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Career-High Ranking History (Top 30)

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#1 · (Edited)
This is a list (updated from a previous post created by @Brian Stewart) of all players who reached the top 30 in singles since the inception of Computer World Rankings on November 3, 1975.

Players are listed by highest ranking achieved (in alphabetical order)

1. Tracy Austin, Victoria Azarenka, Ashleigh Barty, Jennifer Capriati, Kim Clijsters, Lindsay Davenport, Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong, Steffi Graf, Simona Halep, Justine Henin, Martina Hingis, Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic, Angelique Kerber, Amelie Mauresmo, Garbiñe Muguruza, Martina Navratilova, Naomi Osaka, Karolina Pliskova, Aryna Sabalenka, Dinara Safina, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Monica Seles, Maria Sharapova, Iga Swiatek, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki

2. Paula Badosa, Ons Jabeur, Andrea Jaeger, Billie Jean King, Anett Kontaveit, Barbora Krejcikova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Petra Kvitova, Na Li, Conchita Martinez, Anastasia Myskina, Jana Novotna, Agnieszka Radwanska, Virginia Wade, Vera Zvonareva

3. Sue Barker, Amanda Coetzer, Elena Dementieva, Coco Gauff, Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière, Hana Mandlikova, Jessica Pegula, Nadia Petrova, Mary Pierce, Elena Rybakina, Gabriela Sabatini, Maria Sakkari, Pam Shriver, Sloane Stephens, Elina Svitolina, Nathalie Tauziat, Wendy Turnbull

4. Bianca Andreescu, Belinda Bencic, Kiki Bertens, Dominika Cibulkova, Kimiko Date, Jelena Dokic, Mary Joe Fernandez, Dianne Fromholtz-Balestrat, Caroline Garcia, Zina Garrison, Anke Huber, Sofia Kenin, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Johanna Konta, Iva Majoli, Magdalena Maleeva, Francesca Schiavone, Samantha Stosur, Helena Sukova

5. Eugenie Bouchard, Rosie Casals, Anna Chakvetadze, Margaret Court, Jo Durie, Sara Errani, Sylvia Hanika, Daniela Hantuchova, Kathy Jordan, Jelena Ostapenko, Lucie Safarova, Betty Stove, Natasha Zvereva

6. Bettina Bunge, Mima Jausovec, Katerina Maleeva, Flavia Pennetta, Chanda Rubin, Carla Suárez Navarro, Marketa Vondrousova

7. Marion Bartoli, Danielle Collins, Julie Halard-Decugis, Madison Keys, Kerry Melville-Reid, Olga Morozova, Barbara Potter, Kathy Rinaldi, Barbara Schett, Patty Schnyder, Irina Spirlea, Greer Stevens, Andrea Temesvari, Nicole Vaidisova, Roberta Vinci, Qinwen Zheng

8. Carling Bassett-Seguso, Bonnie Gadusek, Daria Kasatkina, Anna Kournikova, Ekaterina Makarova, Alicia Molik, Karolina Muchova, Nancy Richey, Virginia Ruzici, Ai Sugiyama

9. Timea Bacsinszky, Lisa Bonder-Kreiss, Françoise Durr, Julia Goerges, Veronika Kudermetova, Lori McNeil, Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Andrea Petkovic, Paola Suarez, Sandrine Testud, Coco Vandeweghe, Dominique van Roost

10. Karina Habsudova, Beatriz Haddad Maia, Kathy Horvath, Maria Kirilenko, Catarina Lindqvist, Kathy May, Kristina Mladenovic, Barbara Paulus, Emma Raducanu, Stephanie Rehe, Kristien Shaw

11. Natasha Chmyreva, Alizé Cornet, Nathalie Dechy, Silvia Farina-Elia, Julie Heldman, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Regina Marsikova, Shahar Peer, Joanne Russell, Anastasija Sevastova, Meghann Shaughnessy

12. Tatiana Golovin, Marise Kruger, Sabine Lisicki, Elise Mertens, Leila Meskhi, Liudmila Samsonova, Anne Smith, Qiang Wang, Judith Wiesner, Yanina Wickmayer

13. Jennifer Brady, Leylah Fernandez, Kirsten Flipkens, Amy Frazier, Sabine Hack, Terry Holladay, Helen Kelesi, Andrea Leand, Larisa Neiland, Wendy Overton, Rafaella Reggi, Agnes Szavay, Elena Vesnina

14. Pam Casale, Eleni Daniilidou, Laura Gildemeister, Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Petra Martic, Marcie Louie, Jasmine Paolini, Shuai Peng, Kimberly Po-Messerlis, Marita Redondo, Naoko Sawamatsu

