The
WTA rankings
The WTA rankings are the ratings defined by the Women's Tennis Association, introduced in November 1975.
Iga Świątek is the current world No. 1.
Ranking method
The WTA rankings are based on a rolling 52-week, cumulative system. A play ...
are the
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women and was founded to create a better future for women's tenni ...
's (WTA) merit-based system for determining the rankings in women's
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
. The top-ranked player is the player who, over the previous 52 weeks, has garnered the most ranking points on the
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tourna ...
. Points are awarded based on how far a player advances in tournaments and the category of those tournaments. The WTA has used a computerized system for determining the
rankings
A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second.
In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of ...
since November 3, 1975. Since 1975, 28 women have been ranked No. 1 by the WTA, of which 15 have been year-end No. 1.
WTA No. 1 ranked singles 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).
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Weeks at No. 1
Weeks are updated automatically.
The source for this through the week of January 2, 2012, is the ''2012 WTA Tour Official Guide'', page 177.[
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Weeks at No. 1 leaders timeline
Current record in bold.
Year-end No. 1 players
Per player
Players who became No. 1 without having won a Grand Slam tournament title
Weeks at No. 1 by decade
* Current No. 1 player indicated in ''italic''.
1970s*
* — Starting November 1975
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
WTA rankings were frozen from March 23, 2020 to August 9, 2020.
* Stats are automatically updated on Mondays (UTC).
Weeks at No. 1 by country
* Current No. 1 player indicated in bold.
Weeks are updated automatically.
* Monica Seles is included twice due to change of citizenship.
See also
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World number 1 ranked female tennis players
World number 1 ranked female tennis players is a year-by-year listing of the female tennis players who were ranked as world No. 1 by various contemporary and modern sources.
Notes:
* The Women's Tennis Association introduced a computerized ra ...
(includes rankings before 1975)
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ITF World Champions
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) designates a World Champion each year based on performances throughout the year, emphasising the Grand Slam tournaments,ITF Constitution, p.26, Rule 2.2(a)(iii) and also considering team events such as th ...
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List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players
The WTA rankings are the Women's Tennis Association's (WTA) merit-based system for determining the rankings in women's tennis. In doubles, the top-ranked team is the pair who, over the previous 52 weeks, has gathered the most WTA rankings poin ...
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List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players
The Pepperstone ATP rankings are the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) merit-based system for determining the rankings in men's tennis. The top-ranked player is the player who, over the previous 52 weeks, has garnered the most ranking ...
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List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players
The ATP rankings are the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) merit-based system for determining the rankings in men's tennis. In doubles, the top-ranked team is the pair who, over the previous 52 weeks, has gathered the most ATP rankings p ...
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Current WTA rankings
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Top ten ranked female tennis players
This article presents 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 whe ...
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Top ten ranked female tennis players (1921–1974)
This article presents 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 ...
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List of highest ranked tennis players per country
This article lists the professional tennis players who reached the highest ranking among their compatriots during the Open Era. The rankings used are ATP rankings for men (since 23 August 1973 for singles, and 1 March 1976 for doubles) and WTA ra ...
References
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