Women's ELO Rankings 15/04/2019

Another week on the WTA Tour sees 2 tournaments held, in Lugano and Bogota.

Polona Hercog, © Reuters

This week's Player of the week is Polona Hercog. She won Lugano as an unseeded player, beating Carla Suarez Navarro among others. This title earned Polona 58 ELO rating points, climbing 39 places in my rankings to #82.

This week's Upset player of the week is Belinda Bencic. Also at Lugano, she was the top seed, but lost to qualifier Antonia Lottner. This loss meant that Belinda lost 16 ELO rating points, moving her down 3 places in my rankings to #26.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Amanda Anisimova, Beatriz Haddad Maia, Kristyna Pliskova, Lara Arruabarrena and Fiona Ferro.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1842	0	0
2	Ashleigh Barty	1838	0	0
3	Simona Halep	1827	0	0
4	Karolina Pliskova	1819	0	0
5	Elina Svitolina	1796	0	0
6	Petra Kvitova	1791	0	0
7	Angelique Kerber	1762	0	0
8	Naomi Osaka	1752	0	0
9	Caroline Wozniacki	1752	0	0
10	Venus Williams	1745	0	0
11	Maria Sharapova	1744	0	0
12	Garbine Muguruza	1738	0	0
13	Madison Keys	1737	0	0
14	Kiki Bertens	1733	0	0
15	Aryna Sabalenka	1723	0	0
16	Wang Qiang	1723	0	0
17	Victoria Azarenka	1701	0	0
18	Anett Kontaveit	1692	0	0
19	Elise Mertens	1686	0	0
20	Caroline Garcia	1686	0	0
21	Hsieh Su-Wei	1682	0	0
22	Sloane Stephens	1681	0	0
23	Julia Gorges	1670	1	0
24	Anastasija Sevastova	1670	1	0
25	Bianca Andreescu	1669	1	0
26	Belinda Bencic	1664	-3	-16
27	Lesia Tsurenko	1660	0	0
28	Johanna Konta	1659	0	0
29	Daria Kasatkina	1654	0	0
30	Camila Giorgi	1652	0	0
31	Dominika Cibulkova	1644	0	0
32	Marketa Vondrousova	1640	0	0
33	Sofia Kenin	1638	0	0
34	Donna Vekic	1638	0	0
35	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1632	0	0
36	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1632	0	2
37	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1625	1	0
38	Lucie Safarova	1618	1	0
39	Monica Puig	1614	1	0
40	Amanda Anisimova	1614	12	39
41	Carla Suarez Navarro	1614	-4	-14
42	Petra Martic	1610	-1	0
43	Wang Yafan	1605	-1	0
44	Timea Bacsinszky	1601	-1	-3
45	Dayana Yastremska	1598	-1	0
46	Barbora Strycova	1595	-1	0
47	Ajla Tomljanovic	1590	-1	0
48	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1589	0	0
49	Danielle Collins	1589	0	0
50	Daria Gavrilova	1588	0	0
51	Ekaterina Makarova	1583	0	0
52	Jelena Ostapenko	1576	-5	-14
53	Alize Cornet	1575	0	0
54	Coco Vandeweghe	1569	0	0
55	Alison Riske	1568	1	0
56	Yulia Putintseva	1564	2	0
57	Margarita Gasparyan	1562	2	0
58	Viktoria Kuzmova	1562	-1	-3
59	Zhang Shuai	1561	1	0
60	Alison Van Uytvanck	1560	-5	-8
61	Anastasia Potapova	1557	0	0
62	Maria Sakkari	1557	0	0
63	Ana Konjuh	1555	0	0
64	Kaia Kanepi	1551	0	0
65	Elena Vesnina	1550	0	0
66	Vera Zvonareva	1546	0	0
67	Katerina Siniakova	1542	1	0
