WTA Birth Year Top 10 - 2013 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 2013 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*:  74 (1)
1975*:  1017
1977*:  761
1979*:  637
1980*:  336 (2)
1981*:  491 (2)
1982:  109 (4)
1983:  145 (5)
1984:  165 (4)
1985:  93 (4)
1986:  74 (8)
1987:  37 (11)
1988:  66 (9)
1989:  51 (8)
1990:  33 (12)
1991:  71 (8)
1992:  94 (5)
1993:  66 (10)
1994:  92 (5)
1995:  192 (1)
1996:  258 (1)
1997:  457
1998:  922
1999*:  981

Now without further ado, the rankings:

Compiled:  December 2, 2013 (year end)


1970
74-Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

1975
1017-Anne Kremer (LUX)

1977
423-Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)
1099-Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)

1979
199-Catalina Castano (COL)
409-Greta Arn (HUN)
924-Kyra Nagy (HUN)
1015-Katalin Marosi (HUN)

1980
39-Francesca Schiavone (ITA)
47-Venus Williams (USA)
204-Alberta Brianti (ITA)
218-Petra Rampre (SLO)
391-Alexandra Stevenson (USA)
431-Mervana Jugic-Salkic (BIH)
1023-Karina Jacobsgaard (DEN)

1981
1-Serena Williams (USA)
69-Lourdes Dominiguez Lino (ESP)
161-Stephanie Foretz-Gacon (FRA)
223-Kristina Barrois (GER)
688-Rika Fujiwara (JPN)
761-Natalie Grandin (RSA)
799-Abigail Spears (USA)
1225-Tomoko Dokei (JPN)

1982
3-Na Li (CHN)
31-Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
35-Klara Zakopalova (CZE)
100-Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)
104-Nadia Petrova (RUS)
110-Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO)
163-Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)
165-Julie Coin (FRA)
190-Eleni Daniilidou (GRE)
191-Maria Elena Camerin (ITA)

1983
14-Roberta Vinci (ITA)
33-Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
49-Yvonne Meusberger (AUT)
53-Jie Zheng (CHN)
99-Virginie Razzano (FRA)
172-Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR)
207-Renata Voracova (CZE)
225-Elena Baltacha (GBR)
278-Monique Adamczak (AUS)
316-Jelena Pandzic (CRO)

1984
13-Marion Bartoli (FRA)
18-Samantha Stosur (AUS)
67-Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)
80-Chanelle Scheepers (RSA)
120-Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)
181-Eva Birnerova (CZE)
213-Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)
220-Ana Vrljic (CRO)
318-Laura Pous-Tio (ESP)
420-Emily Webley-Smith (GBR)

1985
8-Jelena Jankovic (SRB)
21-Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
30-Kaia Kanepi (EST)
48-Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)
106-Mandy Minella (LUX)
134-Mathilde Johansson (FRA)
138-Petra Cetkovska (CZE)
141-Casey Dellacqua (AUS)
148-Lucie Hradecka (CZE)
156-Nina Bratchikova (RUS)

1986
20-Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)
25-Elena Vesnina (RUS)
42-Shuai Peng (CHN)
54-Varvara Lepchenko (USA)
78-Romina Oprandi (SUI)
86-Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)
92-Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (AUT)
94-Barbora ZahlavovaStrycova (CZE)
123-Vera Dushevina (RUS)
128-Claire Feuerstein (FRA)

1987
4-Maria Sharapova (RUS)
7-Sara Errani (ITA)
16-Ana Ivanovic (SRB)
19-Maria Kirilenko (RUS)
29-Lucie Safarova (CZE)
41-Karin Knapp (ITA)
43-Andrea Petkovic (GER)
59-Monica Niculescu (ROU)
76-Shahar Peer (ISR)
79-Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)

1988
9-Angelique Kerber (GER)
17-Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)
24-Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)
37-Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK)
46-Marina Erakovic (NZL)
72-Julia Goerges (GER)
84-Johanna Larsson (SWE)
93-Olga Govortsova (BLR)
98-Teliana Pereira (BRA)
180-Erika Sema (JPN)