15. Sandra Cecchini, Mary Lou Daniels, Ruxandra Dragomir, Rosalyn Fairbank-Nideffer, Kaia Kanepi, Ann Kiyomura, Elena Likhovtseva, Carrie Meyer, Lisa Raymond, Aravane Rezai, Anna Smashnova, Caroline Stoll, Robin White, Jie Zheng

16. Ekaterina Alexandrova, Sabine Appelmans, Daja Bedanova, Laura duPont, Ivanna Madruga, Anabel Medina Garrigues, Virginie Razzano, Kazuko Sawamatsu, Barbora Strycova, Iroda Tulyaganova, Fabiola Zuluaga

17. Leslie Allen, Belinda Cordwell, Gigi Fernandez, Anne Guerrant, Melissa Gurney, Betsy Nagelsen, Eva Pfaff, Magdalena Rybarikova, Karolina Sprem

18. Linky Boshoff, Sandy Collins, Kate Gompert, Anne Kremer, Stacy Margolin, Meredith McGrath, Alycia Moulton, Janet Newberry, Alison Riske, Alexandra Stevenson, Silvija Talaja, Michelle Torres, Martina Trevisan

19. Sybille Bammer, Yayuk Basuki, Alona Bondarenko, Katja Ebbinghaus, Patty Fendick, Ines Gorrochategui, Ilana Kloss, Varvara Lepchenko, Magda Linette, Peanut Louie-Harper, María José Martínez Sánchez, Magüi Serna, Susan Sloane, Tamarine Tanasugarn, Donna Vekic, Anne White

20. Mihaela Buzarnescu, Isabel Cueto, Anna-Maria Fernandez, Alisa Kleybanova, Ana Konjuh, Klara Koukalova, Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Emma Navarro, Tatiana Panova, Pascale Paradis, Terry Phelps, Renee Richards, Daria Saville, Elizabeth Smylie, Katarina Srebotnik, Catherine Tanvier, Yvonne Vermaak

21. Amanda Anisimova, Shinobu Asagoe, Sorana Cirstea, Jeanne duVall, Helen Gourlay Cawley, Lesley Hunt, Joanette Kruger, Kate Latham, Henrieta Nagyova, Beth Norton, Anastasia Potapova, Jil Teichmann, Marianne Werdel-Witmeyer, Aleksandra Wozniak, Dayana Yastremska

22. Irina-Camelia Begu, Elise Burgin, Cynthia Doerner, Tathiana Garbin, Gretchen Magers, Angeles Montolio, Renata Tomanova, Michelle Tyler, Sharon Walsh, Wendy White, Tamara Zidansek, Shuai Zhang, Radka Zrubakova

23. Mona Barthel, Bettina Fulco, Su-Wei Hsieh, Natalia Medvedeva, Florenta Mihai, Anne Minter, Candy Reynolds, Lesia Tsurenko, Linda Wild

24. Sherry Acker, Marie Bouzkova, Iva Budarova, Annabel Croft, Rita Grande, Jamie Hampton, Anna Kalinskaya, Yone Kamio, Helga Masthoff, Christina McHale, Nicole Provis-Bradtke, Barbara Rittner, Anne-Gaelle Sidot, Valerie Ziegenfuss

25. Timea Babos, Iveta Benesova, Petra Cetkovska, BettyAnn Dent, Kim Jones-Shaefer, Anhelina Kalinina, Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Marina Kroschina, Miriam Oremans, Yaroslava Shvedova, Jarmila Wolfe

26. Brigitte Cuypers, Lauren Davis, Casey Dellacqua, Alexandra Dulgheru, Gisela Dulko, Mana Endo, Clarisa Fernández, Camila Giorgi, Etsuko Inoue, Marta Kostyuk, Kathy Kuykendall, Florencia Labat, Roberta McCallum, Tamira Paszek, Kveta Peschke, Regina Rajchrtova, Elna Reinach, Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, Pam Teeguarden, Dinky van Rensburg, Maria Vento-Kabchi, Shi-Ting Wang

27. Meike Babel, Camille Benjamin, Katie Boulter, Kristina Brandi, Sabrina Goles, Gala Leon Garcia, Emilie Loit, Sania Mirza, Bernarda Pera, Sylvia Plischke, Monica Puig, Yulia Putintseva, Laura Robson, Mara Santangelo, Laura Siegemund, Leigh Thompson, Cristina Torrens Valero, Emanuela Zardo

28. Federica Bonsignori, Mariaan de Swardt, Laura Granville, Patricia Hy-Boulais, Christiane Jolissaint, Rachel McQuillan, Kyoko Nagatsuka, Monica Niculescu, Linda Noskova, Mercedes Paz, Virginia Ruano Pascual, Iris Riedel-Kuhn, Asa Svensson

