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List of Grand Slam women's singles champions
This article details the list of women's singles Grand Slam tournaments tennis champions. Some major changes have taken place in history and have affected the number of titles that have been won by various players. These have included the opening of the French national championships to international players in 1925, the elimination of the challenge round in 1922, and the admission of professional players in 1968 (the start of the Open Era). Since then, 60 women have won at least one grand slam.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Margaret Court has 24 singles majors, an all-time record. In 1970, Court became the first woman during the Open Era to win the singles Grand Slam.
Serena Williams is the winner of 23 major singles titles.
Steffi Graf – winner of 22 Major singles titles, and the only person to win the Golden Slam (1988).
Helen Wills Moody – winner of 19 Major titles, the first woman to win more than 10 titles.
Chris Evert has won 18 Major titles, tied for the fifth most with Martina Navratilova.
Martina Navratilova has won 18 Major titles, tied for the fifth most with Chris Evert.
All of these tournaments have been listed based on the modern definition of a tennis major, rather than when they were officially recognized by the ILTF. The Australian, French Championships, and U.S. tournaments were officially recognized by the ILTF in 1924, though the French Championships were not played in 1924 because of the Olympics. The United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) had several grievances with the ILTF and refused to join when it was formed in 1913.[9]
From 1913 to 1923 there were three official championships recognized by the ILTF:
- World Grass Court Championships – Wimbledon.
- World Hard Court Championships, held in Paris on clay courts.
- World Covered Court Championships, held in Europe on an indoor wood surface.
During that same time period the USLTA recognized the U.S. National Championships and did not recognize any world championship.
- U.S. National Championships, held in New York on grass.
Champions by year Edit
| ♠ Player won the four major tournaments in the same year. ● Player won three major tournaments in the same year. ♦ Player won two major tournaments in the same year. * French club members or citizens only, thus not yet a Grand Slam tournament (until 1925 when the tournament opened itself to international competitors after merging with the World Hard Court Championships). † Tournaments held during German occupation not recognized by Fédération Française de Tennis.[10] ‡ Australian Open held in December from 1977 through 1985, then moved back to January (skipped one calendar year in order to arrange that). ◊ 2020 French Open held in September (as the last Grand Slam tournament of the year) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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| Year | Australian Open[11] | French Open[12] | Wimbledon[13] | US Open[14] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | started in 1922 | started in 1897 | Maud Watson (1/2) | started in 1887 |
| 1885 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Maud Watson (2/2) | tournament not created |
| 1886 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (1/6) | tournament not created |
| 1887 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Lottie Dod (1/5) | Ellen Hansell (1/1) |
