List of WTA number 1 ranked 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 computerised rankings on 3 November 1975, 27 women have reached the highest singles ranking and 43 women the highest doubles 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 previous 52 weeks.

Ashleigh Barty, currently ranked no. 1 in women's singles

Hsieh Su-wei, currently ranked no. 1 in women's doubles

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 ranking, the most of any player.

New No. 1	Country	Player	Start date	End date	Weeks
					series	total
1	USA	Chris Evert	Nov 3, 1975	Apr 25, 1976	25	25
2	AUS	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	Apr 26, 1976	May 9, 1976	2	2
	USA	Chris Evert (2)	May 10, 1976	Jul 9, 1978	113	138
3	USA	Martina Navratilova	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	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	Aug 17, 1987	Mar 10, 1991	186 ^↑	186
6	YUG	Monica Seles	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) [n 1]	Sep 9, 1991	Jun 6, 1993	91	113
	GER	Steffi Graf (4)	Jun 7, 1993	Feb 5, 1995	87	277
7	ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	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	Mar 31, 1997	Oct 11, 1998	80	80
9	USA	Lindsay Davenport	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	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	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	Jul 8, 2002	Aug 10, 2003	57	57
13	BEL	Kim Clijsters	Aug 11, 2003	Oct 19, 2003	10	10
14	BEL	Justine Henin	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	Sep 13, 2004	Oct 17, 2004	5	5
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (6)	Oct 18, 2004	Aug 21, 2005	44	82
16	RUS	Maria Sharapova	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	Jun 9, 2008	Aug 10, 2008	9	9
18	SRB	Jelena Janković	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	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	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	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	Sep 11, 2016	186 ^↑	309
22	GER	Angelique Kerber	Sep 12, 2016	Jan 29, 2017	20	20
	USA	Serena Williams (7)	Jan 30, 2017	Mar 19, 2017	7	316
	GER	Angelique Kerber (2)	Mar 20, 2017	Apr 23, 2017	5	25
	USA	Serena Williams (8)	Apr 24, 2017	May 14, 2017	3	319
	GER	Angelique Kerber (3)	May 15, 2017	Jul 16, 2017	9	34
23	CZE	Karolína Plíšková	Jul 17, 2017	Sep 10, 2017	8	8
24	ESP	Garbiñe Muguruza	Sep 11, 2017	Oct 8, 2017	4	4
25	ROU	Simona Halep	Oct 9, 2017	Jan 28, 2018	16	16
	DEN	Caroline Wozniacki (3)	Jan 29, 2018	Feb 25, 2018	4	71
	ROU	Simona Halep (2)	Feb 26, 2018	Jan 27, 2019	48	64
26	JPN	Naomi Osaka	Jan 28, 2019	Jun 23, 2019	21	21
27	AUS	Ashleigh Barty	Jun 24, 2019	Aug 11, 2019	7	7
	JPN	Naomi Osaka (2)	Aug 12, 2019	Sep 8, 2019	4	25
	AUS	Ashleigh Barty (2)	Sep 9, 2019	Mar 22, 2020	28	35
WTA Ranking was frozen			Mar 23, 2020	Aug 9, 2020	20
	AUS	Ashleigh Barty (2)	Aug 10, 2020	Present	26	61

Key

^↑	Open-era record
	No. 1 player as of February 1, 2021

Note

1. Monica Seles was stabbed by a spectator during a WTA tournament match on 30 April 1993; while ranked number one. 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 Player Weeks 1 Steffi Graf 377 2 Martina Navratilova 332 3 Serena Williams 319 4 Chris Evert 260 5 Martina Hingis 209 6 / Monica Seles 178 7 Justine Henin 117 8 Lindsay Davenport 98 9 Caroline Wozniacki 71 10 Simona Halep 64 11 Ashleigh Barty 61 12 Victoria Azarenka 51 13 Amélie Mauresmo 39 14 Angelique Kerber 34 15 Dinara Safina 26 16 Naomi Osaka 25 17 Tracy Austin 21 Maria Sharapova 19 Kim Clijsters 20 20 Jelena Janković 18 21 Jennifer Capriati 17 22 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 12 Ana Ivanovic 24 Venus Williams 11 25 Karolína Plíšková 8 26 Garbiñe Muguruza 4 27 Evonne Goolagong Cawley 2 active players – current No. 1 in bold

