18-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams moved ahead of Martina Hingis and into fourth place on the WTA’s all-time list for weeks at No. 1 on Monday, as she begins her 210th week as the WTA’s top dog, and her 87th in succession.
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Williams has held the top spot on six different occasions, but her current streak of 87 is the longest by far. Here are the other five:
July 8, 2002 to August 10, 2003 (57 weeks)
September 8 to October 5, 2008 (4 weeks)
February 2 to April 19, 2009 (11 weeks)
October 12 to October 25, 2009 (2 weeks)
November 2, 2009 to October 10, 2010 (49 weeks)
Only seven WTA players have held the No. 1 ranking for more than 100 weeks in total. They are:
Martina Navratilova: 377
Steffi Graf: 332
Chris Evert: 260
Serena Williams: 210
Martina Hingis: 209
Monica Seles: 178
Justin Heniin: 117
Williams will be back in action as the top seed at next week’s WTA Finals in Singapore.
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