Women's ELO Rankings 16/09/2019

Weekly tournaments return for the WTA Tour, with three held this week, in Zhengzhou, Hiroshima and Nanchang.

Nao Hibino, © KYODO

This week's Player of the week is Nao Hibino. She entered the tournament in Hiroshima, and won the title, with wins over Zarina Diyas and Hsieh Su-Wei among others. This title earned Nao 60 ELO rating points, and she move sup 41 places in my rankings to #97.

This week's Upset player of the week is Kiki Bertens. She was the 3rd seed at Zhengzhou, but after getting a bye to round 2, she lost her opening match. This loss meant that Kiki lost 15 ELO rating points, and she moves down 3 places in my rankings to #11.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Rebecca Peterson, Ajla Tomljanovic, Zhu Lin and Misaki Doi.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Serena Williams	1860	0	0
2	Ashleigh Barty	1853	0	0
3	Karolina Pliskova	1836	1	22
4	Simona Halep	1826	-1	0
5	Petra Kvitova	1780	1	0
6	Bianca Andreescu	1780	1	0
7	Elina Svitolina	1774	-2	-9
8	Madison Keys	1753	1	0
9	Naomi Osaka	1745	1	0
10	Johanna Konta	1743	1	0
11	Kiki Bertens	1739	-3	-15
12	Sofia Kenin	1732	0	2
13	Belinda Bencic	1727	0	0
14	Petra Martic	1720	4	18
15	Venus Williams	1717	-1	0
16	Maria Sharapova	1707	0	0
17	Marketa Vondrousova	1704	0	0
18	Donna Vekic	1699	1	0
19	Angelique Kerber	1698	-4	-13
20	Garbine Muguruza	1695	0	0
21	Anett Kontaveit	1695	0	0
22	Victoria Azarenka	1694	0	0
23	Caroline Wozniacki	1688	0	0
24	Wang Qiang	1682	0	0
25	Elise Mertens	1672	0	0
26	Maria Sakkari	1670	1	0
27	Aryna Sabalenka	1669	-1	-1
28	Anastasija Sevastova	1665	0	0
29	Julia Gorges	1659	0	0
30	Sloane Stephens	1650	1	0
31	Hsieh Su-Wei	1648	-1	-6
32	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1645	0	0
33	Amanda Anisimova	1643	0	0
34	Dayana Yastremska	1640	0	0
35	Camila Giorgi	1636	0	0
36	Caroline Garcia	1626	0	-7
37	Daria Kasatkina	1621	0	0
38	Dominika Cibulkova	1619	0	0
39	Alison Riske	1618	0	0
40	Barbora Strycova	1614	0	0
41	Karolina Muchova	1611	0	0
42	Yulia Putintseva	1607	1	3
43	Carla Suarez Navarro	1605	-1	0
44	Rebecca Peterson	1599	19	44
45	Kristina Mladenovic	1599	7	27
46	Lesia Tsurenko	1594	-2	0
47	Elena Rybakina	1592	4	19
48	Alize Cornet	1590	-3	0
49	Ajla Tomljanovic	1585	12	28
50	Ekaterina Makarova	1583	-4	0
51	Danielle Collins	1582	-4	0
52	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1581	-4	0
53	Jelena Ostapenko	1577	-4	-1
54	Monica Puig	1576	-4	0
55	Magda Linette	1572	-1	5
56	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1568	-3	0
57	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1566	-2	0
58	Kaia Kanepi	1565	-2	0
59	Timea Bacsinszky	1565	-2	0
60	Iga Swiatek	1560	-1	0
61	Jil Teichmann	1559	-1	0
62	Alison Van Uytvanck	1559	3	6
63	Zhang Shuai	1559	-5	-5