Consecutive Rank Player Weeks 1 Steffi Graf (1) 186 Serena Williams (1) 3 Martina Navratilova (1) 156 4 Chris Evert (1) 113 5 Steffi Graf (2) 94 6 Monica Seles (1) 91 7 Martina Navratilova (2) 90 8 Steffi Graf (3) 87 9 Martina Hingis (1) 80 10 Chris Evert (2) 76 11 Martina Hingis (2) 73 12 Monica Seles (2) 64 13 Justine Henin (1) 61 14 Serena Williams (2) 57 15 Ashleigh Barty 54 16 Serena Williams (3) 49 Caroline Wozniacki 18 Simona Halep 48 19 Justine Henin (2) 44 Lindsay Davenport current streak in bold

as of February 1, 2021[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
		Players	Weeks
1	United States	8	1,123	Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Tracy Austin, Monica Seles*, Lindsay Davenport, Jennifer Capriati, Venus Williams, Serena Williams
2	Germany	2	411	Steffi Graf, Angelique Kerber
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	71	Caroline Wozniacki
7	Romania	1	64	Simona Halep
8	Australia	2	63	Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Ashleigh Barty
9	Belarus	1	51	Victoria Azarenka
10	Russia	2	47	Maria Sharapova, Dinara Safina
11	France	1	39	Amélie Mauresmo
12	Japan	1	25	Naomi Osaka
13	Spain	2	16	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Garbiñe Muguruza
14	Czech Republic	1	8	Karolína Plíšková

as of February 1, 2021; current No. 1 player in bold
* 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.
GER	Steffi Graf	8
USA	Martina Navratilova	7
USA	Chris Evert	5
USA	Serena Williams
USA	Lindsay Davenport	4
YUG/ USA	Monica Seles	3
SUI	Martina Hingis
BEL	Justine Henin
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	2
ROU	Simona Halep
AUS	Ashleigh Barty
SRB	Jelena Janković	1
BLR	Victoria Azarenka
GER	Angelique Kerber

Per year Year Country Player 1975  USA Chris Evert (1) 1976  USA Chris Evert (2) 1977  USA Chris Evert (3) 1978  USA Martina Navratilova (1) 1979  USA Martina Navratilova (2) 1980  USA Chris Evert (4) 1981  USA Chris Evert (5) 1982  USA Martina Navratilova (3) 1983  USA Martina Navratilova (4) 1984  USA Martina Navratilova (5) 1985  USA Martina Navratilova (6) 1986  USA Martina Navratilova (7) 1987  GER Steffi Graf (1) 1988  GER Steffi Graf (2) 1989  GER Steffi Graf (3) 1990  GER Steffi Graf (4) 1991  YUG Monica Seles (1) 1992  YUG Monica Seles (2) 1993  GER Steffi Graf (5) 1994  GER Steffi Graf (6) 1995  GER  USA Steffi Graf (7) Monica Seles (3) 1996  GER Steffi Graf (8) 1997   SUI Martina Hingis (1) 1998  USA Lindsay Davenport (1) 1999   SUI Martina Hingis (2)