| 1888 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Lottie Dod (2/5) | Bertha Townsend (1/2) |
| 1889 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (2/6) | Bertha Townsend (2/2) |
| 1890 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Helen Rice (1/1) | Ellen Roosevelt (1/1) |
| 1891 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Lottie Dod (3/5) | Mabel Cahill (1/2) |
| 1892 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Lottie Dod (4/5) | Mabel Cahill (2/2) |
| 1893 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Lottie Dod (5/5) | Aline Terry (1/1) |
| 1894 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (3/6) | Helen Hellwig (1/1) |
| 1895 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Charlotte Cooper Sterry (1/5) | Juliette Atkinson (1/3) |
| 1896 | tournament not created | tournament not created | Charlotte Cooper Sterry (2/5) | Elisabeth Moore (1/4) |
| 1897 | tournament not created | Adine Masson * | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (4/6) | Juliette Atkinson (2/3) |
| 1898 | tournament not created | Adine Masson * | Charlotte Cooper Sterry (3/5) | Juliette Atkinson (3/3) |
| 1899 | tournament not created | Adine Masson * | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (5/6) | Marion Jones (1/2) |
| 1900 | tournament not created | Yvonne Prévost * | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (6/6) | Myrtle McAteer (1/1) |
| 1901 | tournament not created | Suzanne Girod * | Charlotte Cooper Sterry (4/5) | Elisabeth Moore (2/4) |
| 1902 | tournament not created | Adine Masson * | Muriel Robb (1/1) | Marion Jones (2/2) |
| 1903 | tournament not created | Adine Masson * | Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1/7) | Elisabeth Moore (3/4) |
| 1904 | tournament not created | Kate Gillou * | Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (2/7) | May Sutton Bundy (1/3) |
| 1905 | tournament not created | Kate Gillou * | May Sutton Bundy (2/3) | Elisabeth Moore (4/4) |
| 1906 | tournament not created | Kate Gillou-Fenwick * | Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (3/7) | Helen Homans (1/1) |
| 1907 | tournament not created | Comtesse de Kermel * | May Sutton Bundy (3/3) | Evelyn Sears (1/1) |
| 1908 | tournament not created | Kate Gillou-Fenwick * | Charlotte Cooper Sterry (5/5) | Maud Barger-Wallach (1/1) |
| 1909 | tournament not created | Jeanne Matthey * | Dora Boothby (1/1) | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1/4) |
| 1910 | tournament not created | Jeanne Matthey * | Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (4/7) | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (2/4) |
| 1911 | tournament not created | Jeanne Matthey * | Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (5/7) | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (3/4) |
| 1912 | tournament not created | Jeanne Matthey * | Ethel Thomson Larcombe (1/1) | Mary Browne (1/3) |
| 1913 | tournament not created | Marguerite Broquedis * | Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (6/7) | Mary Browne (2/3) |
| 1914 | tournament not created | Marguerite Broquedis * | Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (7/7) | Mary Browne (3/3) |
| 1915 | tournament not created | World War I | World War I | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (1/8) |
| 1916 | tournament not created | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (2/8) | ||
| 1917 | tournament not created | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (3/8) | ||
