List of the world's first WTA racquets

German Steffi Graf topped the list of the best tennis players in the world for 377 weeks.

The list of the first racquets in the world is based on the official algorithmic lists of the strongest tennis players in the world, published weekly by the Women's Tennis Association on November 3, 1975 (for single events) and on September 4, 1984 (for doubles).

Content

Single Rating

List of leaders of the rating list

Nl	A country	Tennis player	Start time	End time	CHN	Emergency
one	USA	Chris Evert	November 3, 1975	April 25, 1976	25	25
2	Australia	Yvonne Gulagong-Cowley	April 26, 1976	May 9, 1976	2	2
	USA	Chris Evert (2)	May 10, 1976	July 9, 1978	113	138
3	USA	Martina Navratilova	July 10, 1978	January 13, 1979	26	26
	USA	Chris Evert (3)	January 14, 1979	January 27, 1979	2	140
	USA	Martina Navratilova (2)	January 28, 1979	February 24, 1979	four	thirty
	USA	Chris Evert (4)	February 25, 1979	April 15, 1979	7	147
	USA	Martina Navratilova (3)	April 16, 1979	June 24, 1979	ten	40
	USA	Chris Evert (5)	June 25, 1979	September 9, 1979	eleven	158
	USA	Martina Navratilova (4)	September 10, 1979	April 6, 1980	31	71
four	USA	Tracy Austin	April 7, 1980	April 20, 1980	2	2
	USA	Martina Navratilova (5)	April 21, 1980	July 6, 1980	eleven	82
	USA	Tracy Austin (2)	July 7, 1980	November 17, 1980	nineteen	21
	USA	Chris Evert (6)	November 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	June 13, 1982	four	238
	USA	Martina Navratilova (7)	June 14, 1982	June 9, 1985	156	240
	USA	Chris Evert (8)	June 10, 1985	October 13, 1985	18	256
	USA	Martina Navratilova (8)	October 14, 1985	October 27, 1985	2	242
	USA	Chris Evert (9)	October 28, 1985	November 24, 1985	four	260
	USA	Martina Navratilova (9)	November 25, 1985	August 16, 1987	90	332
five	Germany	Steffi Graf	August 17, 1987	March 10, 1991	186 (record)	186
6	SFRY	Monica Seles	March 11, 1991	August 4, 1991	21	21
	Germany	Steffi Graf (2)	August 5, 1991	August 11, 1991	one	187
	SFRY	Monica Seles (2)	August 12, 1991	August 18, 1991	one	22
	Germany	Steffi Graf (3)	August 19, 1991	September 8, 1991	3	190
	SFRY / FRY	Monica Seles (3)	September 9, 1991	June 6, 1993	91	113
	Germany	Steffi Graf (4)	June 7, 1993	February 5, 1995	87	277
7	Spain	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario	February 6, 1995	February 19, 1995	2	2
	Germany	Steffi Graf (5)	February 20, 1995	February 26, 1995	one	278
	Spain	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario (2)	February 27, 1995	April 9, 1995	6	eight
	Germany	Steffi Graf (6)	April 10, 1995	May 14, 1995	five	283
	Spain	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario (3)	May 15, 1995	June 11, 1995	four	12
	Germany	Steffi Graf (7)	June 12, 1995	August 14, 1995	9	292
	Germany USA	Steffi Graf (=) Monica Seles (4)	August 15, 1995	November 3, 1996	64	356 177
	Germany	Steffi Graf (=)	November 4, 1996	November 17, 1996	2	358
	Germany USA	Steffi Graf (=) Monica Seles (5)	November 18, 1996	November 24, 1996	one	359 178
	Germany	Steffi Graf (=)	November 25, 1996	March 30, 1997	18	377 (record)
eight	Switzerland	Martina Hingis	March 31, 1997	October 11, 1998	80	80
9	USA	Lindsay Davenport	October 12, 1998	February 7, 1999	17	17
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (2)	February 8, 1999	July 4, 1999	21	101
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (2)	July 5, 1999	August 8, 1999	five	22
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (3)	August 9, 1999	April 2, 2000	34	135
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (3)	April 3, 2000	May 7, 2000	five	27
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (4)	May 8, 2000	May 14, 2000	one	136
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (4)	May 15, 2000	May 21, 2000	one	28
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (5)	May 22, 2000	October 14, 2001	73	209
