Top ten ranked female tennis players
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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
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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