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
United Kingdom Virginia Wade Nov 3, 1975
United States Andrea Jaeger Aug 17, 1981
Spain Conchita Martínez Oct 30, 1995
Czech Republic Jana Novotná Jul 7, 1997
Russia Anastasia Myskina Sep 13, 2004
Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova Sep 10, 2007
Russia Vera Zvonareva Oct 25, 2010
Czech Republic Petra Kvitová Oct 31, 2011
Poland Agnieszka Radwańska Jul 9, 2012
China Li Na Feb 17, 2014
Romania Simona Halep Aug 11, 2014
Spain Garbine Muguruza Jun 6, 2016
World no. 3 players
Player First date reached
United States Pam Shriver Mar 20, 1984
Czechoslovakia/Australia Hana Mandlíková Apr 30, 1984
Australia Wendy Turnbull Jan 7, 1985
Bulgaria/Switzerland Manuela Maleeva Feb 4, 1985
Argentina Gabriela Sabatini Feb 27, 1989
France Mary Pierce Jan 30, 1995
South Africa Amanda Coetzer Nov 3, 1997
France Nathalie Tauziat May 8, 2000
Russia Nadia Petrova May 15, 2006
Russia Elena Dementieva Apr 6, 2009
World no. 4 players
Player First date reached
United Kingdom Sue Barker Mar 20, 1977
Australia Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat Mar 19, 1979
Czechoslovakia Helena Suková Mar 18, 1985
West Germany Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Sep 2, 1985
United States Zina Garrison Nov 20, 1989
United States Mary Joe Fernández Oct 22, 1990
Japan Kimiko Date May 13, 1995
Bulgaria Magdalena Maleeva Jan 29, 1996
Croatia Iva Majoli Feb 5, 1996
Germany Anke Huber Oct 14, 1996
Serbia and Montenegro/Australia Jelena Dokić Aug 19, 2002
Italy Francesca Schiavone Jan 31, 2011
Australia Samantha Stosur Feb 21, 2011
World no. 5 players
Player First date reached
United States Rosemary Casals Sep 13, 1976
Netherlands Betty Stöve Jul 3, 1977
West Germany Sylvia Hanika Sep 12, 1983
United States Kathy Jordan Mar 19, 1984
United Kingdom Jo Durie Apr 29, 1984
Soviet Union/Belarus Natasha Zvereva May 22, 1989
Slovakia Daniela Hantuchová Jan 27, 2003
Russia Anna Chakvetadze Sep 10, 2007
Italy Sara Errani May 20, 2013
Canada Eugenie Bouchard October 20, 2014
Czech Republic Lucie Šafářová September 14, 2015
Czech Republic Karolina Pliskova October 10, 2016
Slovakia Dominika Cibulkova October 31, 2016
Active players

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2012 WTA Media Guide" (PDF).
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