Women's Tennis : Most weeks as WTA World Number 1

#3 Serena Williams

Serena Williams - the only active player in the list

The only active player on the list is American Serena Williams. Serena rose to prominence as a teenager in the late 1990s and is the only woman in tennis history to win Grand Slam singles titles in 3 different decades (the 1990's 2000's and 2010's). Her tally of 23 Grand Slam titles till date is second to none in the Open Era.

The only woman with over 80 million USD in prize money earnings, Serena has inspired women all over the world and continues to defy age and time as she looks to break Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 Grand Slam titles. Bestowed recently with 'The WTA Comeback Player of the Year in 2018 Award', Serena Williams has been the World Number 1 on 7 different occasions the first of which came way back in July 2002.

Her 6th stint as World Number 1 between February 18th 2013 to September 11th 2016 lasted 186 weeks - an all-time record she shares with Steffi Graf.

In all, Serena has been World Number 1 for 319 weeks till date.