Women's ELO Rankings 14/01/2019

The Australian Open begins next week, and I shall have blog posts on a regular basis throughout the tournament, but until it begins, let's see what happened this week, in Sydney and Hobart.

Sofia Kenin, © Robert Cianflone/Getty Images

This week's Player of the week is Sofia Kenin. She was unseeded at Hobart, and won the whole tournament, defeating Caroline Garcia, Kirsten Flipkens and Alize Cornet among others. This title earned Sofia 48 ELO rating points, and she moves up 14 places in my rankings to #37.

This week's Upset player of the week is Dominika Cibulkova. Unseeded at Sydney, she lost her 1st round match to wild card Samantha Stosur. This loss cost Dominika 15 ELO rating points, but she stays at #23 in my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Yulia Putintseva and Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1858	0	0
2	Simona Halep	1819	0	-12
3	Elina Svitolina	1794	0	0
4	Ashleigh Barty	1790	2	23
5	Karolina Pliskova	1785	-1	0
6	Petra Kvitova	1779	6	47
7	Aryna Sabalenka	1767	-2	-11
8	Angelique Kerber	1764	-1	-3
9	Caroline Wozniacki	1760	-1	0
10	Maria Sharapova	1741	-1	0
11	Julia Gorges	1733	0	0
12	Kiki Bertens	1733	3	11
13	Anastasija Sevastova	1720	-3	-14
14	Naomi Osaka	1719	2	0
15	Madison Keys	1718	2	0
16	Caroline Garcia	1716	-3	-14
17	Sloane Stephens	1712	-3	-11
18	Venus Williams	1711	0	0
19	Wang Qiang	1698	1	0
20	Victoria Azarenka	1696	1	0
21	Garbine Muguruza	1694	1	-1
22	Daria Kasatkina	1690	-3	-12
23	Dominika Cibulkova	1680	0	-15
24	Elise Mertens	1675	2	11
25	Camila Giorgi	1671	0	0
26	Anett Kontaveit	1671	-2	-1
27	Lesia Tsurenko	1662	0	0
28	Johanna Konta	1651	0	0
29	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1645	7	20
30	Carla Suarez Navarro	1638	-1	-9
31	Hsieh Su-Wei	1638	1	0
32	Donna Vekic	1637	1	0
33	Agnieszka Radwanska	1634	1	0
34	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1633	-4	-13
35	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1630	0	0
36	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1627	-5	-12
37	Sofia Kenin	1621	14	48
38	Barbora Strycova	1619	0	0
39	Lucie Safarova	1618	1	0
40	Ekaterina Makarova	1617	1	0
41	Jelena Ostapenko	1613	-2	-6
42	Daria Gavrilova	1612	-5	-13
43	Monica Puig	1605	-1	-8
44	Timea Bacsinszky	1603	0	13
45	Catherine Bellis	1598	-2	0
46	Petra Martic	1587	-1	0
47	Margarita Gasparyan	1580	0	0
48	Alize Cornet	1579	8	16
49	Alison Riske	1576	0	0
50	Katerina Siniakova	1574	-4	-8
51	Belinda Bencic	1573	6	18
52	Coco Vandeweghe	1569	0	0
53	Ajla Tomljanovic	1568	-3	-7
54	Ana Konjuh	1566	0	0
55	Laura Siegemund	1565	-7	-12
56	Amanda Anisimova	1565	-1	0
57	Zhang Shuai	1554	-4	-13
58	Aleksandra Krunic	1550	0	0
59	Elena Vesnina	1550	0	0
60	Andrea Petkovic	1549	0	0
61	Kirsten Flipkens	1547	5	9
62	Kaia Kanepi	1547	-1	0
63	Vera Lapko	1546	-1	3
64	Dayana Yastremska	1545	5	12
65	Yulia Putintseva	1543	12	23
66	Marketa Vondrousova	1540	-2	0
67	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	1538	-2	0
68	Pauline Parmentier	1537	-1	0
69	Magdalena Rybarikova	1535	-1	0
70	Samantha Stosur	1533	3	6
71	Maria Sakkari	1531	-8	-11
72	Shelby Rogers	1531	-2	0
73	Sorana Cirstea	1528	-2	0
74	Vera Zvonareva	1524	0	0
75	Sabine Lisicki	1522	1	0
76	Bernada Pera	1522	-4	-5
77	Eugenie Bouchard	1518	1	0
78	Wang Yafan	1518	1	0
79	Viktoria Kuzmova	1517	1	0
80	Danielle Collins	1517	-5	-6
81	Kristina Mladenovic	1515	1	0
82	Ons Jabeur	1513	1	1
83	Alison Van Uytvanck	1512	-2	-4
84	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1508	0	0
85	Yanina Wickmayer	1503	1	0
86	Zarina Diyas	1502	1	0
87	Magda Linette	1501	2	1
88	Monica Niculescu	1499	2	0
89	Denisa Allertova	1498	2	0
90	Johanna Larsson	1498	-5	-10
91	Rebecca Peterson	1497	1	0
92	Irina-Camelia Begu	1497	8	8
93	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1497	31	39
94	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1496	-6	-4
95	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1495	0	0
96	Tamara Zidansek	1495	0	0
97	Mona Barthel	1494	0	0
98	Kristyna Pliskova	1492	0	0
99	Sachia Vickery	1488	2	0
100	Lara Arruabarrena	1488	2	0
101	Dalila Jakupovic	1487	-8	-9
102	Ana Bogdan	1486	-8	-10
103	Arantxa Rus	1482	2	0
104	Heather Watson	1480	-5	-10
105	Luksika Kumkhum	1480	1	0
106	Varvara Lepchenko	1479	1	0
107	Zheng Saisai	1478	1	0
108	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1476	1	0
109	Lauren Davis	1476	1	0
110	Evgeniya Rodina	1475	-7	-11
111	Vania King	1474	1	0
112	Zhu Lin	1474	1	0
113	Timea Babos	1474	-9	-9
114	Polona Hercog	1473	0	0
115	Han Xinyun	1472	0	0
116	Jana Fett	1471	0	0
117	Taylor Townsend	1469	0	0
118	Kateryna Kozlova	1466	-7	-10
119	Christina McHale	1463	-1	0
120	Nao Hibino	1462	-1	0
121	Kateryna Bondarenko	1462	-1	0
122	Carina Witthoft	1461	-1	0
123	Oceane Dodin	1460	-1	0
124	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1458	-1	0
125	Naomi Broady	1456	0	0
126	Duan Yingying	1455	1	0
127	Kristina Kucova	1454	1	0
128	Viktorija Golubic	1453	1	0
129	Misaki Doi	1453	1	0
130	Jennifer Brady	1452	1	0
131	Alexandra Dulgheru	1452	1	0
132	Anna Blinkova	1446	2	5
133	Tatjana Maria	1445	-7	-10
134	Mariana Duque Marino	1445	-1	0
135	Nicole Gibbs	1439	0	0
136	Veronica Cepede Royg	1439	0	0
137	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1438	0	0
138	Cagla Buyukakcay	1435	0	0
139	Magdalena Frech	1428	1	0
140	Stefanie Vogele	1428	1	0
141	Tereza Martincova	1427	1	0
142	Richel Hogenkamp	1425	1	0
143	Irina Falconi	1423	1	0
144	Madison Brengle	1423	-5	-7
145	Risa Ozaki	1414	0	0
146	Jana Cepelova	1412	0	0
147	Olga Govortsova	1411	0	0
148	Danka Kovinic	1408	0	0
149	Kurumi Nara	1389	0	0
150	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1363	0	0