What Woman Has Won The Most Grand Slam Tennis Titles?
What woman has won the most Grand Slam tennis titles? That would be Serena Williams, with 23 titles.
Margaret Court
Margaret Court is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She is currently a Christian minister in Perth, Western Australia. She is considered one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. Court won 24 Grand Slam singles titles, which is a record that still stands today.
Early life and education
Margaret Court was born in Albury, New South Wales, on 16 July 1942. Her father was a World War I veteran who had been gassed at Passchendaele, and her mother had been a war bride from the United Kingdom. Court grew up in the Riverina district of New South Wales and played tennis on the family’s grass court. When she was nine years old, her family moved to Perth, Western Australia, where she began playing competitive tennis.
Court attended Methodist Ladies’ College, Perth, and won her first junior tournament at age 12. She then competed in junior tournaments throughout Australia until she was 18 years old. In 1960, at age 18, Court won the Victorian Championships and the Western Australian Championships. She turned professional later that year and won her first professional tournament at the Dutch Championships in Hilversum.
Grand Slam titles
Court won 24 Grand Slam singles titles, which is more than any other player in history, male or female. She won a total of 64 Grand Slam titles, which is also more than any other player in history, male or female.
Later life and legacy
In 1991, Court became a naturalized citizen of Australia and in 1993 was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. In 2005, Tennis Australia launched the Margaret Court Cup, an annual event for young female players aged 10–14. She is an evangelist with the Pentecostal Assemblies of God church and is also active in charities, especially those involving children.
Serena Williams
Serena Williams has won the most Grand Slam tennis titles of any woman in history. She has won a total of 23 Grand Slam titles, which is more than any other woman in history. Williams has also won more prize money than any other female tennis player in history.
Early life and education
Serena Jameka Williams was born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan, to Oracene Price and Richard Williams, who raised her and her sister Venus in Compton, California. They started playing tennis when Serena was four and Venus was nine. In 1995, the family moved to West Palm Beach so that the sisters could attend Rick Macci’s tennis academy there. Williams has spoken about the racism she faced as a child while playing tennis.
Richard stopped coaching Serena and Venus after they turned professional; he now serves as their occasional hitting partner and coach during practice sessions. He also remains emotionally supportive of his daughters’ careers.
Grand Slam titles
Serena Williams has won the most Grand Slam singles titles of any woman in history. With 23 titles, she is tied with Margaret Court for the most ever. Williams has also won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, which is more than any other woman in history, and four mixed doubles titles, bringing her total to 41 Slams—the second most of any tennis player, male or female.
Later life and legacy
In September 2017, after her victory at the US Open, Serena Williams won her record-equaling 22nd Grand Slam singles title, surpassing Steffi Graf’s Open Era record, as well as taking sole ownership of the second most Grand Slams in the history of professional tennis (behind Margaret Court’s 24). In early 2018, following her triumph at the Australian Open, Williams regained the WTA no. 1 ranking for the first time since having her daughter in September 2017. At Wimbledon that year, she reached both the women’s singles final and the women’s doubles final. In October 2018, Williams was crowned WTA Champion again, after winning her first title since 2016 at the WTA Finals in Singapore.
Williams has been ranked world No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association on eight occasions» (tied with Evert for second most all-time behind Graf’s twelve), including a record six times consecutively. She first became world No. 1 on July 8, 2002, and regained this ranking for 186 consecutive weeks; as a result she became known as “the queen of tennis”. Williams holds numerous all-time bests in tennis: she is regarded as one of the best service returners in history and is widely considered to be one of the greatest players of all time.
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player. She has won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. She is the only tennis player (male or female) to have won all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year (1988). She was ranked World No. 1 for a record 377 weeks.
Early life and education
Stefanie Maria “Steffi” Graf (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɛfi ˈɡʁa:f], born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 1 and is considered by some commentators as the greatest female tennis player of all time. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. This is an all-time record for a male or female tennis player since the introduction of the Open Era in 1968 and, together with Margaret Court’s 24 Major victories, marks the most Grand Slam victories by a tennis player of either gender. In 1988, she became the only tennis player to achieve the Golden Grand Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open) and the Olympic gold medal in one calendar year. Furthermore, she is the only woman to have won each Major at least four times
Grand Slam titles
Graf holds the record for the most Grand Slam singles titles won by a woman, with 22. She also holds the record for the most consecutive major wins, with 13 titles won between the French Open in 1987 and the 1990 Australian Open. Overall, she has been ranked world No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association for a total of 377 weeks – more than any other woman in history.
