Women's ELO Rankings 17/05/2021

As players on the WTA Tour prepared for the French Open, there was 1 large tournament on this week, in Rome.

Iga Swiatek, © Getty Images

The Player of the week this week is Iga Swiatek. She was the 15th seed this week, and won the tournament with wins over Elina Svitolina and Karolina Pliskova among others. This title led to Iga earning 54 ELO rating points, and she moves up 4 places in my rankings to #12.

This week's Upset player of the week award goes to Serena Williams. The 8th seed at Rome had a bye to round 2, but then ended up losing her opening match. This loss meant that Serena lost 17 ELO rating points, but she stays at #4 in my rankings.

 

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Coco Gauff, Petra Martic, Vera Zvonareva and Nadia Podoroska.

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Now, the full rankings.

#	Name	ELO	± #	± ELO
1	Ashleigh Barty	1928	0	-11
2	Naomi Osaka	1868	0	-15
3	Aryna Sabalenka	1865	0	-12
4	Serena Williams	1839	0	-17
5	Simona Halep	1823	0	-15
6	Garbine Muguruza	1812	0	-5
7	Elise Mertens	1788	0	-13
8	Bianca Andreescu	1783	0	0
9	Elina Svitolina	1774	1	6
10	Petra Kvitova	1770	-1	-12
11	Victoria Azarenka	1766	0	0
12	Iga Swiatek	1755	4	54
13	Karolina Pliskova	1743	1	16
14	Anett Kontaveit	1727	-1	0
15	Maria Sakkari	1726	-3	-9
16	Jessica Pegula	1715	3	20
17	Veronika Kudermetova	1712	1	16
18	Sofia Kenin	1702	-3	-13
19	Karolina Muchova	1697	-2	0
20	Ons Jabeur	1690	0	0
21	Kiki Bertens	1686	0	0
22	Coco Gauff	1679	12	47
23	Daria Kasatkina	1672	-1	-9
24	Jennifer Brady	1671	-1	-5
25	Danielle Collins	1666	1	0
26	Madison Keys	1664	-1	-2
27	Elena Rybakina	1658	0	0
28	Ekaterina Alexandrova	1658	2	9
29	Belinda Bencic	1655	-5	-13
30	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1649	-1	0
31	Angelique Kerber	1648	2	14
32	Jelena Ostapenko	1646	5	20
33	Marketa Vondrousova	1639	-5	-14
34	Yulia Putintseva	1628	-3	-10
35	Svetlana Kuznetsova	1627	0	0
36	Johanna Konta	1626	-4	-10
37	Amanda Anisimova	1623	1	2
38	Petra Martic	1621	12	34
39	Paula Badosa	1620	0	0
40	Barbora Krejcikova	1617	1	13
41	Shelby Rogers	1615	-5	-11
42	Kaia Kanepi	1611	-2	0
43	Hsieh Su-Wei	1601	-1	0
44	Sorana Cirstea	1597	-1	0
45	Caroline Garcia	1596	-1	0
46	Anastasija Sevastova	1594	1	3
47	Fiona Ferro	1591	1	0
48	Sara Sorribes Tormo	1588	9	8
49	Venus Williams	1586	2	0
50	Catherine Bellis	1585	2	0
51	Ann Li	1585	2	0
52	Alize Cornet	1584	-6	-9
53	Camila Giorgi	1583	-8	-11
54	Donna Vekic	1582	2	0
55	Alison Riske	1577	-1	-7
56	Laura Siegemund	1577	-7	-12
57	Jil Teichmann	1573	-2	-10
58	Leylah Annie Fernandez	1570	0	0
59	Tsvetana Pironkova	1569	0	0
60	Marie Bouzkova	1567	0	0
61	Anastasia Potapova	1561	0	0
62	Margarita Gasparyan	1556	1	0
63	Vera Zvonareva	1555	15	18
64	Alison Van Uytvanck	1554	0	0
