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Career-High Ranking History (Top 30)

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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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#3 ·
Re: Career-High Ranking History (Top 30) since Official WTA Rankings instaured in 197

From tommorrow, weekly updates with every Monday's rankings.
 
#135 ·
Re: Career-High Ranking History (Top 30) since Official WTA Rankings instaured in 197

From tommorrow, weekly updates with every Monday's rankings.
pls do me a favour. change the title from top 30 to be top 31 so shuai peng can be on the list. :bigcry: :p
 
#7 ·
Re: Career-High Ranking History (Top 30) since Official WTA Rankings instaured in 197

So Australian Open champions Chris O'Neil and Barbara Jordan never were ranked in Top-30 :tape: :lol:
 
#8 ·
Re: Career-High Ranking History (Top 30) since Official WTA Rankings instaured in 197

So Australian Open champions Chris O'Neil and Barbara Jordan never were ranked in Top-30 :tape: :lol:
From what I found both made the top 40 but not the top 30 :p
 
#10 ·
Ai at eighth :worship:

Isn't Kata better than #20? hmm
 
#22 ·
Nice to see an updated list... especially since I've been too laz busy to update the one I made. :)

Even nicer not to have to do the work. Thanks, Spiceboy!
Thanks to you Brian, I just feel such a great thread couldn't simply die like that :angel:
 
#14 ·
It's so weird how 4 time slam winner Mandlikova was only able to get to #3 while Jaeger got to #2 in the same era with no slams. Jaeger really shook up Navratilova & Evert for awhile there before crashing out.
 
#17 ·
2. Evonne Goolagong, Andrea Jaeger, Billie Jean King, Conchita Martinez, Anastasia Myskina, Jana Novotna, Virginia Wade


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


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

8 Nancy Richey (omitted from original list)
9. Lisa Bonder-K, Françoise Dürr, Lori McNeil, Dinara Safina, Brenda Schultz-M, Paola Suarez, Sandrine Testud, Dominique van Roost, Vera Zvonareva

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

Great list Brian & good idea to update, Spiceboy. It's only fair to mention, imo, that the players in large type & italics above were surely ranked higher before the inception of the rankings in November 1975.
 
#26 ·
Thanks for pointing that out, Andy.

As you state these players got a better ranking before Official WTA Rankings came into effect and this is one of the things that I changed from Brian's previous thread. I just considered rankings from that date so we can have an official cut-off :)
 
#20 ·
Is this arrange by who got the ranking first? :p I dont think so. Maybe you can arrange it that way?
 
#27 ·
Tough task :eek:

Specially regarding to those players from the 70's and 80's...I made my life easier and placed them alphabetically :p
 
#32 ·
Players with a carrer-high ranking this week:

7. Ana Ivanovic
Ana :bounce:


But bad news for Ana (current #7) is if she even reach final at RG, she will be 6th after that in best case :sad: .
 
#31 ·
Mary Joe broke the Top 20 at 17 the year Chris retired. She reached GS finals in 1990, 1992 & 1993 so she belongs more to the Graf/Seles era. She even reached round of 16 in Roland Garros and US Open in 1999.
 
#33 ·
I just noticed Billie Jean King never reached no.1?
 
#34 ·
So nice to see Ana back ahead of the Devil again!!! It had been far too long!!
 
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