Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will becomes the new Russian #1 on monday. Congratulations
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Start date End date Weeks Total Player WTA Ranking at the time
15 December 1991 28 March 1993 67 67 Eugenia Maniokova 107
28 March 1993 01 January 1995 92 92 Elena Makarova 190
01 January 1995 06 July 1997 131 131 Elena Likhovtseva* 61
07 July 1997 28 July 1997 3 3 Anna Kournikova 25
28 July 1997 11 August 1997 2 133 Elena Likhovtseva 25
11 August 1997 25 August 1997 2 5 Anna Kournikova 26
25 August 1997 22 December 1997 17 150 Elena Likhovtseva 25
22 December 1997 16 April 2001 173 178 Anna Kournikova 30
16 April 2001 14 May 2001 4 4 Elena Dementieva 11
14 May 2001 09 July 2001 8 186 Anna Kournikova 8
09 July 2001 09 September 2002 61 65 Elena Dementieva 11
09 September 2002 15 September 2003 53 53 Anastasia Myskina 15
15 September 2003 03 November 2003 7 72 Elena Dementieva 8
03 November 2003 31 January 2005 65 118 Anastasia Myskina 8
31 January 2005 15 May 2006 67 67 Maria Sharapova 4
15 May 2006 12 June 2006 4 4 Nadia Petrova 3
12 June 2006 10 September 2007 65 132 Maria Sharapova 4
10 September 2007 21 April 2008 32 32 Svetlana Kuznetsova 2
21 April 2008 04 August 2008 15 147 Maria Sharapova 3
04 August 2008 08 September 2008 5 37 Svetlana Kuznetsova 3
08 September 2008 22 September 2008 2 74 Elena Dementieva 4
22 September 2008 17 May 2010 86 86 Dinara Safina 3
17 May 2010 23 August 2010 14 88 Elena Dementieva 5
23 August 2010 12 September 2011 55 55 Vera Zvonareva 8
12 September 2011 16 May 2016 244 391 Maria Sharapova 2
17 May 2016 19 March 2018 96 133 Svetlana Kuznetsova 15
19 March 2018 09 September 2019 77 77 Daria Kasatkina 11
09 September 2019 23 September 2019 2 2 Ekaterina Alexandrova 39
23 September 2019 30 September 2019 1 1 A. Pavlyuchenkova 36
30 September 2019 14 October 2019 2 4 Ekaterina Alexandrova 38
14 October 2019 21 October 2019 1 78 Daria Kasatkina 37
21 October 2019 28 October 2019 1 2 A. Pavlyuchenkova 30
* Likhovtseva was a Kazakhstani citizen (1992-1994)
Re: Will Maria lose her Russian #1 ranking in 2016?
Will she lose it in 2016? Hell, yeah. There's no way she's getting less than a year (or less than 2 yrs, tbh) so she'll be unranked by the beginning of November.
Right now she's 6 in the race, but has a lot of points coming off at Wimbledon.
If she makes a few more deep runs before Wimbledon (Miami is a good place for another run like Vika last year) then she certainly can do it. She can be top 3 if she keeps playing like Indian Wells
Screaming @ she'll be top three in the world. Before IW she was being constantly dragged for even being top 20 considered overranked. Now a certain moron believes her streaky af game is top 3 potential :lol: Don't make me laugh.
If she plays like she did at IW, top 3 is not wild. Not saying she will keep this level. We will see
If Lucic and Coco make the same slam semis and Vesnina wins IW, might as well open your eyes to a new WTA World
Anyway... Anything can happy. Kuzzy is the better player and just a couple of hundred points behind her. She doesn't need more than 1 tournament to catch up. Only age might play against her, but she's not really that old and seems to be a pretty smart player in terms of managing her body. And Maria can easily catch up on both of them as well by EOY.
Any prediction about her, before we're even at the half of the season, would be rather bold. In theory, also Pavly, and even Vikhly, could catch up on Vesnina. So let's just wait and see.
Pavs is still a work in progress. She had beaten Sveta twice this year before their IW QF last week.
I just saw Kerber go from never making a slam final to #1 and 2 slams
Vesnina played well this whole tournament against a legit draw. The question is whether she can do it several times this year. Her interview afterwards was interesting. She knows she has a good serve, good volley and good groundstrokes. The hard part is to play well consistently
We will start finding out in Miami and this spring whether she makes a lot of deep runs
It's between her and Sveta. Sveta is still the better player but if Vesnushka continues with her performance she showed at IW and not only, who knows? It would be well deserved for her, anyway.
It's possible. I've never seen her play this well with that kind of draw.
Rogers, Babos, Kerber, Venus, Mladenovic, Kuznetsova. She had to play well each round
We will see starting this week.
In the last year she made Wimbledon semi and won IW. In doubles won Gold and won YEC
Hard to believe she's done this much. But the level of her play is legit, and if she can keep playing this well, she'll win matches
I hope she goes into Miami feeling like she's playing with house money (already exceeding her expectations) and wins a few rounds. It would be nice to see her have consistent results, but that may be asking a lot from someone who at their best is streaky.
I have no idea of what shall happen, but it seems like Kuznetsova is a much better bet to remain as the top Russian.