All-time tennis records – Women's singles

This article covers the period 1884 to present. Before the beginning of the Open era in April 1968, only amateurs were allowed to compete in established tennis tournaments, including the four Grand Slams. Wimbledon, the oldest of the majors, was founded in 1877, followed by the US Open in 1881, the French Open in 1891, and the Australian Open in 1905. Beginning in 1905 and continuing to the present day, all four majors have been played yearly, with the exception of the two World Wars, 1986 for the Australian Open, and 2020 for Wimbledon. The Australian Open is the first major of the year (January), followed by the French Open (May–June), Wimbledon (June–July), and US Open (August–September).

There was no prize money and players were compensated for travel expenses only. A player who wins all four current major tournaments in the same calendar year, as an individual or as part of a doubles team, is said to have achieved the "Grand Slam". If the player wins all four consecutively, but not in the same calendar year, it is called a "Non-Calendar Year Grand Slam". Winning all four at some point in a career, even if not consecutively, is referred to as a "Career Grand Slam". Winning the four majors and a gold medal in tennis at the Summer Olympics has been called a "Golden Slam" since 1988.^[1] Winning all four plus gold at some point in a career, even if not consecutively, is referred to as a "Career Golden Slam". Winning the Year-end Championship also having won a Golden Slam is referred to as a "Super Slam".^[2][3][4] Winning the four majors in all three disciplines a player is eligible for–singles, doubles, and mixed doubles–is considered winning a "boxed set" of Grand Slam titles.

The current Grand Slams are the four most prestigious tournaments in the world held every year, they are distinguished by participation from almost every top player and by their two-week duration, 128-player draw in women's singles. It's extremely rare for a player to win all four tournaments, "the Grand Slam", in one calendar year. This was only achieved three times since 1888 by Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court, and Steffi Graf, the latter of whom stands alone in winning the "Golden Slam". These are some of the important records since the start of women's tennis in 1884. Most statistics are based on the data at the WTA Tour and International Tennis Federation, the official websites of each respective Grand Slam tournament and published sources though this is not a definitive list due to the time periods involved. Active streaks and active players are in boldface.

Grand Slam tournament records

Grand Slam singles totals

Titles # 1. Margaret Court 24 2. Serena Williams 23 3. Steffi Graf 22 4. Helen Wills 19 5. Chris Evert 18 / Martina Navratilova 7. Billie Jean King 12 8. Maureen Connolly 9 / Monica Seles 10. / Molla Mallory 8 Suzanne Lenglen

Finals # 1. Chris Evert[5] 34 2. Serena Williams 33 3. / Martina Navratilova 32 4. Steffi Graf 31 5. Margaret Court 29 6. Helen Wills 22 7. Doris Hart 18 Billie Jean King Evonne Goolagong Cawley 10. Helen Jacobs 16 Venus Williams

Semifinals # 1. Chris Evert[6] 52 2. / Martina Navratilova 44 3. Serena Williams 40 4. Steffi Graf 37 5. Margaret Court 36 6. Doris Hart 26 Billie Jean King 8. Louise Brough 25 9. Helen Jacobs 24 10. Venus Williams 23

Quarterfinals # 1. Chris Evert 54 Serena Williams 3. / Martina Navratilova 53 4. Margaret Court 43 5. Steffi Graf 42 6. Billie Jean King 40 7. Venus Williams 39 8. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 35 9. Doris Hart 32 10. Helen Jacobs 31 / Monica Seles Lindsay Davenport

Appearances # 1. Venus Williams 93 2. Serena Williams 81 3. Amy Frazier[7] 71 Svetlana Kuznetsova Alizé Cornet 5. Francesca Schiavone 70 7. Sam Stosur 69 8. / Martina Navratilova 67 9. Conchita Martínez 64 10. Virginia Wade 63 Ai Sugiyama Victoria Azarenka

Match wins # 1. Serena Williams 367 2. / Martina Navratilova 306 3. Chris Evert 299 4. Steffi Graf 278 5. Venus Williams 271 6. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 210 7. Margaret Court 207 8. Lindsay Davenport 198 9. Maria Sharapova 197 10. Billie Jean King 190

Grand Slam tournament consecutive streaks

This section is for consecutive streaks across all Grand Slam tournaments. If a player skips a tournament the streak ends.

(3) Denotes multiple streaks within one category

active streaks in boldface

Grand Slam match winning percentages

* Not all sources agree with one of Wills' losses. She did not play two matches because of appendicitis, causing her to miss the 1926 Wimbledon Championships. Wimbledon did not assign a loss to her or a win to her opponent. The other tournament gave her a loss instead of a default to her and a walkover to her opponent, neither of which count as a loss or a win. It is unknown why the tournament chose to assign a loss to her. Taking these facts into consideration, her adjusted win percentage would be 125–3 = 97.66%.

Grand Slam career achievements

Grand Slam, Golden Slam and Super Slam

Career Grand Slam * Event of completion Maureen Connolly 1953 French International Championships Doris Hart 1954 U. S. National Championships Shirley Fry Irvin 1957 Australian National Championships Margaret Court 1963 Wimbledon Championships Billie Jean King 1972 French Open Chris Evert 1982 Australian Open / Martina Navratilova 1983 US Open Steffi Graf 1988 US Open Serena Williams 2003 Australian Open Maria Sharapova 2012 French Open * each Grand Slam title at least once

Career Golden Slam * Event of completion Steffi Graf 1988 Olympics Serena Williams 2012 Olympics * Career Slam + Olympic Gold (since 1988) Career Super Slam * Event of completion Steffi Graf 1988 Olympics Serena Williams 2012 Olympics * Career Golden Slam + Year-End Championship (since 1970)

Winning tournament without losing a set

• Minimum 2

#	Player	Majors
13	Helen Wills Moody	1927 US, 1928 FR, 1928 WM, 1928 US, 1929 FR, 1929 WM, 1929 US, 1930 FR, 1930 WM, 1931 US, 1932 FR, 1932 WM, 1938 WM
6	Martina Navratilova	1983 WM, 1983 US, 1984 WM, 1986 WM, 1987 US, 1990 WM
	Serena Williams	2002 WM, 2002 US, 2008 US, 2010 WM, 2014 US, 2017 AU
5	Suzanne Lenglen	1922 WM, 1923 WM, 1925 FR, 1925 WM, 1926 FR
	Maureen Connolly	1953 AU, 1953 WM, 1953 US, 1954 FR, 1954 WM
	Margaret Court	1961 AU, 1962 AU, 1963 AU, 1965 WM, 1966 AU
	Chris Evert	1974 FR, 1976 US, 1977 US, 1978 US, 1981 WM
	Steffi Graf	1988 AU, 1988 FR, 1989 AU, 1994 AU, 1996 US
4	Nancye Wynne Bolton	1946 AU, 1947 AU, 1948 AU, 1951 AU
	Evonne Goolagong Cowley	1971 FR, 1975 AU, 1976 AU, 1977 AU
3	Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling	1935 FR, 1936 AU, 1937 FR
	Billie Jean King	1971 US, 1972 FR, 1972 US
	Lindsay Davenport	1998 US, 1999 WM, 2000 AU
	Justine Henin	2006 FR, 2007 FR, 2007 US
2	Doris Hart	1951 WM, 1952 FR
	Martina Hingis	1997 AU, 1997 US
	Venus Williams	2001 US, 2008 WM

Youngest and oldest winners

Season streaks

Calendar year achievements

Golden Grand Slam *	Event of completion
Steffi Graf	1988 Olympics
* The Grand Slam + Olympic Gold

Four majors

Three majors

Consecutive majors

Four

Australian/French/Wimbledon/United States	Year
Maureen Connolly	1953
Margaret Court	1970
Steffi Graf	1988

Three

Two

Single season winning percentage

Individual major tournaments

Titles per tournament

• Minimum 3 titles

Consecutive titles per tournament

• The French Open was only a Grand Slam tournament from 1925 onwards
• (3) Denotes multiple times

Bold: Active players

Finals per tournament

Bold: Active players

Match wins per tournament

Match win streaks per tournament

A streak does not end if a player skips one or more tournaments between two wins.

Winning percentage per tournament

• ** both losses were actually "default", Suzanne Lenglen's adjusted win percentage would be 100%.

Titles by decade

minimum 2 titles

All tournament records

Tournament records and streaks

Singles titles and finals

	Titles	#
1.	Elizabeth Ryan	244
2.	Margaret Court	192[21]
3.	/ Martina Navratilova	167
4.	Chris Evert	157
5.	Simonne Mathieu	147
6.	Ann Haydon Jones	136
7.	Billie Jean King	129
8.	Angela Mortimer	108
9.	Steffi Graf	107
10.	Ilse Friedleben	106

	Finals	#
1.	Elizabeth Ryan	299
2.	/ Martina Navratilova	239
3.	Margaret Court	233
4.	Ann Haydon Jones	228
5.	Chris Evert	226
6.	Simonne Mathieu	190
7.	Billie Jean King	189
8.	Evonne Goolagong	150
9.	Ilse Friedleben	149
10.	Steffi Graf	138

Tournament streaks

	Consecutive titles	Years	#
1.	Helen Wills	1927–33	27
2.	Suzanne Lenglen	1922–24	21
3.	Martina Navratilova	1984	13
4.	Steffi Graf	1989–90	10
5.	Chris Evert	1974	9

