WTA Top 100 by Year of Birth

I thought about trying to list the top 10 of each age by weeding through the WTA rankings (since their site lists the player's DOB) but I ended coming up with this list, which is the top 100 sorted by birth.

I'll mention a few things that stood as I went through this data here.  The number in front of each is the player's ranking after Indian Wells.  There are 15 Russians, 10 Czechs, and 7 Americans.  But except for Petrova and Zvonareva, all the Russians were born 1986 and after, so the "Russian Revolution" rolls on.  Except for Kvitova, no Czech has been born since 1987 (Safarova).  And the Americans have Serena, Venus, and young players (Mattek-Sands excepted).  Actually, 3 of the 5 youngest players in the top 100 are American.  Spain could be a country on the way down in tennis, since only Suarez Navarro was born since early 1984.  Romania could be on the way with all 4 players born in 1987 or later.

It turns 1987 was the "golden year" to be born, at least for now.  14 of the top 100, 12 of the top 50, and 7 of the top 30 were born in '87.  However, there are no top 10 players there.  1987 did have the most of any year with 1986 having 10 and 1989 having 9 as the next most.  The 7 players who have won slams are mostly older:  Venus and Schiavone in 1980, Serena in 1981, Clijsters in 1982, Kuznetsova in 1985, and Sharapova and Ivanovic in 1987.

I enjoyed going through, and I'm thinking about making this list into a page and updating it periodically.

1970
54-Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

1978
41-Patty Schnyder (SUI)

1979
51-Greta Arn (HUN)

1980
4-Francesca Schiavone (ITA)
9-Venus Williams (USA)
83-Zuzuna Ondraskova (CZE)
95-Alberta Brianti (ITA)

1981
12-Serena Williams (USA)
49-Lourdes Dominiguez Lino (ESP)
80-Kristina Barrois (GER)

1982
6-Na Li (CHN)
17-Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
22-Nadia Petrova (RUS)
33-Maria J. Martinez Sanchez (ESP)
36-Klara Zakopalova (CZE)
62-Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP)
72-Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)
73-Anabel Median Garrigues (ESP)
96-Mirjana Lucic (CRO)

1983
2-Kim Clijsters (BEL)
30-Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
37-Roberta Vinci (ITA)
46-Iveta Benesova (CZE)
59-Jie Zheng (CHN)
64-Jelena Dokic (AUS)
85-Elena Baltacha (GBR)
92-Renata Voracova (CZE)

1984
3-Vera Zvonareva (RUS)
5-Samantha Stosur (AUS)
10-Marion Bartoli (FRA)
55-Alona Bondarenko (UKR)
69-Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)
74-Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)
81-Chanelle Scheepers (RSA)
84-Laura Pous-Tio (ESP)

1985
7-Jelena Jankovic (SRB)
15-Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
16-Kaia Kanepi (EST)
43-Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)
47-Gisela Dulko (ARG)
70-Mathilde Johansson (FRA)
71-Lucie Hradecka (CZE)
100-Sandra Zahlavova (CZE)

1986
32-Shuai Peng (CHN)
50-Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE)
53-Vera Dushevina (RUS)
56-Elena Vesnina (RUS)
82-Varvara Lepchenko (USA)
86-Romina Oprandi (ITA)
91-Dinara Safina (RUS)
93-Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)
94-Anstasiya Yakimova (BLR)
99-Sania Mirza (IND)

1987
11-Shahar Peer (ISR)
13-Maria Sharapova (RUS)
19-Ana Ivanovic (SRB)
23-Andrea Petkovic (GER)
24-Aravane Rezai (FRA)
27-Maria Kirilenko (RUS)
29-Jarmila Groth (AUS)
31-Lucie Safarova (CZE)
34-Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)
40-Sara Errani (ITA)
42-Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)
48-Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)
63-Monica Niculescu (ROU)
68-Alla Kudravtseva (RUS)

1988
35-Julia Goerges (GER)
39-Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)
44-Agnes Szavay (HUN)
60-Angelique Kerber (GER)
67-Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK)
78-Johanna Larsson (SWE)
79-Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)
87-Olga Govortsova (BLR)

1989
8-Victoria Azarenka (BLR)
14-Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
20-Yanina Wickmayer (BEL)
25-Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
26-Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)
28-Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU)
45-Timea Bacsinszky (SUI)
76-Evgeniya Rodina (RUS)
77-Shuai Zhang (CHN)

1990
1-Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
18-Petra Kvitova (CZE)
38-Anastasija Sevastova (LAT)
57-Ayumi Morita (JPN)
58-Rebecca Marino (CAN)
65-Alize Cornet (FRA)
89-Tamira Paszek (AUT)
97-Sorana Cirstea (ROU)

1991
21-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)
52-Bojana Jovanovski (SRB)
61-Polona Hercog (SLO)
66-Simona Halep (ROU)
75-Melanie Oudin (USA)
88-Ksenia Pervak (RUS)
90-Coco Vandeweghe (USA)

1992
98-Christina McHale (USA)