Women's ELO Rankings 18/02/2019

Our regular schedule of weekly tournaments, and therefore weekly blog posts returns, with a large tournament in Doha.

Elise Mertens, © Getty Images

This week's Player of the week is Elise Mertens. She won the tournament as an unseeded player, beating Kiki Bertens, Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep in the final. This title gave Elise 49 ELO rating points, moving her up 8 places in my rankings to #14.

This week's Upset player of the week is Anastasija Sevastova. She was the 7th seed, but ended upo losing her 1st round match to Qualifier Anna Blinkova. This loss cost Anastasija 17 ELO rating points, and she falls 5 places in my rankings to #18.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Karolina Muchova, and that's it.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1863	0	0
2	Simona Halep	1834	0	8
3	Karolina Pliskova	1806	0	0
4	Elina Svitolina	1800	0	-1
5	Ashleigh Barty	1799	0	0
6	Petra Kvitova	1793	0	0
7	Naomi Osaka	1781	0	0
8	Angelique Kerber	1760	0	1
9	Kiki Bertens	1758	1	2
10	Caroline Wozniacki	1757	-1	0
11	Aryna Sabalenka	1755	0	0
12	Maria Sharapova	1744	0	0
13	Madison Keys	1728	1	0
14	Elise Mertens	1728	8	49
15	Venus Williams	1718	0	0
16	Sloane Stephens	1715	0	0
17	Julia Gorges	1714	0	6
18	Anastasija Sevastova	1712	-5	-17
19	Garbine Muguruza	1703	-1	0
20	Wang Qiang	1698	-1	0
21	Caroline Garcia	1694	-1	0
22	Victoria Azarenka	1682	-1	0
23	Daria Kasatkina	1676	0	0
24	Camila Giorgi	1667	0	-8
25	Dominika Cibulkova	1667	0	0
26	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1666	0	0
27	Anett Kontaveit	1662	0	-3
28	Donna Vekic	1661	0	0
29	Lesia Tsurenko	1654	0	-1
30	Johanna Konta	1650	1	0
31	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1642	-1	-11
32	Carla Suarez Navarro	1632	0	0
33	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1630	0	0
34	Hsieh Su-Wei	1626	0	-3
35	Sofia Kenin	1624	1	0
36	Lucie Safarova	1618	1	0
37	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1615	-2	-11
38	Barbora Strycova	1613	1	6
39	Dayana Yastremska	1612	-1	0
40	Jelena Ostapenko	1605	1	6
41	Timea Bacsinszky	1604	-1	0
42	Catherine Bellis	1598	0	0
43	Petra Martic	1596	0	0
44	Amanda Anisimova	1596	0	0
45	Monica Puig	1596	0	0
46	Daria Gavrilova	1593	0	0
47	Ekaterina Makarova	1592	0	0
48	Belinda Bencic	1587	0	0
49	Danielle Collins	1580	1	0
50	Ajla Tomljanovic	1574	-1	-6
51	Margarita Gasparyan	1573	0	0
52	Alize Cornet	1572	0	0
53	Alison Riske	1571	1	1
54	Laura Siegemund	1571	-1	0
55	Coco Vandeweghe	1569	0	0
56	Zhang Shuai	1567	0	0
57	Ana Konjuh	1566	0	0
58	Vera Zvonareva	1558	0	0
59	Aleksandra Krunic	1553	0	0
60	Elena Vesnina	1550	1	0
61	Katerina Siniakova	1545	-1	-6
62	Kaia Kanepi	1543	0	0
63	Maria Sakkari	1543	0	0
64	Anastasia Potapova	1540	0	0
65	Marketa Vondrousova	1539	0	0
66	Andrea Petkovic	1537	0	0
67	Vera Lapko	1534	0	0
68	Yulia Putintseva	1532	0	0
69	Veronika Kudermetova	1531	0	0
70	Wang Yafan	1531	0	0
71	Shelby Rogers	1531	0	0
72	Magdalena Rybarikova	1531	0	0
73	Kirsten Flipkens	1529	0	0
74	Eugenie Bouchard	1526	0	0
75	Viktoria Kuzmova	1522	1	0
76	Tamara Zidansek	1522	1	0
77	Magda Linette	1518	1	0
78	Sorana Cirstea	1517	1	0
79	Sabine Lisicki	1517	1	0
80	Alison Van Uytvanck	1515	1	0
81	Pauline Parmentier	1515	1	0
82	Samantha Stosur	1513	-7	-10
83	Bernada Pera	1511	0	0
84	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1506	0	0
85	Johanna Larsson	1505	0	0
86	Rebecca Peterson	1504	0	0
87	Yanina Wickmayer	1503	0	0
88	Irina-Camelia Begu	1503	0	0
89	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1502	1	0
90	Kristina Mladenovic	1501	1	0
91	Katie Boulter	1501	1	0
92	Denisa Allertova	1498	1	0
93	Ons Jabeur	1496	-4	-6
94	Monica Niculescu	1495	0	0
95	Mona Barthel	1494	0	0
96	Zarina Diyas	1493	0	0
97	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1491	1	0
98	Sachia Vickery	1488	1	0
99	Kristyna Pliskova	1488	-2	-5
100	Zheng Saisai	1486	0	0
101	Dalila Jakupovic	1482	0	0
102	Ana Bogdan	1477	1	0
103	Lauren Davis	1476	1	0
104	Lara Arruabarrena	1475	-2	-5
105	Vania King	1474	0	0
106	Arantxa Rus	1474	0	0
107	Heather Watson	1473	0	0
108	Han Xinyun	1472	0	0
109	Timea Babos	1471	0	0
110	Jana Fett	1471	0	0
111	Luksika Kumkhum	1470	1	0
112	Varvara Lepchenko	1468	1	0
113	Taylor Townsend	1465	2	0
114	Christina McHale	1463	2	0
115	Viktorija Golubic	1463	2	0
116	Polona Hercog	1463	-5	-7
117	Nao Hibino	1462	1	0
118	Zhu Lin	1462	-4	-5
119	Kateryna Bondarenko	1462	0	0
120	Kateryna Kozlova	1461	0	0
121	Carina Witthoft	1461	0	0
122	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1461	0	0
123	Oceane Dodin	1460	0	0
124	Jennifer Brady	1460	0	0
125	Evgeniya Rodina	1458	0	0
126	Duan Yingying	1457	0	0
127	Naomi Broady	1456	0	0
128	Kristina Kucova	1454	0	0
129	Alexandra Dulgheru	1452	0	0
130	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1449	0	0
131	Priscilla Hon	1445	0	0
132	Mariana Duque Marino	1445	0	0
133	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1444	0	0
134	Tatjana Maria	1444	0	0
135	Misaki Doi	1442	0	0
136	Anna Blinkova	1441	6	12
137	Nicole Gibbs	1439	-1	0
138	Veronica Cepede Royg	1439	-1	0
139	Fiona Ferro	1438	-1	0
140	Cagla Buyukakcay	1435	-1	0
141	Tereza Martincova	1432	-1	0
142	Madison Brengle	1431	-1	0
143	Richel Hogenkamp	1425	1	0
144	Irina Falconi	1423	1	0
145	Anna Kalinskaya	1417	1	0
146	Stefanie Vogele	1417	1	0
147	Risa Ozaki	1414	1	0
148	Jana Cepelova	1412	1	0
149	Olga Govortsova	1411	1	0
150	Danka Kovinic	1408	1	0
151	Kurumi Nara	1389	1	0
152	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1363	1	0