29. Sofia Arvidsson, Petra Begerow, Manon Bollegraf, Kateryna Bondarenko, Kristie Boogert, Maria Esther Bueno, Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Jeanne Evert, Ann Grossman, Ginger Helgeson-Nielsen, Corina Morariu, Tina Pisnik, Sarah Pitkowski, Claudia Porwik, Urszula Radwanska, Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Patricia Tarabini

30. Misaki Doi, Lele Forood, Viviana Gonzalez-Segal, Magdalena Grzybowska, Barbara Hallquist, Michaella Krajicek, Duk-Hee Lee, Petra Mandula, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Shelby Rogers, Lucia Romanov, Stephanie Rottier, Linda Siegel


In bold, active single players
 
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#43 ·
Big Brenda was top10??? I always taught her career high was around 13!
 
#47 ·
Why is Magui bolded? Is she back?:eek:
 
#48 ·
Where is Kveta Peschke
 
#52 ·
OMG...
i just noticed that ...

10(11 if you count navratilova) of the 15 number 1 ranked players were all playing
in 1999-2001 ...
and they were all playing great..!!!

no wonder why those were like the best years in tennis...
 
#59 ·
New additions after Wimbledon:

#5 Ana Ivanovic
#11 Marion Bartoli
#22 Alona Bondarenko
#27 Mara Santangelo

Congrat girls :worship:
 
#63 ·
yeaaaa, sania at 30th position!!!
 
#73 ·
at one point Petrova was RG semifinalist, Wimbledon, Australian and US Opens quarterfinalists, winner of Tier I Berlin and Charleston, Tier II Linz, Doha and Amelia Island.
 
#76 · (Edited)
spiceboy :wavey: , i have suggestion for you to use instead NORMAL and BOLD (unactive and active players) - NORMAL, BOLD and RED. NORMAL for former players, BOLD for active players and RED (bold) for active players "TO WATCH" with good chances to improve they career best rank in next (for example) 2-3 months.


This is a list (updated from a previous post created by Brian Stewart) of all players who reached the top 30 in singles since the inception of Computer World Rankings on November 3, 1975.

Players are listed by highest ranking achieved (in alphabetical order)

1. Tracy Austin, Jennifer Capriati, Kim Clijsters, Lindsay Davenport, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Justine Henin, Martina Hingis, Amelie Mauresmo, Martina Navratilova, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Monica Seles, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Venus Williams

2. Evonne Goolagong, Andrea Jaeger, Billie Jean King, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Conchita Martinez, Anastasia Myskina, Jana Novotna, Virginia Wade

3. Amanda Coetzer, Jelena Jankovic, Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière, Hana Mandlikova, Nadia Petrova, Mary Pierce, Gabriela Sabatini, Pam Shriver, Nathalie Tauziat, Wendy Turnbull

4. Sue Barker, Kimiko Date, Elena Dementieva, Jelena Dokic, Mary Joe Fernandez, Diane Fromholtz-Balestrat, Zina Garrison, Anke Huber, Ana Ivanovic, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Iva Majoli, Magdalena Maleeva, Helena Sukova

5. Rosie Casals, Anna Chakvetadze, Margaret Court, Jo Durie, Sylvia Hanika, Daniela Hantuchova, Kathy Jordan, Betty Stove, Natasha Zvereva

6. Bettina Bunge, Mima Jausovec, Katerina Maleeva, Chanda Rubin

7. Julie Halard-Decugis, Kerry Melville-Reid, Olga Morozova, Barbara Potter, Kathy Rinaldi, Barbara Schett, Patty Schnyder, Irina Spirlea, Greer Stevens, Andrea Temesvari, Nicole Vaidisova

8. Carling Bassett-Seguso, Bonnie Gadusek, Anna Kournikova, Alicia Molik, Nancy Richey, Virginia Ruzici, Ai Sugiyama

9. Lisa Bonder-Kreiss, Frances Durr, Lori McNeil, Dinara Safina, Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Paola Suarez, Sandrine Testud, Dominique van Roost, Vera Zvonareva

10. Marion Bartoli, Karina Habsudova, Kathy Horvath, Kristin Shaw, Catarina Lindqvist, Kathy May, Barbara Paulus, Stephanie Rehe

11. Natasha Chmyreva, Nathalie Dechy, Silvia Farina-Elia, Regina Marsikova, Joanne Russell, Francesca Schiavone, Meghann Shaughnessy

12. Marise Kruger, Leila Meskhi, Anne Smith

13. Amy Frazier, Sabine Hack, Terry Holladay, Helen Kelesi, Andrea Leand, Larisa Neiland, Rafaella Reggi, Judith Wiesner

14. Elena Bovina, Pam Casale, Eleni Daniilidou, Laura Gildemeister, Anna Lena Groenefeld, Kimberly Po-Messerlis, Marita Redondo, Naoko Sawamatsu