64	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1555	6	12
65	Ana Konjuh	1555	-3	0
66	Margarita Gasparyan	1553	-2	0
67	Katerina Siniakova	1552	-1	0
68	Coco Vandeweghe	1550	0	0
69	Veronika Kudermetova	1549	5	12
70	Zheng Saisai	1544	6	11
71	Laura Siegemund	1543	4	7
72	Bernada Pera	1542	-1	0
73	Anastasia Potapova	1540	-6	-12
74	Jessica Pegula	1540	-2	0
75	Andrea Petkovic	1538	-2	0
76	Polona Hercog	1535	8	6
77	Wang Yafan	1533	-8	-12
78	Jennifer Brady	1532	-1	0
79	Beatriz Haddad Maia	1531	-1	0
80	Ons Jabeur	1531	-1	0
81	Daria Gavrilova	1530	0	0
82	Fiona Ferro	1530	3	3
83	Viktoria Kuzmova	1530	0	0
84	Tamara Zidansek	1522	-2	-8
85	Lauren Davis	1521	2	0
86	Taylor Townsend	1521	2	0
87	Samantha Stosur	1520	-1	-4
88	Sorana Cirstea	1518	-8	-12
89	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1514	0	0
90	Magdalena Rybarikova	1510	0	0
91	Vera Zvonareva	1510	0	0
92	Kateryna Kozlova	1510	2	7
93	Yanina Wickmayer	1510	-1	0
94	Kirsten Flipkens	1503	1	2
95	Irina-Camelia Begu	1499	1	0
96	Shelby Rogers	1497	1	0
97	Nao Hibino	1496	41	60
98	Astra Sharma	1495	0	0
99	Sabine Lisicki	1495	0	0
100	Denisa Allertova	1495	0	0
101	Monica Niculescu	1494	-8	-10
102	Zarina Diyas	1489	-1	-4
103	Kristyna Pliskova	1488	0	-1
104	Lara Arruabarrena	1486	0	-1
105	Aleksandra Krunic	1483	-3	-8
106	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1481	-1	0
107	Vera Lapko	1479	0	0
108	Eugenie Bouchard	1476	0	0
109	Arantxa Rus	1476	0	0
110	Jana Fett	1475	1	3
111	Sachia Vickery	1475	-1	0
112	Ivana Jorovic	1472	0	0
113	Anna Blinkova	1472	0	0
114	Lucie Hradecka	1471	0	0
115	Zhu Lin	1470	13	15
116	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1469	7	11
117	Christina McHale	1468	1	4
118	Tatjana Maria	1468	-12	-12
119	Pauline Parmentier	1467	-3	0
120	Harriet Dart	1465	-3	0
121	Mona Barthel	1463	-2	0
122	Carina Witthoft	1461	-2	0
123	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1461	-2	0
124	Paula Badosa	1460	-9	-8
125	Ana Bogdan	1459	-3	0
126	Madison Brengle	1458	-2	0
127	Viktorija Golubic	1458	8	17
128	Johanna Larsson	1458	-3	0
129	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1455	0	0
130	Misaki Doi	1454	17	39
131	Luksika Kumkhum	1451	-1	0
132	Duan Yingying	1450	-6	-7
133	Heather Watson	1443	0	0
134	Anna Kalinskaya	1442	0	0
135	Ysaline Bonaventure	1440	-4	-7
136	Dalila Jakupovic	1439	3	4
137	Nicole Gibbs	1438	-1	0
138	Mandy Minella	1437	-1	0
139	Kristina Kucova	1437	-7	-9
140	Priscilla Hon	1434	3	9
141	Timea Babos	1432	-1	0
142	Cagla Buyukakcay	1423	2	0
143	Varvara Lepchenko	1422	-2	-7
144	Richel Hogenkamp	1421	1	0
145	Stefanie Vogele	1418	-3	-9
146	Tereza Martincova	1415	0	-5
147	Evgeniya Rodina	1413	1	0
148	Risa Ozaki	1410	NEW	-4
149	Jana Cepelova	1406	0	0
150	Kurumi Nara	1405	0	6
151	Danka Kovinic	1400	NEW	-8
152	Magdalena Frech	1399	-1	0