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
1921–1974
1975
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
WTA[8] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[9] |
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1977
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
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
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
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
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
WTA[27] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[28] | World Tennis[29] |
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1983
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
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
WTA[36] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[37] (panel ranking) |
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1986
WTA[38] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[39] | World Tennis[40] (panel ranking) |
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1987
WTA[41] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[42] | World Tennis[43] (panel ranking) |
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1988
WTA[44] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[45] | World Tennis[46] (panel ranking) |
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1989
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
WTA[50] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[51] | World Tennis[52] |
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1991
WTA[53] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[54] |
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1992
WTA[55] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[56] |
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1993
WTA[57] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[56] |
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1994
WTA[58] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[59] |
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1995
WTA[60] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[61] |
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1996
WTA[62] | Bud Collins[3] | John Barrett[63] |
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1997
WTA[64] | John Barrett[65] |
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1998
WTA[66] | John Barrett[67] |
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1999
WTA[68] | John Barrett[69] |
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2000
WTA[70] |
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2001
WTA[71] |
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2002
WTA[72] |
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2003
WTA[73] |
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2004
WTA[74] |
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2005
WTA[75] |
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2006
WTA[76] |
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2007
WTA[77] |
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2008
WTA[78] |
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2009
WTA[79] |
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2010
WTA[80] |
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2011
WTA[81] |
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2012
2013
WTA[83] |
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2014
WTA[84] |
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2015
WTA[85] |
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2016
WTA[86] |
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2017
WTA[87] |
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2018
WTA[88] |
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2019
WTA[89] |
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2020
WTA[90] |
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2021
WTA |
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2022
WTA |
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2023
WTA |
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See also
References
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- 1 2 The Financial Times, 18 December 1993, p. 13
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