Golf sensation Tseng Yani of Chinese Taipei admitted she would almost be glad to be toppled from the "very lonely" spot of world No 1 and held out sympathy for her besieged men's counterpart Rory McIlroy.

Tseng watched on Sunday as her two closest rivals in the rankings, Choi Na-yeon and Stacy Lewis, finished second and first respectively at the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore, slashing her lead to just 0.68 average points.

But Tseng, 24, who tossed her ball into a lake in disgust as she wound up tied for 28th, said she simply did not care about being world No 1 any more after two increasingly difficult years at the top.