15. Sandra Cecchini, Mary Lou Daniels, Ruxandra Dragomir, Rosalyn Fairbank-Nideffer, Ann Kiyomura, Elena Likhovtseva, Shahar Peer, Lisa Raymond, Anna Smashnova, Caroline Stoll, Robin White

16. Sabine Appelmans, Daja Bedanova, Laura duPont, Tatiana Golovin, Na Li, Ivanna Madruga, Flavia Pennetta, Iroda Tulyaganova, Fabiola Zuluaga

17. Leslie Allen, Belinda Cordwell, Gigi Fernandez, Melissa Gurney, Betsy Nagelsen, Eva Pfaff, Karolina Sprem

18. Sandy Collins, Kate Gompert, Anne Kremer, Stacy Margolin, Meredith McGrath, Alycia Moulton, Alexandra Stevenson, Silvija Talaja, Michelle Torres

19. Yayuk Basuki, Katja Ebbinghaus, Patty Fendick, Ines Gorrochategui, Ilana Kloss, Peanut Louie-Harper, Magüi Serna, Susan Sloane, Tamarine Tanasugarn, Anne White

20. Sybille Bammer, Isabel Cueto, Anna-Maria Fernandez, Maria Kirilenko, Tatiana Panova, Pascale Paradis, Terry Phelps, Renee Richards, Elizabeth Smylie, Katarina Srebotnik, Agnes Szavay, Catherine Tanvier, Yvonne Vermaak

21. Shinobu Asagoe, Alona Bondarenko, Jeanne duVall, Helen Gourlay Cawley, Joanette Kruger, Kate Latham, Henrieta Nagyova, Beth Norton, Marianne Werdel-Witmeyer

22. Elise Burgin, Cynthia Doerner, Tathiana Garbin, Gretchen Magers, Angeles Montolio, Lucie Safarova, Renata Tomanova, Michelle Tyler, Sharon Walsh, Wendy White, Radka Zrubakova

23. Bettina Fulco, Anabel Medina Garrigues, Natalia Medvedeva, Florenta Mihai, Anne Minter, Candy Reynolds, Linda Wild

24. Sherry Acker, Iva Budarova, Annabel Croft, Rita Grande, Yone Kamio, Nicole Provis-Bradtke, Barbara Rittner, Anne-Gaelle Sidot

25. BettyAnn Dent, Kim Jones-Shaefer, Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Miriam Oremans

26. Brigitte Cuypers, Gisela Dulko, Mana Endo, Clarisa Fernández, Etsuko Inoue, Kathy Kuykendall, Florencia Labat, Roberta McCallum, Kveta Peschke, Regina Rajchrtova, Elna Reinach, Sabina Simmonds, Pam Teeguarden, Dinky van Rensburg, Maria Vento-Kabchi, Shi-Ting Wang

27. Meike Babel, Camille Benjamin, Kristina Brandi, Sabrina Goles, Christianne Jolissaint, Gala Leon Garcia, Emilie Loit, Sania Mirza, Sylvia Plischke, Mara Santangelo, Samantha Stosur, Leigh Thompson, Cristina Torrens Valero, Klara Zakopalova, Emanuela Zardo, Jie Zheng

28. Federica Bonsignori, Mariaan de Swardt, Laura Granville, Patricia Hy-Boulais, Rachel McQuillan, Kyoko Nagatsuka, Mercedes Paz, Virginia Ruano Pascual, Asa Svensson

29. Sofia Arvidsson, Petra Begerow, Manon Bollegraf, Kristie Boogert, Jeanne Evert, Ann Grossman, Ginger Helgeson-Nielsen, Corina Morariu, Maria Pinterova, Tina Pisnik, Claudia Porwik, Patricia Tarabini

30. Lele Forood, Viviana Gonzalez-Segal, Magdalena Grzybowska, Barbara Hallquist, Duk-Hee Lee, Petra Mandula, Agnieszka Radwanska, Lucia Romanov, Stephanie Rottier, Linda Siegel

TOP3 "Newcomers" (expectations): Michaella Krajicek, Victoria Azarenka and Tamira Paszek.


In bold, active single players
In red, active single players with good chances to improve they career best ranks in next 10 weeks
 
#77 ·
spiceboy :wavey: , i have suggestion for you to use instead NORMAL and BOLD (unactive and active players) - NORMAL, BOLD and RED. NORMAL for former players, BOLD for active players and RED (bold) for active players "TO WATCH" with good chances to improve they career best rank in next (for example) 2-3 months.
That's a good idea, Cp :)

But as this would be a bit subjective I'll just use RED for players holding their highest ranking in the current week.

Thanks for the suggestion :bounce:
 
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