781	0	0
5	Karolina Pliskova	1777	0	4
6	Petra Kvitova	1769	0	0
7	Elina Svitolina	1762	0	-6
8	Aryna Sabalenka	1754	0	-6
9	Ashleigh Barty	1749	1	0
10	Naomi Osaka	1747	1	0
11	Caroline Garcia	1746	6	34
12	Anastasija Sevastova	1742	0	0
13	Maria Sharapova	1741	0	0
14	Kiki Bertens	1738	-5	-11
15	Madison Keys	1718	-1	0
16	Sloane Stephens	1714	-1	0
17	Venus Williams	1713	-1	0
18	Wang Qiang	1711	2	15
19	Victoria Azarenka	1705	0	0
20	Garbine Muguruza	1697	2	5
21	Dominika Cibulkova	1695	0	0
22	Julia Gorges	1693	-4	-15
23	Elise Mertens	1684	0	-3
24	Daria Kasatkina	1681	0	0
25	Camila Giorgi	1671	5	33
26	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1669	-1	0
27	Carla Suarez Navarro	1666	-1	0
28	Anett Kontaveit	1661	-1	0
29	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1643	0	-2
30	Daria Gavrilova	1637	2	1
31	Lesia Tsurenko	1637	0	0
32	Agnieszka Radwanska	1634	1	0
33	Jelena Ostapenko	1633	-5	-15
34	Ekaterina Makarova	1632	0	0
35	Hsieh Su-Wei	1630	7	21
36	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1630	-1	0
37	Johanna Konta	1630	-1	0
38	Barbora Strycova	1625	0	2
39	Lucie Safarova	1618	1	0
40	Monica Puig	1617	-3	-12
41	Donna Vekic	1608	-2	-13
42	Catherine Bellis	1598	1	0
43	Petra Martic	1597	2	6
44	Katerina Siniakova	1597	-3	-14
45	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1596	-1	0
46	Timea Bacsinszky	1596	4	26
47	Zhang Shuai	1592	0	11
48	Laura Siegemund	1582	-2	0
49	Sofia Kenin	1575	-1	-5
50	Margarita Gasparyan	1574	8	18
51	Coco Vandeweghe	1569	0	0
52	Ana Konjuh	1566	1	0
53	Ajla Tomljanovic	1564	-4	-9
54	Alize Cornet	1563	-2	-5
55	Amanda Anisimova	1559	2	0
56	Maria Sakkari	1552	-2	-12
57	Aleksandra Krunic	1550	-2	-12
58	Elena Vesnina	1550	4	0
59	Magdalena Rybarikova	1548	-3	-11
60	Kaia Kanepi	1547	4	0
61	Kirsten Flipkens	1544	-2	-8
62	Pauline Parmentier	1542	1	-7
63	Alison Riske	1540	-2	-11
64	Marketa Vondrousova	1540	1	0
65	Andrea Petkovic	1539	14	21
66	Samantha Stosur	1539	-6	-13
67	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	-1	0
68	Alison Van Uytvanck	1537	13	26
69	Vera Lapko	1535	-1	3
70	Shelby Rogers	1531	0	0
71	Danielle Collins	1528	-4	-9
72	Bernada Pera	1527	1	0
73	Kristina Mladenovic	1526	5	8
74	Sabine Lisicki	1522	1	0
75	Belinda Bencic	1521	-6	-10
76	Johanna Larsson	1520	-2	-5
77	Yulia Putintseva	1518	-6	-13
78	Sorana Cirstea	1517	-6	-11
79	Zarina Diyas	1513	-2	-6
80	Magda Linette	1510	6	6
81	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1508	2	0
82	Irina-Camelia Begu	1508	-6	-12
83	Dayana Yastremska	1507	NEW	63
84	Tamara Zidansek	1505	0	0
85	Dalila Jakupovic	1505	-5	-11
86	Timea Babos	1504	2	4
87	Yanina Wickmayer	1503	0	0
88	Katie Boulter	1502	NEW	19
89	Ana Bogdan	1502	3	6
90	Lara Arruabarrena	1498	-8	-12
91	Denisa Allertova	1498	-1	0
92	Rebecca Peterson	1497	-1	0
93	Monica Niculescu	1497	3	3
94	Sachia Vickery	1496	-1	0
95	Kristyna Pliskova	1496	2	3
96	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1495	-1	0
97	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1494	33	48
98	Viktoria Kuzmova	1492	-9	-6
99	Wang Yafan	1492	-14	-12
100	Mona Barthel	1491	0	0
101	Arantxa Rus	1491	0	0
102	Heather Watson	1490	0	0
103	Luksika Kumkhum	1489	NEW	17
104	Varvara Lepchenko	1488	-5	-4
105	Zheng Saisai	1487	-2	1
106	Kateryna Kozlova	1485	-12	-10
107	Evgeniya Rodina	1484	-9	-9
108	Polona Hercog	1479	2	8
109	Taylor Townsend	1475	-4	0
110	Vania King	1474	-4	0
111	Zhu Lin	1474	-7	-5
112	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1473	-4	0
113	Eugenie Bouchard	1473	-6	0
114	Han Xinyun	1472	-5	0
115	Jana Fett	1471	-4	0
116	Tatjana Maria	1469	-2	0
117	Carina Witthoft	1469	-5	0
118	Lauren Davis	1469	-5	0
119	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1464	-3	0
120	Christina McHale	1463	3	7
121	Nao Hibino	1462	5	9
122	Kateryna Bondarenko	1462	-3	0
123	Viktorija Golubic	1461	-2	0
124	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1460	-9	-5
125	Oceane Dodin	1460	-3	0
126	Naomi Broady	1456	-2	0
127	Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic	1456	-2	0
128	Duan Yingying	1455	-8	-6
129	Kristina Kucova	1454	8	16
130	Ons Jabeur	1453	-13	-10
131	Misaki Doi	1453	-2	5
132	Jennifer Brady	1452	-14	-10
133	Alexandra Dulgheru	1452	-6	0
134	Mariana Duque Marino	1445	-3	0
135	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1445	-3	0
136	Stefanie Vogele	1441	-8	-8
137	Nicole Gibbs	1439	-3	0
138	Veronica Cepede Royg	1439	-3	0
139	Madison Brengle	1438	-3	0
140	Cagla Buyukakcay	1435	-2	0
141	Anna Blinkova	1433	-8	-10
142	Miyu Kato	1430	-3	0
143	Magdalena Frech	1428	-3	0
144	Tereza Martincova	1427	-3	0
145	Richel Hogenkamp	1425	-3	0
146	Irina Falconi	1423	-3	0
147	Jana Cepelova	1418	-1	9
148	Risa Ozaki	1414	-4	0
149	Olga Govortsova	1411	-4	0
150	Danka Kovinic	1408	-3	0
151	Kurumi Nara	1389	-3	0
152	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1370	-3	0