1989
2-Victoria Azarenka (BLR)
5-Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
15-Sabine Lisicki (GER)
23-Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
51-Yanina Wickmayer (BEL)
52-Shuai Zhang (CHN)
68-Lesia Tsurenko (UKR)
85-Vania King (USA)
103-Mariana Duque-Marino (COL)
105-Vesna Dolonc (SRB)

1990
6-Petra Kvitova (CZE)
10-Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
22-Sorana Cirstea (ROU)
27-Alize Cornet (FRA)
28-Jamie Hampton (USA)
34-Mona Barthel (GER)
40-Urszula Radwanska (POL)
50-Stephanie Voegele (SUI)
57-Alison Riske (USA)
60-Ayumi Morita (JPN)

1991
11-Simona Halep (ROU)
26-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)
36-Bojana Jovanovski (SRB)
65-Polona Hercog (SLO)
81-Kurumi Nara (JPN)
87-Kiki Bertens (NED)
90-Misaki Doi (JPN)
97-Camila Giorgi (ITA)
107-Petra Martic (CRO)
113-Coco Vandeweghe (USA)

1992
62-Paula Ormaechea (ARG)
64-Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (ESP)
66-Christina McHale (USA)
71-Karolina Pliskova (CZE)
95-Dinah Pfizenmaier (GER)
101-Nadiya Kichenok (UKR)
102-Lara Arruabarrena (ESP)
121-Heather Watson (GBR)
125-Shelby Rogers (USA)
129-Kristyna Pliskova (CZE)

1993
12-Sloane Stephens (USA)
55-Monica Puig (PUR)
56-Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
63-Garbine Muguruza (ESP)
70-Lauren Davis (USA)
73-Caroline Garcia (FRA)
75-Jana Cepelova (SVK)
77-Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO)
88-Timea Babos (HUN)
89-Luksika Kumkhum (THA)

1994
32-Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)
44-Laura Robson (GBR)
45-Elina Svitolina (UKR)
58-Annika Beck (GER)
83-Anna Schmiedlova (SVK)
112-Alison van Uytvanck (BEL)
122-Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)
135-Ons Jabeur (TUN)
144-An-Sophie Mestach (BEL)
145-Saisai Zheng (CHN)

1995
38-Madison Keys (USA)
109-Yulia Putintseva (KAZ)
153-Victoria Kan (RUS)
168-Victoria Duval (USA)
196-Sachia Vickery (USA)
217-Carina Witthoeft (GER)
238-Allie Kiick (USA)
246-Anett Kontaveit (EST)
250-Irina Khromacheva (RUS)
306-Fangzhou Liu (CHN)

1996
96-Donna Vekic (CRO)
170-Katerina Siniakova (CZE)
188-Ashleigh Barty (AUS)
233-Mayo Hibi (JPN)
273-Indy de Vroome (NED)
295-Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA)
301-Elizaveta Kulichkova (RUS)
319-Louisa Chirico (USA)
346-Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP)
355-Taylor Townsend (USA)

1997
184-Belinda Bencic (SUI)
254-Ana Konjuh (CRO)
339-Anhelina Kalinina (UKR)
439-Naomi Osaka (JPN)
489-Tayisiya Morderger (GER)
543-ValentiniGrammatikopoulou (GRE)
547-Paula Badosa (ESP)
568-Fiona Ferro (FRA)
574-Francoise Abanda (CAN)
635-Ivana Jorovic (SRB)

1998
790-Katarina Jokic (BIH)
801-Oyku Boz (TUR)
837-Kimberly Birrell (AUS)
838-Constanza Gorches (MEX)
862-Shilin Xu (CHN)
965-Priscilla Hon (AUS)
970-Tornado Alicia Black (USA)
1001-Ekaterina Tretyak (RUS)
1056-Jaqueline Cristian (ROU)
1099-Parris Todd (USA)

1999
880-Ines Ibbou (ALG)
1082-Anastasia Nefedova (RUS)

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