ten	USA	Jennifer capriati	October 15, 2001	November 4, 2001	3	3
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (5)	November 5, 2001	January 13, 2002	ten	38
	USA	Jennifer Capriati (2)	January 14, 2002	February 24, 2002	6	9
eleven	USA	Venus Williams	February 25, 2002	March 17, 2002	3	3
	USA	Jennifer Capriati (3)	March 18, 2002	April 21, 2002	five	14
	USA	Venus Williams (2)	April 22, 2002	May 19, 2002	four	7
	USA	Jennifer Capriati (4)	May 20, 2002	June 9, 2002	3	17
	USA	Venus Williams (3)	June 10, 2002	July 7, 2002	four	eleven
12	USA	Serena Williams	July 8, 2002	August 10, 2003	57	57
13	Belgium	Kim Claysters	August 11, 2003	October 19, 2003	ten	ten
14	Belgium	Justin Henin	October 20, 2003	October 26, 2003	one	one
	Belgium	Kim Claysters (2)	October 27, 2003	November 9, 2003	2	12
	Belgium	Justin Henin (2)	November 10, 2003	September 12, 2004	44	45
15	France	Amelie Moresmo	September 13, 2004	October 17, 2004	five	five
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (6)	October 18, 2004	August 21, 2005	44	82
sixteen	Russia	Maria Sharapova	August 22, 2005	August 28, 2005	one	one
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (7)	August 29, 2005	September 11, 2005	2	84
	Russia	Maria Sharapova (2)	September 12, 2005	October 23, 2005	6	7
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (8)	October 24, 2005	January 29, 2006	14	98
	Belgium	Kim Claysters (3)	January 30, 2006	March 19, 2006	7	nineteen
	France	Amelie Moresmo (2)	March 20, 2006	November 12, 2006	34	39
	Belgium	Justin Henin (3)	November 13, 2006	January 28, 2007	eleven	56
	Russia	Maria Sharapova (3)	January 29, 2007	March 18, 2007	7	14
	Belgium	Justin Henin (4)	March 19, 2007	May 18, 2008	61	117
	Russia	Maria Sharapova (4)	May 19, 2008	June 8, 2008	3	17
17	Serbia	Ana Ivanovich	June 9, 2008	August 10, 2008	9	9
18	Serbia	Elena Yankovich	August 11, 2008	August 17, 2008	one	one
	Serbia	Ana Ivanovich (2)	August 18, 2008	September 7, 2008	3	12
	USA	Serena Williams (2)	September 8, 2008	October 5, 2008	four	61
	Serbia	Elena Yankovich (2)	October 6, 2008	February 1, 2009	17	18
	USA	Serena Williams (3)	February 2, 2009	April 19, 2009	eleven	72
nineteen	Russia	Dinara safina	April 20, 2009	October 11, 2009	25	25
	USA	Serena Williams (4)	October 12, 2009	October 25, 2009	2	74
	Russia	Dinara Safina (2)	October 26, 2009	November 1, 2009	one	26
	USA	Serena Williams (5)	November 2, 2009	October 10, 2010	49	123
20	Denmark	Carolina Wozniacki	October 11, 2010	February 13, 2011	18	18
	Belgium	Kim Claysters (4)	February 14, 2011	February 20, 2011	one	20
	Denmark	Carolina Wozniacki (2)	February 21, 2011	January 29, 2012	49	67
21	Belarus	Victoria Azarenko	January 30, 2012	June 10, 2012	nineteen	nineteen
	Russia	Maria Sharapova (5)	June 11, 2012	July 8, 2012	four	21
	Belarus	Victoria Azarenka (2)	July 9, 2012	February 17, 2013	32	51
	USA	Serena Williams (6)	February 18, 2013	September 11, 2016	186 (record)	309
22	Germany	Angelica Kerber	September 12, 2016	January 29, 2017	20	20
	USA	Serena Williams (7)	January 30, 2017	March 19, 2017	7	316
	Germany	Angelica Kerber (2)	March 20, 2017	April 23, 2017	five	25
	USA	Serena Williams (8)	April 24, 2017	May 14, 2017	3	319
	Germany	Angelica Kerber (3)	May 15, 2017	July 16, 2017	9	34
23	Czech	Karolina Plishkova	July 17, 2017	September 10, 2017	eight	eight
24	Spain	Garbinier Mugurus	September 11, 2017	October 8, 2017	four	four
25	Romania	Simone Halep	October 9, 2017	January 28, 2018	sixteen	sixteen
	Denmark	Carolina Wozniacki (3)	January 29, 2018	February 25, 2018	four	71
	Romania	Simone Halep (2)	February 26, 2018	January 27, 2019	48	64
26	Japan	Naomi Osaka	January 28, 2019	June 23rd, 2019	21	21
27	Australia	Ashley Barty	June 24, 2019	August 11, 2019	7	7
	{{}}	[[]]	August 12, 2019	the present		''

The number of times in case of repeated entry into the status is indicated in parentheses after the surname.
Bold is the final result for weeks of leadership.
(=) - maintaining leadership in the ranking.

Summary sheet

Athletes

Total weeks
No.	Tennis player	Weeks
one	Steffi Graf	377
2	Martina Navratilova	332
3	Serena Williams	319
four	Chris Evert	260
five	Martina Hingis	209
6	Monica Seles	178
7	Justin Henin	117
eight	Lindsay Davenport	98
9	Carolina Wozniacki	71
ten	Simone Halep	64
eleven	Victoria Azarenko	51
12	Amelie Moresmo	39
13	Angelica Kerber	34
14	Dinara safina	26
15	Tracy Austin	21
	Maria Sharapova	21
	Naomi Osaka	21
18	Kim Claysters	20
nineteen	Elena Yankovich	18
20	Jennifer capriati	17
20	Ana Ivanovich	12
20	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario	12
23	Venus Williams	eleven
24	Karolina Plishkova	eight
25	Ashley Barty	7
26	Garbinier Mugurus	four
27	Yvonne Gulagong-Cowley	2

Week in a row
No.	Tennis player	Weeks
one	Steffi Graf	186
one	Serena Williams	186
3	Martina Navratilova	156
four	Chris Evert	113
five	Steffi Graf (2)	94
6	Monica Seles	91
7	Martina Navratilova (2)	90
eight	Steffi Graf (3)	87
9	Martina Hingis	80
ten	Chris Evert (2)	76
eleven	Martina Hingis (2)	73
12	Monica Seles (2)	64
13	Justin Henin	61
14	Serena Williams (2)	57
15	Serena Williams (3)	49
15	Carolina Wozniacki	49
17	Simone Halep	48
18	Justin Henin (2)	44
18	Lindsay Davenport	44
20	Martina Hingis (3)	34
20	Amelie Moresmo	34

The list contains twenty leaders for each of the criteria; The first results of current athletes are highlighted in silver.
As of August 5, 2019

By country

No.	A country	KI	KN	Tennis players
one	USA	eight	1123	Chris Evert , Martina Navratilova , Tracy Austin , Monica Seles , Lindsay Davenport , Jennifer Capriati , Venus Williams , Serena Williams
2	West Germany Germany	2	411	Steffi Graf , Angelica Kerber
3	Switzerland	one	209	Martina Hingis
four	SFRY FRY Serbia	3	143	Monica Seles , Ana Ivanovich , Elena Yankovich
five	Belgium	2	137	Kim Claysters , Justine Henin
6	Denmark	one	71	Carolina Wozniacki
7	Romania	one	64	Simone Halep
eight	Belarus	one	51	Victoria Azarenko
9	Russia	2	47	Maria Sharapova , Dinara Safina
ten	France	one	39	Amelie Moresmo
eleven	Japan	one	21	Naomi Osaka
12	Spain	2	sixteen	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario , Mugurus Garbinier
13	Australia	2	9	Yvonne Gulagong-Cowley , Ashley Barty
14	Czech	one	eight	Karolina Plishkova

A tennis player is listed any number of times if each time she becomes the first racket of the world speaking for a new country.
As of August 5, 2019.

Calendar Leaders

Year	A country	Tennis 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	West Germany	Steffi Graf (3)
1988	West Germany	Steffi Graf
1989	West Germany	Steffi Graf
1990	Germany	Steffi Graf
1991	SFRY	Monica Seles (4)
1992	FRY	Monica Seles
1993	Germany	Steffi Graf
1994	Germany	Steffi Graf
1995	Germany USA	Steffi Graf Monica Seles
1996	Germany	Steffi Graf
1997	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (5)
1998	USA	Lindsay Davenport (6)
1999	Switzerland	Martina Hingis
2000	Switzerland	Martina Hingis
2001	USA	Lindsay Davenport
2002	USA	Serena Williams (7)
2003	Belgium	Justin Henin (8)
2004	USA	Lindsay Davenport
2005	USA	Lindsay Davenport
2006	Belgium	Justin Henin
2007	Belgium	Justin Henin
2008	Serbia	Elena Yankovich (9)
2009	USA	Serena Williams
2010	Denmark	Carolina Wozniacki (10)
2011	Denmark	Carolina Wozniacki
2012	Belarus	Victoria Azarenka (11)
2013	USA	Serena Williams
2014	USA	Serena Williams
2015	USA	Serena Williams
2016	Germany	Angelica Kerber (12)
2017	Romania	Simone Halep (13)
2018	Romania	Simone Halep

Summary sheet

Years	Country	Tennis player
eight	West Germany Germany	Steffi Graf
7	USA	Martina Navratilova
five	USA	Chris Evert
five	USA	Serena Williams
four	USA	Lindsay Davenport
3	Belgium	Justin Henin
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis
	SFRY FRY USA	Monica Seles
2	Denmark	Carolina Wozniacki
2	Romania	Simone Halep
one	Serbia	Elena Yankovich
	Belarus	Victoria Azarenko
	Germany	Angelica Kerber

As of the end of the 2018 season.

Other statistics

Tennis players topped the rating to win the Grand Slam tournament
Tennis player	1st racket of the world	1st finals	1st victory
Kim Claysters	August 11, 2003	Roland Garros (June 2001)	US Open (September 2005)
Amelie Moresmo	September 13, 2004	Australian Open (January-1999)	Australian Open (January 2006)
Elena Yankovich	August 11, 2008	US Open (September 2008)	-
Dinara safina	April 20, 2009	Roland Garros (June 2008)	-
Carolina Wozniacki	October 11, 2010	US Open (September-2009)	Australian Open (January-2018)
Karolina Plishkova	July 17, 2017	US Open (September-2016)	-
Simone Halep	October 9, 2017	Roland Garros (June 2014)	Roland Garros (June 2018)

Career Peaks (November 3, 1975)

