The phrase 'is the highest ranked' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the highest-ranking or most prominent position in a hierarchy. For example, "He is the highest ranked member of the team."
Everyone knows Westwood is the highest ranked golfer – world No3 – yet to win a major.
Cambridge's architecture department is the highest ranked teaching department for architecture in the country, according to the Guardian quality ratings.
While Sweden (6th) and Finland (8th) unsurprisingly score well, it is tiny Andorra (3rd), with 50% female MPs, that is the highest ranked European country.
Seeded 10th, Vinci is the highest ranked of the Italian women left in the draw, and despite a Grandstand Court crowd enamored with her younger, more fashionable opponent, she won in overpowering fashion, 6-4, 6-2.
It may be because she is from Denmark, a relative black hole in top-line tennis, or that she is the highest ranked of the Western European players, who have ceded power in recent years to women from former Soviet republics.
District 26 is the highest ranked in the city, with 93.8percentt of fourth-grade students performing at or above grade level in math (at Public Schools 188 and 205, it is 100percent and 86.1.1 percent performing at or above grade level in reading.
Williams has a difficult first-round match against Italy's Camila Giorgi, who as the world No 35 is the highest- ranked opponent she could have faced.
McHale, ranked 36th, is the highest-ranked American woman left in the tournament.
Wake Forest, with 4,500 undergraduates, is ranked 30th among national universities by U.S. News & World Report, and is the highest-ranked on that list to have dropped its testing requirements.
U.C.L.A. is the highest-ranked team Utah has beaten since a 45-31 victory against Colorado State, which was ranked No. 12, in 1994.
England off-spinner Danielle Hazell is the highest-ranked bowler in the ICC's T20 rankings.
