WTA Birth Year Top 10 -- 2015 Year End

This is an interesting list that was fairly easy to compile given the sortable nature the WTA rankings.  It shows the top 10 for every birth year.  It can used to track a player's progress up the rankings among their "peers" or same age group.  I am keeping this 2015 year end list around for comparison.  This list covers everyone in the WTA rankings database on their website (birth years 1970-1999), which includes the top 1300 players.

Comments:  Here is a list of the average ranking of the top 10 players from each birth year with the number of top 100 players in parentheses.  An asterisk indicates that year includes less than 10 ranked players.


1970*:  182
1971*:  1110
1977*:  1040
1978*:  746
1980*:  324 (1)
1981*:  394 (1)
1982:  453 (3)
1983*:  540 (2)
1984:  323 (1)
1985:  110 (4)
1986:  101 (5)
1987:  36 (10)
1988:  58 (9)
1989:  42 (10)
1990:  55 (9)
1991:  54 (10)
1992:  93 (5)
1993:  53 (11)
1994:  49 (11)
1995:  116 (4)
1996:  150
1997:  140 (4)
1998:  373
1999:  555
2000:  869
2001:  1191

Now without further ado, the rankings:

Compiled:  December 14, 2015 (year end)




1970
182-Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

1971
1110-Maureen Drake (CAN)

1977
851-Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)
1229-Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)

1978
746-Patty Schnyder (SUI)

1980
7-Venus Williams (USA)
114-Francesca Schiavone (ITA)
308-Alberta Brianti (ITA)
515-Alexandra Stevenson (USA)
677-Petra Rampre (SLO)

1981
1-Serena Williams (USA)
101-Lourdes Dominiguez Lino (ESP)
205-Stephanie Foretz (FRA)
1267-Abigail Spears (USA)

1982
8-Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
68-Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO)
100-Klara Koukalova (CZE)
230-Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)
247-Julie Coin (FRA)
291-Junri Namigata (JPN)
708-Eleni Daniilidou (GRE)
815-Maria Elena Camerin (ITA)
870-Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP)
1195-Raquel Atawo (USA)

1983
15-Roberta Vinci (ITA)
83-Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
191-Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR)
201-Virginie Razzano (FRA)
252-Renata Voracova (CZE)
655-Maria Fernanda Alves (BRA)
958-Jie Zheng (CHN)
1233-Chun-Yan He (CHN)
1273-Mitsumi Kawasaki (JPN)

1984
27-Samantha Stosur (AUS)
185-Vera Zvonareva (RUS)
195-Laura Pous-Tio (ESP)
249-Ana Vrljic (CRO)
265-Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)
317-Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)
392-Emily Webley-Smith (GBR)
424-Chanelle Scheepers (RSA)
545-Edina Gallovits-Hall (USA)
635-Piia Suomalainen (FIN)

1985
21-Jelena Jankovic (SRB)
25-Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
53-Lucie Hradecka (CZE)
60-Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)
116-Casey Dellacqua (AUS)
125-Kaia Kanepi (EST)
130-Petra Cetkovska (CZE)
169-Mandy Minella (LUX)
173-Mathilde Johansson (FRA)
224-Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS)

1986
42-Barbora Strycova (CZE)
47-Varvara Lepchenko (USA)
85-Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)
89-Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR)
93-Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)
115-Elena Vesnina (RUS)
120-Pauline Parmentier (FRA)
123-Romina Oprandi (SUI)
137-Shuai Peng (CHN)
162-Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)

1987
4-Maria Sharapova (RUS)
9-Lucie Safarova (CZE)
16-Ana Ivanovic (SRB)
20-Sara Errani (ITA)
24-Andrea Petkovic (GER)
39-Monica Niculescu (ROU)
51-Karin Knapp (ITA)
59-Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)
67-Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)
71-Tatjana Maria (GER)

1988
10-Angelique Kerber (GER)
13-Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)
23-Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)
46-Teliana Pereira (BRA)
50-Julia Goerges (GER)
56-Johanna Larsson (SWE)
72-Olga Govortsova (BLR)
80-Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK)
99-Laura Siegemund (GER)
135-Marina Erakovic (NZL)

1989
5-Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
12-Timea Bacsinszky (SUI)
22-Victoria Azarenka (BLR)
32-Sabine Lisicki (GER)
33-Lesia Tsurenko (UKR)
38-Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
41-Yanina Wickmayer (BEL)
69-Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU)
78-Mariana Duque-Marino (COL)
87-Evgeniya Rodina (RUS)

