Which female tennis player has won the most Wimbledon singles titles?
Among the legends, Swiss icon Roger Federer and Czech-American tennis player Martina Navratilova reign supreme. Roger Federer has won the most Wimbledon titles in men's singles - eight. Martina Navratilova, with nine titles, is the most successful women's singles player in Wimbledon history.
Since then, a variety of professional female tennis players have won Wimbledon titles. As of 2023, the player with the most wins was Martina Navratilova with nine titles. Steffi Graf and Serena Williams both tied for second in the ranking with seven wins each.
While Serena Williams tops the list for most Grand Slam titles, it is Martina Navratilova who holds the record for most singles titles on the WTA circuit.
| Match wins | # | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Serena Williams | 367 |
| 2. | / Martina Navratilova | 306 |
| 3. | Chris Evert | 299 |
| 4. | Steffi Graf | 278 |
1 at Wimbledon. Ukraine's Elina Svitolina celebrates after beating Poland's Iga Swiatek to win their women's singles match at the Wimbledon tennis championships near London, July 11, 2023.
The only Grand Slam singles title Lendl never managed to win was Wimbledon. After reaching the semi-finals in 1983 and 1984, he reached the final twice, losing in straight sets to Becker in 1986 and Pat Cash in 1987.
Serena Williams
Her staggering 23 Grand Slam wins gives her this title as she is the Open Era record holder for most Grand Slam wins in tennis history, male or female.
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.
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.
Combining the Grand Slam and the non-calendar-year Grand Slam, only eight singles players on 11 occasions achieved the feat of being the reigning champion of all four majors, three men (Don Budge, Rod Laver, Novak Djokovic) and five women (Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Serena ...
Who is the oldest woman to win a major tennis tournament?
Williams is actually already the oldest woman to win a grand slam event during the Open Era (since 1968). She achieved that feat in 2017 when she beat her older sister Venus 6-4, 6-4 to win the Australian Open. Had Venus won that final, she would have been the oldest woman to win a grand slam event.
Martina Navratilova won 56 Grand Slam championships, second only to Margaret Court.
Steffi Graf is the only player to have achieved the 'Golden Slam', winning the Australian, French and U.S. Opens, Wimbledon and a gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
Ukraine's Elina Svitolina makes Wimbledon semi-final just 8 months after having a baby. Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina has made it to the Wimbledon semi-finals after entering the tournament as a wildcard, just 8 months after having a baby.
On Sept. 20, 1973, top women's tennis player Billie Jean King defeated former No. 1 ranked men's tennis player Bobby Riggs in a "Battle of the Sexes" match. King beat Riggs in straight sets, 6–4, 6–3, 6–3.
Venus has won 49 singles titles over the course of her career, and Serena won 73. The Williams sisters are the only two women during the Open Era to contest four consecutive major finals: from the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open.
On July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe defeats the heavily favored Jimmy Connors to become the first Black man ever to win Wimbledon, the most coveted championship in tennis.
Among the many milestones that create the unique majesty of Wimbledon, there is one that still stands after 70 years. In 1952, Australia's Frank Sedgman claimed men's singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at The Championships – a triple feat that has never been replicated.
He has won each major multiple times on clay, hard, and grass courts. He has won two Australian Open (hard), two Wimbledon (grass), and four US Open (hard) titles.
| Rank | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - | Iga Swiatek POL Iga Swiatek | 9295 |
| 2 - | Aryna Sabalenka BLR Aryna Sabalenka | 9050 |
| 3 - | Coco Gauff USA Coco Gauff | 6580 |
| 4 - | Elena Rybakina KAZ Elena Rybakina | 6365 |
Who has 39 Grand Slam titles?
Billie Jean King holds 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 singles titles, 16 women's doubles titles, and 11 mixed doubles titles. She earned 32 of her 39 Grand Slam titles from 1966-1975, the period of time representing the height of her professional career.
Djokovic has now won a total of 98 ATP Tour events and is the only man to hold all four Slam singles titles at the same time since Rod Laver's 1969 calendar Grand Slam.
The trio have dominated men's singles tennis for two decades, collectively winning 66 major singles tournaments; Djokovic leads with an all-time record of 24 titles, followed by Nadal with 22 and Federer with 20.
Martina Hingis (born September 30, 1980, Košice, Czechoslovakia [now in Slovakia]) Swiss professional tennis player who became the youngest person in the “open” era to win a Grand Slam singles title and the youngest to be ranked world number one.
Mirra Andreeva has only played in three Grand Slams, as the 16-year-old is just getting to grips with the biggest stages of tennis. The Russian rising star is a lot more familiar with playing on hard courts though, having won the ITF El Espinar, Spain and the Meitar Open, Israel on the surface.