The second racket of the world
Tennis player	Debut
Virginia wade	November 3, 1975
Billie Jean King	December 11, 1977
Andrea Dzheger	August 17, 1981
Conchita Martinez	October 30, 1995
Yana Novotna	July 7, 1997
Anastasia Myskina	September 13, 2004
Svetlana Kuznetsova	September 10, 2007
Vera Zvonareva	October 25, 2010
Petra Kvitova	October 31, 2011
Agnieszka Radwan	July 9, 2012
Li Na	February 17, 2014

Third racket of the world
Tennis player	Debut
Pam Shriver	March 20, 1984
Gana Mandlikova	April 30, 1984
Wendy Turnbull	January 7, 1985
Manuel Maleev	February 4, 1985
Gabriela Sabatini	February 27, 1989
Marie Pierce	January 30, 1995
Amanda Kötzer	November 3, 1997
Natalie Tozia	May 8, 2000
Nadezhda Petrova	May 15, 2006
Elena Dementieva	April 6, 2009
Elina Svitolina	September 11, 2017
Sloan Stevens	July 16, 2018

Fourth rackets of the world
Tennis player	Debut
Sue Barker	March 20, 1977
Dianne Fromholtz	March 19, 1979
Helena Sukova	March 18, 1985
Claudia Code-Kielsh	September 2, 1985
Zina Harrison	November 20, 1989
Mary Joe Fernandez	October 22, 1990
Kimiko Date	May 13, 1995
Magdalena Maleeva	January 29, 1996
Willow mayoli	February 5, 1996
Anke Huber	October 14, 1996
Elena Dokich	August 19, 2002
Francesca Schiavone	January 31, 2011
Samantha Stosur	February 21, 2011
Dominika Tsibulkova	March 20, 2017
Johanna Conta	July 17, 2017
Carolyn Garcia	September 10, 2018
Kiki Bertens	May 13, 2019

Fifth rackets of the world
Tennis player	Debut
Rosemary Casals	September 13, 1976
Margaret Court	February 21, 1977
Betty Stove	July 3, 1977
Sylvia Chanika	September 12, 1983
Katie Jordan	March 19, 1984
Joe Dury	April 29, 1984
Natalya Zvereva	May 22, 1989
Daniela Gantuhova	January 27, 2003
Anna Chakvetadze	September 10, 2007
Sarah Errani	May 20, 2013
Eugenie Bouchard	October 20, 2014
Lucia Shafarzhova	September 14, 2015
Elena Ostapenko	March 19, 2018

Silver highlighted acting tennis players. As of June 10, 2019.

