Top ten female tennis players of all time?
Margaret Court
Margaret Court is widely considered the greatest female tennis player of all time, and her impressive record of 24 singles grand slam titles cements her legacy in tennis history.
Margaret Court
Margaret Court is widely considered the greatest female tennis player of all time, and her impressive record of 24 singles grand slam titles cements her legacy in tennis history.
Hard for Simon to stay on as WTA chief after Finals debacle ... Martina Navratilova, (born October 18, 1956, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]), Czech American tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and the '80s.
Margaret Court – 24
Largely thanks to her dominance the Australian Open, where she won 11 titles in the space of 14 years, Margaret Court remains the highest achiever of all time in women's tennis with her 24 Grand Slam singles titles.
Martina Navratilova won 56 Grand Slam championships, second only to Margaret Court.
Steffi Graf spent 377 weeks at the top of the WTA ranking, the most of any female player.
Tennis Maxi Poster: The "tennis girl" photo is one of the most famous images ever captured in the world of tennis. Taken by Martin Elliot in September 1976 it features his girlfriend at the time, Fiona Butler, approaching the net scratching her bum, revealing that she is not wearing any underwear.
Chris Evert holds the record of an 89.97% victory percentage – the highest in singles (among men & women) – during the sport's Open Era.
The Australian won 15 titles, including the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the French Open and was the sport's top player for 121 weeks. The world's top women's tennis player Ashleigh Barty has stunned the sport by announcing her early retirement at the age of just 25.
No one in tennis history has won more. NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic's U.S. Open championship gives him 24 career Grand Slam singles titles, adding to the record he already held for the most by a man in tennis history.
Who is the youngest female tennis player to win all 4 Grand Slams?
Martina Hingis - 16 years and 117 days
Martina Hingis always looked destined for greatness, and she remains the youngest woman to ever win a Grand Slam.
Career grand slam leaders
Alex Rodriguez currently holds the record for most career grand slams with 25. With 23 grand slams, Lou Gehrig held the all-time record until 2013.
The oldest ever female grand slam winner to date is Serena Williams.
Legendary German Steffi Graf is the only Tennis player to win Golden Slam which she achieved in 1988 by winning all four Grand Slams and the gold medal at the Olympics. Winning all four major titles, Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open, is a major achievement for any Tennis player.
Steffi Graf, (born June 14, 1969, Brühl, West Germany [now in Germany]), German tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the late 1980s and '90s, winning 22 Grand Slam singles titles. Graf began playing tennis with the encouragement of her father, who became her coach.
In 1996, Hingis became the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, when she teamed with Helena Suková at Wimbledon to win the women's doubles title at age 15 years and 9 months. She also won her first professional singles title that year at Filderstadt, Germany.
In October 1994, shortly after her 14th birthday, Hingis turned professional. Three months later she became the youngest player to win a match at a Grand Slam event when she advanced to the second round of the 1995 Australian Open.
At the 1997 Australian Open, Martina Hingis became the youngest ever Grand Slam champion, winning the tournament aged 16. On March 31, 1997, the Swiss became the youngest player ever to attain the WTA World No. 1 spot. She would spend 209 weeks in total at the top of the ladder.
| Rank | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iga Swiatek | POL |
| 2 | Aryna Sabalenka | BLR |
| 3 | Cori Gauff | USA |
| 4 | Elena Rybakina | KAZ |
Reviewing the data, the average age of the top 100 female tennis players is 27, while the youngest is 18 and the oldest if we count Venus Williams, who has yet to retire, is 42.
What is the longest women's tennis match win streak?
1. The all-time longest win streak is held by Navratilova, who pieced together 74 successive wins during 1984, only for Helena Sukova to come from a set down to beat her in the semifinals of the Australian Open.
When Chinese tennis star Peng Shua disappeared from public view after accusing a high ranking Communist Party officials of sexual assault, the Women's Tennis Association declared and would not hold any more tournaments in China until Peng's whereabouts were known.
Such noises have sometimes been described as "shrieking" or "screaming". Monica Seles, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe are generally considered to be the "grunt creators" in the women's and men's games, respectively.
Stunning actress Brooke Shields, who was married to Andre Agassi from 1997 to 1999, has revealed some inside information about her marriage to the tennis star. Brooke, as an actress, had to play some roles that Agassi didn't always like, and one of those came as she appeared in 'Friends', in a rather funny role.
Serena Williams - the winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles, four Olympic gold medals, and numerous other accolades. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
