World number 1 ranked female tennis players is a year-by-year listing of the female tennis players who were ranked as world No.
1 by various contemporary and modern sources.
Notes: Louisa Martin: Charlotte Cooper Sterry: Louisa Martin: Jacobs: Dorothy Round (UK) Round: Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (DEN) Krahwinkel Sperling: Round: 1945 Margaret Osborne duPont (USA) Osborne duPont: Margaret Osborne duPont (USA) Osborne duPont: Doris Hart (USA) Hart: Mortimer: Margaret Smith (AUS) Smith: Billie Jean King (USA) King: Billie Jean King (USA) King: Billie Jean King (USA) King: Virginia Wade (UK) Wade: Martina Navratilova (USA) Navratilova: Martina Navratilova (USA) Navratilova: Chris Evert (USA) Evert: Chris Evert (USA) Evert: Martina Navratilova (USA) Navratilova: Seles: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (ESP) Sánchez Vicario: Monica Seles (USA) Seles: Martina Hingis (SUI) Hingis: Venus Williams (USA) V. Williams: Lindsay Davenport (USA) Davenport: Anastasia Myskina (RUS) Maria Sharapova (RUS) Myskina: Sharapova: Lindsay Davenport (USA) Davenport: Amélie Mauresmo (FRA) Mauresmo: Serena Williams (USA) S. Williams: Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) Wozniacki: Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) Wozniacki: Serena Williams (USA) S. Williams: Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) Muguruza: Sofia Kenin (USA) Kenin: Iga Świątek (POL) Świątek: Iga Świątek (POL) Świątek: