WTA Birth Year Top 10 -- 2011 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 2011 year end list around for comparison.  This list covers everyone in the WTA rankings database on their website (birth years 1970-1997).

Comments:  These are the year end rankings for 2011, dated November 14, 2011.  All tour events are complete as are all ITF events in the USA.  There are still some ongoing ITF events around the world but they never stop so I decided this was a good week to be "year end".

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

1970*:  100 (1)
1974*:  147
1975*:  256
1976*:  670
1977*:  580
1978*:  923
1979*:  533 (1)
1980:  295 (2)
1981:  343 (3)
1982:  59 (7)
1983:  57 (9)
1984:  58 (8)
1985:  60 (8)
1986:  69 (11)
1987:  28 (11)
1988:  74 (7)
1989:  49 (9)
1990:  49 (14)
1991:  76 (6)
1992:  160 (2)
1993:  176 (1)
1994:  275
1995:  426
1996:  651
1997*:  1061

Now without further ado, the rankings:

Compiled:  November 14, 2011 (year end)

1970
100-Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

1974
147-Jill Craybas (USA)

1975
256-Anne Kremer (LUX)

1976
635-Romana Tedjakusuma (INA)
704-Mashona Washington (USA)

1977
121-Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)
379-Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA)
811-Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)
1008-Habiba Ifrakh (MAR)

1978
698-Surina De Beer (RSA)
1147-Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE)

1979
63-Greta Arn (HUN)
253-Catalina Castano (COL)
263-Severine Beltrame (FRA)
454-Julie Ditty (USA)
525-Katalin Marosi (HUN)
585-Sandra Martinovic (BIH)
685-Diana Ospina (USA)
942-Tatiana Poutchek (BLR)
1024-Shiho Hisamatsu (JPN)

1980
11-Francesca Schiavone (ITA)
71-Alberta Brianti (ITA)
103-Venus Williams (USA)
128-Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP)
176-Petra Rampre (SLO)
268-Alexandra Stevenson (USA)
330-Mervana Jugic-Salkic (BIH)
434-Zuzuna Ondraskova (CZE)
521-Remi Tezuka (JPN)
903-Kyung Yee Chae (KOR)

1981
12-Serena Williams (USA)
79-Lourdes Dominiguez Lino (ESP)
91-Kristina Barrois (GER)
101-Stephanie Foretz-Gacon (FRA)
187-Rika Fujiwara (JPN)
316-Alicia Molik (AUS)
325-Abigail Spears (USA)
576-Vanessa Henke (GER)
770-Natalie Grandin (RSA)
968-Sheethal Goutham (IND)

1982
5-Na Li (CHN)
20-Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
27-Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)
29-Nadia Petrova (RUS)
35-Maria J. Martinez Sanchez (ESP)
41-Klara Zakopalova (CZE)
90-Eleni Daniilidou (GRE)
108-Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)
117-Mirjana Lucic (CRO)
118-Maria Elena Camerin (ITA)

1983
13-Kim Clijsters (BEL)
23-Roberta Vinci (ITA)
24-Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
48-Jie Zheng (CHN)
50-Elena Baltacha (GBR)
54-Iveta Benesova (CZE)
66-Jelena Dokic (AUS)
73-Anne Keothavong (GBR)
84-Virginie Razzano (FRA)
136-Yvonne Meusberger (AUT)

1984
6-Samantha Stosur (AUS)
7-Vera Zvonareva (RUS)
9-Marion Bartoli (FRA)
38-Chanelle Scheepers (RSA)
58-Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)
75-Laura Pous-Tio (ESP)
78-Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)
95-Iryna Bremond (FRA)
102-Eva Birnerova (CZE)
116-Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)

1985
14-Jelena Jankovic (SRB)
19-Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
31-Petra Cetkovska (CZE)
34-Kaia Kanepi (EST)
51-Lucie Hradecka (CZE)
55-Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)
68-Gisela Dulko (ARG)
77-Mathilde Johansson (FRA)
110-Mandy Minella (LUX)
145-Nina Bratchikova (RUS)

