List of WTA number 1 ranked players

This article is about number-one ranked players since 1975. For the all-time list, see World number 1 women tennis players.

The list of WTA number 1 ranked players shows the professional women's tennis players who have been or currently are ranked world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association, along with the dates of first reaching and losing that spot. Since the WTA began producing computerized rankings on November 3, 1975, 21 women have reached the highest singles ranking. The WTA Rankings are a merit-based method for determining the rankings in women's tennis and the WTA releases ranking points weekly based on how players fared during the last 52 weeks.

Serena Williams, currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis and the oldest player to hold the WTA No.1 ranking.

Singles

World No. 1 ranked players

The rankings are sourced by the WTA Media Guide and the WTA website (which usually revises its rankings every Sunday night or Monday morning, except when tournament finals are postponed).^[1]^[2]

Steffi Graf spent 377 weeks at the top of the WTA, the most of any player.

New nr. 1	Country	Player	Start date	End date	Weeks
New nr. 1	Country	Player	Start date	End date	series	total
1	USA	Chris Evert (1)	Nov 3, 1975	Apr 25, 1976	25	25
2	AUS	Evonne Goolagong Cawley (1)	Apr 26, 1976	May 9, 1976	2	2
	USA	Chris Evert (2)	May 10, 1976	Jul 9, 1978	113	138
3	USA	Martina Navratilova (1)	Jul 10, 1978	Jan 13, 1979	26	26
	USA	Chris Evert (3)	Jan 14, 1979	Jan 27, 1979	2	140
	USA	Martina Navratilova (2)	Jan 28, 1979	Feb 24, 1979	4	30
	USA	Chris Evert (4)	Feb 25, 1979	Apr 15, 1979	7	147
	USA	Martina Navratilova (3)	Apr 16, 1979	Jun 24, 1979	10	40
	USA	Chris Evert (5)	Jun 25, 1979	Sep 9, 1979	11	158
	USA	Martina Navratilova (4)	Sep 10, 1979	Apr 6, 1980	31	71
4	USA	Tracy Austin (1)	Apr 7, 1980	Apr 20, 1980	2	2
	USA	Martina Navratilova (5)	Apr 21, 1980	Jul 6, 1980	11	82
	USA	Tracy Austin (2)	Jul 7, 1980	Nov 17, 1980	19	21
	USA	Chris Evert (6)	Nov 18, 1980	May 2, 1982	76	234
	USA	Martina Navratilova (6)	May 3, 1982	May 16, 1982	2	84
	USA	Chris Evert (7)	May 17, 1982	Jun 13, 1982	4	238
	USA	Martina Navratilova (7)	Jun 14, 1982	Jun 9, 1985	156	240
	USA	Chris Evert (8)	Jun 10, 1985	Oct 13, 1985	18	256
	USA	Martina Navratilova (8)	Oct 14, 1985	Oct 27, 1985	2	242
	USA	Chris Evert (9)	Oct 28, 1985	Nov 24, 1985	4	260
	USA	Martina Navratilova (9)	Nov 25, 1985	Aug 16, 1987	90	332
5	FRG/GER	Steffi Graf (1)	Aug 17, 1987	Mar 10, 1991	186 ^↑	186
6	YUG	Monica Seles (1)	Mar 11, 1991	Aug 4, 1991	21	21
	GER	Steffi Graf (2)	Aug 5, 1991	Aug 11, 1991	1	187
	YUG	Monica Seles (2)	Aug 12, 1991	Aug 18, 1991	1	22
	GER	Steffi Graf (3)	Aug 19, 1991	Sep 8, 1991	3	190
	/ YUG	Monica Seles (3)	Sep 9, 1991	Jun 6, 1993^{[n 1]}	91	113
	GER	Steffi Graf (4)	Jun 7, 1993	Feb 5, 1995	87	277
7	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1)	Feb 6, 1995	Feb 19, 1995	2	2
	GER	Steffi Graf (5)	Feb 20, 1995	Feb 26, 1995	1	278
	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2)	Feb 27, 1995	Apr 9, 1995	6	8
	GER	Steffi Graf (6)	Apr 10, 1995	May 14, 1995	5	283
	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (3)	May 15, 1995	Jun 11, 1995	4	12
	GER	Steffi Graf (7)	Jun 12, 1995	Aug 14, 1995	9	292