Later life and legacy
Graf retired from tennis in August 1999, aged 30. In December 1999, Graf was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Chris Evert said of her: “Steffi is a这里 Severity 8
– unparalleled champion who had the complete game and maintained an extraordinary level of play for more than a decade. She played with grace and power and was a true ambassador for our sport.” Billie Jean King said: “She’s the Greatest Of All Time, there’s no doubt about it.” Later in 2000, Graf was named one of the “30 Legends of Women’s Tennis: Past, Present and Future” by Time. In March 2005, TENNIS magazine ranked her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1965 through 2005. In 2013, Graf was voted by fans as one of Asia’s heroes in CNN’s Open Court series
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King is an American former professional tennis player. She is considered one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. She won 39 Grand Slam titles, including 12 singles, 16 women’s doubles, and 11 mixed doubles titles. She also won the inaugural WTA Tour Championships in 1990. In 1973, she won the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match against Bobby Riggs.
Early life and education
Billie Jean King was born on November 22, 1943, in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Bill and Betty Moffitt. She was raised in the Long Beach suburb of Los Escondidos with her brother Randy. As a child, King played a variety of sports before she took up tennis. When she was eight years old, she began playing tennis at the Long Beach Recreation Department. In 1959, at age 15, she won the Girls’ 12s division of the Southern California Tennis Association (SCTA) championships. She then ranked number one in Girls’ 18s in 1961.
King attended Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, where she was a champion tennis player. During her sophomore year, she won the national junior doubles championship with Karen Hantze Susman. In 1963, she graduated from high school and enrolled at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), where she joined their tennis team. King won four National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) singles titles during her collegiate career: 1962 and 1963 ( Division I ); and 1964 and 1965 ( small colleges ).
Grand Slam titles
Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player who has won a total of 12 Grand Slam singles titles. She has also won 16 Grand Slam doubles titles and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. In addition to her Grand Slam titles, King has also won the WTA Tour Championships singles title four times and the WTA Tour Championships doubles title five times.
Later life and legacy
After her tennis career ended, King became a promoter of women’s tennis and a philanthropist. In 1972, she founded the Women’s Sports Foundation, which is still in operation today. The organization provides financial assistance to female athletes and promotes Title IX, the landmark legislation that prohibits discrimination against girls and women in educational programs that receive federal funds.
King has also been an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights. In 1981, she publicly came out as a lesbian, becoming one of the first high-profile professional athletes to do so. In 2006, she was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded King the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. In 2009, she was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal by President Barack Obama.
Chris Evert
Chris Evert is a former professional tennis player who was born on December 21, 1954, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is considered one of the best tennis players of all time, winning 18 Grand Slam singles championships and three doubles championships. She was the year-end singles No. 1 seven times and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1995.
Early life and education
Chris Evert was born on December 21, 1954, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Jimmy and Colette Evert. Jimmy was a professional tennis teacher who had helped back-to-back US Amateur champions Tony Trabert and Herb Flam. Colette was an excellent player herself, ranking sixth in the US during the 1950s. The Everts’ young daughter would often accompany her father to the local courts where he gave tennis lessons. When Evert was only four years old, she began hitting balls with a nylon racket that her father cut down to fit her small hands. By age six, little Chris was beating boys twice her age on the local courts. When she turned eight years old, Evert made her tournament debut in an under-12 event in Coral Gables, Florida. It was no surprise when she won the title.
During her childhood years, Evert honed her skills by playing against some of the best male players in the world. She also took lessons from several different coaches including Pancho Gonzales, one of the greatest players of all time. In 1971, 16-year-old Evert won her first major tournament at Wimbledon. She defeated Britain’s Rosemary Casals in straight sets to become the youngest singles champion in Wimbledon history.
Grand Slam titles
Chris Evert is a retired American professional tennis player who was the World No. 1 ranked player in both singles and doubles during much of the 1970s and 1980s. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, more than any other woman in history.
Later life and legacy
In late 1987, just before the start of the Australian Open, Evert was named one of the “100 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century” by Sports Illustrated. In March 1989, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where her plaque reads: “Her determination, fitness and technique defined an era of power tennis.”
Evert’s career record stands at 1,309–146 (a winning percentage of 90.0%), which is the second-best in history behind Margaret Court (1,271–155; a winning percentage of 89.2%). In 1974, Evert became the first woman in tennis history to earn more than $1 million in prize money in a single season; by 1977 she had earned more than $5 million in her career. As of 2016, Evert is estimated to have been worth around $20 million at the peak of her playing career.