Per year (continued) Year Country Player 2000   SUI Martina Hingis (3) 2001  USA Lindsay Davenport (2) 2002  USA Serena Williams (1) 2003  BEL Justine Henin (1) 2004  USA Lindsay Davenport (3) 2005  USA Lindsay Davenport (4) 2006  BEL Justine Henin (2) 2007  BEL Justine Henin (3) 2008  SRB Jelena Janković 2009  USA Serena Williams (2) 2010  DEN Caroline Wozniacki (1) 2011  DEN Caroline Wozniacki (2) 2012  BLR Victoria Azarenka 2013  USA Serena Williams (3) 2014  USA Serena Williams (4) 2015  USA Serena Williams (5) 2016  GER Angelique Kerber 2017  ROU Simona Halep (1) 2018  ROU Simona Halep (2) 2019  AUS Ashleigh Barty (1) 2020  AUS Ashleigh Barty (2) No. 1 during every week of the year

Players who became No. 1 before winning their first Grand Slam title

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) (1st of 8)	2005 US Open (1st of 4, still active)
Amélie Mauresmo	September 13, 2004	1999 Australian Open (January 1999) (1st of 3)	2006 Australian Open (1st of 2, retired in 2009)
Jelena Janković	August 11, 2008	2008 US Open (September 2008) (only final)	None (still active)
Dinara Safina	April 20, 2009	2008 French Open (June 2008) (1st of 3)	None (retired in 2014)
Caroline Wozniacki	October 11, 2010	2009 US Open (September 2009) (1st of 3)	2018 Australian Open (only title, retired in 2020)
Karolína Plíšková	July 17, 2017	2016 US Open (September 2016) (only final)	None (still active)
Simona Halep	October 9, 2017	2014 French Open (June 2014) (1st of 5)	2018 French Open (1st of 2, still active)

Weeks at No. 1 by decade

1970s* * — Starting November 1975 158  Evert 57  Navratilova   2    Goolagong Cawley

1980s 275  Navratilova 124  Graf 102  Evert 21  Austin

1990s 253  Graf 178  Seles 122  Hingis 22  Davenport

2000s 117  Henin 87  Hingis 83  S Williams 76  Davenport 39  Mauresmo 26  Safina 19  Clijsters 18  Janković 17  Capriati 17  Sharapova 12  Ivanovic 11  V Williams

2010s 236  S Williams 71  Wozniacki 64  Halep 51  Azarenka 34  Kerber 25  Osaka 24  Barty 8  Plíšková   4     Muguruza   4     Sharapova   1      Clijsters

2020s WTA Ranking was frozen from March 23, 2020 to August 9, 2020. 37     Barty as of January 25, 2021