65	Maria Camila Osorio Serrano	1552	0	0
66	Wang Qiang	1549	-4	-8
67	Eugenie Bouchard	1548	-1	0
68	Rebecca Peterson	1548	-1	0
69	Daria Gavrilova	1546	0	0
70	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	1546	0	0
71	Monica Puig	1544	0	0
72	Barbora Strycova	1544	0	0
73	Clara Tauson	1541	2	0
74	Lesia Tsurenko	1539	2	0
75	Andrea Petkovic	1539	2	0
76	Kristina Mladenovic	1539	6	6
77	Zheng Saisai	1538	-9	-8
78	Zhang Shuai	1537	-5	-6
79	Sloane Stephens	1537	-5	-6
80	Viktorija Golubic	1534	1	0
81	Magda Linette	1533	-2	-4
82	Patricia Maria Tig	1533	-2	-3
83	Nadia Podoroska	1532	11	22
84	Zarina Diyas	1528	0	0
85	Ajla Tomljanovic	1528	4	6
86	Danka Kovinic	1526	0	0
87	Marta Kostyuk	1523	-4	-7
88	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1523	-1	0
89	Irina-Camelia Begu	1522	-1	0
90	Caty McNally	1521	0	0
91	Astra Sharma	1521	0	0
92	Tamara Zidansek	1516	-7	-11
93	Bernada Pera	1513	6	8
94	Kaja Juvan	1511	-2	0
95	Samantha Stosur	1511	-2	0
96	Katerina Siniakova	1510	-1	0
97	Taylor Townsend	1507	-1	0
98	Yanina Wickmayer	1506	-1	0
99	Sara Errani	1504	1	0
100	Polona Hercog	1501	-2	-5
101	Katie Boulter	1499	0	0
102	Coco Vandeweghe	1499	0	0
103	Anna Karolina Schmiedlova	1498	0	0
104	Oceane Dodin	1490	0	0
105	Heather Watson	1490	0	0
106	Kristyna Pliskova	1489	0	0
107	Mihaela Buzarnescu	1485	1	0
108	Lara Arruabarrena	1485	1	0
109	Lauren Davis	1485	1	0
110	Nina Stojanovic	1485	1	0
111	Nao Hibino	1484	1	0
112	Jasmine Paolini	1484	1	0
113	Wang Xiyu	1483	1	0
114	Liudmila Samsonova	1482	1	0
115	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	1479	-8	-7
116	Arantxa Rus	1479	0	0
117	Ana Bogdan	1479	0	0
118	Aliona Bolsova	1478	0	0
119	Wang Yafan	1477	0	0
120	Viktoria Kuzmova	1476	0	0
121	Varvara Gracheva	1475	0	0
122	Greet Minnen	1474	0	0
123	Kirsten Flipkens	1473	0	0
124	Sachia Vickery	1469	0	0
125	Kristie Ahn	1468	0	0
126	Monica Niculescu	1468	0	0
127	Tereza Martincova	1465	0	0
128	Zhu Lin	1465	0	0
129	Vera Lapko	1461	0	0
130	Lucie Hradecka	1461	0	0
131	Renata Zarazua	1459	0	0
132	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1458	0	0
133	Tatjana Maria	1457	1	0
134	Misaki Doi	1455	2	0
135	Kateryna Kozlova	1455	2	0
136	Anna Blinkova	1454	2	0
137	Mona Barthel	1450	2	0
138	Christina McHale	1449	-3	-8
139	Yaroslava Shvedova	1448	7	10
140	Anna Kalinskaya	1447	0	0
141	Martina Trevisan	1447	-8	-10
142	Madison Brengle	1445	-1	0
143	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	1444	-1	0
144	Kristina Kucova	1444	-1	0
145	Kateryna Bondarenko	1442	-1	0
146	Harriet Dart	1439	-1	0
147	Katarina Zavatska	1437	0	0
148	Chloe Paquet	1433	0	0
149	Ysaline Bonaventure	1432	0	0
150	Caroline Dolehide	1429	0	0
151	Kurumi Nara	1422	0	0
152	Magdalena Frech	1412	0	0
153	Varvara Lepchenko	1410	0	0
154	Timea Babos	1404	0	0
155	Cagla Buyukakcay	1399	0	0
156	Stefanie Vogele	1397	0	0