Who is the greatest women's tennis player of the 1980s?

The decade the women's game turned professional in every sense — serve-and-volley against the baseline, two dominant champions and a teenager who ended the argument in 1988.

1. 1
   Martina Navratilova

   Won 86 of 87 matches in 1983 and took eighteen of her major titles across the decade.
2. 2
   Chris Evert

   Won at least one major every year from 1974 to 1986 and never left the top four.
3. 3
   Steffi Graf

   Arrived late in the decade and closed it with the 1988 Golden Slam.
4. 4
   Hana Mandlikova

   Four majors and the only player besides Graf to beat both Evert and Navratilova at a slam.
5. 5
   Tracy Austin

   Two US Open titles and world No. 1 before back injuries ended it at twenty-one.
6. 6
   Pam Shriver

   Twenty-one major doubles titles with Navratilova, including a calendar Grand Slam in 1984.
7. 7
   Gabriela Sabatini

   A Wimbledon and US Open finalist who beat everyone in the decade at least once.
8. 8
   Helena Sukova

   Two singles slam finals and the player who ended Navratilova's 74-match streak.
9. 9
   Zina Garrison

   An Olympic gold medallist in doubles and a Wimbledon singles finalist.
10. 10
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch

    A top-five singles player and a Wimbledon and US Open doubles champion.
11. 11
    Manuela Maleeva

    A top-ten fixture for most of the decade and the 1984 Italian Open champion.
12. 12
    Andrea Jaeger

    A Wimbledon and French Open finalist before turning nineteen.
13. 13
    Kathy Rinaldi

    A Wimbledon semi-finalist who turned professional at fourteen and stayed top-twenty all decade.
14. 14
    Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

    Ended the decade by beating Graf to win the 1989 French Open at seventeen.