Who Is the #1 Women’s Tennis Player?
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There’s no doubt that Serena Williams is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. But is she the #1 women’s tennis player in the world?
Serena Williams
Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women’s singles tennis. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court.
Grand Slam Titles
Serena Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in history for a tennis player, male or female. She has also won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, all with her sister Venus, and the pair is unbeaten in Grand Slam finals.
Overall Record
As of February 10, 2020, Serena has played 854 matches in her career and has won 813 of them, giving her a winning percentage of 95.3%. She has lost 41 matches in singles and 13 in doubles, giving her an overall record of 826–54 (93.8%).
Naomi Osaka
Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She is the reigning champion of both the US Open and the Australian Open. She is currently ranked number one in the world by the Women’s Tennis Association.
Grand Slam Titles
Naomi Osaka has won three Grand Slam singles titles. She is the reigning champion of the US Open, having defeated Serena Williams in the final of the 2018 tournament. She then went on to win the 2019 Australian Open, defeating Petra Kvitova in the final. In September 2019, Osaka became the first Asian player to be ranked world No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).
Overall Record
As of February 10, 2020, Naomi Osaka has played a total of 125 matches in her career, resulting in 96 wins and 29 losses. This gives her a win percentage of 76.8%.
Simona Halep
Romanian professional tennis player Simona Halep has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on two occasions, in 2017 and 2018. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on October 9, 2017, and regained the ranking for the second time on January 27, 2019. As of February 17, 2020, Halep has been in the top 10 of the WTA singles rankings for 183 weeks, more than any other Romanian player in history.
Grand Slam Titles
Simona Halep is a Romanian tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 in women’s singles tennis by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). Halep first reached the top rank in the WTA rankings on October 9, 2017. She has won 18 WTA singles titles, including two Grand Slam singles titles at the 2018 French Open and 2019 Wimbledon Championships.
Overall Record
Simona Halep is a Romanian professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world No. 1 in the WTA singles rankings, after first achieving the ranking in October 2017. She has won 18 WTA singles titles, including two Grand Slam singles titles at the 2018 French Open and 2019 Wimbledon Championships.
Ashley Barty
Ashley Barty (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player. She is ranked No. 1 in the world in women’s singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and is the second Australian female player to be ranked No. 1 in singles after Evonne Goolagong Cawley.
Grand Slam Titles
Ashley Barty is an Australian professional tennis player. She is ranked No. 1 in the world in women’s singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and is the reigning champion of both the French Open and the WTA Finals. Barty has won seven singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
In 2019, Barty became the first Australian woman in 41 years to win a women’s singles Grand Slam title at the French Open, defeating Czech player Markéta Vondroušová in the final. She then went on to win her first WTA Finals title later that year, defeating American player Amanda Anisimova in straight sets in the final.
Overall Record
Ashleigh Barty (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player and former cricketer. She is ranked No. 1 in the world in women’s singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Australian woman to do so since 1976. Barty has won six singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including her maiden Grand Slam singles title at the 2019 French Open. She reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 2 on 17 June 2019, becoming only the second Australian woman to do so after Evonne Goolagong Cawley. Internationally, Barty represents Australia in Fed Cup competitions.
Barty enjoyed a successful start to her professional tennis career, winning her first WTA title in Kuala Lumpur in 2016 followed by two more titles in 2017 – at Nottingham and Wuhan respectively. In November 2018, Barty was named the WTA’s 2018 Newcomer of the Year. The following year, she entered the top 10 for the first time after winning her maiden Grand Slam singles title at the 2019 French Open – becoming only the second Australian woman to do so after Margaret Court – and subsequently reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 2 later that month.
