List of WTA number 1 ranked tennis players
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).

List of WTA number 1 ranked tennis players

Section Title: World No. 1 ranked players
Table Section Text: 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).

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	Germany 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

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/ YUG	Monica Seles (3)	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 (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	Present	14	14

Sentence(s)

Justine Henin spent a total of 117 weeks as the world No. 1.

final_sentence: Justine Henin spent a total of 117 weeks as the world No. 1.