Women's ELO Rankings 29/04/2019

With the French Open in the minds of most professional tennis players, there were 2 clay tournaments held this week, a large one in Stuttgart, and a tournament in Istanbul.

Petra Martic, © Istanbul Cup

This week's Player of the week is Petra Martic. She won the tournament in Istanbul as the 6th seed, avoiding seeded players all the way to the title. These wins earned Petra 41 ELO rating points, moving her up 11 places in my rankings to #31.

This week's Upset player of the week is Karolina Pliskova. The 4th seed at Stuttgart received a bye to round 2, but lost her match to Victoria Azarenka. This loss meant that Karolina lost 14 ELO rating points, falling 1 place in my rankings to #5.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Lara Arruabarrena, and that's it this week.

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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	Petra Kvitova	1818	2	27
5	Karolina Pliskova	1805	-1	-14
6	Elina Svitolina	1796	-1	0
7	Naomi Osaka	1756	1	4
8	Angelique Kerber	1755	-1	-7
9	Caroline Wozniacki	1752	0	0
10	Kiki Bertens	1747	4	14
11	Venus Williams	1745	-1	0
12	Maria Sharapova	1744	-1	0
13	Garbine Muguruza	1738	-1	0
14	Madison Keys	1737	-1	0
15	Anett Kontaveit	1724	3	32
16	Aryna Sabalenka	1723	-1	0
17	Wang Qiang	1712	-1	-11
18	Victoria Azarenka	1710	-1	9
19	Hsieh Su-Wei	1685	2	3
20	Sloane Stephens	1681	2	0
21	Anastasija Sevastova	1677	3	7
22	Caroline Garcia	1676	-2	-10
23	Elise Mertens	1675	-4	-11
24	Bianca Andreescu	1669	1	0
25	Marketa Vondrousova	1662	7	22
26	Belinda Bencic	1661	0	-3
27	Julia Gorges	1659	-4	-11
28	Johanna Konta	1659	0	0
29	Daria Kasatkina	1655	0	1
30	Camila Giorgi	1652	0	0
31	Petra Martic	1651	11	41
32	Donna Vekic	1647	2	9
33	Lesia Tsurenko	1646	-6	-14
34	Sofia Kenin	1638	-1	0
35	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1635	0	3
36	Dominika Cibulkova	1630	-5	-14
37	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1627	-1	-5
38	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1625	-1	0
39	Lucie Safarova	1618	-1	0
40	Monica Puig	1614	-1	0
41	Amanda Anisimova	1614	-1	0
42	Barbora Strycova	1611	4	16
43	Wang Yafan	1605	0	0
44	Timea Bacsinszky	1601	0	0
45	Carla Suarez Navarro	1600	-4	-14
46	Danielle Collins	1589	3	0
47	Daria Gavrilova	1588	3	0
48	Dayana Yastremska	1586	-3	-12
49	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1585	-1	-4
50	Ekaterina Makarova	1583	1	0
51	Ajla Tomljanovic	1582	-4	-8
52	Margarita Gasparyan	1580	5	18
53	Alize Cornet	1575	0	0
54	Coco Vandeweghe	1569	0	0
55	Jelena Ostapenko	1569	-3	-7
56	Alison Riske	1568	-1	0
57	Yulia Putintseva	1564	-1	0
58	Zhang Shuai	1561	1	0
59	Alison Van Uytvanck	1560	1	0
60	Ana Konjuh	1555	3	0
61	Viktoria Kuzmova	1553	-3	-9
62	Kaia Kanepi	1551	2	0
63	Elena Vesnina	1550	2	0
64	Maria Sakkari	1546	-2	-11