	GER USA	Steffi Graf (7) Monica Seles^{[n 1]} (4)	Aug 15, 1995	Nov 3, 1996	64	356 177
	GER	Steffi Graf (7)	Nov 4, 1996	Nov 17, 1996	2	358
	GER USA	Steffi Graf (7) Monica Seles (5)	Nov 18, 1996	Nov 24, 1996	1	359 178
	GER	Steffi Graf (7)	Nov 25, 1996	Mar 30, 1997	18	377 ^↑
8	SUI	Martina Hingis (1)	Mar 31, 1997	Oct 11, 1998	80	80
9	USA	Lindsay Davenport (1)	Oct 12, 1998	Feb 7, 1999	17	17
	SUI	Martina Hingis (2)	Feb 8, 1999	Jul 4, 1999	21	101
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (2)	Jul 5, 1999	Aug 8, 1999	5	22
	SUI	Martina Hingis (3)	Aug 9, 1999	Apr 2, 2000	34	135
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (3)	Apr 3, 2000	May 7, 2000	5	27
	SUI	Martina Hingis (4)	May 8, 2000	May 14, 2000	1	136
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (4)	May 15, 2000	May 21, 2000	1	28
	SUI	Martina Hingis (5)	May 22, 2000	Oct 14, 2001	73	209
10	USA	Jennifer Capriati (1)	Oct 15, 2001	Nov 4, 2001	3	3
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (5)	Nov 5, 2001	Jan 13, 2002	10	38
	USA	Jennifer Capriati (2)	Jan 14, 2002	Feb 24, 2002	6	9
11	USA	Venus Williams (1)	Feb 25, 2002	Mar 17, 2002	3	3
	USA	Jennifer Capriati (3)	Mar 18, 2002	Apr 21, 2002	5	14
	USA	Venus Williams (2)	Apr 22, 2002	May 19, 2002	4	7
	USA	Jennifer Capriati (4)	May 20, 2002	Jun 9, 2002	3	17
	USA	Venus Williams (3)	Jun 10, 2002	Jul 7, 2002	4	11
12	USA	Serena Williams (1)	Jul 8, 2002	Aug 10, 2003	57	57
13	BEL	Kim Clijsters (1)	Aug 11, 2003	Oct 19, 2003	10	10
14	BEL	Justine Henin (1)	Oct 20, 2003	Oct 26, 2003	1	1
	BEL	Kim Clijsters (2)	Oct 27, 2003	Nov 9, 2003	2	12
	BEL	Justine Henin (2)	Nov 10, 2003	Sep 12, 2004	44	45
15	FRA	Amélie Mauresmo (1)	Sep 13, 2004	Oct 17, 2004	5	5
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (6)	Oct 18, 2004	Aug 21, 2005	44	82
16	RUS	Maria Sharapova (1)	Aug 22, 2005	Aug 28, 2005	1	1
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (7)	Aug 29, 2005	Sep 11, 2005	2	84
	RUS	Maria Sharapova (2)	Sep 12, 2005	Oct 23, 2005	6	7
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (8)	Oct 24, 2005	Jan 29, 2006	14	98
	BEL	Kim Clijsters (3)	Jan 30, 2006	Mar 19, 2006	7	19
	FRA	Amélie Mauresmo (2)	Mar 20, 2006	Nov 12, 2006	34	39
	BEL	Justine Henin (3)	Nov 13, 2006	Jan 28, 2007	11	56
	RUS	Maria Sharapova (3)	Jan 29, 2007	Mar 18, 2007	7	14
	BEL	Justine Henin (4)	Mar 19, 2007	May 18, 2008	61	117
	RUS	Maria Sharapova (4)	May 19, 2008	Jun 8, 2008	3	17
17	SRB	Ana Ivanovic (1)	Jun 9, 2008	Aug 10, 2008	9	9
18	SRB	Jelena Janković (1)	Aug 11, 2008	Aug 17, 2008	1	1
	SRB	Ana Ivanovic (2)	Aug 18, 2008	Sep 7, 2008	3	12
	USA	Serena Williams (2)	Sep 8, 2008	Oct 5, 2008	4	61
	SRB	Jelena Janković (2)	Oct 6, 2008	Feb 1, 2009	17	18
	USA	Serena Williams (3)	Feb 2, 2009	Apr 19, 2009	11	72
19	RUS	Dinara Safina (1)	Apr 20, 2009	Oct 11, 2009	25	25
	USA	Serena Williams (4)	Oct 12, 2009	Oct 25, 2009	2	74
	RUS	Dinara Safina (2)	Oct 26, 2009	Nov 1, 2009	1	26
	USA	Serena Williams (5)	Nov 2, 2009	Oct 10, 2010	49	123
20	DEN	Caroline Wozniacki (1)	Oct 11, 2010	Feb 13, 2011	18	18
	BEL	Kim Clijsters (4)	Feb 14, 2011	Feb 20, 2011	1	20
	DEN	Caroline Wozniacki (2)	Feb 21, 2011	Jan 29, 2012	49	67
21	BLR	Victoria Azarenka (1)	Jan 30, 2012	Jun 10, 2012	19	19
	RUS	Maria Sharapova (5)	Jun 11, 2012	Jul 8, 2012	4	21
	BLR	Victoria Azarenka (2)	Jul 9, 2012	Feb 17, 2013	32	51
	USA	Serena Williams (6)*	Feb 18, 2013	Present	157	280

