List of WTA players who were ranked number 5 or higher but never number 1
This is a list of the players who were ranked World No. 5 or higher by the Women's Tennis Association but never World No. 1. The source for this through the week of January 2, 2012, is the 2012 WTA Tour Official Guide, page 174.[1]
World no. 2 players |
Player |
First date reached |
Virginia Wade |
Nov 3, 1975 |
Andrea Jaeger |
Aug 17, 1981 |
Conchita Martínez |
Oct 30, 1995 |
Jana Novotná |
Jul 7, 1997 |
Anastasia Myskina |
Sep 13, 2004 |
Svetlana Kuznetsova |
Sep 10, 2007 |
Vera Zvonareva |
Oct 25, 2010 |
Petra Kvitová |
Oct 31, 2011 |
Agnieszka Radwańska |
Jul 9, 2012 |
Li Na |
Feb 17, 2014 |
Simona Halep |
Aug 11, 2014 |
Garbine Muguruza |
Jun 6, 2016 |
World no. 3 players |
Player |
First date reached |
Pam Shriver |
Mar 20, 1984 |
/ Hana Mandlíková |
Apr 30, 1984 |
Wendy Turnbull |
Jan 7, 1985 |
/ Manuela Maleeva |
Feb 4, 1985 |
Gabriela Sabatini |
Feb 27, 1989 |
Mary Pierce |
Jan 30, 1995 |
Amanda Coetzer |
Nov 3, 1997 |
Nathalie Tauziat |
May 8, 2000 |
Nadia Petrova |
May 15, 2006 |
Elena Dementieva |
Apr 6, 2009 |
World no. 4 players |
Player |
First date reached |
Sue Barker |
Mar 20, 1977 |
Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat |
Mar 19, 1979 |
Helena Suková |
Mar 18, 1985 |
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch |
Sep 2, 1985 |
Zina Garrison |
Nov 20, 1989 |
Mary Joe Fernández |
Oct 22, 1990 |
Kimiko Date |
May 13, 1995 |
Magdalena Maleeva |
Jan 29, 1996 |
Iva Majoli |
Feb 5, 1996 |
Anke Huber |
Oct 14, 1996 |
/ Jelena Dokić |
Aug 19, 2002 |
Francesca Schiavone |
Jan 31, 2011 |
Samantha Stosur |
Feb 21, 2011 |
World no. 5 players |
Player |
First date reached |
Rosemary Casals |
Sep 13, 1976 |
Betty Stöve |
Jul 3, 1977 |
Sylvia Hanika |
Sep 12, 1983 |
Kathy Jordan |
Mar 19, 1984 |
Jo Durie |
Apr 29, 1984 |
/ Natasha Zvereva |
May 22, 1989 |
Daniela Hantuchová |
Jan 27, 2003 |
Anna Chakvetadze |
Sep 10, 2007 |
Sara Errani |
May 20, 2013 |
Eugenie Bouchard |
October 20, 2014 |
Lucie Šafářová |
September 14, 2015 |
Karolina Pliskova |
October 10, 2016 |
Dominika Cibulkova |
October 31, 2016 |
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