Dominika Cibulková's ranking comes after the loss on March 15 to Spanish Garbine Muguruza-Blanco and Czech Karolína Plíšková 6:7 (2), 6:7 (5) in the quarter-finals of the singles competition of the WTA tournament in Indian Wells, California.
Cibulková, despite losing to Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on March 14 on the fourth round of the 1/8 finals, ranks fourth after the calculation and re-evaluation.
Cibulková was in the TOP 5 group for the first time after she won the WTA Finals in Singapore on October 31, 2016 at the end of last season.
The previously best-ranking Slovak tennis player, Mečíř, became No. 4 on the ATP ranking on February 22, 1988.
Among Slovak female tennis players, these ranked best in the WTA singles’ chart:
Dominika Cibulková - 4 (March 20, 2017)
Daniela Hantuchová - 5
Karina Habšudová - 10
Henrieta Nagyová - 21
Radka Zrubáková - 22
Jarmila Gajdošová - 25
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová - 26
Janette Husárová - 31
Magdaléna Rybáriková - 31
Katarína Studeníková - 31
Martina Suchá - 37
Jana Čepelová - 50
Ľudmila Cervanová - 58
Ľubomíra Kurhajcová - 59
Kristína Kučová - 71
Eva Fislová - 98