WTA Top 10 By Birth Year Updated for 2014 Year End

The WTA Top 10 by Birth Year page has been updated with the 2014 year end rankings data (from November 24, 2014).  There was the usual amount of turnover in the top 100 since the week after Wimbledon, with 15 players entering or exiting the top 100.  There wasn't much movement in and out of the top 100 by older players but, somewhat surprisingly, it was '89 through '91 that surrendered top 100 spots to players born in the mid-'90s.  1987 continues to be a banner year for tennis and was headlined by the strong years of Sharapova, Ivanovic, Petkovic, and Safarova.  1990 has cooled off some.  It is still led by Kvitova and Wozniacki but the players behind them have seemingly plateaued.  Check out the Top 10 by Birth Year page for some more analysis.

Here is the breakdown of players in the WTA top 100 by birth year:

1970 - 1
1980 - 2
1981 - 1
1982 - 3
1983 - 4
1984 - 2
1985 - 5
1986 - 6
1987 - 12
1988 - 7
1989 - 9
1990 - 10
1991 - 8
1992 - 6
1993 - 11
1994 - 8
1995 - 1
1996 - 2
1997 - 2

I have a couple comments about those numbers on the Top 10 by Birth Year page, but feel free to draw your own conclusions and comment if you want.  Here are the 15 players that entered or left the top 100 since the week after Wimbledon.

Entering Top 100
60-Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO)
67-Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
71-Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS)
72-Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)
73-Shelby Rogers (USA)
84-Katerina Siniakova (CZE)
85-Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)
87-Lara Arruabarrena (ESP)
91-Lesia Tsurenko (UKR)
92-Ana Konjuh (CRO)
94-Madison Brengle (USA)
95-Nicole Gibbs (USA)
97-Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS)
99-Saisai Zheng (CHN)
100-An-Sophie Mestach (BEL)

Leaving Top 100
Na Li (CHN)
Vania King (USA)
Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (AUT)
Misaki Doi (JPN)
Alison van Uytvanck (BEL)
Sharon Fichman (CAN)
Shahar Peer (ISR)
Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)
Johanna Konta (GBR)
Victoria Duval (USA)
Maria Kirilenko (RUS)
Kristyna Pliskova (CZE)
Paula Ormaechea (ARG)
Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)
Julia Glushko (ISR)

-Lucic-Baroni and Mladenovic had left the top 100 the last time I ran the rankings but now they are back in
-Doi, Duval, Kleybanova, Konta, and Kr.Pliskova all entered the last time but now have fallen out again