Pair Rating

List of leaders of the rating list

Nl	A country	Tennis player	Start time	End time	CHN	Emergency
one	USA	Martina Navratilova	September 4, 1984	March 17, 1985	27	27
2	USA	Pam Shriver	March 18, 1985	January 19, 1986	44	44
	USA	Martina Navratilova (2)	January 20, 1986	July 20, 1986	26	53
	USA	Pam Shriver (2)	July 21, 1986	August 17, 1986	four	48
	USA	Martina Navratilova (3)	August 18, 1986	February 4, 1990	181 (record)	234
3	Czechoslovakia	Helena Sukova	February 5, 1990	February 18, 1990	2	2
	USA	Martina Navratilova (4)	February 19, 1990	March 4, 1990	2	236
	Czechoslovakia	Helena Sukova (2)	March 5, 1990	May 6, 1990	9	eleven
	USA	Martina Navratilova (5)	May 7, 1990	May 13, 1990	one	237 (record)
	Czechoslovakia	Helena Sukova (3)	May 14, 1990	August 26, 1990	15	26
four	Czechoslovakia	Yana Novotna	August 27, 1990	October 14, 1990	7	7
	Czechoslovakia	Helena Sukova (4)	October 15, 1990	February 17, 1991	18	44
	Czechoslovakia	Yana Novotna (2)	February 18, 1991	March 3, 1991	2	9
five	USA	Gigi Fernandez	March 4, 1991	March 10, 1991	one	one
	Czechoslovakia	Yana Novotna (3)	March 11, 1991	March 31, 1991	3	12
	USA	Gigi Fernandez (2)	April 1, 1991	April 7, 1991	one	2
	Czechoslovakia	Helena Sukova (5)	April 8, 1991	June 9, 1991	9	53
	USA	Gigi Fernandez (3)	June 10, 1991	September 8, 1991	13	15
	Czech	Yana Novotna (4)	September 9, 1991	October 6, 1991	four	sixteen
6	the USSR	Natalya Zvereva	October 7, 1991	October 13, 1991	one	one
	Czech	Yana Novotna (5)	October 14, 1991	January 26, 1992	15	31
7	Latvia	Larisa Savchenko	January 27, 1992	February 2, 1992	one	one
	Czech	Yana Novotna (6)	February 3, 1992	February 16, 1992	2	33
	Latvia	Larisa Savchenko (2)	February 17, 1992	February 23, 1992	one	2
	Czech	Yana Novotna (7)	February 24, 1992	March 22, 1992	four	37
	Latvia	Larisa Savchenko (3)	March 23, 1992	April 5, 1992	2	four
	Czech	Yana Novotna (8)	April 6, 1992	June 14, 1992	eleven	48
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (2)	June 15, 1992	June 21, 1992	one	2
	Czech	Yana Novotna (9)	June 22, 1992	October 11, 1992	15	63
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (3)	October 12, 1992	October 18, 1992	one	3
eight	Spain	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario	October 19, 1992	November 15, 1992	four	four
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (4)	November 16, 1992	November 22, 1992	one	four
	Czech	Helena Sukova (6)	November 23, 1992	January 10, 1993	7	60
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (5)	January 11, 1993	April 4, 1993	12	sixteen
	USA	Gigi Fernandez (4)	April 5, 1993	September 12, 1993	23	38
	Czech	Helena Sukova (7)	September 13, 1993	October 31, 1993	7	67
	USA	Gigi Fernandez (5)	November 1, 1993	November 14, 1993	2	40
	Czech	Helena Sukova (8)	November 15, 1993	November 21, 1993	one	68
	USA	Gigi Fernandez (6)	November 22, 1993	August 14, 1994	38	78
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (6)	August 15, 1994	February 12, 1995	26	42
	Spain	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario (2)	February 13, 1995	February 26, 1995	2	6
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (7)	February 27, 1995	March 5, 1995	one	43
	USA	Gigi Fernandez (7)	March 6, 1995	March 12, 1995	one	79
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (8)	March 13, 1995	March 26, 1995	2	45
	Spain	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario (3)	March 27, 1995	November 5, 1995	32	38
	USA	Gigi Fernandez (8)	November 6, 1995	November 12, 1995	one	80
	Spain	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario (4)	November 13, 1995	April 6, 1997	73	111
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (9)	April 7, 1997	October 19, 1997	29th	74
9	USA	Lindsay Davenport	October 20, 1997	November 2, 1997	2	2
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (10)	November 3, 1997	January 25, 1998	12	86
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (2)	January 26, 1998	April 12, 1998	eleven	13
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (11)	April 13, 1998	June 7, 1998	eight	94
ten	Switzerland	Martina Hingis	June 8, 1998	August 2, 1998	eight	eight
	Czech	Yana Novotna (10)	August 3, 1998	August 9, 1998	one	64
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (3)	August 10, 1998	August 16, 1998	one	14
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (2)	August 17, 1998	October 25, 1998	ten	18
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (12)	October 26, 1998	November 1, 1998	one	95
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (3)	November 2, 1998	November 22, 1998	3	21
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (13)	November 23, 1998	May 16, 1999	25	120
	Czech	Yana Novotna (11)	May 17, 1999	June 6, 1999	3	67
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (4)	June 7, 1999	July 4, 1999	four	25
	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva (14)	July 5, 1999	August 1, 1999	four	124
