Top ten ranked female tennis players
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This article presents year-ending top ten lists of female singles tennis players, as ranked by various official and non-official ranking authorities throughout the history of the sport.
The article is split into two sections: 1921–1974, and since 1975 when the first official WTA rankings were published, for ease of navigation.
Top ten rankings by year[edit]
1921–1974[edit]
1975[edit]
The official WTA rankings were introduced in November 1975.
WTA[1] | Lance Tingay[2] (The Daily Telegraph) | Bud Collins[3] (The Boston Globe) | Rino Tommasi[4] (La Gazzetta dello Sport) | John Barrett (Financial Times) | World Tennis[5] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[6] | Rex Bellamy[7] (The Times) | Chris Evert[5] |
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1976[edit]
WTA[8] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[9] |
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1977[edit]
WTA[10] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[11] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[12] | Peter Bodo (Tennis magazine (U.S.)) | Judith Elian (L'Équipe) | Wataru Tsukagoshi (Tennis Japan) | Barry Lorge[13] (The Washington Post) | France-Presse[14] |
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1978[edit]
WTA[15] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[16] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[17] |
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1979[edit]
WTA[18] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[19] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[20] | Peter Bodo | Judith Elian | Wataru Tsukagoshi | Joseph Macauley (Australian Tennis Magazine) | Alan Trengrove (Australian Tennis Magazine) | Jeffrey Bairstow (Tennis magazine (U.S.)) |
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1980[edit]
WTA[21] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[22] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[23] |
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1981[edit]
WTA[24] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[25] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[26] | Peter Bodo | Judith Elian | Wataru Tsukagoshi | Alan Trengrove | Alexander McNab (Tennis magazine (U.S.)) |
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1982[edit]
WTA[27] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett[28] | World Tennis[29] |
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1983[edit]
WTA[30] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[31] | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[32] |
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1984[edit]
WTA[33] | Lance Tingay[2] | Bud Collins[3] | Rino Tommasi[4] | John Barrett | World Tennis[34] (panel ranking) | Tennis magazine (U.S.)[35] |
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