Top ten ranked female tennis players
This article presents year-ending top ten lists of female singles tennis players, as ranked by various official and non-official ranking authorities throughout the history of the sport.
The article is split into two sections: 1921–1974, and since 1975 when the first official WTA rankings were published, for ease of navigation.
Top ten rankings by year
[edit]1921–1974
[edit]1975
[edit]The official WTA rankings were introduced in November 1975.
WTA[1] | Lance Tingay[2] (The Daily Telegraph) |
Bud Collins[3] (The Boston Globe) |
Rino Tommasi[4] (La Gazzetta dello Sport) |
John Barrett (Financial Times) |
World Tennis[5] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[6] |
Rex Bellamy[7] (The Times) |
Chris Evert[5] |
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1976
[edit]WTA[8] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[9] |
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1977
[edit]WTA[10] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[11] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[12] |
Peter Bodo (Tennis magazine (U.S.)) |
Judith Elian (L'Équipe) |
Wataru Tsukagoshi (Tennis Japan) |
Barry Lorge[13] (The Washington Post) |
France-Presse[14] |
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1978
[edit]WTA[15] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[16] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[17] |
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1979
[edit]WTA[18] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[19] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[20] |
Peter Bodo | Judith Elian | Wataru Tsukagoshi | Joseph Macauley (Australian Tennis Magazine) |
Alan Trengrove (Australian Tennis Magazine) |
Jeffrey Bairstow (Tennis magazine (U.S.)) |
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1980
[edit]WTA[21] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[22] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[23] |
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1981
[edit]WTA[24] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[25] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[26] |
Peter Bodo | Judith Elian | Wataru Tsukagoshi | Alan Trengrove | Alexander McNab (Tennis magazine (U.S.)) |
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1982
[edit]WTA[27] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[28] | World Tennis[29] |
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1983
[edit]WTA[30] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[31] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[32] |
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1984
[edit]WTA[33] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[34] (panel ranking) |
Tennis magazine (U.S.)[35] |
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1985
[edit]WTA[36] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[37] (panel ranking) |
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1986
[edit]WTA[38] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[39] | World Tennis[40] (panel ranking) |
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1987
[edit]WTA[41] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[42] | World Tennis[43] (panel ranking) |
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1988
[edit]WTA[44] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[45] | World Tennis[46] (panel ranking) |
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1989
[edit]Last Tingay ranking before his death.
WTA[47] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[48] | World Tennis[49] (panel ranking) |
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1990
[edit]WTA[50] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[51] | World Tennis[52] |
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1991
[edit]WTA[53] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[54] |
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1992
[edit]WTA[55] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[56] |
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1993
[edit]WTA[57] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[56] |
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1994
[edit]WTA[58] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[59] |
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1995
[edit]WTA[60] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[61] |
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1996
[edit]WTA[62] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[63] |
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1997
[edit]WTA[64] | John Barrett[65] |
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1998
[edit]WTA[66] | John Barrett[67] |
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1999
[edit]WTA[68] | John Barrett[69] |
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2000
[edit]WTA[70] |
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2001
[edit]WTA[71] |
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2002
[edit]WTA[72] |
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2003
[edit]WTA[73] |
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2004
[edit]WTA[74] |
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2005
[edit]WTA[75] |
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2006
[edit]WTA[76] |
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2007
[edit]WTA[77] |
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2008
[edit]WTA[78] |
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2009
[edit]WTA[79] |
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2010
[edit]WTA[80] |
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2011
[edit]WTA[81] |
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2012
[edit]WTA[82] |
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2013
[edit]WTA[83] |
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2014
[edit]WTA[84] |
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2015
[edit]WTA[85] |
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2016
[edit]WTA[86] |
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2017
[edit]WTA[87] |
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2018
[edit]WTA[88] |
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2019
[edit]WTA[89] |
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2020
[edit]WTA[90] |
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2021
[edit]WTA |
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2022
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2023
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2024
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See also
[edit]- World number 1 ranked female tennis players
- List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players
- Top ten ranked male tennis players
- Top ten ranked male tennis players (1912–1972)
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- ^ The Financial Times, 4 January 1992, p. 10
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 1992-11-23" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
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- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 1993-12-27" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 1994-11-21" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
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- ^ World of Tennis 1999
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- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2000-12-25" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2001-11-12" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2002-11-11" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2003-11-10" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2004-12-27" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2005-11-14" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2006-12-18" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-21.
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2007-11-12" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2008-11-10" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2009-11-09" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2010-11-08" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2011-11-07" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2012-11-05" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2013-11-04" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2014-11-03" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2015-11-09" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2016-11-07" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2017-11-06" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2018-11-05" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2019-11-04" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "WTA Singles Rankings as of 2020-11-16" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association (WTA).