1990
6-Petra Kvitova (CZE)
17-Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
31-Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)
40-Madison Brengle (USA)
43-Alize Cornet (FRA)
45-Mona Barthel (GER)
76-Irina Falconi (USA)
94-Urszula Radwanska (POL)
98-Alison Riske (USA)
102-Anna Tatishvili (USA)

1991
2-Simona Halep (ROU)
28-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)
35-Camila Giorgi (ITA)
37-Coco Vandeweghe (USA)
48-Johanna Konta (GBR)
54-Misaki Doi (JPN)
74-Polona Hercog (SLO)
79-Bojana Jovanovski (SRB)
81-Kurumi Nara (JPN)
97-Andreea Mitu (ROU)

1992
11-Karolina Pliskova (CZE)
55-Heather Watson (GBR)
63-Christina McHale (USA)
86-Lara Arruabarrena (ESP)
90-Magda Linette (POL)
110-Qiang Wang (CHN)
117-Kristyna Pliskova (CZE)
127-Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (ESP)
132-Richel Hogenkamp (NED)
141-Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR)

1993
3-Garbine Muguruza (ESP)
29-Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
30-Sloane Stephens (USA)
34-Caroline Garcia (FRA)
52-Zarina Diyas (KAZ)
62-Denisa Allertova (CZE)
65-Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO)
70-Timea Babos (HUN)
88-Lauren Davis (USA)
92-Monica Puig (PUR)

1994
19-Elina Svitolina (UKR)
26-Anna Schmiedlova (SVK)
36-Daria Gavrilova (AUS)
44-Alison van Uytvanck (BEL)
49-Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)
57-Danka Kovinic (MNE)
58-Annika Beck (GER)
61-Margarita Gasparyan (RUS)
66-Nao Hibino (JPN)
73-Saisai Zheng (CHN)

1995
18-Madison Keys (USA)
64-Carina Witthoeft (GER)
77-Yulia Putintseva (KAZ)
91-Anett Kontaveit (EST)
128-Sachia Vickery (USA)
131-Rebecca Peterson (SWE)
142-Samantha Crawford (USA)
165-Elise Mertens (BEL)
170-Maria Sakkari (GRE)
174-Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN)

1996
103-Katerina Siniakova (CZE)
104-Donna Vekic (CRO)
108-Elizaveta Kulichkova (RUS)
111-Louisa Chirico (USA)
152-Jana Fett (CRO)
154-Oceane Dodin (FRA)
158-Ipek Soylu (TUR)
181-Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP)
200-Mayo Hibi (JPN)
231-Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA)

1997
14-Belinda Bencic (SUI)
75-Daria Kasatkina (RUS)
82-Ana Konjuh (CRO)
84-Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)
144-Naomi Osaka (JPN)
163-Anhelina Kalinina (UKR)
171-Katerina Stewart (USA)
215-Anastasiya Komardina (RUS)
227-Paula Badosa Gibert (ESP)
229-Natalia Vikhlyantseva (RUS)

1998
276-Olga Fridman (UKR)
295-Shilin Xu (CHN)
331-Dalma Galfi (HUN)
333-Priscilla Hon (AUS)
364-Kimberly Birrell (AUS)
386-Marie Bouzkova (CZE)
428-Viktoria Kuzmova (SVK)
431-Nicole Frenkel (USA)
436-Karine Sarkisova (RUS)
447-Usue Maitane Arconada (USA)

1999
228-Catherine Bellis (USA)
393-Marketa Vondrousova (CZE)
500-Marta Paigina (RUS)
522-Katie Swan (GBR)
589-Berfu Cengiz (TUR)
630-Charlotte Robillard-Millette (CAN)
633-Anastasia Gasanova (RUS)
665-Michaela Gordon (USA)
692-Amina Anshba (RUS)
693-Jaeda Daniel (USA)

2000
562-Claire Liu (USA)
640-Katarina Zavatska (UKR)
646-Bianca Andreescu (CAN)
673-Destanee Aiava (AUS)
768-Olesya Pervushina (RUS)
969-Isabelle Boulais (CAN)
1073-I-Hsuan Cho (TPE)
1102-Dayana Yastremska (UKR)
1102-Anhzelika Isaeva (RUS)
1152-Hsin-Yuan Shih (TPE)
1152-Anna Jovanovic (FRA)
1152-Sing Fan Chiang (TPE)

2001
1179-Lulu Radovcic (SUI)
1202-Ana Shanidze (GEO)

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