Four American women finished in the Top 10 this year for the first time since 2004

This week on Tennis.com, we’ll be featuring five storylines—one a day—that came out of the ATP and WTA’s year-end rankings.

First up: the best year for American tennis in decades.

It was a sensational year for the American women, with four—count ‘em, four—finishing in the Top 10. Coco Gauff led the pack as the year-end No. 3, followed by Amanda Anisimova at No. 4, Jessica Pegula at No. 6 and Madison Keys at No. 7.

It’s the first time four Americans have finished a year in the Top 10 of the WTA rankings since 2004, when Lindsay Davenport (No. 1), Serena Williams (No. 7), Venus Williams (No. 9) and Jennifer Capriati (No. 10) achieved the feat.

And given their results this season, it’s no surprise that they're the most successful quartet of U.S. women in decades.

First of all, with Keys winning the Australian Open, Gauff winning Roland Garros and Anisimova reaching the final of both Wimbledon and the US Open, it’s the first time since 2002 that American women featured in all four Grand Slam finals in a year—that year, Capriati conquered Melbourne and Serena defeated Venus in the other three major finals.

Pegula’s best Grand Slam result this year was reaching the semifinals of the US Open, but she won more titles—three—than any of her countrywomen, and she was also the only woman from anywhere to win titles on every surface this year, on hard (Austin), clay (Charleston) and grass (Bad Homburg).

Meanwhile, over on the men’s side, with Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton finishing at No. 6 and No. 9, respectively, it’s the first time that two Americans have finished a year in the Top 10 of the ATP rankings since 2008, when Andy Roddick (No. 8) and James Blake (No. 10) both ended the season in the elite.

Fritz and Shelton had somewhat similar seasons, both reaching one major semifinal (Fritz at Wimbledon and Shelton at the Australian Open) and one more major quarterfinal (Fritz at the US Open and Shelton at Wimbledon), and they both captured titles, Fritz at a pair of grass-court events in Stuttgart and Eastbourne and Shelton his first Masters 1000 in Toronto.

Combined, 2025 is the first year that a total of six Americans—men and women—have all finished a year in the Top 10 since 2004, when the aforementioned four women (Davenport, Serena, Venus and Capriati) and two men (Roddick at No. 2 and Andre Agassi at No. 8) did it.

Tomorrow, a year-end rankings history-maker...