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

New No. 1	Country	Player	Start date	End date	Weeks
					series	total
1	USA	Martina Navratilova (1)	Sep 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	Mar 3, 1991	2	9
5	USA	Gigi Fernández (1)	Mar 4, 1991	Mar 10, 1991	1	1
	TCH	Jana Novotná (3)	Mar 11, 1991	Mar 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	Apr 18, 2010	127	163 127
	USA	Liezel Huber (1)	Apr 19, 2010	Jun 6, 2010	7	134
23 24	USA  USA	Serena Williams (1) Venus Williams (1)	Jun 7, 2010	Aug 1, 2010	8	8 8
	USA	Liezel Huber (2)	Aug 2, 2010	Oct 31, 2010	13	147
25	ARG	Gisela Dulko (1)	Nov 1, 2010	Feb 27, 2011	17	17
26	ARG  ITA	Gisela Dulko (1) Flavia Pennetta (1)	Feb 28, 2011	Apr 17, 2011	7	24 7
	ITA	Flavia Pennetta (1)	Apr 18, 2011	Jul 4, 2011	11	18
27 28	CZE  SLO	Květa Peschke (1) Katarina Srebotnik (1)	Jul 4, 2011	Sep 11, 2011	10	10 10
	USA	Liezel Huber (3)	Sep 12, 2011	Apr 22, 2012	32	179
	USA  USA	Liezel Huber (3) Lisa Raymond (5)	Apr 23, 2012	Sep 9, 2012	20	199 137
29	ITA	Sara Errani (1)	Sep 10, 2012	Oct 14, 2012	5	5
30	ITA	Roberta Vinci (1)	Oct 15, 2012	Apr 28, 2013	28	28
	ITA  ITA	Roberta Vinci (1) Sara Errani (2)	Apr 29, 2013	Feb 16, 2014	42	70 47
31	CHN	Peng Shuai (1)	Feb 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	Jun 8, 2014	3	16
	CHN  TPE	Peng Shuai (1) Hsieh Su-wei (2)	Jun 9, 2014	Jul 6, 2014	4	20 5
	ITA  ITA	Roberta Vinci (2) Sara Errani (3)	Jul 7, 2014	Apr 12, 2015	40	110 87
33	IND	Sania Mirza (1)	Apr 13, 2015	Jan 17, 2016	40	40
	IND   SUI	Sania Mirza (1) Martina Hingis (7)	Jan 18, 2016	Aug 21, 2016	31	71 66
	IND	Sania Mirza (1)	Aug 22, 2016	Jan 8, 2017	20	91
34	USA	Bethanie Mattek-Sands (1)	Jan 9, 2017	Aug 20, 2017	32	32
35	CZE	Lucie Šafářová (1)	Aug 21, 2017	Oct 1, 2017	6	6
	SUI	Martina Hingis (8)	Oct 2, 2017	Oct 22, 2017	3	69
36	SUI  TPE	Martina Hingis (8) Latisha Chan (1)	Oct 23, 2017	Mar 18, 2018	21	90 21
	TPE	Latisha Chan (1)	Mar 19, 2018	Jun 10, 2018	12	33
37 38	RUS  RUS	Ekaterina Makarova (1) Elena Vesnina (1)	Jun 11, 2018	Jul 15, 2018	5	5 5
39	HUN	Tímea Babos (1)	Jul 16, 2018	Aug 12, 2018	4	4
	TPE	Latisha Chan (2)	Aug 13, 2018	Aug 19, 2018	1	34
	HUN	Tímea Babos (2)	Aug 20, 2018	Oct 21, 2018	9	13
40 41	CZE  CZE	Barbora Krejčíková (1) Kateřina Siniaková (1)	Oct 22, 2018	Jan 13, 2019	12	12 12
	CZE	Kateřina Siniaková (1)	Jan 14, 2019	Jun 9, 2019	21	33
42	FRA	Kristina Mladenovic (1)	Jun 10, 2019	Jul 14, 2019	5	5
43	CZE	Barbora Strýcová (1)	Jul 15, 2019	Oct 6, 2019	12	12
	FRA	Kristina Mladenovic (2)	Oct 7, 2019	Oct 20, 2019	2	7
	CZE	Barbora Strýcová (2)	Oct 21, 2019	Feb 2, 2020	15	27
	TPE	Hsieh Su-wei (3)	Feb 3, 2020	Feb 23, 2020	3	8
	FRA	Kristina Mladenovic (3)	Feb 24, 2020	Mar 1, 2020	1	8
	TPE	Hsieh Su-wei (4)	Mar 2, 2020	Mar 22, 2020	3	11
WTA Ranking was frozen			March 23, 2020	August 9, 2020	20
	TPE	Hsieh Su-wei (4)	Aug 10, 2020	Present	26	37

Key

^↑	Open-era record
	No. 1 player(s) as of February 1, 2021

Note

Weeks at No. 1

Total Rank 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 Sania Mirza 91 9 Martina Hingis 90 10 Sara Errani 87 Paola Suárez 12 Gigi Fernández 80 13 Helena Suková 68 14 Jana Novotná 67 15 Virginia Ruano Pascual 65 16 Samantha Stosur 61 17 Pam Shriver 48 18 Ai Sugiyama 45 19 Hsieh Su-wei 37 20 Latisha Chan 34 21 Kateřina Siniaková 33 22 Lindsay Davenport 32 Bethanie Mattek-Sands 24 Barbora Strýcová 27 25 Gisela Dulko 24 26 Peng Shuai 20 27 Flavia Pennetta 18 28 Julie Halard-Decugis 14 29 Tímea Babos 13 30 Barbora Krejčíková 12 31 Anna Kournikova 10 Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik 34 Serena Williams 8 Venus Williams Kristina Mladenovic 37 Corina Morariu 7 38 Lucie Šafářová 6 39 Ekaterina Makarova 5 Elena Vesnina 41 Kim Clijsters 4 Larisa Neiland 43 Rennae Stubbs 3 active players – current No. 1(s) in bold