| 1918 | tournament not created | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (4/8) | ||
| 1919 | tournament not created | Suzanne Lenglen (1/8) | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (4/4) | |
| 1920 | tournament not created | Suzanne Lenglen * | Suzanne Lenglen (2/8) | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (5/8) |
| 1921 | tournament not created | Suzanne Lenglen * | Suzanne Lenglen (3/8) | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (6/8) |
| 1922 | Margaret Molesworth (1/2) | Suzanne Lenglen * | Suzanne Lenglen (4/8) | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (7/8) |
| 1923 | Margaret Molesworth (2/2) | Suzanne Lenglen * | Suzanne Lenglen (5/8) | Helen Wills Moody (1/19) |
| 1924 | Sylvia Lance Harper (1/1) | Julie Vlasto * | Kathleen McKane Godfree (1/2) | Helen Wills Moody (2/19) |
| 1925♦ | Daphne Akhurst (1/5) | Suzanne Lenglen (6/8) | Suzanne Lenglen (7/8) | Helen Wills Moody (3/19) |
| 1926 | Daphne Akhurst (2/5) | Suzanne Lenglen (8/8) | Kathleen McKane Godfree (2/2) | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (8/8) |
| 1927♦ | Esna Boyd Robertson (1/1) | Kornelia Bouman (1/1) | Helen Wills Moody (4/19) | Helen Wills Moody (5/19) |
| 1928● | Daphne Akhurst (3/5) | Helen Wills Moody (6/19) | Helen Wills Moody (7/19) | Helen Wills Moody (8/19) |
| 1929● | Daphne Akhurst (4/5) | Helen Wills Moody (9/19) | Helen Wills Moody (10/19) | Helen Wills Moody (11/19) |
| 1930♦ | Daphne Akhurst (5/5) | Helen Wills Moody (12/19) | Helen Wills Moody (13/19) | Betty Nuthall (1/1) |
| 1931♦ | Coral McInnes Buttsworth (1/2) | Cilly Aussem (1/2) | Cilly Aussem (2/2) | Helen Wills Moody (14/19) |
| 1932♦ | Coral McInnes Buttsworth (2/2) | Helen Wills Moody (15/19) | Helen Wills Moody (16/19) | Helen Jacobs (1/5) |
| 1933 | Joan Hartigan (1/3) | Peggy Scriven Vivian (1/2) | Helen Wills Moody (17/19) | Helen Jacobs (2/5) |
| 1934 | Joan Hartigan (2/3) | Peggy Scriven Vivian (2/2) | Dorothy Round (1/3) | Helen Jacobs (3/5) |
| 1935 | Dorothy Round (2/3) | Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1/3) | Helen Wills Moody (18/19) | Helen Jacobs (4/5) |
| 1936 | Joan Hartigan (3/3) | Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (2/3) | Helen Jacobs (5/5) | Alice Marble (1/5) |
| 1937 | Nancye Wynne Bolton (1/6) | Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (3/3) | Dorothy Round (3/3) | Anita Lizana (1/1) |
| 1938 | Dorothy Bundy Cheney (1/1) | Simonne Passemard Mathieu (1/2) | Helen Wills Moody (19/19) | Alice Marble (2/5) |
| 1939♦ | Emily Hood Westacott (1/1) | Simonne Passemard Mathieu (2/2) | Alice Marble (3/5) | Alice Marble (4/5) |
| 1940 | Nancye Wynne Bolton (2/6) | cancelled (World War II) | World War II | Alice Marble (5/5) |
| 1941 | World War II | Alice Weiwers † | Sarah Palfrey Cooke (1/2) | |
| 1942 | Alice Weiwers † | Pauline Betz (1/5) | ||
| 1943 | Simone Iribarne Lafargue † | Pauline Betz (2/5) | ||
| 1944 | Raymonde Veber Jones † | Pauline Betz (3/5) | ||
| 1945 | Lolette Payot † | Sarah Palfrey Cooke (2/2) | ||
| 1946♦ | Nancye Wynne Bolton (3/6) | Margaret Osborne duPont (1/6) | Pauline Betz (4/5) | Pauline Betz (5/5) |
| 1947 | Nancye Wynne Bolton (4/6) | Patricia Canning Todd (1/1) | Margaret Osborne duPont (2/6) | Louise Brough (1/6) |
| 1948 | Nancye Wynne Bolton (5/6) | Nelly Landry (1/1) | Louise Brough (2/6) | Margaret Osborne duPont (3/6) |
| 1949♦ | Doris Hart (1/6) | Margaret Osborne duPont (4/6) | Louise Brough (3/6) | Margaret Osborne duPont (5/6) |
