{"id":374,"date":"2011-06-15T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2011-06-15T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T15:45:07","slug":"wta-hard-court-rankings-pre-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/wta-hard-court-rankings-pre-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Hard Court Rankings, pre-Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out, ladies, this site isn&#8217;t just for the ATP anymore.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit of a struggle, but I was able to assemble a ranking and results database for women&#8217;s tennis (both WTA and ITF) going back several years. \u00a0That allowed me to apply my ranking algorithm to WTA players. \u00a0This is still a work in progress&#8211;I&#8217;ve had to borrow a few assumptions from my ATP research&#8211;but I think the results generally make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>For newcomers, here are a few of the key differences between my rankings and the official WTA rankings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My system considers matches going back two years&#8211;not just one. \u00a0Incidentally, this helps us better evaluate the Williams sisters, just as it helps us with Juan Martin del Potro in the ATP numbers.<\/li>\n<li>The more recent the tournament, the more it counts in the rankings.<\/li>\n<li>Points are based almost entirely on the quality of opponents, not on the level of the event. \u00a0If you beat Vera Zvonereva, it&#8217;s worth the same number of points whether it&#8217;s at Indian Wells or in Brussels. \u00a0(There is a slight boost for grand slams, on the assumption that players plan their seasons to peak at the slams.)<\/li>\n<li>Surface is considered. \u00a0For these hard\/grass-court rankings, hard-court results are weighted more heavily than clay-court results. \u00a0For instance, Francesca Schiavone is #26 here, but #10 in the clay-court rankings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the HeavyTopspin.com WTA hard-court top 100:<\/p>\n<p><pre>RANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n1     Kim Clijsters                  9286  \n2     Caroline Wozniacki             7888  \n3     Victoria Azarenka              7040  \n4     Vera Zvonareva                 6222  \n5     Na Li                          5167  \n6     Serena Williams                5142  \n7     Petra Kvitova                  4854  \n8     Maria Sharapova                4596  \n9     Svetlana Kuznetsova            3607  \n10    Venus Williams                 3551  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n11    Andrea Petkovic                3514  \n12    Shuai Peng                     3498  \n13    Marion Bartoli                 3332  \n14    Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova       3268  \n15    Agnieszka Radwanska            3207  \n16    Samantha Stosur                3137  \n17    Ana Ivanovic                   3129  \n18    Flavia Pennetta                3074  \n19    Alisa Kleybanova               3005  \n20    Dominika Cibulkova             2931  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n21    Jelena Jankovic                2693  \n22    Daniela Hantuchova             2505  \n23    Yanina Wickmayer               2452  \n24    Shahar Peer                    2318  \n25    Kaia Kanepi                    2252  \n26    Francesca Schiavone            2229  \n27    Ekaterina Makarova             2010  \n28    Sabine Lisicki                 1997  \n29    Julia Goerges                  1970  \n30    Maria Kirilenko                1961  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n31    Lucie Safarova                 1913  \n32    Elena Vesnina                  1912  \n33    Gisela Dulko                   1835  \n34    Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez    1764  \n35    Nadia Petrova                  1717  \n36    Virginie Razzano               1673  \n37    Dinara Safina                  1626  \n38    Jie Zheng                      1619  \n39    Anastasija Sevastova           1484  \n40    Klara Zakopalova               1450  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n41    Aravane Rezai                  1420  \n42    Kateryna Bondarenko            1370  \n43    Bethanie Mattek-Sands          1345  \n44    Roberta Vinci                  1320  \n45    Anna Chakvetadze               1294  \n46    Alona Bondarenko               1277  \n47    Jarmila Gajdosova              1263  \n48    Melanie Oudin                  1247  \n49    Vera Dushevina                 1168  \n50    Iveta Benesova                 1166  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n51    Alize Cornet                   1157  \n52    Sara Errani                    1102  \n53    Magdalena Rybarikova           1048  \n54    Timea Bacsinszky               1038  \n55    Agnes Szavay                    991  \n56    Tsvetana Pironkova              986  \n57    Barbora Zahlavova Strycova      953  \n58    Bojana Jovanovski               952  \n59    Kimiko Date-Krumm               917  \n60    Alexandra Dulgheru              905  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n61    Greta Arn                       891  \n62    Simona Halep                    889  \n63    Tamira Paszek                   868  \n64    Vania King                      856  \n65    Polona Hercog                   848  \n66    Angelique Kerber                820  \n67    Jelena Dokic                    818  \n68    Christina McHale                800  \n69    Elena Baltacha                  784  \n70    Sorana Cirstea                  771  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n71    Carla Suarez Navarro            751  \n72    Yaroslava Shvedova              749  \n73    Kirsten Flipkens                741  \n74    Lucie Hradecka                  738  \n75    Sybille Bammer                  737  \n76    Aleksandra Wozniak              728  \n77    Johanna Larsson                 722  \n78    Alla Kudryavtseva               716  \n79    Regina Kulikova                 693  \n80    Monica Niculescu                677  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n81    Petra Martic                    671  \n82    Kristina Barrois                656  \n83    Ayumi Morita                    654  \n84    Urszula Radwanska               638  \n85    Olga Govortsova                 635  \n86    Sofia Arvidsson                 630  \n87    Coco Vandeweghe                 602  \n88    Anastasiya Yakimova             592  \n89    Anabel Medina Garrigues         590  \n90    Kai-Chen Chang                  570  \n                                           \nRANK  PLAYER                       POINTS  \n91    Eleni Daniilidou                566  \n92    Rebecca Marino                  564  \n93    Anastasia Rodionova             560  \n94    Melinda Czink                   550  \n95    Arantxa Rus                     535  \n96    Ksenia Pervak                   527  \n97    Michaella Krajicek              522  \n98    Vesna Dolonts                   512  \n99    Tamarine Tanasugarn             508  \n100   Alison Riske                    501<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out, ladies, this site isn&#8217;t just for the ATP anymore. It was a bit of a struggle, but I was able to assemble a ranking and results database for women&#8217;s tennis (both WTA and ITF) going back several years. \u00a0That allowed me to apply my ranking algorithm to WTA players. \u00a0This is still a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/wta-hard-court-rankings-pre-wimbledon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WTA Hard Court Rankings, pre-Wimbledon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rankings","category-wta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}