Consecutive Rank Player Weeks 1 Martina Navratilova 181 2 Cara Black 145 3 Liezel Huber (1) 134 4 Sania Mirza 91 5 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 73 6 Roberta Vinci (1) 70 7 Virginia Ruano Pascual 64 8 Samantha Stosur 61 9 Lisa Raymond (1) 54 10 Liezel Huber (2) 52 11 Lisa Raymond (2) 48 12 Paola Suárez (1) 47 13 Pam Shriver 44 14 Sara Errani (1) 42 16 Sara Errani (2) 40 Roberta Vinci (2) 17 Gigi Fernández 38 18 Paola Suárez (2) 37 19 Ai Sugiyama 35 20 Latisha Chan 33 Kateřina Siniaková current streak in bold

as of February 1, 2021[4][5]

Weeks at No. 1 by country

Rank	Country	Number of		Players
		players	weeks
1	United States	10	788	Martina Navratilova, Pam Shriver, Gigi Fernández, Lindsay Davenport, Corina Morariu, Lisa Raymond, Liezel Huber, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Bethanie Mattek-Sands
2	Czechoslovakia  Czech Republic	7	223	Helena Suková, Jana Novotná, Květa Peschke, Lucie Šafářová, Barbora Krejčíková, Kateřina Siniaková, Barbora Strýcová
3	Italy	3	215	Flavia Pennetta, Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci
4	Spain	2	176	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Virginia Ruano Pascual
5	Zimbabwe	1	163	Cara Black
6	Belarus	1	123	Natasha Zvereva*
7	Argentina	2	111	Paola Suárez, Gisela Dulko
8	India	1	91	Sania Mirza
9	Switzerland	1	90	Martina Hingis
10	Chinese Taipei	2	71	Hsieh Su-wei, Latisha Chan
11	Australia	2	64	Rennae Stubbs, Samantha Stosur
12	Japan	1	45	Ai Sugiyama
13	France	2	22	Julie Halard-Decugis, Kristina Mladenovic
14	China	1	20	Peng Shuai
	Russia	3		Anna Kournikova, Ekaterina Makarova, Elena Vesnina
16	Hungary	1	13	Tímea Babos
17	Slovenia	1	10	Katarina Srebotnik
18	Latvia	1	4	Larisa Neiland
	Belgium	1		Kim Clijsters
20	Soviet Union	1	1	Natasha Zvereva*

as of February 1, 2021 – current No. 1 player(s) in bold

* Belarusian Natasha Zvereva spent one week at number one while 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  BLR Natasha Zvereva 3  ITA Roberta Vinci  CZE Helena Suková 2  ESP Arantxa Sánchez Vicario  ARG Paola Suárez  USA Lisa Raymond  ITA Sara Errani  IND Sania Mirza  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  TPE Latisha Chan   SUI Martina Hingis  CZE Barbora Krejčiková  CZE Kateřina Siniaková  CZE Barbora Strýcová  TPE Hsieh Su-Wei