	Consecutive finals	Years	#
1.	Helen Wills	1926–35	29
2.	/ Martina Navratilova	1983–84	23[22]
3.	Steffi Graf	1989–90	22
4.	Suzanne Lenglen	1922–24	21
	Steffi Graf	1986–88
6.	Chris Evert	1974	11

	1+ title per year	Years	#
1.	/ Martina Navratilova	1974–94	21[22]
2.	Chris Evert	1971–88	18
3.	Billie Jean King	1960–75	16
4.	Molla Mallory	1914–28	15
5.	Steffi Graf	1986–99	14
6.	Evonne Goolagong	1968–80	13
	Maria Sharapova	2003–15
8.	Maria Bueno	1957–68	12
9.	Virginia Wade	1968–78	11
	Serena Williams	2007–17
	Caroline Wozniacki	2008–18

Most titles at a single tournament

Notes: Minimum titles 7

#	Titles	Tournament	Years
13	Kathleen Nunneley	New Zealand Championships	1895–1907[23]
	Christiane Mercelis	Belgian Closed Covered Court Championships	1956–1968
12	/ Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling	Danish Indoor Championships	1932–42, 1944
	Christiane Mercelis	Belgian Closed Outdoor Championships	1951, 1953–61, 1963–64, 1966
	/ Martina Navratilova	Chicago	1978–83, 1986–88, 1990–92[24]
11	Blanche Bingley Hillyard	South of England Championships	1885, 1888, 1891–93, 1895–96, 1898–1900, 1905
	Ora Washington	Black New York State Championships	1925–26, 1928–33, 1935–37
	Desideria Ampon	Philippines International Championships	1955–56, 1958–60, 1965–69, 1971
	Margaret Court	Australian National Championships/Open	1960–66, 1969–71, 1973
	/ Martina Navratilova	Eastbourne	1978, 1982–86, 1988–91, 1993
10	Muriel Goward-Cole	British Columbia Championships	1896–99, 1901–05
	Lois Moyes Bickle	Canadian Championships	1906–1908, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1920–1922, 1924
	Leela Row Dayal	Bombay Presidency Hard Court Championships	1930, 1933–40, 1950
	Vera Sukova	Czechoslovakian Closed Championships	1952, 1954–63
9	Louisa Martin	Irish Lawn Tennis Championships	1889–92, 1896, 1899–1900, 1902–03
	Clara von der Schulenburg	Championships of Berlin	1896–98, 1903–1905, 1909–10, 1920
	Carrie Neely	Illinois State Championships	1907–08, 1911–13, 1915–16, 1919
	Tokuko Moriwake	Hawaiian Championships	1925–33
	Betty Lombard	Irish Hard Court Championships	1940, 1943, 1945, 1947–49, 1952–53, 1955
	Althea Gibson	American Tennis Association Championships	1947–56
	/ Martina Navratilova	Washington	1975, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1985–86, 1988, 1990
	/ Martina Navratilova	Wimbledon Championships	1978–79, 1982–87, 1990
	Martina Navratilova	Dallas	1979–83, 1985–87, 1990
	Steffi Graf	German Open	1986–89, 1991–94, 1996
8	Agnes Nicklson	Auckland Championships	1895–1903
	Kate Williams	Intermountain Championships	1905–11, 1913
	Elizabeth Ryan	Beaulieu Championships	1913, 1921–22, 1924–28, 1932
	Elizabeth Ryan	Cannes Metropole Hotel Championship	1913–14, 1923, 1924–25, 1928, 1930
	Molla Mallory	U.S. National Championships	1915–18, 1920, 1921–22, 1926
	Elizabeth Ryan	Kent Championships	1919–21, 1923–25, 1928
	Elizabeth Ryan	Cannes Carlton Club Championships	1920, 1921–22, 1924–25, 1928, 1930–32
	Majorie Macfarlane	Auckland Championships	1921, 1924–1926, 1928–29, 1932–33
	Helen Wills	Wimbledon Championships	1927–30, 1932–33, 1935, 1938
	Chris Evert	Hilton Head	1974–78, 1981, 1984–85
	/ Martina Navratilova	WTA Tour Finals	1978–79, 1981, 1983–86Mar, Nov in 1986
	/ Martina Navratilova	Los Angeles	1978, 1980–81, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1992–93
	Serena Williams	Miami Masters	2002–04, 2007–08, 2013–15
7	Blanche Bingley Hillyard	Derbyshire Championships	1885, 1888, 1893–94, 1896, 1901, 1906
	Maude Garfit	Conishead Priory Open	1901–07
	Dorothea Douglass	Kent Championships	1901–02, 1904–06, 1910–11, 1913
	Dorothea Douglass	Wimbledon Championships	1903–04, 1906, 1910–11, 1913–14
	Agnes Morton	Essex Championships	1904–09, 1911
	Dorothea Douglass	British Covered Court Championships	1904, 1906, 1908, 1910–11, 1913, 1919
	Molla Mallory	Ardsley Invitation	1917–18, 1920, 1921–27
	Phoebe Holcroft Watson	Bexhill-on-Sea Open	1922–28
	May Spiers	Canterbury Championships	1922–28
	Helen Wills	U.S. National Championships	1923–25, 1927–29, 1931
	Ora Washington	American Tennis Association Championships	1929–35, 1937
	/ Hilde Sperling	German Covered Court Championships	1930–32, 1935–37
	Doreen Sansoni	Ceylon Championships	1935-1940, 1946
	Margaret Court	Victorian Championships	1961–65, 1969–70
	Bonnie Logan	American Tennis Association Championships	1964–70
	Virginia Wade	Dewar Cup Finals	1968–69, 1971, 1973–76
	/ Martina Navratilova	Orlando	1974, 1980–85
	Chris Evert	French Open	1974–75, 1979–80, 1983, 1985–86
	Steffi Graf	Wimbledon Championships	1988–89, 1991–93, 1995–96
	Serena Williams	Wimbledon Championships	2002–03, 2009–10, 2012, 2015–16
	Serena Williams	Australian Open	2003, 2005, 2007, 2009–10, 2015, 2017

