Rankings (WTA)

[GameSetAndMath]

If Flavia can maintain that she can get invited to Singapore (or is it some other town) WTF.

 

[Kirijax]

If Flavia can maintain that she can get invited to Singapore (or is it some other town) WTF.

Singapore it is!

 

[Fiero425]

If Flavia can maintain that she can get invited to Singapore (or is it some other town) WTF.

Singapore it is!

I can't remember the last time their YEC made a difference; maybe Hingis/Davenporte! :nono :angel: :dodgy:

 

[tented]

New rankings for Monday, September 14, 2015.

 

[sk310]

It seems bizarre to see Venus and Vika drop in rankings after making the QFs. I guess thats just how the rankings shake out these days.

 

[jhar26]

It seems bizarre to see Venus and Vika drop in rankings after making the QFs. I guess thats just how the rankings shake out these days.

Also bizarre that Caroline is still #6 after a disappointing USO and a to put it politely season with "mixed results" that in truth has been dreadful compared to what was expected after what she did in the second half of 2014. Not that I object. I love Wozzy. But she can count her lucky stars that those that were ranked immediately below her also lost early. But if her results don't dramatically improve that nosedive in the rankings will be inevitable.

 

[golds girl]

If Flavia can maintain that she can get invited to Singapore (or is it some other town) WTF.

I don't know if she even cares about this possible development. She just did the thing she probably thought she could never do. That probably trumps everything else at this point methinks.

 

[sk310]

It seems bizarre to see Venus and Vika drop in rankings after making the QFs. I guess thats just how the rankings shake out these days.

Also bizarre that Caroline is still #6 after a disappointing USO and a to put it politely season with "mixed results" that in truth has been dreadful compared to what was expected after what she did in the second half of 2014. Not that I object. I love Wozzy. But she can count her lucky stars that those that were ranked immediately below her also lost early. But if her results don't dramatically improve that nosedive in the rankings will be inevitable.

I actually almost said the same thing. I held back on saying it because I really do like Caroline a lot. Still it seems odd to see her at number 6 after a season where I can't really remember any specific stellar results.

 

[jhar26]

It seems bizarre to see Venus and Vika drop in rankings after making the QFs. I guess thats just how the rankings shake out these days.

Also bizarre that Caroline is still #6 after a disappointing USO and a to put it politely season with "mixed results" that in truth has been dreadful compared to what was expected after what she did in the second half of 2014. Not that I object. I love Wozzy. But she can count her lucky stars that those that were ranked immediately below her also lost early. But if her results don't dramatically improve that nosedive in the rankings will be inevitable.

I actually almost said the same thing. I held back on saying it because I really do like Caroline a lot. Still it seems odd to see her at number 6 after a season where I can't really remember any specific stellar results.

She can hold on so long because in the first half of the year she didn't have anything to defend. The vast majority of her points came in the second half of 2014. Those are now starting to come off and she will go down fast if she doesn't significantly improve from now on.

 

[sk310]

Also bizarre that Caroline is still #6 after a disappointing USO and a to put it politely season with "mixed results" that in truth has been dreadful compared to what was expected after what she did in the second half of 2014. Not that I object. I love Wozzy. But she can count her lucky stars that those that were ranked immediately below her also lost early. But if her results don't dramatically improve that nosedive in the rankings will be inevitable.

I actually almost said the same thing. I held back on saying it because I really do like Caroline a lot. Still it seems odd to see her at number 6 after a season where I can't really remember any specific stellar results.

She can hold on so long because in the first half of the year she didn't have anything to defend. The vast majority of her points came in the second half of 2014. Those are now starting to come off and she will go down fast if she doesn't significantly improve from now on.

I really hope to see her back where she was...What changed so fast? Was it the breakup motivating her or was the marathon conditioning helping her? Its really hard to know what the variable was or if she just had a good 6 months.

 

[jhar26]

I actually almost said the same thing. I held back on saying it because I really do like Caroline a lot. Still it seems odd to see her at number 6 after a season where I can't really remember any specific stellar results.