| 1950♦ | Louise Brough (4/6) | Doris Hart (2/6) | Louise Brough (5/6) | Margaret Osborne duPont (6/6) |
| 1951 | Nancye Wynne Bolton (6/6) | Shirley Fry (1/4) | Doris Hart (3/6) | Maureen Connolly (1/9) |
| 1952♦ | Thelma Coyne Long (1/2) | Doris Hart (4/6) | Maureen Connolly (2/9) | Maureen Connolly (3/9) |
| 1953♠ | Maureen Connolly (4/9) | Maureen Connolly (5/9) | Maureen Connolly (6/9) | Maureen Connolly (7/9) |
| 1954♦ | Thelma Coyne Long (2/2) | Maureen Connolly (8/9) | Maureen Connolly (9/9) | Doris Hart (5/6) |
| 1955 | Beryl Penrose (1/1) | Angela Mortimer (1/3) | Louise Brough (6/6) | Doris Hart (6/6) |
| 1956♦ | Mary Carter Reitano (1/2) | Althea Gibson (1/5) | Shirley Fry (2/4) | Shirley Fry (3/4) |
| 1957♦ | Shirley Fry (4/4) | Shirley Bloomer Brasher (1/1) | Althea Gibson (2/5) | Althea Gibson (3/5) |
| 1958♦ | Angela Mortimer (2/3) | Zsuzsa Körmöczy (1/1) | Althea Gibson (4/5) | Althea Gibson (5/5) |
| 1959♦ | Mary Carter Reitano (2/2) | Christine Truman (1/1) | Maria Bueno (1/7) | Maria Bueno (2/7) |
| 1960♦ | Margaret Smith Court (1/24) | Darlene Hard (1/3) | Maria Bueno (3/7) | Darlene Hard (2/3) |
| 1961 | Margaret Smith Court (2/24) | Ann Haydon Jones (1/3) | Angela Mortimer (3/3) | Darlene Hard (3/3) |
| 1962● | Margaret Smith Court (3/24) | Margaret Smith Court (4/24) | Karen Hantze Susman (1/1) | Margaret Smith Court (5/24) |
| 1963♦ | Margaret Smith Court (6/24) | Lesley Turner Bowrey (1/2) | Margaret Smith Court (7/24) | Maria Bueno (4/7) |
| 1964♦ | Margaret Smith Court (8/24) | Margaret Smith Court (9/24) | Maria Bueno (5/7) | Maria Bueno (6/7) |
| 1965● | Margaret Smith Court (10/24) | Lesley Turner Bowrey (2/2) | Margaret Smith Court (11/24) | Margaret Smith Court (12/24) |
| 1966 | Margaret Smith Court (13/24) | Ann Haydon Jones (2/3) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (1/12) | Maria Bueno (7/7) |
| 1967♦ | Nancy Richey (1/2) | Françoise Dürr (1/1) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (2/12) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (3/12) |
| 1968♦ | Billie Jean Moffitt King (4/12) | ↓ Open Era ↓ | ||
| ↓ Open Era ↓ | Nancy Richey (2/2) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (5/12) | Virginia Wade (1/3) | |
| 1969● | Margaret Smith Court (14/24) | Margaret Smith Court (15/24) | Ann Haydon Jones (3/3) | Margaret Smith Court (16/24) |
| 1970♠ | Margaret Smith Court (17/24) | Margaret Smith Court (18/24) | Margaret Smith Court (19/24) | Margaret Smith Court (20/24) |
| 1971♦ | Margaret Smith Court (21/24) | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (1/7) | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (2/7) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (6/12) |
| 1972● | Virginia Wade (2/3) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (7/12) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (8/12) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (9/12) |
| 1973● | Margaret Smith Court (22/24) | Margaret Smith Court (23/24) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (10/12) | Margaret Smith Court (24/24) |
| 1974♦ | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (3/7) | Chris Evert (1/18) | Chris Evert (2/18) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (11/12) |
| 1975♦ | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (4/7) | Chris Evert (3/18) | Billie Jean Moffitt King (12/12) | Chris Evert (4/18) |
| 1976♦ | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (5/7) | Sue Barker (1/1) | Chris Evert (5/18) | Chris Evert (6/18) |