68	Magdalena Rybarikova	1540	1	0
69	Kirsten Flipkens	1534	2	0
70	Laura Siegemund	1534	-3	-11
71	Kristina Mladenovic	1531	1	0
72	Aleksandra Krunic	1529	2	0
73	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1528	15	20
74	Veronika Kudermetova	1528	3	7
75	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1527	-5	-8
76	Sorana Cirstea	1526	-1	-2
77	Eugenie Bouchard	1523	-1	0
78	Samantha Stosur	1521	0	0
79	Andrea Petkovic	1521	0	0
80	Shelby Rogers	1519	-7	-11
81	Tamara Zidansek	1518	2	6
82	Polona Hercog	1518	39	58
83	Monica Niculescu	1517	-1	0
84	Vera Lapko	1517	1	8
85	Magda Linette	1516	-4	-1
86	Mona Barthel	1510	-6	-10
87	Yanina Wickmayer	1509	-1	0
88	Jennifer Brady	1508	-1	0
89	Bernada Pera	1506	1	0
90	Katie Boulter	1504	1	0
91	Sabine Lisicki	1502	-7	-9
92	Kateryna Kozlova	1502	0	0
93	Ons Jabeur	1500	0	0
94	Tatjana Maria	1498	0	0
95	Irina-Camelia Begu	1498	1	0
96	Denisa Allertova	1498	1	0
97	Rebecca Peterson	1496	-2	-2
98	Pauline Parmentier	1496	-9	-12
99	Kristyna Pliskova	1494	13	26
100	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1490	-1	0
101	Zheng Saisai	1486	-1	0
102	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1485	6	11
103	Taylor Townsend	1484	-2	0
104	Lauren Davis	1484	-2	0
105	Lara Arruabarrena	1483	13	23
106	Sachia Vickery	1481	-3	0
107	Christina McHale	1480	-9	-10
108	Zarina Diyas	1479	-4	0
109	Dalila Jakupovic	1475	-4	0
110	Vania King	1474	-4	0
111	Jana Fett	1471	-2	0
112	Lucie Hradecka	1471	-2	0
113	Luksika Kumkhum	1470	-2	0
114	Johanna Larsson	1467	-1	0
115	Heather Watson	1465	-1	0
116	Zhu Lin	1464	-1	0
117	Arantxa Rus	1464	-10	-10
118	Kateryna Bondarenko	1462	-2	0
119	Varvara Lepchenko	1462	3	3
120	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1461	0	1
121	Carina Witthoft	1461	-4	0
122	Oceane Dodin	1460	-3	0
123	Stefanie Vogele	1459	10	12
124	Ana Bogdan	1458	-1	0
125	Duan Yingying	1457	-1	0
126	Naomi Broady	1456	-1	0
127	Fiona Ferro	1455	18	26
128	Alexandra Dulgheru	1452	-1	0
129	Viktorija Golubic	1452	-1	1
130	Kristina Kucova	1451	-1	0
131	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1449	-1	0
132	Nao Hibino	1447	0	0
133	Ysaline Bonaventure	1446	-7	-9
134	Mariana Duque Marino	1445	0	0
135	Evgeniya Rodina	1441	5	4
136	Misaki Doi	1440	-1	0
137	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1440	-1	0
138	Nicole Gibbs	1439	-1	0
139	Veronica Cepede Royg	1439	-1	0
140	Timea Babos	1439	-9	-9
141	Anna Blinkova	1438	-2	0
142	Madison Brengle	1437	-1	0
143	Cagla Buyukakcay	1435	-1	0
144	Priscilla Hon	1435	-1	0
145	Tereza Martincova	1432	-1	0
146	Richel Hogenkamp	1425	0	0
147	Irina Falconi	1423	0	0
148	Jana Cepelova	1412	1	0
149	Olga Govortsova	1411	1	0
150	Magdalena Frech	1411	-2	-7
151	Danka Kovinic	1408	0	0
152	Kurumi Nara	1389	0	0
153	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1363	0	0