Slam champions and year-end No. 1s share this field with a handful of one-final surprises, judged only on what happened from 2020 onward. Some built dynasties; others had one glorious fortnight.
1Barbora KrejcikovaCzech player who won the 2021 French Open and the 2024 Wimbledon title, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 2 in 2022.1000pts
2Aryna SabalenkaBelarusian who won the Australian Open in 2023 and 2024 and the US Open in 2024 and 2025, finishing 2024 and 2025 as year-end world No. 1.987pts
3Garbine MuguruzaSpanish player who reached the 2020 Australian Open final and won the 2021 WTA Finals in Guadalajara.987pts
4Iga SwiatekPolish player who won six Grand Slam singles titles from 2020 to 2025 (four French Opens, the 2022 US Open and 2025 Wimbledon), the 2023 WTA Finals and spent 125 weeks at No. 1.742pts
5Emma RaducanuBritish player who won the 2021 US Open as an 18-year-old qualifier without dropping a set.685pts
6Anett KontaveitEstonian who reached the 2021 WTA Finals final in Guadalajara and a career-high ranking of No. 2 in 2022 before retiring in 2023.685pts
7Mirra AndreevaRussian who won the 2026 French Open at 19 after taking WTA 1000 titles in Dubai and Indian Wells in 2025.621pts
8Zheng QinwenChinese player who reached the 2024 Australian Open final, won Olympic singles gold in Paris in 2024 and finished runner-up at that year's WTA Finals.621pts
9Karolina MuchovaCzech player who reached the 2023 French Open final and the 2026 Wimbledon final, plus US Open semifinals in 2023 and 2024.548pts
10Victoria AzarenkaBelarusian two-time major champion who reached the 2020 US Open final and won the Western & Southern Open in New York the week before.548pts
11Ons JabeurTunisian who reached three Grand Slam finals (Wimbledon 2022 and 2023, US Open 2022) and a career-high ranking of No. 2.548pts
12Madison KeysAmerican who won the 2025 Australian Open at 29, beating Aryna Sabalenka in the final for her first Grand Slam title.548pts
13Maja ChwalinskaPolish player who became the first qualifier to reach the women's singles final at Roland Garros in 2026, losing to Mirra Andreeva.548pts
14Jennifer BradyAmerican who reached the 2021 Australian Open final against Naomi Osaka after a US Open semifinal run in 2020.548pts
15Amanda AnisimovaAmerican who reached both the Wimbledon and US Open finals in 2025 and won the Qatar Open in Doha that February.464pts
16Elena RybakinaKazakh player who won Wimbledon in 2022, the 2025 WTA Finals, and both the Australian Open and US Open in 2026, rising to world No. 1 that September.464pts
17Coco GauffAmerican who won the 2023 US Open at 19, the 2025 French Open and the 2024 WTA Finals, after reaching the 2022 Roland Garros final.464pts
18Naomi OsakaJapanese player who won the 2020 US Open over Victoria Azarenka and the 2021 Australian Open over Jennifer Brady.464pts
19Jessica PegulaAmerican who reached the 2024 US Open final, won the 2023 Canadian Open and climbed to a career-high No. 3.464pts
20Caroline GarciaFrench player who won the 2022 WTA Finals in Fort Worth after taking the Cincinnati title as a qualifier that August.464pts
21Leylah FernandezCanadian left-hander who reached the 2021 US Open final at 19, beating Naomi Osaka, Elina Svitolina and Aryna Sabalenka along the way.464pts
22Sofia KeninAmerican who won the 2020 Australian Open, reached the 2020 French Open final and was named WTA Player of the Year for 2020.365pts
23Marketa VondrousovaCzech left-hander who won Wimbledon in 2023 as an unseeded player, two years after taking Olympic singles silver in Tokyo.365pts
24Karolina PliskovaCzech former No. 1 who reached the 2021 Wimbledon final, losing to Ashleigh Barty in three sets.365pts
25Belinda BencicSwiss player who won the Olympic singles gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021, along with silver in women's doubles.365pts
26Jasmine PaoliniItalian who reached the French Open and Wimbledon finals in 2024 and won the Italian Open singles title in Rome in 2025.365pts
27Ashleigh BartyAustralian who won Wimbledon in 2021 and the 2022 Australian Open, then retired in March 2022 while ranked world No. 1.249pts
28Linda NoskovaCzech player who won the 2026 Wimbledon title, beating Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 in an all-Czech final.0pts
29Danielle CollinsAmerican who reached the 2022 Australian Open final and won the 2024 Miami Open.0pts
30Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaRussian who reached her first Grand Slam final at the 2021 French Open and won Olympic mixed doubles gold in Tokyo that summer.0pts
Photo credits
- Barbora Krejcikova — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
- Aryna Sabalenka — Rick Munroe, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Garbine Muguruza — Barcex, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Iga Swiatek — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Emma Raducanu — Nuță Lucian from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Anett Kontaveit — Neil Tilbrook, CC BY 2.0, cropped
- Mirra Andreeva — si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Zheng Qinwen — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
- Karolina Muchova — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
- Victoria Azarenka — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ons Jabeur — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Madison Keys — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maja Chwalinska — Nuță Lucian from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jennifer Brady — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
- Amanda Anisimova — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Elena Rybakina — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Coco Gauff — Rick Munroe, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Naomi Osaka — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jessica Pegula — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Caroline Garcia — Web Summit, CC BY 4.0
- Leylah Fernandez — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sofia Kenin — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Marketa Vondrousova — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Karolina Pliskova — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Belinda Bencic — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jasmine Paolini — Original: Hameltion, Derivative work: Blackcat, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ashleigh Barty — Rob Keating from Canberra, Australia, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Linda Noskova — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
- Danielle Collins — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova — Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
