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Margaret Court has 24 singles majors, an all-time record. In 1970, Court became the first woman during the Open Era to win the Grand Slam in singles. Serena Williams is the winner of 23 major singles titles, most in the Open Era.
Female tennis players who have won at least one of the four Grand Slam titles in singles. 130 women have won at least one of the 460 majors staged. They are listed here in order of their first win. Players in bold are still active.
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.
Important note: by setting 1990 as the cut-off point, this list excludes many notable champions in high level tournaments from the previous years. High category tournaments equivalent to Tier 1/Premier/WTA 1000 existed before 1990, and the Grand Slam tournaments, Olympic Games and WTA Finals have been held since 1884, 1900 and 1972, respectively.
Bjurstedt Mallory's eight singles titles (1915–1918, 1920–1922, 1926) is the all-time record. [ 3 ] During the US Open, since the inclusion of the professional tennis players, Chris Evert (1975–1978) holds the record for most consecutive women's singles titles at four and the record for most overall titles at six (1975–1978, 1980, 1982 ...
All-time tennis records – Women's singles; Open Era tennis records – Women's singles; World number 1 ranked female tennis players; Top ten ranked female tennis players; Top ten ranked female tennis players (1921–1974) List of Billie Jean King Cup champions; WTA 1000 Series singles records and statistics; WTA 1000 Series doubles records ...
Championship Champion Runner-up Score in the final Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 1884: Wimbledon: Maud Watson ☆ Lilian Watson † 6–8 6–3 6–3 [2] 1885: Wimbledon: Maud Watson Blanche Bingley: 6–1 7–5 1886: Wimbledon: Blanche Bingley ☆ Maud Watson 6–3 6–3 1887: Wimbledon: Lottie Dod ☆ Blanche Bingley 6–2 6–0 U.S. National ...
Steffi Graf is a seven-time champion over a nine-year period from 1988 to 1996. Serena Williams is a seven-time champion. Venus Williams is a five-time champion over a nine-year period from 2000 to 2008. Petra Kvitová is a two-time champion, and created a first in 2011, when she became the first player, male or female, born in the 1990s to win ...