65	Anastasia Potapova	1546	-4	-11
66	Kristina Mladenovic	1544	5	13
67	Laura Siegemund	1541	3	7
68	Vera Zvonareva	1541	-2	-5
69	Magdalena Rybarikova	1540	-1	0
70	Veronika Kudermetova	1537	4	9
71	Katerina Siniakova	1532	-4	-10
72	Aleksandra Krunic	1529	0	0
73	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1528	0	0
74	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1527	1	0
75	Sorana Cirstea	1526	1	0
76	Andrea Petkovic	1525	3	4
77	Eugenie Bouchard	1523	0	0
78	Kirsten Flipkens	1522	-9	-12
79	Samantha Stosur	1521	-1	0
80	Shelby Rogers	1519	0	0
81	Polona Hercog	1518	1	0
82	Monica Niculescu	1517	1	0
83	Vera Lapko	1517	1	0
84	Magda Linette	1516	1	0
85	Tamara Zidansek	1511	-4	-7
86	Mona Barthel	1510	0	0
87	Yanina Wickmayer	1509	0	0
88	Jennifer Brady	1508	0	0
89	Bernada Pera	1506	0	0
90	Kateryna Kozlova	1505	2	3
91	Katie Boulter	1504	-1	0
92	Sabine Lisicki	1502	-1	0
93	Lara Arruabarrena	1501	12	18
94	Ons Jabeur	1500	-1	0
95	Tatjana Maria	1498	-1	0
96	Irina-Camelia Begu	1498	-1	0
97	Denisa Allertova	1498	-1	0
98	Rebecca Peterson	1496	-1	0
99	Pauline Parmentier	1495	-1	-1
100	Kristyna Pliskova	1494	-1	0
101	Zheng Saisai	1486	0	0
102	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1486	-2	-4
103	Taylor Townsend	1484	0	0
104	Lauren Davis	1484	0	0
105	Sachia Vickery	1481	1	0
106	Christina McHale	1480	1	0
107	Zarina Diyas	1479	1	0
108	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1476	-6	-9
109	Dalila Jakupovic	1475	0	0
110	Vania King	1474	0	0
111	Jana Fett	1471	0	0
112	Lucie Hradecka	1471	0	0
113	Luksika Kumkhum	1470	0	0
114	Heather Watson	1465	1	0
115	Ana Bogdan	1464	9	6
116	Zhu Lin	1464	0	0
117	Arantxa Rus	1464	0	0
118	Kateryna Bondarenko	1462	0	0
119	Varvara Lepchenko	1462	0	0
120	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1461	0	0
121	Carina Witthoft	1461	0	0
122	Oceane Dodin	1460	0	0
123	Johanna Larsson	1460	-9	-7
124	Stefanie Vogele	1459	-1	0
125	Duan Yingying	1457	0	0
126	Naomi Broady	1456	0	0
127	Fiona Ferro	1455	0	0
128	Alexandra Dulgheru	1452	0	0
129	Viktorija Golubic	1452	0	0
130	Kristina Kucova	1451	0	0
131	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1449	0	0
132	Nao Hibino	1447	0	0
133	Ysaline Bonaventure	1446	0	0
134	Mariana Duque Marino	1445	0	0
135	Timea Babos	1442	5	3
136	Mandy Minella	1442	NEW	-4
137	Misaki Doi	1440	-1	0
138	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1440	-1	0
139	Nicole Gibbs	1439	-1	0
140	Veronica Cepede Royg	1439	-1	0
141	Anna Blinkova	1438	0	0
142	Madison Brengle	1437	0	0
143	Priscilla Hon	1435	1	0
144	Evgeniya Rodina	1433	-9	-8
145	Tereza Martincova	1432	0	0
146	Cagla Buyukakcay	1430	-3	-5
147	Richel Hogenkamp	1425	-1	0
148	Irina Falconi	1423	-1	0
149	Jana Cepelova	1412	-1	0
150	Olga Govortsova	1411	-1	0
151	Magdalena Frech	1411	-1	0
152	Danka Kovinic	1408	-1	0
153	Kurumi Nara	1389	-1	0
154	Silvia Soler Espinosa	1363	-1	0