The Female Sekiwake

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Sekiwake (= Junior Champion I) is the third highest Sanyaku (= Championship) rank and attained by players who either competed for short periods at the highest level or repeatedly at an elevated level. Participation in a Grand Slam final, a seminfinal followed by a quarterfinal (or vice versa), or two semifinals over three tournaments are the minimum requirements to be promoted to Sekiwake. The table entries are discussed at the bottom ofthe table.

Female Sekiwake

		Promotion to…		Grand slam achievements 1/				Career	GS tourn. as...
		S	K	Titles	Finals	Sfinals	Qfinals	points	S	K
1	Judy Tegart	W68	W68	0	1	1	6	11	3	4
2	Maria Bueno	U68	W68	0	0	1	2	4	1	2
3	Lesley Turner Bowrey	W69	F69	0	0	1	4	6	1	2
4	Karen Krantzcke	A70	A70	0	0	3	5	11	3	2
5	Helga Masthoff	F70	F70	0	1	3	6	15	4	5
6	Francoise Durr	U70	W70	0	0	3	5	11	2	7
7	Lesley Hunt	A71	A71	0	0	1	7	9	1	1
8	Helen Gourlay	F71	A71	0	2	3	3	15	3	6
9	Julie Heldman	A74	W69	0	0	3	5	11	3	5
10	Florenta Mihai	F77	F76	0	1	1	0	5	1	2
11	Wendy Turnbull	U77	U77	0	3	4	7	24	7	9
12	Pam Shriver	U78	U78	0	1	8	10	29	5	17
13	Betsy Nagelsen	A78	A78	0	1	0	0	3	1	1
14	Chris O'Neil	A78	A78	1	0	0	1	5	1	1
15	Barbara Jordan	A79	A79	1	0	0	0	4	1	1
16	Sharon Walsh	A79	A79	0	1	0	1	4	1	1
17	Sylvia Hanika	F81	F81	0	1	0	5	8	2	3
18	Jo Durie	U83	F83	0	0	2	2	6	2	3
19	Kathy Jordan	A83	A83	0	1	1	2	7	2	2
20	Zina Garrison	U85	A83	0	1	4	10	21	7	7
21	Claudia Kohde	A85	A85	0	0	4	5	13	5	5
22	Natasha Zvereva	F88	F88	0	1	1	6	11	1	4
23	Kimiko Date	A94	A94	0	0	3	3	9	2	4
24	Manuela Maleeva	A94	F87	0	0	2	12	16	1	8
25	Gigi Fernandez	U94	W94	0	0	1	2	4	1	2
26	Anke Huber	A96	F93	0	1	2	4	11	1	3
27	Amanda Coetzer	A97	A96	0	0	3	4	10	2	2
28	Nathalie Tauziat	W98	W98	0	1	0	6	9	1	1
29	Paola Suarez	W04	F04	0	0	1	3	5	1	2
30	Nadia Petrova	W05	F03	0	0	2	7	11	3	4
31	Jelena Jankovic	F07	U06	0	1	5	2	15	4	6
32	Nicole Vaidisova	F07	F06	0	0	2	3	7	2	3
33	Marion Bartoli	W07	W07	1	1	1	3	12	3	5
34	Caroline Wozniacki	U09	U09	1	2	4	3	21	7	7
35	Francesca Schiavone	F10	F10	1	1	0	5	12	4	2
36	Sara Errani	F12	F12	0	1	2	4	11	3	4
37	Agnieszka Radwanska	W12	W08	0	1	4	7	18	6	6
38	Sabine Lisicki	W13	W11	0	1	1	3	8	1	2
39	Dominika Cibulkova	A14	F09	0	1	1	6	11	1	2
40	Flavia Pennetta	A14	U13	1	0	1	5	11	2	3
41	Ekaterina Makarova	U14	U14	0	0	2	4	8	2	1
42	Lucie Safarova	F15	W14	0	1	1	1	6	1	2
43	Timea Bacsinszky	W15	F15	0	0	2	2	6	1	3
44	Roberta Vinci	U15	U15	0	1	0	3	6	1	1
45	Coco Vandeweghe	U17	A17	0	0	2	2	6	1	3
46	Johanna Konta	W19	A16	0	0	3	3	9	2	4
47	Elina Svitolina	U19	W19	0	0	3	6	12	2	4
48	Bianca Andreescu	U19	U19	1	0	0	0	4	1	1
49	Jennifer Brady	A21	U20	0	1	1	0	5	1	1
50	Barbora Krejcikova	F21	F21	1	0	0	3	7	3	2
51	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	F21	U11	0	1	0	6	9	1	3
52	Maria Sakkari	U21	F21	0	0	2	0	4	1	2
53	Emma Raducanu	U21	U21	1	0	0	0	4	1	1
54	Leylah Fernandez	U21	U21	0	1	0	1	4	2	2
55	Danielle Collins	A22	A19	0	1	1	1	6	1	2
56	Karolina Muchova	F23	A21	0	1	2	2	9	2	4
57	Qinwen Zheng	A24	A242	0	1	0	1	4	1	0

There significantly fewer female career-high Sekiwake as there are male career-high Sekiwake, attesting to the relatively greater dominance of the Yokozuna and Ozeki in the ladies' game. Some players listed as Sekiwake had major successes in the pre-open era, such as Maria Bueno, who in the pre-open era would have been a Yokozuna, or Lesley Bowrey, who would have been an Ozeki. Abstracting from these exceptional cases, the leading Sekiwake in terms of career points has been Pam Shriver, who reached 19 Grand Slam quarterfinals in her career, but advanced only once to the final. Wendy Turnbull and Zina Garrison held the Sekiwake rank for a record 7 tournaments (without ever being promoted to Ozeki).

Updated January 24, 2024