Estimated Dynamic NTRP Ratings for the WTA - How much higher rated is Sharapova than you?

I wrote yesterday about how the players on the ATP tour would be rated if the USTA's NTRP algorithm were to be used to calculate dynamic ratings from their matches.  Today, it is time to take a first look at the WTA players.

All the same caveats I mentioned before apply again.  And again, I scaled things so that the top-400 players would be considered 6.5 or higher.

So here are the WTA top-20 through the end of 2015.

Rank	Name	Rating
1	Maria Sharapova	6.96
2	Garbine Muguruza	6.89
3	Serena Williams	6.87
4	Petra Kvitova	6.82
5	Simona Halep	6.79
6	Karolina Pliskova	6.77
7	Madison Keys	6.74
8	Karin Knapp	6.70
9	Caroline Garcia	6.67
10	Sabine Lisicki	6.63
11	Mirjana Lucic	6.62
12	Shuai Peng	6.60
13	Olga Govortsova	6.60
14	Louisa Chirico	6.59
15	Mona Barthel	6.58
16	Lesia Tsurenko	6.58
17	Denisa Allertova	6.57
18	Flavia Pennetta	6.57
19	Martina Hingis	6.54
20	Lucie Safarova	6.53

Unlike the men where Djokovic was #1, Serena is not #1 but is instead #3 behind Sharapova and Muguruza.  This is because Serena had several closer than expected wins at the US Open and then the loss to Vinci, plus she didn't play the rest of the year while the others did play more and so had a chance to improve their ratings and not lose to Serena.  It will be interesting to see how this changes when I include the Australian Open.

The women are quite a bit closer grouped at the top than the men, although there is nearly a 0.5 drop from #1 to #20 which is similar to the men.

Stay tuned for more.

Attribution: Match data is courtesy Jeff Sackmann / Tennis Abstract.