Women's ELO Rankings 10/08/2020

Professional tennis is back for the first time since March, with 1 tournament on the WTA tour, held in Palermo.

This week's Player of the week is Fiona Ferro. She won this week's tournament, with wins over Ekaterina Alexandrova and Anett Kontaveit. This title earned Fiona 60 ELO rating points, which moves her up 29 places in my rankings to #62.

This week's Upset player of the week is Elise Mertens. She was the 5th seed at Palermo, but lost her first round match to a qualifier This loss cost Elise 14 ELO rating points, moving her down 4 places in my rankings to #24.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Sara Errani.

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Now, the full rankings. As it's been a while since the last update, a few inactive players have dropped off the rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Ashleigh Barty	1894	0	0
2	Serena Williams	1865	0	0
3	Simona Halep	1825	0	0
4	Naomi Osaka	1823	0	0
5	Karolina Pliskova	1809	0	0
6	Petra Kvitova	1790	0	0
7	Aryna Sabalenka	1783	0	0
8	Sofia Kenin	1779	0	0
9	Kiki Bertens	1770	0	0
10	Bianca Andreescu	1767	0	0
11	Madison Keys	1752	0	0
12	Elina Svitolina	1748	0	0
13	Elena Rybakina	1739	0	0
14	Garbine Muguruza	1739	0	0
15	Anett Kontaveit	1716	1	11
16	Belinda Bencic	1712	-1	0
17	Caroline Wozniacki	1700	0	0
18	Johanna Konta	1698	0	0
19	Petra Martic	1696	0	8
20	Maria Sharapova	1680	1	0
21	Victoria Azarenka	1680	1	0
22	Angelique Kerber	1672	1	0
23	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1672	1	0
24	Elise Mertens	1669	-4	-14
25	Dayana Yastremska	1668	1	-1
26	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1665	-1	-6
27	Julia Gorges	1655	2	0
28	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1653	2	0
29	Maria Sakkari	1649	-2	-14
30	Marketa Vondrousova	1647	-2	-14
31	Venus Williams	1645	0	0
32	Alison Riske	1644	0	0
33	Karolina Muchova	1644	0	0
34	Camila Giorgi	1641	4	14
35	Amanda Anisimova	1638	-1	0
36	Jelena Ostapenko	1630	-1	0
37	Wang Qiang	1629	-1	0
38	Danielle Collins	1622	1	0
39	Donna Vekic	1620	-2	-7
40	Ons Jabeur	1620	0	0
41	Veronika Kudermetova	1611	0	0
42	Coco Gauff	1607	0	0
43	Yulia Putintseva	1607	0	0
44	Carla Suarez Navarro	1603	0	0
45	Hsieh Su-Wei	1595	2	0
46	Catherine Bellis	1595	2	0
47	Anastasija Sevastova	1595	2	0
48	Magda Linette	1594	2	0
49	Zheng Saisai	1593	3	0
50	Jennifer Brady	1592	3	0
51	Rebecca Peterson	1592	-5	-9
52	Daria Kasatkina	1588	-7	-14
53	Barbora Strycova	1587	2	0
54	Kristina Mladenovic	1586	-3	-8
55	Iga Swiatek	1586	1	0
56	Alize Cornet	1586	1	0
57	Sloane Stephens	1584	1	0
58	Lesia Tsurenko	1584	1	0
59	Alison Van Uytvanck	1582	-5	-7
60	Zhang Shuai	1581	0	0
61	Laura Siegemund	1578	0	1
62	Fiona Ferro	1575	29	60
63	Ajla Tomljanovic	1569	-1	0
64	Caroline Garcia	1567	-1	0
65	Monica Puig	1567	-1	0
66	Andrea Petkovic	1563	-1	0
67	Heather Watson	1555	-1	0
68	Kaia Kanepi	1555	-1	0
69	Timea Bacsinszky	1554	-1	0
70	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1552	-1	0
71	Anastasia Potapova	1549	-1	0
72	Jessica Pegula	1548	0	0
73	Bernada Pera	1544	0	0
74	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1541	0	0
75	Polona Hercog	1536	-4	-12
76	Wang Yafan	1533	-1	0
77	Samantha Stosur	1531	-1	0
78	Zarina Diyas	1530	0	0
79	Daria Gavrilova	1530	0	0
80	Margarita Gasparyan	1530	0	0
81	Coco Vandeweghe	1530	0	0
82	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1530	12	18
83	Peng Shuai	1526	-1	0
84	Viktoria Kuzmova	1525	-1	0
85	Kristyna Pliskova	1524	2	3
86	Marie Bouzkova	1523	-1	0
87	Katerina Siniakova	1519	1	0
88	Taylor Townsend	1518	1	0
89	Patricia Maria Tig	1518	-3	-5
90	Vera Zvonareva	1514	2	0
91	Sorana Cirstea	1513	-7	-10
92	Nao Hibino	1512	1	0
93	Tamara Zidansek	1507	-3	-10
94	Wang Xiyu	1506	3	0
95	Lauren Davis	1505	4	0
96	Kristie Ahn	1504	4	0
97	Anna Blinkova	1504	4	0
98	Oceane Dodin	1504	4	5
99	Arantxa Rus	1499	-1	-6
100	Jil Teichmann	1495	3	0
101	Eugenie Bouchard	1495	3	0
102	Christina McHale	1492	4	0
103	Monica Niculescu	1491	4	0
104	Liudmila Samsonova	1488	NEW	6
105	Paula Badosa	1482	4	0
106	Jasmine Paolini	1481	NEW	4
107	Kirsten Flipkens	1480	1	-10
108	Denisa Allertova	1478	2	0
109	Lara Arruabarrena	1478	2	0
110	Astra Sharma	1476	2	0
111	Aleksandra Krunic	1475	3	0
112	Shelby Rogers	1474	3	0
113	Vera Lapko	1473	3	0
114	Nina Stojanovic	1472	3	0
115	Kateryna Kozlova	1472	3	0
116	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1471	3	0
117	Viktorija Golubic	1470	3	0
118	Zhu Lin	1465	4	0
119	Tatjana Maria	1462	5	0
120	Irina-Camelia Begu	1459	1	-7
121	Pauline Parmentier	1459	5	0
122	Ana Bogdan	1452	5	0
123	Madison Brengle	1452	5	0
124	Harriet Dart	1451	5	0
125	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1450	5	0
126	Johanna Larsson	1448	5	0
127	Kateryna Bondarenko	1446	5	0
128	Anna Kalinskaya	1444	6	0
129	Ysaline Bonaventure	1441	6	0
130	Nicole Gibbs	1440	6	0
131	Dalila Jakupovic	1437	6	0
132	Misaki Doi	1436	6	0
133	Priscilla Hon	1435	7	0
134	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1431	5	-4
135	Kristina Kucova	1428	6	0
136	Duan Yingying	1428	6	0
137	Tereza Martincova	1423	6	0
138	Mandy Minella	1420	6	0
139	Cagla Buyukakcay	1418	6	0
140	Varvara Lepchenko	1414	6	0
141	Kurumi Nara	1412	7	0
142	Timea Babos	1411	7	0
143	Risa Ozaki	1410	7	0
144	Jana Cepelova	1401	7	0
145	Danka Kovinic	1397	7	0
146	Stefanie Vogele	1393	7	0
147	Magdalena Frech	1384	7	0