1986
17-Shuai Peng (CHN)
44-Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE)
57-Elena Vesnina (RUS)
62-Anastasia Yakimova (BLR)
74-Pauline Parmentier (FRA)
80-Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR)
82-Romina Oprandi (ITA)
86-Vera Dushevina (RUS)
87-Sania Mirza (IND)
98-Stephanie Dubois (CAN)

1987
4-Maria Sharapova (RUS)
10-Andrea Petkovic (GER)
22-Ana Ivanovic (SRB)
25-Lucie Safarova (CZE)
28-Maria Kirilenko (RUS)
30-Monica Niculescu (ROU)
33-Jarmila Gadjosova (AUS)
37-Shahar Peer (ISR)
45-Sara Errani (ITA)
46-Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)

1988
21-Julia Goerges (GER)
32-Angelique Kerber (GER)
52-Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)
56-Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)
59-Johanna Larsson (SWE)
61-Marina Erakovic (NZL)
72-Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK)
115-Olga Govortsova (BLR)
120-Erika Sema (JPN)
156-Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROU)

1989
3-Victoria Azarenka (BLR)
8-Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
15-Sabine Lisicki (GER)
18-Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
26-Yanina Wickmayer (BEL)
69-Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)
70-Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU)
76-Vania King (USA)
93-Evgeniya Rodina (RUS)
107-Michaella Krajicek (NED)

1990
1-Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
2-Petra Kvitova (CZE)
40-Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)
42-Tamira Paszek (AUT)
47-Ayumi Morita (JPN)
60-Sorana Cirstea (ROU)
64-Rebecca Marino (CAN)
67-Mona Barthel (GER)
83-Arantxa Rus (NED)
85-Irina Falconi (USA)

1991
16-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)
36-Polona Hercog (SLO)
39-Ksenia Pervak (RUS)
49-Petra Martic (CRO)
53-Simona Halep (ROU)
65-Bojana Jovanovski (SRB)
106-Misaki Doi (JPN)
123-Coco Vandeweghe (USA)
133-Valeria Savinykh (RUS)
143-Kurumi Nara (JPN)

1992
42-Christina McHale (USA)
92-Heather Watson (GBR)
160-Karolina Pliskova (CZE)
169-Chichi Scholl (USA)
170-Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino (ESP)
178-Kristyna Pliskova (CZE)
188-Paula Ormaechea (ARG)
192-Isabella Holland (AUS)
195-Elena Bogdan (ROU)
209-Tamaryn Hendler (BEL)

1993
97-Sloane Stephens (USA)
142-Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR)
146-Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO)
150-Caroline Garcia (FRA)
154-Timea Babos (HUN)
183-Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
215-Monica Puig (PUR)
220-Jana Cepelova (SVK)
223-Aleksandra Krunic (SRB)
226-Zarina Diyas (KAZ)

1994
131-Laura Robson (GBR)
235-Annika Beck (GER)
258-Nastja Kolar (SLO)
272-Elina Svitolina (UKR)
277-Saisai Zheng (CHN)
290-Jessica Pegula (USA)
292-Alison van Uytvanck (BEL)
302-Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)
344-Kateryna Kozlova (UKR)
349-Grace Min (USA)

1995
242-Yulia Putintseva (RUS)
271-Madison Keys (USA)
347-Irina Khromacheva (RUS)
407-Carina Witthoeft (GER)
421-Sachia Vickery (USA)
443-Anna Shkudun (UKR)
511-Victoria Kan (RUS)
517-Yuliya Lysa (UKR)
530-Su Jeong Jang (KOR)
566-Olga Ianchuk (UKR)

1996
392-Donna Vekic (CRO)
429-Taylor Townsend (USA)
619-Anne-Liz Jeukeng (USA)
663-Valeria Patiuk (ISR)
673-Ashleigh Barty (AUS)
717-Marianna Zakarlyuk (UKR)
720-Eleanor Dean (GBR)
734-Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA)
771-Kanami Tsuji (JPN)
796-Estelle Cascino (FRA)

1997
1059-Victoria Muntean (FRA)
1062-Belinda Bencic (SUI)