Most finals at a single tournament

Titles by court surface type

• Note - Incomplete. Many pre-Open Era titles missing.

Note:This table is incomplete

	Wood	#
1.	Angela Mortimer	29
2.	Ann Haydon Jones	24
3.	/ Molla Mallory	14
4.	Lolette Payot	9
* not used since 1967

Match records and streaks

Consecutive match streaks

Career winning percentage

	All surfaces	W–L	% *
1.	Suzanne Lenglen	341–7	97.99[30]
2.	Elizabeth Ryan	1064–94	91.90
3.	Helen Wills	416–37	91.80
4.	Margaret Court	1180–107	91.68 [31]
5.	Chris Evert	1309–146	89.96
6.	/ Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling	331–41	89.00
7.	Steffi Graf	902–115	88.69
8.	/ Molla Mallory	668–87	88.50
9.	Angela Mortimer	607–90	87.10
10.	/ Martina Navratilova	1442–219	86.81
* minimum 300 wins

Match wins by court type

Match winning percentage by court type

• active players are denoted in boldface

Calendar year achievements

Best single season

	Titles*	Year[32]	Titles
1.	Elizabeth Ryan	1924	28
2.	Simonne Mathieu	1935	26
3.	Simonne Mathieu (2)	1936	24
	Althea Gibson	1956
4.	Elizabeth Ryan (2)	1921	22
5.	Elizabeth Ryan (3)	1922	21
	Margaret Court	1970
6.	Elizabeth Ryan (4)	1925	20
	Margaret Court (2)	1966
7.	Elizabeth Ryan (5)	1923	19
	Margaret Court (3)	1964

#	Match wins	Year
130	Althea Gibson	1956
129	Elizabeth Ryan	1924
117	Margaret Court	1965
113	Billie Jean King	1971
111	Evonne Goolagong	1973
109	Ann Haydon Jones	1960
	Margaret Court (2)	1970
108	Margaret Court (3)	1968
106	Elizabeth Ryan (2)	1921
103	Margaret Court (4)	1969
101	Margaret Court (5)	1973

	Match wins (consecutive)	#	Year
1	/ Martina Navratilova	74	1984[33]
2	Chris Evert	55	1974
3	Margaret Court	51	1965
4	Steffi Graf	46	1988
5	Alice Marble	45	1939
	Alice Marble (2)		1940

	Match winning*	%*	W–L	Year
1.	Suzanne Lenglen	100.00	66–0	1923
	Suzanne Lenglen (2)	100.00	47–0	1920
	Alice Marble	100.00	45–0	1939
	Alice Marble (2)	100.00	45–0	1940
5.	/ Martina Navratilova	98.80	86–1	1983
6.	Helen Wills	97.80	44–1	1925
6.	Steffi Graf	97.72	86–2	1989
7.	/ Martina Navratilova (2)	97.50	78–2	1984
8.	Steffi Graf (2)	97.40	75–2	1987
10.	Althea Gibson	97.10	66–2	1957
* minimum 40 wins

Year-end Championships

• (1972 – present)

WTA Tier I, Premier Mandatory and Premier 5

• Overall totals include Tier I, Premier Mandatory, and Premier 5 tournaments only.
• Tier I tournaments were played on 3 surfaces, (carpet) ceased as a surface after 1995.

Titles by court type

Match wins/ percentages

Rankings

WTA Prize money leaders

See WTA Tour records#WTA career prize money leaders. As prize money has increased strongly in recent decades, the lists of prize money leaders all-time and for the WTA Tour period (since 1973) are the same.

See also

References