Women's ELO Rankings 21/09/2020

Late finishing tennis tournaments mean late blog posts, but with the French Open on next week, let's take a look at what happened last week in Rome.

The Player of the week this week is Simona Halep. She won this week's tournament as the top seed beating Garbine Muguruza and Karolina Pliskova in the final. This title means that Simona gained 29 ELO rating points, and she moves up 2 places in my rankings to #2.

This week's Upset player of the week is Belinda Bencic. The 6th seed however, lost her opening match to a qualifier. This meant that Belinda ended up losing 17 ELO rating points, but she stays at #18 in my rankings.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Polona Hercog, Anna Blinkova and Danka Kovinic.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Ashleigh Barty	1894	0	0
2	Simona Halep	1870	2	29
3	Naomi Osaka	1867	-1	0
4	Serena Williams	1847	-1	0
5	Karolina Pliskova	1796	0	15
6	Victoria Azarenka	1777	2	10
7	Petra Kvitova	1770	-1	0
8	Bianca Andreescu	1767	2	0
9	Sofia Kenin	1757	0	-10
10	Kiki Bertens	1754	-3	-16
11	Aryna Sabalenka	1754	0	0
12	Garbine Muguruza	1753	3	25
13	Elina Svitolina	1750	-1	2
14	Elise Mertens	1735	2	8
15	Madison Keys	1732	-1	0
16	Anett Kontaveit	1729	-3	-7
17	Elena Rybakina	1716	0	1
18	Belinda Bencic	1695	0	-17
19	Maria Sakkari	1686	1	0
20	Johanna Konta	1681	1	-4
21	Dayana Yastremska	1680	2	13
22	Petra Martic	1676	-3	-11
23	Angelique Kerber	1665	-1	-15
24	Jennifer Brady	1665	0	0
25	Karolina Muchova	1658	1	0
26	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1658	-1	0
27	Yulia Putintseva	1655	9	27
28	Marketa Vondrousova	1654	9	26
29	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1652	2	13
30	Julia Gorges	1639	-3	-16
31	Amanda Anisimova	1639	1	0
32	Ons Jabeur	1635	-4	-11
33	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1634	-4	-8
34	Camila Giorgi	1631	-4	-9
35	Wang Qiang	1629	0	0
36	Venus Williams	1625	-3	-7
37	Jelena Ostapenko	1619	-3	-11
38	Alize Cornet	1614	2	0
39	Alison Riske	1612	-1	-13
40	Coco Gauff	1611	1	4
41	Donna Vekic	1605	-2	-9
42	Danielle Collins	1603	0	0
43	Carla Suarez Navarro	1603	1	0
44	Catherine Bellis	1597	1	0
45	Jessica Pegula	1593	3	0
46	Zheng Saisai	1593	1	0
47	Veronika Kudermetova	1592	-4	-11
48	Magda Linette	1591	1	5
49	Hsieh Su-Wei	1589	-3	-6
50	Kristina Mladenovic	1584	1	0
51	Lesia Tsurenko	1582	1	0
52	Daria Kasatkina	1580	7	11
53	Barbora Strycova	1579	3	6
54	Fiona Ferro	1575	0	0
55	Iga Swiatek	1573	-5	-13
56	Caroline Garcia	1570	-3	-6
57	Sloane Stephens	1568	-2	-6
58	Laura Siegemund	1566	2	0
59	Andrea Petkovic	1563	2	0
60	Rebecca Peterson	1561	-2	-8
61	Anastasija Sevastova	1557	-4	-13
62	Monica Puig	1556	1	0
63	Alison Van Uytvanck	1556	1	0
64	Kaia Kanepi	1555	1	0
65	Polona Hercog	1555	12	16
66	Patricia Maria Tig	1555	0	0
67	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1553	1	0
68	Marie Bouzkova	1552	4	5
69	Zhang Shuai	1550	-7	-8
70	Anastasia Potapova	1549	-1	0
71	Shelby Rogers	1548	0	0
72	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1546	1	0
73	Kristyna Pliskova	1541	2	0
74	Bernada Pera	1541	-4	-7
75	Eugenie Bouchard	1541	1	0
76	Margarita Gasparyan	1537	2	0
77	Ajla Tomljanovic	1534	-3	-10
78	Wang Yafan	1533	1	0
79	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1532	1	0
80	Samantha Stosur	1531	1	0
81	Sorana Cirstea	1531	1	0
82	Coco Vandeweghe	1530	1	0
83	Peng Shuai	1526	2	0
84	Heather Watson	1518	2	0
85	Jil Teichmann	1517	-1	-11
86	Leylah Annie Fernandez	1516	1	0
87	Anna Blinkova	1516	11	18
88	Zarina Diyas	1511	1	0
89	Nao Hibino	1508	1	0
90	Tamara Zidansek	1507	1	0
91	Taylor Townsend	1507	1	0
92	Yanina Wickmayer	1506	1	0
93	Wang Xiyu	1506	1	0
94	Arantxa Rus	1505	3	6
95	Viktoria Kuzmova	1505	0	0
96	Vera Zvonareva	1505	-8	-8
97	Christina McHale	1502	-1	0
98	Caty McNally	1498	1	0
99	Katerina Siniakova	1497	7	7
100	Paula Badosa	1495	0	0
101	Irina-Camelia Begu	1494	6	6
102	Oceane Dodin	1493	-1	0
103	Kristie Ahn	1492	-1	0
104	Kirsten Flipkens	1491	-1	0
105	Monica Niculescu	1491	-1	0
106	Lauren Davis	1491	-1	0
107	Kaja Juvan	1482	NEW	-9
108	Jasmine Paolini	1479	8	10
109	Sachia Vickery	1479	-1	0
110	Kateryna Kozlova	1479	-1	0
111	Liudmila Samsonova	1478	-1	0
112	Denisa Satralova	1478	-1	0
113	Lara Arruabarrena	1478	-1	0
114	Vera Lapko	1476	-1	0
115	Aleksandra Krunic	1475	-1	0
116	Astra Sharma	1471	-1	0
117	Ana Bogdan	1468	0	0
118	Madison Brengle	1465	0	0
119	Zhu Lin	1465	0	0
120	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1462	0	0
121	Nina Stojanovic	1461	0	0
122	Viktorija Golubic	1460	0	0
123	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1459	0	0
124	Pauline Parmentier	1459	0	0
125	Tatjana Maria	1457	0	0
126	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1454	0	0
127	Tereza Martincova	1452	0	0
128	Danka Kovinic	1451	11	29
129	Harriet Dart	1451	-1	0
130	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1449	-1	0
131	Ysaline Bonaventure	1449	-1	0
132	Kateryna Bondarenko	1442	-1	0
133	Nicole Gibbs	1440	-1	0
134	Anna Kalinskaya	1435	0	0
135	Priscilla Hon	1435	0	0
136	Kristina Kucova	1428	1	0
137	Duan Yingying	1428	1	0
138	Misaki Doi	1424	-2	-4
139	Mandy Minella	1420	1	0
140	Varvara Lepchenko	1414	1	0
141	Cagla Buyukakcay	1412	1	0
142	Timea Babos	1408	1	0
143	Magdalena Frech	1408	1	0
144	Kurumi Nara	1404	1	0
145	Jana Cepelova	1401	1	0
146	Stefanie Vogele	1382	1	0