Key

^↑	Open-era record
*	Current No. 1 player as of February 15, 2016

Note

1 2 Monica Seles was stabbed by a spectator during a WTA tournament match on 30 April 1993. When she returned to competition in 1995, the WTA decided to reinstate her alongside Graf as number one, with her ranking protected for a year until she had a full season of ranking points accrued.^[3]

Weeks at No. 1

Total

Rank	Nat. Player	Weeks
1.	Steffi Graf	377
2.	Martina Navratilova	332
3.	Serena Williams*	280
4.	Chris Evert	260
5.	Martina Hingis	209
6.	// Monica Seles	178
7.	Justine Henin	117
8.	Lindsay Davenport	98
9.	Caroline Wozniacki*	67
10.	Victoria Azarenka*	51
11.	Amélie Mauresmo	39
12.	Dinara Safina	26
13.	Tracy Austin	21
=	Maria Sharapova*	21
15.	Kim Clijsters	20
16.	Jelena Janković*	18
17.	Jennifer Capriati	17
18.	Ana Ivanovic*	12
=	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	12
20.	Venus Williams*	11
21.	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	2
*	active players - current No. 1 in bold

Consecutive

Rank	Nat. Player	Weeks
1.	Steffi Graf	186
2.	Serena Williams*	157
3.	Martina Navratilova	156
4.	Chris Evert	113
5.	Steffi Graf (2)	94
6.	Monica Seles	91
7.	Martina Navratilova (2)	90
8.	Steffi Graf (3)	87
9.	Martina Hingis	80
10.	Chris Evert (2)	76
11.	Martina Hingis (2)	73
12	Monica Seles (2)	64
13.	Justine Henin	61
14.	Serena Williams (2)	57
15.	Serena Williams (3)	49
=	Caroline Wozniacki	49
17.	Justine Henin (2)	44
=	Lindsay Davenport	44
19.	Martina Hingis (3)	34
=	Amélie Mauresmo	34
*	active players - current streak in bold

As of week of: February 15, 2016.^[4]^[5]
The source for this through the week of January 2, 2012, is the 2012 WTA Tour Official Guide, page 177.^[1]

Weeks at No. 1 by country

Rank	Country	Number of		Players
Rank	Country	players	weeks	Players
1.	United States	8	1084	Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Tracy Austin, Monica Seles, Lindsay Davenport, Jennifer Capriati, Venus Williams, Serena Williams*
2.	West Germany Germany	1	377	Steffi Graf
3.	Switzerland	1	209	Martina Hingis
4.	/ Yugoslavia Serbia	3	143	Monica Seles, Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Janković*
5.	Belgium	2	137	Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin
6.	Denmark	1	67	Caroline Wozniacki
7.	Belarus	1	51	Victoria Azarenka
8.	Russia	2	47	Maria Sharapova, Dinara Safina
9.	France	1	39	Amélie Mauresmo
10.	Spain	1	12	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
11.	Australia	1	2	Evonne Goolagong Cawley

As of February 15, 2016

Active players are in bold.

* Note that Monica Seles is included twice due to change of citizenship.

Year-end No. 1 players

The source for this through to 2012 is the 2012 WTA Tour Official Guide, page 178.^[1]

Per player

Country	Player	Fq.
FRG/GER	Steffi Graf	8
USA	Martina Navratilova	7
USA	Chris Evert	5
USA	Serena Williams	5
USA	Lindsay Davenport	4
/ YUG/ USA	Monica Seles	3
SUI	Martina Hingis
BEL	Justine Henin
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	2
SRB	Jelena Janković	1
BLR	Victoria Azarenka	1

Per year

Year	Country	Player
1975	USA	Chris Evert (1)
1976	USA	Chris Evert
1977	USA	Chris Evert
1978	USA	Martina Navratilova (2)
1979	USA	Martina Navratilova
1980	USA	Chris Evert
1981	USA	Chris Evert
1982	USA	Martina Navratilova
1983	USA	Martina Navratilova
1984	USA	Martina Navratilova
1985	USA	Martina Navratilova
1986	USA	Martina Navratilova
1987	GER	Steffi Graf (3)
1988	GER	Steffi Graf
1989	GER	Steffi Graf
1990	GER	Steffi Graf
1991	YUG	Monica Seles (4)
1992	YUG	Monica Seles
1993	GER	Steffi Graf
1994	GER	Steffi Graf
1995	GER USA	Steffi Graf Monica Seles
1996	GER	Steffi Graf
1997	SUI	Martina Hingis (5)
1998	USA	Lindsay Davenport (6)
1999	SUI	Martina Hingis
2000	SUI	Martina Hingis
2001	USA	Lindsay Davenport
2002	USA	Serena Williams (7)
2003	BEL	Justine Henin (8)
2004	USA	Lindsay Davenport
2005	USA	Lindsay Davenport
2006	BEL	Justine Henin
2007	BEL	Justine Henin
2008	SRB	Jelena Janković (9)
2009	USA	Serena Williams
2010	DEN	Caroline Wozniacki (10)
2011	DEN	Caroline Wozniacki
2012	BLR	Victoria Azarenka (11)^[6]
2013	USA	Serena Williams
2014	USA	Serena Williams
2015	USA	Serena Williams

