- World number one women tennis players
Number one ranked women tennis players.
*1920
Suzanne Lenglen
*1921 Suzanne Lenglen (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Telegraph)
*1922 Suzanne Lenglen (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Telegraph)
*1923 Suzanne Lenglen (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Telegraph)
*1924 Suzanne Lenglen (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Telegraph)
*1925 Suzanne Lenglen (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1926 Suzanne Lenglen (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1927Helen Wills Moody (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1928 Helen Wills Moody (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1929 Helen Wills Moody (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1930 Helen Wills Moody (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1931 Helen Wills Moody (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1932 Helen Wills Moody (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1933 Helen Wills Moody (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
*1934
**Dorothy Round Little (Source: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail)
**Helen Jacobs (Source: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis)
*1935 Helen Wills Moody (Sources: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail; Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; Pierre Gillou, president of the French Tennis Federation)
*1936
**Helen Jacobs (Sources: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail; Fred Perry)
**Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (Source: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis)
*1937Anita Lizana (Sources: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail; Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis)
*1938 Helen Wills Moody (Sources: Wallis Myers, London Daily Mail; Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; Pierre Gillou, president of the French Tennis Federation)
*1939Alice Marble (Sources: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; Sir Gordon Lowe)
*1940 none
*1941 none
*1942 none
*1943 none
*1944 none
*1945 none
*1946Pauline Betz Addie (Sources: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; Pierre Gillou, president of the French Tennis Federation)
*1947
**Margaret Osborne duPont (Source: John Olliff, Lawn Tennis Almanack)
**Louise Brough Clapp (Source: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis)
*1948
**Margaret Osborne duPont (Sources: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; John Olliff, Lawn Tennis Almanack)
**Louise Brough Clapp (Source: Pierre Gillou, president of the French Tennis Federation)
*1949 Margaret Osborne duPont (Sources: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; Pierre Gillou, president of the French Tennis Federation)
*1950 Margaret Osborne duPont (Sources: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; John Olliff, Lawn Tennis Almanack)
*1951Doris Hart (Sources: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; John Olliff, Lawn Tennis Almanack)
*1952Maureen Connolly Brinker (Sources: Ned Potter, American Lawn Tennis; Lance Tingay, London Daily Mail)
*1953 Maureen Connolly Brinker (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Mail; World Tennis)
*1954 Maureen Connolly Brinker (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Mail; World Tennis)
*1955
**Louise Brough Clapp (Source: Lance Tingay, London Daily Mail)
**Doris Hart (Source: World Tennis)
*1956Shirley Fry Irvin (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Mail; World Tennis)
*1957Althea Gibson (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Mail; Ned Potter, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll)
*1958 Althea Gibson (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Mail; Ned Potter, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll)
*1959Maria Bueno (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Mail; Ned Potter, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll)
*1960 Maria Bueno (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Telegraph; Ned Potter, World Tennis)
*1961Angela Mortimer Barrett (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Telegraph; Ned Potter, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll)
*1962Margaret Court (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Telegraph; Ned Potter, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll)
*1963 Margaret Court (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Telegraph; Ned Potter, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll)
*1964
**Maria Bueno (Sources: Ned Potter, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll; Ulrich Kaiser)
**Margaret Court (Source: Lance Tingay, London Daily Telegraph)
*1965 Margaret Court (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Telegraph; Joseph Macauley, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll; Sport za Rubezhom)
*1966
**Billie Jean King (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Telegraph; Joseph Macauley, World Tennis; Pierre de Thier, Belgium]
**Maria Bueno (Sources: Bruce Walkley, Melbourne Herald Sun; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll)
*1967 Billie Jean King (Sources: Lance Tingay, London Daily Telegraph; Joseph Macauley, World Tennis; British Lawn Tennis Reader's Poll)
*1968 Billie Jean King
*1969 Margaret Court
*1970 Margaret Court
*1971 Billie Jean King &Evonne Goolagong Cawley
*1972 Billie Jean King
*1973 Margaret Court
*1974Chris Evert & Billie Jean King
*1975 Chris Evert
*1976 Chris Evert
*1977 Chris Evert
*1978Martina Navratilova & Chris Evert
*1979 Martina Navratilova & Chris Evert
*1980 Chris Evert
*1981 Chris Evert &Tracy Austin
*1982 Martina Navratilova
*1983 Martina Navratilova
*1984 Martina Navratilova
*1985 Martina Navratilova
*1986 Martina Navratilova
*1987Steffi Graf
*1988 Steffi Graf
*1989 Steffi Graf
*1990 Steffi Graf
*1991Monica Seles
*1992 Monica Seles
*1993 Steffi Graf
*1994 Steffi Graf &Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
*1995 Steffi Graf
*1996 Steffi Graf
*1997Martina Hingis
*1998Lindsay Davenport
*1999 Martina Hingis
*2000 Martina Hingis
*2001 Lindsay Davenport
*2002Serena Williams
*2003Justine Henin
*2004 Lindsay Davenport
*2005 Lindsay Davenport
*2006 Justine Henin
*2007 Justine Henin
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