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (5)	August 2, 1999	August 22, 1999	3	28
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (4)	August 23, 1999	November 21, 1999	13	27
eleven	Russia	Anna Kournikova	November 22, 1999	January 30, 2000	ten	ten
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (6)	January 31, 2000	March 19, 2000	7	35
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (5)	March 20, 2000	April 2, 2000	2	29th
12	USA	Corina Morariu	April 3, 2000	April 16, 2000	2	2
	USA	Lindsay Davenport (6)	April 17, 2000	May 7, 2000	3	32
	USA	Corina Morariu (2)	May 8, 2000	June 11, 2000	five	7
13	USA	Lisa Raymond	June 12, 2000	August 20, 2000	ten	ten
14	USA Australia	Lisa Raymond (=) Renne Stubbs	August 21, 2000	September 10, 2000	3	13 3
15	France	Julie Alar-Decouches	September 11, 2000	October 22, 2000	6	6
sixteen	Japan	Ai Sugiyama	October 23, 2000	October 29, 2000	one	one
	France	Julie Alar-Décougie (2)	October 30, 2000	December 24, 2000	eight	14
	Japan	Ai Sugiyama (2)	December 26, 2000	August 26, 2001	35	36
	USA	Lisa Raymond (2)	August 27, 2001	September 8, 2002	54	67
17	Argentina	Paola Suarez	September 9, 2002	August 3, 2003	47	47
18	Belgium	Kim Claysters	August 4, 2003	August 10, 2003	one	one
	Japan	Ai Sugiyama (3)	August 11, 2003	August 17, 2003	one	37
	Belgium	Kim Claysters (2)	August 18, 2003	September 7, 2003	3	four
nineteen	Spain	Virginia Ruano Pascual	September 8, 2003	September 14, 2003	one	one
	Japan	Ai Sugiyama (4)	September 15, 2003	November 9, 2003	eight	45
	Argentina	Paola Suarez (2)	November 10, 2003	July 25, 2004	37	84
	Spain	Virginia Ruano Pascual (2)	July 26, 2004	August 1, 2004	one	2
	Spain Argentina	Virginia Ruano Pascual (=) Paola Suarez (3)	August 2, 2004	August 22, 2004	3	five 87
	Spain	Virginia Ruano Pascual (=)	August 23, 2004	October 16, 2005	60	65
20	Zimbabwe	Kara Black	October 17, 2005	February 5, 2006	sixteen	sixteen
21	Australia	Samantha Stosur	February 6, 2006	July 6, 2006	22	22
	USA Australia	Lisa Raymond (3) Samantha Stosur (=)	July 7, 2006	April 8, 2007	39	106 61
	USA	Lisa Raymond (3)	April 9, 2007	June 10, 2007	9	115
	Zimbabwe	Cara Black (2)	June 11, 2007	June 24, 2007	2	18
	USA	Lisa Raymond (4)	June 25, 2007	July 8, 2007	2	117
	Zimbabwe	Cara Black (3)	July 9, 2007	November 11, 2007	18	36
22	Zimbabwe USA	Kara Black (=) Liesel Huber	November 12, 2007	April 18, 2010	127	163 127
	USA	Liesel Huber (=)	April 19, 2010	June 6, 2010	7	134
23 24	USA USA	Serena Williams Venus Williams	June 7, 2010	August 1, 2010	eight	eight eight
	USA	Liesel Huber (2)	August 2, 2010	October 31, 2010	13	147
25	Argentina	Hisela Dulko	November 1, 2010	February 27, 2011	17	17
26	Argentina Italy	Hisela Dulko (=) Flavia pennett	February 28, 2011	April 17, 2011	7 7	24 7
	Italy	Flavia Pennett (=)	April 18, 2011	July 3, 2011	eleven	18
27 28	Czech Slovenia	Queta Pawn Katarina Srebotnik	July 4, 2011	September 11, 2011	ten	ten ten
	USA	Liesel Huber (3)	September 12, 2011	April 22, 2012	32	179
	USA USA	Liesel Huber (=) Lisa Raymond (5)	April 23, 2012	September 9, 2012	20	199 137
29th	Italy	Sarah Errani	September 10, 2012	October 14, 2012	five	five
thirty	Italy	Robert Vinci	October 15, 2012	April 28, 2013	28	28
	Italy Italy	Robert Vinci (=) Sara Errani (2)	April 29, 2013	February 16, 2014	42	70 47
31	China	Peng Shuai	February 17, 2014	May 11, 2014	12	12
32	China Chinese taipei	Peng Shuai (=) Xie Shuwei	May 12, 2014	May 18, 2014	one	13 one
	China	Peng Shuai (=)	May 19, 2014	June 8, 2014	3	sixteen
	China Chinese taipei	Peng Shuai (=) Xie Shuwei (2)	June 9, 2014	July 6, 2014	four	20 five
	Italy Italy	Robert Vinci (2) Sara Errani (3)	July 7, 2014	April 12, 2015	40	110 87
33	India	Sanya Mirza	April 13, 2015	January 17, 2016	40	40
	India Switzerland	Sanya Mirza (=) Martina Hingis (7)	January 18, 2016	August 21, 2016	31	71 66
	India	Sanya Mirza (=)	August 22, 2016	January 8, 2017	20	91
34	USA	Bethany Mattek Sands	January 9, 2017	August 20, 2017	32	32
35	Czech	Lucia Shafarzhova	August 21, 2017	October 1, 2017	6	6
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis (8)	October 2, 2017	October 22, 2017	3	69
36	Chinese taipei Switzerland	Zhan yunzhan Martina Hingis (=)	October 23, 2017	April 8, 2018	24	24 90
	Chinese taipei	Zhan Yunzhan (=)	April 9, 2018	June 10, 2018	9	33
37 38	Russia Russia	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	June 11, 2018	July 15, 2018	five	five five
39	Hungary	Timea Babosh	July 16, 2018	August 12, 2018	four	four
	Chinese taipei	Zhan yunzhan	August 12, 2018	August 19, 2018	one	34
	Hungary	Timea Babosh	August 20, 2018	October 21, 2018	9	13
40 41	Czech Czech	Barbora Kreichikova Katerina Sinyakova	October 22, 2018	January 13, 2019	12	12 12
	Czech	Katerina Sinyakova (=)	January 14, 2019	June 9, 2019	21	33
42	France	Kristina Mladenovich	June 10, 2019	July 14, 2019	five	five
43	Czech	Barbora Strytsova	July 15, 2019	the present	four	four

