Who Is The Best Female Tennis Player In The World?

The best female tennis player in the world is a hotly contested title. There are many talented women on the WTA Tour vying for the top spot. In this blog post, we will take a look at some of the leading contenders and make a case for who we believe is the best female tennis player in the world.

Serena Williams

Serena Williams is the best female tennis player in the world. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other player in the Open Era. She is also the only player in history to have won all four Grand Slam singles titles at least three times each.

Grand Slam titles

Serena Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court (24). She is also the only player to have won 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two separate decades. She has won a record seven Wimbledon ladies’ singles titles, five Australian Open ladies’ singles titles, three US Open ladies’ singles titles, and two French Open ladies’ singles titles. With her runner-up finish at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, Williams entered the record books as both the oldest woman to contest a Grand Slam final at age 37 years and 8 months, and as the only player in history – male or female – to contest more than 30 major finals.

Overall record

Serena Williams has won Drawn 88 (47.37%) of her matches against the WTA Tour Main Draw and Qualifying Draw opponents.

Williams has won 739 of 1,262 total singles matches (58.65%).

In Grand Slam singles tournaments, Williams has a record of 176–24 (78.26%) and has won 23 major titles.

She has reached 34 Grand Slam finals, more than any other active female player in the Open Era

Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova is one of the most successful female tennis players in the world. She has won five Grand Slam singles titles, an Olympic silver medal, and has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association on five occasions. Sharapova has also been featured in a number of modeling campaigns, including for Nike, Cole Haan, and Canon.

Grand Slam titles

Maria Sharapova has won five Grand Slam singles titles, tied for sixth on the all-time list: two at the French Open and one each at the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and US Open. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having won silver in women’s singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Overall record

Maria Sharapova has won thirty-eight WTA singles titles, including five Grand Slam singles titles. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an Olympic medalist, having won silver in women’s singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Sharapova became world No. 1 for the first time on 22 August 2005, at the age of 18, and held that ranking for a total of 21 weeks. Her projected date to regain the ranking is 3 April 2017. She has also been ranked world No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She was ranked world No. 1 by year-end five times: in 2005 (shares with Lindsay Davenport), 2006 (shares with Amélie Mauresmo), 2007 (shares with Justine Henin), 2012 (shares with Serena Williams) and 2015 (shares with Serena Williams).

Naomi Osaka

Naomi Osaka is a professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in the world. She is the first Asian player to hold the World No. 1 ranking in singles. Osaka has won three Grand Slam singles titles and is the reigning champion at the US Open.

Grand Slam titles

Naomi Osaka has won four Grand Slam titles in her career so far – two at the US Open, in 2018 and 2020, and two at the Australian Open, in 2019 and 2021. She is currently ranked as the world No. 2 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), behind only Ashleigh Barty.

Overall record

As of February 10, 2020, Osaka is ranked No. 3 in the world by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). She has won three Grand Slam singles titles, becoming the first Asian player to achieve this feat. At the age of 21, she is also the youngest player who has held the top ranking since computer rankings were started in 1975. In 2019, Forbes named her as the highest-paid female athlete in history.

In her singles career, Osaka has won 46 titlesincluding three Grand Slams: the 2018 US Open, 2019 Australian Open and 2020 Wimbledon Championships. The US Open victory made her the first player from Asia to win a Grand Slam singles title and made her Japan’s first-ever Grand Slam singles champion of any kind. Osaka’s run to her maiden Wimbledon title included victories over Serena Williams in both the third round and in the final.

Simona Halep

Simona Halep is a Romanian professional tennis player. She is the current world No. 1 in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) singles rankings, having first reached the top spot on October 9, 2017. She has won 18 Grand Slam titles, including two Wimbledon singles titles and two French Open singles titles.

Grand Slam titles

Throughout her career, Simona Halep has won two grand slam titles- the 2018 French Open and the 2019 Wimbledon Championships. She has also been a finalist at three other grand slam tournaments, the 2014 French Open, the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2018 Australian Open. She has reached the semifinals or better at all four grand slam tournaments multiple times.

Overall record

In singles, Halep has won 58% of the matches she has played, and has a career-high singles ranking of number two in the world, achieved on 13 October 2014. Halep first reached the number two ranking on the WTA Tour on 31 August 2015. She is one of thirteen women to hold the top ranking since computer rankings began in 1975, and one of only fouractive female players to have done so.

Karolina Pliskova

Karolina Pliskova is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She is currently ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association. She has won thirteen singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour.

Grand Slam titles

Karolina Pliskova is a Czech professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world No. 5 in the WTA singles rankings, and has been ranked as high as No. 2 in October 2016. Pliskova has won ten WTA singles titles, including two Premier Mandatory titles at the 2016 China Open and the 2017 Madrid Open. In addition, she was the runner-up at the 2016 US Open, where she defeated then-world No. 1 Serena Williams in the semifinals before losing toAngelique Kerber in the final. Pliskova has also reached three other Grand Slam semifinals at the 2017 French Open, 2018 Wimbledon Championships, and 2019 Australian Open.

Overall record

Karolina Pliskova (Czech: [ˈkarolinɐ ˈplɪskova] born 21 March 1992) is a Czech professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles, having held the ranking for 32 weeks. Pliskova’s career-high in singles is world No. 2, which she first achieved in July 2017 and again in October 2017. As of February 2020, Pliskova has won 22 WTA singles titles, including two Grand Slam tournaments: the 2016 US Open and the 2020 Australian Open.

Pliskova has enjoyed much success in doubles as well, winning 3 Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 titles with her sister Kristýna. The sisters have also won 2 WTA Championships together, in 2016 and 2020. Overall, Pliskova has won 25 WTA Tour doubles titles, 4 in mixed doubles (including one at Wimbledon with Jack Sock in 2018).