| 1977 | Kerry Melville Reid (1/1) (Jan) | Mima Jaušovec (1/1) | Virginia Wade (3/3) | Chris Evert (7/18) |
| Evonne Goolagong Cawley (6/7) (Dec) | ||||
| 1978 | Chris O'Neil (1/1) ‡ | Virginia Ruzici (1/1) | Martina Navratilova (1/18) | Chris Evert (8/18) |
| 1979 | Barbara Jordan (1/1) ‡ | Chris Evert (9/18) | Martina Navratilova (2/18) | Tracy Austin (1/2) |
| 1980♦ | Hana Mandlíková (1/4) ‡ | Chris Evert (10/18) | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (7/7) | Chris Evert (11/18) |
| 1981 | Martina Navratilova (3/18) ‡ | Hana Mandlíková (2/4) | Chris Evert (12/18) | Tracy Austin (2/2) |
| 1982♦ | Chris Evert (14/18) ‡ | Martina Navratilova (4/18) | Martina Navratilova (5/18) | Chris Evert (13/18) |
| 1983● | Martina Navratilova (8/18) ‡ | Chris Evert (15/18) | Martina Navratilova (6/18) | Martina Navratilova (7/18) |
| 1984● | Chris Evert (16/18) ‡ | Martina Navratilova (9/18) | Martina Navratilova (10/18) | Martina Navratilova (11/18) |
| 1985♦ | Martina Navratilova (13/18) ‡ | Chris Evert (17/18) | Martina Navratilova (12/18) | Hana Mandlíková (3/4) |
| 1986♦ | Tournament date changed ‡ | Chris Evert (18/18) | Martina Navratilova (14/18) | Martina Navratilova (15/18) |
| 1987♦ | Hana Mandlíková (4/4) | Steffi Graf (1/22) | Martina Navratilova (16/18) | Martina Navratilova (17/18) |
| 1988♠ | Steffi Graf (2/22) | Steffi Graf (3/22) | Steffi Graf (4/22) | Steffi Graf (5/22) |
| 1989● | Steffi Graf (6/22) | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1/4) | Steffi Graf (7/22) | Steffi Graf (8/22) |
| 1990 | Steffi Graf (9/22) | Monica Seles (1/9) | Martina Navratilova (18/18) | Gabriela Sabatini (1/1) |
| 1991● | Monica Seles (2/9) | Monica Seles (3/9) | Steffi Graf (10/22) | Monica Seles (4/9) |
| 1992● | Monica Seles (5/9) | Monica Seles (6/9) | Steffi Graf (11/22) | Monica Seles (7/9) |
| 1993● | Monica Seles (8/9) | Steffi Graf (12/22) | Steffi Graf (13/22) | Steffi Graf (14/22) |
| 1994♦ | Steffi Graf (15/22) | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (2/4) | Conchita Martínez (1/1) | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (3/4) |
| 1995● | Mary Pierce (1/2) | Steffi Graf (16/22) | Steffi Graf (17/22) | Steffi Graf (18/22) |
| 1996● | Monica Seles (9/9) | Steffi Graf (19/22) | Steffi Graf (20/22) | Steffi Graf (21/22) |
| 1997● | Martina Hingis (1/5) | Iva Majoli (1/1) | Martina Hingis (2/5) | Martina Hingis (3/5) |
| 1998 | Martina Hingis (4/5) | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (4/4) | Jana Novotná (1/1) | Lindsay Davenport (1/3) |
| 1999 | Martina Hingis (5/5) | Steffi Graf (22/22) | Lindsay Davenport (2/3) | Serena Williams (1/23) |
| 2000♦ | Lindsay Davenport (3/3) | Mary Pierce (2/2) | Venus Williams (1/7) | Venus Williams (2/7) |
| 2001♦ | Jennifer Capriati (1/3) | Jennifer Capriati (2/3) | Venus Williams (3/7) | Venus Williams (4/7) |
| 2002● | Jennifer Capriati (3/3) | Serena Williams (2/23) | Serena Williams (3/23) | Serena Williams (4/23) |
| 2003♦ | Serena Williams (5/23) | Justine Henin (1/7) | Serena Williams (6/23) | Justine Henin (2/7) |
| 2004 | Justine Henin (3/7) | Anastasia Myskina (1/1) | Maria Sharapova (1/5) | Svetlana Kuznetsova (1/2) |
| 2005 | Serena Williams (7/23) | Justine Henin (4/7) | Venus Williams (5/7) | Kim Clijsters (1/4) |
| 2006♦ | Amélie Mauresmo (1/2) | Justine Henin (5/7) | Amélie Mauresmo (2/2) | Maria Sharapova (2/5) |
| 2007♦ | Serena Williams (8/23) | Justine Henin (6/7) | Venus Williams (6/7) | Justine Henin (7/7) |
| 2008 | Maria Sharapova (3/5) | |||