In parentheses, the surname indicates the number of occurrences in the status.
Bold is the final result for weeks of leadership.
(=) - maintaining leadership in the ranking.

Summary sheet

Athletes

Total weeks
Pos.	Tennis player	Weeks
one	Martina Navratilova	237
2	Liesel Huber	199
3	Kara Black	163
four	Lisa Raymond	137
five	Natalya Zvereva	124
6	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario	111
7	Robert Vinci	110
eight	Sanya Mirza	91
9	Martina Hingis	90
ten	Paola Suarez	87
ten	Sarah Errani	87
12	Gigi Fernandez	80
13	Helena Sukova	68
14	Yana Novotna	67
15	Virginia Ruano Pascual	65
sixteen	Samantha Stosur	61
17	Pam Shriver	48
18	Ai Sugiyama	45
nineteen	Zhan yunzhan	34
20	Katerina Sinyakova	33
21	Lindsay Davenport	32
21	Bethany Mattek Sands	32
23	Hisela Dulko	24
24	Peng Shuai	20
25	Flavia pennett	18
26	Julie Alar-Decouches	14
27	Timea Babosh	13
28	Barbora Kreichikova	12
29th	Queta Pawn	ten
	Katarina Srebotnik	ten
	Anna Kournikova	ten
32	Serena Williams	eight
32	Venus Williams	eight
34	Corina Morariu	7
35	Lucia Shafarzhova	6
36	Xie Shuwei	five
	Ekaterina Makarova	five
	Elena Vesnina	five
	Kristina Mladenovich	five
40	Kim Claysters	four
	Larisa Savchenko	four
	Barbora Strytsova	four
42	Renne Stubbs	3

Week in a row
No.	Tennis player	Weeks
one	Martina Navratilova	181
2	Kara Black	145
3	Liesel Huber	134
four	Sanya Mirza	91
five	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario	73
five	Robert Vinci	70
7	Virginia Ruano Pascual	64
eight	Samantha Stosur	61
9	Lisa Raymond	54
ten	Liesel Huber (2)	52
eleven	Lisa Raymond (2)	48
12	Paola Suarez	47
13	Pam Shriver	44
14	Sarah Errani	42
15	Robert Vinci (2)	40
15	Sara Errani (2)	40
17	Gigi Fernandez	38
18	Paola Suarez (2)	37
nineteen	Ai Sugiyama	35
20	Zhan yunzhan	33
20	Katerina Sinyakova	33

The list contains twenty leaders for each of the criteria; the results of current athletes are highlighted in silver.
As of August 5, 2019.

By country

No.	A country	KI	KN	Tennis players
one	USA	ten	788	Martina Navratilova , Pam Shriver , Gigi Fernandez , Lindsay Davenport , Corina Morariu , Lisa Raymond , Liesel Huber , Venus Williams , Serena Williams , Bethany Mattek Sands
2	Italy	3	215	Flavia Pennett , Sarah Errani , Robert Vinci
3	Czechoslovakia Czech	7	188	Helena Sukova , Yana Novotna , Queta Pawn , Lutsia Shafarzhova , Barbora Kreichikova , Katerina Sinyakova , Barbora Strytsova
four	Spain	2	176	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario , Virginia Ruano Pascual
five	Zimbabwe	one	163	Kara Black
6	Belarus	one	123	Natalya Zvereva
7	Argentina	2	111	Paola Suarez , Hisela Dulco
eight	India	one	91	Sanya Mirza
9	Switzerland	one	84	Martina Hingis
ten	Australia	2	64	Renne Stubbs , Samantha Stosur
eleven	Japan	one	45	Ai Sugiyama
12	Chinese taipei	2	39	Xie Shuwei , Zhan Yunzhan
13	China	one	20	Peng Shuai
14	France	2	nineteen	Julie Alar-Decouge , Christina Mladenovic
15	Russia	3	15	Anna Kournikova , Elena Vesnina , Ekaterina Makarova
sixteen	Hungary	one	13	Timea Babosh
17	Slovenia	one	ten	Katarina Srebotnik
18	Latvia	one	four	Larisa Savchenko
18	Belgium	one	four	Kim Claysters
20	the USSR	one	one	Natalya Zvereva

A tennis player is listed any number of times if each time she becomes the first racket of the world speaking for a new country.
As of August 5, 2019.

Calendar Leaders

Year	Tennis player	Couple
1984	Martina Navratilova (1)	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver
1985	Pam Shriver (2)	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver
1986	Martina Navratilova	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver
1987	Martina Navratilova	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver
1988	Martina Navratilova	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver
1989	Martina Navratilova	Helena Sukova Yana Novotna
1990	Helena Sukova (3)	Helena Sukova Yana Novotna
1991	Yana Novotna (4)	Gigi Fernandez Yana Novotna
1992	Helena Sukova	Larisa Savchenko Natalya Zvereva
1993	Gigi Fernandez (5)	Gigi Fernandez Natalya Zvereva
1994	Natalya Zvereva (6)	Gigi Fernandez Natalya Zvereva
1995	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario (7)	Gigi Fernandez Natalya Zvereva
1996	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario	Yana Novotna Arancha Sanchez-Vicario
1997	Natalya Zvereva	Gigi Fernandez Natalya Zvereva
1998	Natalya Zvereva	Martina Hingis Yana Novotna
1999	Anna Kournikova (8)	Martina Hingis Anna Kournikova
2000	Ai Sugiyama (9)	Serena Williams Venus Williams
2001	Lisa Raymond (10)	Lisa Raymond Renne Stubbs
2002	Paola Suarez (11)	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez
2003	Paola Suarez	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez
2004	Virginia Ruano Pascual (12)	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez
2005	Cara Black (13)	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur
2006	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur (14)	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur
2007	Kara Black Liesel Huber (15)	Kara Black Liesel Huber
2008	Kara Black Liesel Huber	Kara Black Liesel Huber
2009	Kara Black Liesel Huber	Serena Williams Venus Williams
2010	Hisela Dulko (16)	Hisela Dulko Flavia pennett
2011	Liesel Huber	Queta Pawn Katarina Srebotnik
2012	Robert Vinci (17)	Sarah Errani Robert Vinci
2013	Sara Errani (18) Robert Vinci	Sarah Errani Robert Vinci
2014	Sarah Errani Robert Vinci	Sarah Errani Robert Vinci
2015	Sanya Mirza (19)	Martina Hingis Sanya Mirza
2016	Sanya Mirza	Carolyn Garcia Kristina Mladenovich
2017	Zhan Yunzhan (20) Martina Hingis (21)	Zhan yunzhan Martina Hingis
2018	Barbora Kreichikova (22) Katerina Sinyakova (23)	Barbora Kreichikova Katerina Sinyakova