Per year Year Country Player Team 1984  USA Martina Navratilova (1) Martina Navratilova (1) / Pam Shriver (1) 1985  USA Pam Shriver Martina Navratilova (2) / Pam Shriver (2) 1986  USA Martina Navratilova (2) Martina Navratilova (3) / Pam Shriver (3) 1987  USA Martina Navratilova (3) Martina Navratilova (4) / Pam Shriver (4) 1988  USA Martina Navratilova (4) Martina Navratilova (5) / Pam Shriver (5) 1989  USA Martina Navratilova (5) Helena Suková (1) / Jana Novotná (1) 1990  TCH Helena Suková (1) Helena Suková (2) / Jana Novotná (2) 1991  TCH Jana Novotná Gigi Fernández (1) / Jana Novotná (3) 1992  CZE Helena Suková (2) Larisa Neiland / Natasha Zvereva (1) 1993  USA Gigi Fernández Gigi Fernández (2) / Natasha Zvereva (2) 1994  BLR Natasha Zvereva (1) Gigi Fernández (3) / Natasha Zvereva (3) 1995  ESP Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1) Gigi Fernández (4) / Natasha Zvereva (4) 1996  ESP Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2) Jana Novotná (4) / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 1997  BLR Natasha Zvereva (2) Gigi Fernández (5) / Natasha Zvereva (5) 1998  BLR Natasha Zvereva (3) Martina Hingis (1) / Jana Novotná (5) 1999  RUS Anna Kournikova Martina Hingis (2) / Anna Kournikova 2000  JPN Ai Sugiyama Serena Williams / Venus Williams 2001  USA Lisa Raymond (1) Lisa Raymond (1) / Rennae Stubbs 2002  ARG Paola Suárez (1) Virginia Ruano Pascual (1) / Paola Suárez (1) 2003  ARG Paola Suárez (2) Virginia Ruano Pascual (2) / Paola Suárez (2) 2004  ESP Virginia Ruano Pascual Virginia Ruano Pascual (3) / Paola Suárez (3) 2005  ZIM Cara Black (1) Lisa Raymond (2) / Samantha Stosur (1) 2006  USA  AUS Lisa Raymond (2) Samantha Stosur Lisa Raymond (3) / Samantha Stosur (2) 2007  ZIM  USA Cara Black (2) Liezel Huber (1) Cara Black (1) / Liezel Huber (1) 2008  ZIM  USA Cara Black (3) Liezel Huber (2) Cara Black (2) / Liezel Huber (2) 2009  ZIM  USA Cara Black (4) Liezel Huber (3) Cara Black (3) / Liezel Huber (3) 2010  ARG Gisela Dulko Gisela Dulko / Flavia Pennetta 2011  USA Liezel Huber (4) Květa Peschke / Katarina Srebotnik 2012  ITA Roberta Vinci (1) Sara Errani (1) / Roberta Vinci (1) 2013  ITA Sara Errani (1) Sara Errani (2) / Roberta Vinci (2)  ITA Roberta Vinci (2) 2014  ITA  ITA Sara Errani (2) Roberta Vinci (3) Sara Errani (3) / Roberta Vinci (3) 2015  IND Sania Mirza (1) Martina Hingis (3) / Sania Mirza 2016  IND Sania Mirza (2) Caroline Garcia / Kristina Mladenovic (1) 2017  TPE   SUI Latisha Chan Martina Hingis Latisha Chan / Martina Hingis (4) 2018  CZE  CZE Barbora Krejčiková Kateřina Siniaková Barbora Krejčiková / Kateřina Siniaková 2019  CZE Barbora Strýcová Tímea Babos / Kristina Mladenovic (2) 2020  TPE Hsieh Su-Wei Tímea Babos (2) / Kristina Mladenovic (3) No. 1 every week of the year

Players who became No. 1 before they won their first Grand Slam title

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) (only final)	2011 Australian Open (only title)
Sania Mirza	April 13, 2015	2011 French Open (June 2011) (1st of 4)	2015 Wimbledon (1st of 3, still active)

See also

• World number 1 ranked female tennis players (includes rankings before 1975)
• List of WTA players who were ranked number 5 or higher but never number 1
• Current WTA Rankings
• List of highest ranked tennis players per country
• List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players
• List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players

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