She can hold on so long because in the first half of the year she didn't have anything to defend. The vast majority of her points came in the second half of 2014. Those are now starting to come off and she will go down fast if she doesn't significantly improve from now on.

I really hope to see her back where she was...What changed so fast? Was it the breakup motivating her or was the marathon conditioning helping her? Its really hard to know what the variable was or if she just had a good 6 months.

The breakup must have motivated her because the improvement was too immediate and big to be merely a coincidence. Training for that marathon must have done her a power of good as well. But those runs will have been 10-15 km, and will I presume mostly have taken place in parks and forrests. But actually running 42 km against the clock (because it's obvious that she wanted to surprise us with setting a good time) on concrete and pavement may at least partly explain why all year she's been going from one little niggle or injury to the next and why she now has that jumpers knee. Plus she's gone back to her passive defensive game while last year, and especially at the YEC she was more pro-active than usual. Not that it was Kvitova-like, but she had found sort of the right balance between offense and defense for someone with her skill set. When the season was over I thought, "wow, if she can continue like this in 2015 we may be in for something special." But it wasn't to be since she went back to her passive defensive game while her defense isn't as effective as it was in 2009-2011 because she doesn't move as well as she did back then (although it's still above average of course) and because she makes too many errors on routine shots, which is something she never used to do when she was at her best or most effective.

 

[tented]

New rankings for Monday, September 21, 2015.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

She can hold on so long because in the first half of the year she didn't have anything to defend. The vast majority of her points came in the second half of 2014. Those are now starting to come off and she will go down fast if she doesn't significantly improve from now on.

I really hope to see her back where she was...What changed so fast? Was it the breakup motivating her or was the marathon conditioning helping her? Its really hard to know what the variable was or if she just had a good 6 months.

The breakup must have motivated her because the improvement was too immediate and big to be merely a coincidence. Training for that marathon must have done her a power of good as well. But those runs will have been 10-15 km, and will I presume mostly have taken place in parks and forrests. But actually running 42 km against the clock (because it's obvious that she wanted to surprise us with setting a good time) on concrete and pavement may at least partly explain why all year she's been going from one little niggle or injury to the next and why she now has that jumpers knee. Plus she's gone back to her passive defensive game while last year, and especially at the YEC she was more pro-active than usual. Not that it was Kvitova-like, but she had found sort of the right balance between offense and defense for someone with her skill set. When the season was over I thought, "wow, if she can continue like this in 2015 we may be in for something special." But it wasn't to be since she went back to her passive defensive game while her defense isn't as effective as it was in 2009-2011 because she doesn't move as well as she did back then (although it's still above average of course) and because she makes too many errors on routine shots, which is something she never used to do when she was at her best or most effective.

Perhaps, she should try to break up with someone every year and especially sometime before an impending slam.

 

[kskate2]

New rankings for Monday, September 28, 2015.

 

[kskate2]

New rankings for Monday, October 5, 2015.

 

[sk310]

A lot of movements in the rankings this late in the year. With only a few tournaments left and the WTA Finals about to drop off it's almost more accurate at this point to look at Race Rankings than real rankings.

 

[Kirijax]

So many players still have a chance to get into the WTA Championships!

1 Serena Williams USA 9945
2 Simona Halep ROU 5790
3 Maria Sharapova RUS 4322
WTA Championships Qualification Cut - Williams out, 9th qualifies
4 Garbine Muguruza ESP 3521
5 Petra Kvitova CZE 3491
6 Lucie Safarova CZE 3221
7 Angelique Kerber GER 3125
8 Flavia Pennetta ITA 3098
9 Agnieszka Radwanska POL 3075
10 Carla Suarez Navarro ESP 3030
11 Venus Williams USA 2982
12 Karolina Pliskova CZE 2950
13 Belinda Bencic SUI 2900
14 Roberta Vinci ITA 2655
15 Caroline Wozniacki DEN 2586
16 Timea Bacsinszky SUI 2548
17 Madison Keys USA 2495
18 Elina Svitolina UKR 2410
19 Sara Errani ITA 2375
20 Ana Ivanovic SRB 2291

 

[lomaha]

Well Serena pulled out, Maria and Halep is injured and may not be able to compete....wth...

