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WTA - Definition

WTA stands for Women's Tennis Association, and is also known as the WTA Tour, and is to women's tennis what the ATP is to men's tennis.

The Women's Tennis Association was begun in Houston, Texas when the inaugural Virginia Slims event was won on 23 September 1970.

Billie Jean King was a major figure in the early days of the WTA.

The organization releases a weekly ranking of the players's performance in the tour. This is a list of players who have achieved the number one position in singles since the rankings' inception in 1975:

# Player Country Date Reached Weeks
1 Chris Evert United States 3 November 1975 262
2 Martina Navratilova Czechoslovakia/United States 10 July 1978 331
3 Tracy Austin United States 7 April 1980 22
4 Steffi Graf Germany 17 August 1987 377
5 Monica Seles Yugoslavia / United States 11 March 1991 178
6 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Spain 6 February 1995 12
7 Martina Hingis Switzerland 31 March 1997 209
8 Lindsay Davenport United States 12 October 1998 present
9 Jennifer Capriati United States 15 October 2001 17
10 Venus Williams United States 25 February 2002 11
11 Serena Williams United States 8 July 2002 57
12 Kim Clijsters Belgium 11 August 2003 12
13 Justine Henin Hardenne Belgium 20 October 2003 44
14 Amelie Mauresmo France 13 September 2004 5

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