In the footsteps of Navratilova, Graf and Serena: Wozniacki joins an elite list of WTA Finals champions
Since its inception in 1972, 21 players have taken home the prestigious WTA Finals crown. Here’s every single champion in the event’s history - including 2017 winner Caroline Wozniacki.
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Caroline Wozniacki, the dominant player in Singapore 2017, took the title with her first career win against Venus Williams. (Getty)
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Dominika Cibulkova: 2016 Singapore - Last year at the WTA Finals, Singapore saw Cibulkova take home the biggest title of her career. (Getty Images)
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Agnieszka Radwanska: 2015 Singapore - Radwanska did the same in 2015, adding the Billie Jean King Singles Trophy to her cabinet. (Getty Images)
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Serena Williams: 2014 Singapore - Serena was the first player to lift the trophy in Singapore, which was her fifth WTA Finals crown… (Getty Images)
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Serena Williams: 2013 Istanbul - She’d also won it the year before in Istanbul... (Getty Images)
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Serena Williams: 2012 Istanbul - Serena won the WTA Finals three years in a row. (Getty Images)
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Petra Kvitova: 2011 Istanbul - Kvitova capped off a breakthrough season with the 2011 trophy. (Getty Images)
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Kim Clijsters: 2010 Doha - Clijsters came back from retirement in emphatic style, claiming her third WTA Finals trophy in Doha. (Getty Images)
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Serena Williams: 2009 Doha - Serena defeated Venus in the WTA Finals’ only all-Williams final to take home the 2009 trophy. (Getty Images)
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Venus Williams: 2008 Doha - Venus made family history as the only pair of sisters to win the title. (Getty Images)
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Justine Henin: 2006-2007 Madrid - The WTA Finals was held in Madrid for just two years, and both times it was Justine Henin who won it. (Getty Images)
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Amélie Mauresmo: 2005 Los Angeles - Mauresmo won an all-French final against Mary Pierce to win the 2005 edition. (Getty Images)
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Maria Sharapova: 2004 Los Angeles - Sharapova made a big name for herself in 2004, which she capped off with a WTA Finals title. (Getty Images)
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Kim Clijsters: 2002-2003 Los Angeles - Clijsters celebrated her first and second WTA Finals titles with Belgian fans in Los Angeles… (Getty Images)
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Serena Williams: 2001 Munich - Serena won her very first WTA Finals title in Munich. She’d go on to win five in total - and counting. (Getty Images)
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Martina Hingis: 2000 New York City - 2000 marked the end of a storied 22 years of WTA Finals at the Madison Square Garden. That year, Hingis took home the singles title as well as winning in doubles with partner Anna Kournikova. (Getty Images)
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Lindsay Davenport: 1999 New York City - Davenport reached the championship match at the WTA Finals four times, winning the title in 1999 against Hingis. (Getty Images)
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Martina Hingis: 1998 New York City - Hingis won her first WTA Finals trophy in 1998, which marked the last time the WTA Finals were played in best of five sets format. (Getty Images)
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Jana Novotna: 1997 New York City - Novotna defeated Pierce to win the 1997 title. (Getty Images)
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Steffi Graf: 1996 New York City - In 1996 Graf took home the last of her five WTA Finals titles, winning against Hingis in five sets. (Getty Images)
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Steffi Graf: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1995 New York City - With five WTA Finals titles (including 1996), Graf is in second place (tied with Serena) on the list of most titles won. (Getty Images)
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Gabriela Sabatini: 1988, 1994 New York City - Argentina's Sabatini is the only player representing a Latin American country to win the WTA Finals. (Getty Images)
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Monica Seles: 1990-1993 New York City - Seles won the WTA Finals three years in a row, including two straight victories against Martina Navratilova in the championship match. (Getty Images)
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Martina Navratilova: March 1986, November 1986 New York City - In 1986, Navratilova won the title twice - once in March and once in November - as the tournament changed from a mid-season event to a season-ending championship. (Getty Images)
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Martina Navratilova: 1983-1985 New York City: In 1984, Navratilova defeated Chris Evert in the Finals’ first best-of-five edition. (Getty Images)
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Sylvia Hanika: 1982 New York City - Germany’s Hanika posted the biggest win of her career when she defeated Navratilova to claim the trophy in 1982. (Getty Images)
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Martina Navratilova: 1979, 1981 New York City - Navratilova won the WTA Finals title eight times in her storied career - the most out of any player. (Getty Images)
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Tracy Austin: 1980 New York City - One of the biggest highlights of Austin’s career was lifting the WTA Finals trophy in 1980 at Madison Square Garden. (Getty Images)
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Martina Navratilova: 1978 Oakland - The first of Navratilova’s eight titles came in Oakland. (Getty Images)
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Chris Evert: 1977 New York City - Evert won four WTA Finals titles in her illustrious career, the last of which in 1977. (Getty Images)
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Evonne Goolagong Cawley: 1974, 1976 Los Angeles - Australia’s Goolagong Cawley won two WTA Finals titles, defeating Evert in the championship match both times. (Getty Images)
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Chris Evert: 1975 Los Angeles - Evert claimed the 1975 trophy after defeating Navratilova in one of the many encounters of their legendary rivalry. (Getty Images)
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Chris Evert: 1972-1973 Boca Raton - Evert was the WTA’s first ever World No.1, and she was also the very first WTA Finals champion, winning the inaugural 1972 edition. (Getty Images)