No. 1 all weeks of the year

Players who were ranked world No. 1 without having won a Grand Slam tournament

Player	Date of first No. 1 position	First Grand Slam final reached	First Grand Slam title
Kim Clijsters	August 11, 2003	2001 French Open (June, 2001)	2005 US Open (1st of 4)
Amélie Mauresmo	September 13, 2004	1999 Australian Open (January, 1999)	2006 Australian Open (1st of 2)
Jelena Janković	August 11, 2008	2008 US Open (September, 2008)	none
Dinara Safina	April 20, 2009	2008 French Open (June, 2008) (1st of 3)	none
Caroline Wozniacki	October 11, 2010	2009 US Open (September, 2009) (1st of 2)	none

Doubles

World No. 1 ranked players

The source for the following table through the week of January 6, 2012, is the 2012 WTA Tour Official Guide, page 172.^[1]

Martina Navratilova was world No. 1 in doubles for a record 237 weeks

Sania Mirza attained the no.1 ranking in April and was seeded no.1 at the French Open with Martina Hingis.

New nr. 1	Country	Player	Start date	End date	Weeks
New nr. 1	Country	Player	Start date	End date	series	total
1	USA	Martina Navratilova (1)	September 4, 1984	Mar 17, 1985	27	27
2	USA	Pam Shriver (1)	Mar 18, 1985	Jan 19, 1986	44	44
	USA	Martina Navratilova (2)	Jan 20, 1986	Jul 20, 1986	26	53
	USA	Pam Shriver (2)	Jul 21, 1986	Aug 17, 1986	4	48
	USA	Martina Navratilova (3)	Aug 18, 1986	Feb 4, 1990	181 ^↑	234
3	TCH	Helena Suková (1)	Feb 5, 1990	Feb 18, 1990	2	2
	USA	Martina Navratilova (4)	Feb 19, 1990	Mar 4, 1990	2	236
	TCH	Helena Suková (2)	Mar 5, 1990	May 6, 1990	9	11
	USA	Martina Navratilova (5)	May 7, 1990	May 13, 1990	1	237 ^↑
	TCH	Helena Suková (3)	May 14, 1990	Aug 26, 1990	15	26
4	TCH	Jana Novotná (1)	Aug 27, 1990	Oct 14, 1990	7	7
	TCH	Helena Suková (4)	Oct 15, 1990	Feb 17, 1991	18	44
	TCH	Jana Novotná (2)	Feb 18, 1991	March 3, 1991	2	9
5	USA	Gigi Fernández (1)	March 4, 1991	March 10, 1991	1	1
	TCH	Jana Novotná (3)	March 11, 1991	March 31, 1991	3	12
	USA	Gigi Fernández (2)	Apr 1, 1991	Apr 7, 1991	1	2
	TCH	Helena Suková (5)	Apr 8, 1991	Jun 9, 1991	9	53
	USA	Gigi Fernández (3)	Jun 10, 1991	Sept 8, 1991	13	15
	CZE	Jana Novotná (4)	Sept 9, 1991	Oct 6, 1991	4	16
6	URS	Natasha Zvereva (1)	Oct 7, 1991	Oct 13, 1991	1	1
	CZE	Jana Novotná (5)	Oct 14, 1991	Jan 26, 1992	15	31
7	LAT	Larisa Neiland (1)	Jan 27, 1992	Feb 2, 1992	1	1
	CZE	Jana Novotná (6)	Feb 3, 1992	Feb 16, 1992	2	33
	LAT	Larisa Neiland (2)	Feb 17, 1992	Feb 23, 1992	1	2
	CZE	Jana Novotná (7)	Feb 24, 1992	Mar 22, 1992	4	37
	LAT	Larisa Neiland (3)	Mar 23, 1992	Apr 5, 1992	2	4
	CZE	Jana Novotná (8)	Apr 6, 1992	Jun 14, 1992	11	48
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (2)	Jun 15, 1992	Jun 21, 1992	1	2
	CZE	Jana Novotná (9)	Jun 22, 1992	Oct 11, 1992	15	63
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (3)	Oct 12, 1992	Oct 18, 1992	1	3
8	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1)	Oct 19, 1992	Nov 15, 1992	4	4
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (4)	Nov 16, 1992	Nov 22, 1992	1	4
	CZE	Helena Suková (6)	Nov 23, 1992	Jan 10, 1993	7	60
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (5)	Jan 11, 1993	Apr 4, 1993	12	16
	USA	Gigi Fernández (4)	Apr 5, 1993	Sep 12, 1993	23	38
	CZE	Helena Suková (7)	Sep 13, 1993	Oct 31, 1993	7	67
	USA	Gigi Fernández (5)	Nov 1, 1993	Nov 14, 1993	2	40
	CZE	Helena Suková (8)	Nov 15, 1993	Nov 21, 1993	1	68
	USA	Gigi Fernández (6)	Nov 22, 1993	Aug 14, 1994	38	78
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (6)	Aug 15, 1994	Feb 12, 1995	26	42
	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2)	Feb 13, 1995	Feb 26, 1995	2	6
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (7)	Feb 27, 1995	Mar 5, 1995	1	43
	USA	Gigi Fernández (7)	Mar 6, 1995	Mar 12, 1995	1	79
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (8)	Mar 13, 1995	Mar 26, 1995	2	45
	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (3)	Mar 27, 1995	Nov 5, 1995	32	38
	USA	Gigi Fernández (8)	Nov 6, 1995	Nov 12, 1995	1	80
	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (4)	Nov 13, 1995	Apr 6, 1997	73	111
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (9)	Apr 7, 1997	Oct 19, 1997	29	74
9	USA	Lindsay Davenport (1)	Oct 20, 1997	Nov 2, 1997	2	2
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (10)	Nov 3, 1997	Jan 25, 1998	12	86