Summary sheet

Years	Country	Tennis player
five	USA	Martina Navratilova
four	Zimbabwe	Kara Black
four	USA	Liesel Huber
3	Belarus	Natalya Zvereva
3	Italy	Robert Vinci
2	Czech	Helena Sukova
	Spain	Arancha Sanchez-Vicario
	Argentina	Paola Suarez
	USA	Lisa Raymond
	Italy	Sarah Errani
	India	Sanya Mirza
one	USA	Pam Shriver
	Czechoslovakia	Yana Novotna
	USA	Gigi Fernandez
	Russia	Anna Kournikova
	Japan	Ai Sugiyama
	Spain	Virginia Ruano Pascual
	Australia	Samantha Stosur
	Argentina	Hisela Dulko
	Chinese taipei	Zhan yunzhan
	Switzerland	Martina Hingis
	Czech	Barbora Kreichikova
	Czech	Katerina Sinyakova

As of the end of the 2018 season.

Other statistics

Tennis players topped the rating to win the Grand Slam tournament
Tennis player	1st racket of the world	1st finals	1st victory
Hisela Dulko	November 1, 2010	Australian Open (January 2011)	Australian Open (January 2011)
Sanya Mirza	April 13, 2015	Roland Garros (June 2011)	Wimbledon (July 2015)

Leaders of both sets

Tennis players topping both WTA rankings
Tennis player	Single lead	Pair Leadership	Overall leadership
Martina Navratilova	July 10, 1978	September 4, 1984	September 4, 1984
Arancha Sanchez-Vicario	February 6, 1995	October 19, 1992	February 13, 1995
Martina Hingis	March 31, 1997	June 8, 1998	June 8, 1998
Lindsay Davenport	October 12, 1998	October 20, 1997	April 17, 2000
Kim Claysters	August 11, 2003	August 4, 2003	August 18, 2003
Serena Williams	July 8, 2002	June 7, 2010	June 7, 2010
Venus Williams	February 25, 2002	June 7, 2010	-

Rating System

Charge System

Result	Title	The final	1/2	1/4	1/8	1/16	1/32	1/64	Qual.	K3	K2	K1
Grand Slam Tournament
Solo competition	2000	1300	780	430	240	130	70	ten	40	thirty	20	2
Pair competition	2000	1300	780	430	240	130	ten	-	40	-	-	-
Final Championship A
Single player tournament	+450	+360	230 points for each match won in the group, 70 - for each lost match. Bonus points for reaching the semifinals are not awarded.							-	-	-
Doubles tournament	1500	1050	690	460	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Final Championship B
Single player tournament	+260	+200	120 points for each match won in the group, 40 - for each lost match. Bonus points for reaching the semifinals are not awarded.							-	-	-
Doubles tournament	No points for sports results									-	-	-
Regular Premier Series
Premier Mandatory - 96S	1000	650	390	215	120	65	35	ten	thirty	-	20	2
Premier Mandatory - 60S / 64S	1000	650	390	215	120	65	ten	-	thirty	-	20	2
Premier Mandatory - 28D / 32D	1000	650	390	215	120	ten	-	-	-	-	-	-
Premier 5 - 56S / 64Q	900	585	350	190	105	60	one	-	thirty	22	15	one
Premier 5 - 56S / 48Q / 32Q	900	585	350	190	105	60	one	-	thirty	-	20	one
Premier 5 - 28D	900	585	350	190	105	one	-	-	-	-	-	-
Premier 5 - 16D	900	585	350	190	one	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Premier - 56S	470	305	185	100	55	thirty	one	-	25	-	13	one
Premier - 32S	470	305	185	100	55	one	-	-	25	18	13	one
Premier - 16D	470	305	185	100	one	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Regular international series
Internatio

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Content

Single Rating

List of leaders of the rating list

Summary sheet

Athletes

By country

Calendar Leaders

Summary sheet

Other statistics

Career Peaks (November 3, 1975)

Pair Rating

List of leaders of the rating list

Summary sheet

Athletes

By country

Calendar Leaders

Summary sheet

Other statistics

Leaders of both sets

Rating System

Charge System

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