 

[kskate2]

New rankings for Monday, October 12, 2015.

 

[britbox]

This is the thread where the official rankings will be posted every Monday and for general conversation on rankings for WTA Women's Tennis.

19.10.2015

1 Williams, Serena 11285
2 Halep, Simona 6580
3 Sharapova, Maria 4691
4 Muguruza, Garbiñe 4690
5 Kvitova, Petra 3860
6 Radwanska, Agnieszka 3690
7 Kerber, Angelique 3400
8 Pennetta, Flavia 3372
9 Safarova, Lucie 3221
10 Bacsinszky, Timea 3157
11 Wozniacki, Caroline 3151
12 Ivanovic, Ana 3145
13 Williams, Venus 3091
14 Suárez Navarro, Carla 3075
15 Pliskova, Karolina 2955
16 Bencic, Belinda 2900
17 Vinci, Roberta 2655
18 Errani, Sara 2525
19 Keys, Madison 2495
20 Petkovic, Andrea 2445
21 Svitolina, Elina 2410
22 Jankovic, Jelena 2345
23 Azarenka, Victoria 2276
24 Makarova, Ekaterina 2250
25 Stosur, Samantha 1835
26 Schmiedlova, Anna Karolina 1791
27 Mladenovic, Kristina 1760
28 Stephens, Sloane 1715
29 Begu, Irina-Camelia 1630
30 Lisicki, Sabine 1568
31 Pavlyuchenkova, Anastasia 1565
32 Kuznetsova, Svetlana 1378
33 Cibulkova, Dominika 1336
34 Giorgi, Camila 1325
35 Garcia, Caroline 1320
36 Gavrilova, Daria 1300
37 Tsurenko, Lesia 1289
38 Bouchard, Eugenie 1273
39 Vandeweghe, Coco 1247
40 Brengle, Madison 1238
41 Cornet, Alizé 1235
42 Strycova, Barbora 1170
43 Pereira, Teliana 1132
44 Lepchenko, Varvara 1125
45 Niculescu, Monica 1125
46 Konta, Johanna 1107
47 Van Uytvanck, Alison 1062
48 Wickmayer, Yanina 1043
49 Goerges, Julia 1040
50 Knapp, Karin 1031
51 Diyas, Zarina 1025
52 Pironkova, Tsvetana 1010
53 Hradecka, Lucie 1009
54 Watson, Heather 994
55 Barthel, Mona 985
56 Larsson, Johanna 981
57 Beck, Annika 976
58 Dulgheru, Alexandra 973
59 Kovinic, Danka 972
60 Mattek-Sands, Bethanie 922
61 McHale, Christina 915
62 Tomljanovic, Ajla 910
63 Witthoeft, Carina 903
64 Allertova, Denisa 889
65 Linette, Magda 878
66 Gasparyan, Margarita 868
67 Falconi, Irina 866
68 Konjuh, Ana 858
69 Lucic-Baroni, Mirjana 855
70 Govortsova, Olga 851
71 Babos, Timea 843
72 Hercog, Polona 835
73 Maria, Tatjana 833
74 Duque-Mariño, Mariana 792
75 Zheng, Saisai 789
76 Jovanovski, Bojana 785
77 Rybarikova, Magdalena 782
78 Hibino, Nao 780
79 Bondarenko, Kateryna 768
80 Ostapenko, Jelena 767
81 Hantuchova, Daniela 753
82 Shvedova, Yaroslava 744
83 Nara, Kurumi 740
84 Putintseva, Yulia 737
85 Rodina, Evgeniya 730
86 Arruabarrena, Lara 726
87 Davis, Lauren 710
88 Kontaveit, Anett 691
89 Puig, Monica 690
90 Radwanska, Urszula 674
91 Smitkova, Tereza 667
92 Doi, Misaki 664
93 Mitu, Andreea 660
94 Krunic, Aleksandra 659
95 Siniakova, Katerina 655
96 Friedsam, Anna-Lena 655
97 Riske, Alison 652
98 Flipkens, Kirsten 652
99 Kulichkova, Elizaveta 646
100 Domínguez Lino, Lourdes 643