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (2)	Jan 26, 1998	Apr 12, 1998	11	13
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (11)	Apr 13, 1998	Jun 7, 1998	8	94
10	SUI	Martina Hingis (1)	Jun 8, 1998	Aug 2, 1998	8	8
	CZE	Jana Novotná (10)	Aug 3, 1998	Aug 9, 1998	1	64
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (3)	Aug 10, 1998	Aug 16, 1998	1	14
	SUI	Martina Hingis (2)	Aug 17, 1998	Oct 25, 1998	10	18
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (12)	Oct 26, 1998	Nov 1, 1998	1	95
	SUI	Martina Hingis (3)	Nov 2, 1998	Nov 22, 1998	3	21
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (13)	Nov 23,1998	May 16, 1999	25	120
	CZE	Jana Novotná (11)	May 17, 1999	Jun 6, 1999	3	67
	SUI	Martina Hingis (4)	Jun 7, 1999	Jul 4, 1999	4	25
	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (14)	Jul 5, 1999	Aug 1, 1999	4	124
	SUI	Martina Hingis (5)	Aug 2, 1999	Aug 22, 1999	3	28
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (4)	Aug 23, 1999	Nov 21, 1999	13	27
11	RUS	Anna Kournikova (1)	Nov 22, 1999	Jan 30, 2000	10	10
	SUI	Martina Hingis (6)	Jan 31, 2000	Mar 19, 2000	7	35
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (5)	Mar 20, 2000	Apr 2, 2000	2	29
12	USA	Corina Morariu (1)	Apr 3, 2000	Apr 16, 2000	2	2
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (6)	Apr 17, 2000	May 7, 2000	3	32
	USA	Corina Morariu (2)	May 8, 2000	Jun 11, 2000	5	7
13	USA	Lisa Raymond (1)	Jun 12, 2000	Aug 20, 2000	10	10
14	USA AUS	Lisa Raymond (1) Rennae Stubbs (1)	Aug 21, 2000	Sep 10, 2000	3	13 3
15	FRA	Julie Halard-Decugis (1)	Sep 11, 2000	Oct 22, 2000	6	6
16	JPN	Ai Sugiyama (1)	Oct 23, 2000	Oct 29, 2000	1	1
	FRA	Julie Halard-Decugis (2)	Oct 30, 2000	Dec 24, 2000	8	14
	JPN	Ai Sugiyama (2)	Dec 25, 2000	Aug 26, 2001	35	36
	USA	Lisa Raymond (2)	Aug 27, 2001	Sep 8, 2002	54	67
17	ARG	Paola Suárez (1)	Sep 9, 2002	Aug 3, 2003	47	47
18	BEL	Kim Clijsters (1)	Aug 4, 2003	Aug 10, 2003	1	1
	JPN	Ai Sugiyama (3)	Aug 11, 2003	Aug 17, 2003	1	37
	BEL	Kim Clijsters (2)	Aug 18, 2003	Sep 7, 2003	3	4
19	ESP	Virginia Ruano Pascual (1)	Sep 8, 2003	Sep 14, 2003	1	1
	JPN	Ai Sugiyama (4)	Sep 15, 2003	Nov 9, 2003	8	45
	ARG	Paola Suárez (2)	Nov 10, 2003	Jul 25, 2004	37	84
	ESP	Virginia Ruano Pascual (2)	Jul 26, 2004	Aug 1, 2004	1	2
	ESP ARG	Virginia Ruano Pascual (2) Paola Suárez (3)	Aug 2, 2004	Aug 22, 2004	3	5 87
	ESP	Virginia Ruano Pascual (2)	Aug 23, 2004	Oct 16, 2005	60	65
20	ZIM	Cara Black (1)	Oct 17, 2005	Feb 5, 2006	16	16
21	AUS	Samantha Stosur (1)	Feb 6, 2006	Jul 6, 2006	22	22
	USA AUS	Lisa Raymond (3) Samantha Stosur (1)	Jul 7, 2006	Apr 8, 2007	39	106 61
	USA	Lisa Raymond (3)	Apr 9, 2007	Jun 10, 2007	9	115
	ZIM	Cara Black (2)	Jun 11, 2007	Jun 24, 2007	2	18
	USA	Lisa Raymond (4)	Jun 25, 2007	Jul 8, 2007	2	117
	ZIM	Cara Black (3)	Jul 9, 2007	Nov 11, 2007	18	36
22	ZIM USA	Cara Black (3) Liezel Huber (1)	Nov 12, 2007	April 18, 2010	127	163 127
	USA	Liezel Huber (1)	April 19, 2010	June 6, 2010	7	134
23 24	USA USA	Serena Williams (1) Venus Williams (1)	June 7, 2010	August 1, 2010	8	8 8
	USA	Liezel Huber (2)	August 2, 2010	October 31, 2010	13	147
25	ARG	Gisela Dulko (1)	November 1, 2010	February 27, 2011	17	17
26	ARG ITA	Gisela Dulko (1) Flavia Pennetta (1)	February 28, 2011	April 17, 2011	7 7	24 7
	ITA	Flavia Pennetta (1)	April 18, 2011	July 4, 2011	11	18
27 28	CZE SLO	Květa Peschke (1) Katarina Srebotnik (1)	July 4, 2011	September 11, 2011	10	10 10
	USA	Liezel Huber (3)	September 12, 2011	April 22, 2012	32	179
	USA USA	Liezel Huber (3) Lisa Raymond (5)	April 23, 2012	September 9, 2012	20	199 137
29	ITA	Sara Errani (1)	September 10, 2012	October 14, 2012	5	5
30	ITA	Roberta Vinci (1)	October 15, 2012	April 28, 2013	28	28
	ITA ITA	Roberta Vinci (1) Sara Errani (2)	April 29, 2013	February 16, 2014	42	70 47
31	CHN	Peng Shuai (1)	February 17, 2014	May 11, 2014	12	12
32	CHN TPE	Peng Shuai (1) Hsieh Su-wei (1)	May 12, 2014	May 18, 2014	1	13 1
	CHN	Peng Shuai (1)	May 19, 2014	June 8, 2014	3	16
	CHN TPE	Peng Shuai (1) Hsieh Su-wei (2)	June 9, 2014	July 6, 2014	4	20 5
	ITA ITA	Roberta Vinci (2) Sara Errani (3)	July 7, 2014	April 12, 2015	40	110 87
33	IND	Sania Mirza	April 13, 2015	January 17, 2016	40	40
	IND SUI	Sania Mirza* Martina Hingis* (7)	January 18, 2016	Present	5	45 40

Key

^↑	Open-era record
*	Current No. 1 player(s) as of February 15, 2016

Weeks at No. 1

Total

Rank	Nat.	Player	weeks
1.		Martina Navratilova	237
2.		Liezel Huber*	199
3.		Cara Black*	163
4.		Lisa Raymond	137
5.		Natasha Zvereva	124
6.		Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	111
7.		Roberta Vinci*	110
8.		Sara Errani*	87
=.		Paola Suárez	87
10.		Gigi Fernández	80
11.		Helena Suková	68
12.		Jana Novotná	67
13.		Virginia Ruano Pascual	65
14.		Samantha Stosur*	61
15.		Pam Shriver	48
16.		Ai Sugiyama	45
=		Sania Mirza*	45
18.		Martina Hingis*	40
19.		Lindsay Davenport	32
20.		Gisela Dulko	24
21.		Peng Shuai*	20
22.		Flavia Pennetta	18
23.		Julie Halard-Decugis	14
24.		Anna Kournikova	10
=.		Květa Peschke*	10
=.		Katarina Srebotnik*	10
27.		Serena Williams*	8
=.		Venus Williams*	8
29.		Corina Morariu	7
30.		Hsieh Su-wei*	5
31.		Kim Clijsters	4
=.		Larisa Neiland	4
33.		Rennae Stubbs	3
*	active players - current No. 1 in bold

Consecutive

Rank	Nat.	Player	weeks
1.		Martina Navratilova	181
2.		Cara Black	145
3.		Liezel Huber	134
4.		Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	73
5.		Roberta Vinci	70
6.		Virginia Ruano Pascual	64
7.		Samantha Stosur	61
8.		Lisa Raymond	54
9.		Liezel Huber (2)	52
10.		Lisa Raymond (2)	48
11.		Paola Suárez	47
12.		Sania Mirza*	45
13.		Pam Shriver	44
14.		Sara Errani	42
15.		Roberta Vinci (2)	40
=		Sara Errani (2)	40
17.		Gigi Fernández	38
18.		Paola Suárez (2)	37
19.		Ai Sugiyama	35
20.		Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2)	32
*	current streak in bold

As of: February 15, 2016.^[4]^[5]

Weeks at number 1 by country

Rank	Country	Number of		Players
Rank	Country	players	weeks	Players
1.	United States	9	756	Martina Navratilova, Pam Shriver, Gigi Fernández, Lindsay Davenport, Corina Morariu, Lisa Raymond, Liezel Huber, Venus Williams, Serena Williams
2.	Italy	3	215	Flavia Pennetta, Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci
3.	Spain	2	176	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Virginia Ruano Pascual
4.	Zimbabwe	1	163	Cara Black
5.	Czechoslovakia Czech Republic	3	145	Helena Suková, Jana Novotná, Květa Peschke
6.	Belarus	1	123	Natasha Zvereva*
7.	Argentina	2	111	Paola Suárez, Gisela Dulko
8.	Australia	2	64	Rennae Stubbs, Samantha Stosur
9.	Japan	1	45	Ai Sugiyama
=	India	1	45	Sania Mirza
11.	Switzerland	1	40	Martina Hingis
12.	China	1	20	Peng Shuai
13.	France	1	14	Julie Halard-Decugis
14.	Russia	1	10	Anna Kournikova
=.	Slovenia	1	10	Katarina Srebotnik
16.	Chinese Taipei	1	5	Hsieh Su-wei
17.	Latvia	1	4	Larisa Neiland
=.	Belgium	1	4	Kim Clijsters
19.	Soviet Union	1	1	Natasha Zvereva*

As of February 15, 2016.

Active players are in bold.

* Belarusian Natasha Zvereva acquired one week at number 1 whilst playing for the Soviet Union

Year-end No. 1 players

Per player

Country	Player	Fq.
USA	Martina Navratilova	5
ZIM	Cara Black	4
USA	Liezel Huber	4
BLR	Natasha Zvereva	3
ITA	Roberta Vinci	3
CZE	Helena Suková	2
ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
ARG	Paola Suárez
USA	Lisa Raymond
ITA	Sara Errani
USA	Pam Shriver	1
TCH	Jana Novotná
USA	Gigi Fernández
RUS	Anna Kournikova
JPN	Ai Sugiyama
ESP	Virginia Ruano Pascual
AUS	Samantha Stosur
ARG	Gisela Dulko
IND	Sania Mirza

Per year

Year	Country	Player	Team
1984	USA	Martina Navratilova (1)	Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver
1985	USA	Pam Shriver (2)	Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver
1986	USA	Martina Navratilova	Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver
1987	USA	Martina Navratilova	Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver
1988	USA	Martina Navratilova	Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver
1989	USA	Martina Navratilova	Helena Suková / Jana Novotná
1990	TCH	Helena Suková (3)	Helena Suková / Jana Novotná
1991	TCH	Jana Novotná (4)	Gigi Fernández / Jana Novotná
1992	CZE	Helena Suková	Larisa Neiland / Natasha Zvereva
1993	USA	Gigi Fernández (5)	Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva
1994	BLR	Natasha Zvereva (6)	Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva
1995	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (7)	Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva
1996	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Jana Novotná / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
1997	BLR	Natasha Zvereva	Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva
1998	BLR	Natasha Zvereva	Martina Hingis / Jana Novotná
1999	RUS	Anna Kournikova (8)	Martina Hingis / Anna Kournikova
2000	JPN	Ai Sugiyama (9)	Serena Williams / Venus Williams
2001	USA	Lisa Raymond (10)	Lisa Raymond / Rennae Stubbs
2002	ARG	Paola Suárez (11)	Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez
2003	ARG	Paola Suárez	Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez
2004	ESP	Virginia Ruano Pascual (12)	Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez
2005	ZIM	Cara Black (13)	Lisa Raymond / Samantha Stosur
2006	USA AUS	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur (14)	Lisa Raymond / Samantha Stosur
2007	ZIM USA	Cara Black Liezel Huber (15)	Cara Black / Liezel Huber
2008	ZIM USA	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Cara Black / Liezel Huber
2009	ZIM USA	Cara Black Liezel Huber	Cara Black / Liezel Huber
2010	ARG	Gisela Dulko (16)	Gisela Dulko / Flavia Pennetta
2011	USA	Liezel Huber	Květa Peschke / Katarina Srebotnik
2012	ITA	Roberta Vinci (17)	Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci
2013	ITA	Roberta Vinci	Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci
2013	ITA	Sara Errani (18)	Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci
2014	ITA ITA	Roberta Vinci Sara Errani	Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci
2015	IND	Sania Mirza (19)	Martina Hingis / Sania Mirza

No. 1 all weeks of the year

Players who were ranked world No. 1 without having won a Grand Slam tournament

Player	Date of first No. 1 position	First Grand Slam final reached	First Grand Slam title
Gisela Dulko	November 1, 2010	2011 Australian Open (January, 2011)	2011 Australian Open (1st of 1)
Sania Mirza	April 13, 2015	2011 French Open (June, 2011)	2015 Wimbledon (1st of 3)

References

1 2 3 4 "2012 WTA Media Guide" (PDF).
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1 2 "WTA Press Center - Weeks at No. 1".
1 2 "WTA Notes & Netcords".
↑ "Azarenka Makes SFs, Clinches Year-End No. 1". wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Retrieved 2012-10-26.

Women's Tennis Association (WTA) World No. 1 singles players

Chris Evert (1975/1985 – 260 w) Evonne Goolagong (1976 – 2 w) Martina Navratilova (1978/1987 – 331 w) Tracy Austin (1980 – 22 w) Steffi Graf (1987/1997 – 377 w) // Monica Seles (1991/1996 – 178 w) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1995 – 12 w) Martina Hingis (1997/2001 – 209 w) Lindsay Davenport (1998/2006 – 98 w) Jennifer Capriati (2001/2002 – 17 w) Venus Williams (2002 – 11 w) Serena Williams (2002/2016 – 279 w) Kim Clijsters (2003/2011 – 20 w) Justine Henin (2003/2008 – 117 w) Amélie Mauresmo (2004/2006 – 39 w) Maria Sharapova (2005/2012 – 21 w) Ana Ivanovic (2008 – 12 w) Jelena Janković (2008/2009 – 18 w) Dinara Safina (2009 – 26 w) Caroline Wozniacki (2010/2012 – 67 w) Victoria Azarenka (2012/2013 – 51 w)

WTA rankings incepted on November 3, 1975 (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) current No. 1 in bold, as of week of February 8, 2016

Women's Tennis Association (WTA) World No. 1 doubles players

Martina Navratilova (1984/1990 – 237 w) Pam Shriver (1985/1986 – 48 w) Helena Suková (1990/1993 – 68 w) Jana Novotná (1990/1999 – 67 w) Gigi Fernández (1991/1995 – 80 w) Natasha Zvereva (1991/1999 – 124 w) Larisa Neiland (1992 – 4 w) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1992/1997 – 111 w) Lindsay Davenport (1997/2000 – 32 w) Martina Hingis (1998/2016 – 39 w) Anna Kournikova (1999/2000 – 10 w) Corina Morariu (2000 – 7 w) Lisa Raymond (2000/2012 – 137 w) Rennae Stubbs (2000 – 3 w) Julie Halard-Decugis (2000 – 14 w) Ai Sugiyama (2000/2003 – 45 w) Paola Suárez (2002/2004 – 87 w) Kim Clijsters (2003 – 4 w) Virginia Ruano Pascual (2003/2005 – 65 w) Cara Black (2005/2010 – 163 w) Samantha Stosur (2006/2007 – 61 w) Liezel Huber (2007/2012 – 199 w) Serena Williams (2010 – 8 w) Venus Williams (2010 – 8 w) Gisela Dulko (2010/2011 – 24 w) Flavia Pennetta (2011 – 18 w) Květa Peschke (2011 – 10 w) Katarina Srebotnik (2011 – 10 w) Sara Errani (2012/2015 – 87 w) Roberta Vinci (2012/2015 – 110 w) Peng Shuai (2014 – 20 w) Hsieh Su-wei (2014 – 5 w) Sania Mirza (2015/2016 – 44 w)

WTA rankings incepted on September 4, 1984 (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) current No. 1 in bold, as of week of February 8, 2016

Tennis records and statistics

Grand Slam	Records Champions Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles Boys' singles Girls' singles Boys' doubles Girls' doubles Champions by country Singles Singles finals Open Era singles Men's finals Women's finals Age of first title

Men's	Singles Open Era All-time ATP Tour Rankings Records Elite champions Singles Doubles Awards No. 1 rankings ATP singles ATP doubles All-time

Women's	Singles Open Era All-time WTA Tour Rankings Records Elite champions Awards No. 1 rankings WTA singles and doubles All-time

Other	Notable rivalries Tournaments Singles Doubles Olympics Open Era Titles Records ITF Rankings Champions Match duration Longest Shortest Tiebreaker Golden set Serving Speed Aces

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List of WTA number 1 ranked players

Singles

World No. 1 ranked players

Weeks at No. 1

Total

Consecutive

Weeks at No. 1 by country

Year-end No. 1 players

Per player

Per year

Players who were ranked world No. 1 without having won a Grand Slam tournament

Doubles

World No. 1 ranked players

Weeks at No. 1

Total

Consecutive

Weeks at number 1 by country

Year-end No. 1 players

Per player

Per year

Players who were ranked world No. 1 without having won a Grand Slam tournament

See also

References