Who Is the Best Female Tennis Player of All Time?

Many people have argued over who the best tennis player of all time is. However, there is one player who stands above the rest. Read this blog to find out who the best female tennis player of all time is!

Serena Williams

Serena Williams is considered by many to be the best female tennis player of all time. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other man or woman in the Open Era. Williams has also won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, making her the most successful player in those tournaments as well.

Grand Slam titles

Serena Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most of any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of any female player in history behind Margaret Court (24). She has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, all with her sister Venus Williams, and the pair are unbeaten in Grand Slam doubles finals. With 49 total wins, the Williams sisters hold the record for most Grand Slam women’s doubles titles as a team.

Overall record

Serena Williams holds the most Grand Slam singles titles of any active player, male or female, with 23 titles. She is the only player in history to have won two of the four Grand Slams five times each ( Wimbledon and the Australian Open), and three of the four Grand Slams four times each (the US Open and French Open). Williams has won a record 14 women’s doubles Grand Slam titles. With her sister Venus, she holds the record for most Olympic gold medals won by a tennis player (4) and most Olympic medals won by any female tennis player (4).

Dominance on hard courts

Serena Williams has been nearly unstoppable on hard courts throughout her career. She has won 73% of her matches on hard courts, including all four of her Grand Slam titles. Williams’ hard court dominance began in earnest at the 2000 U.S. Open, where she reached the semifinals as a 17-year-old. She went on to win the tournament in 2001, defeating defending champion Lindsay Davenport in the final.

Williams has won at least one hard court tournament every year since 2002, with the exception of 2004. In that span, she has captured an impressive 23 hard court titles, including five majors.Williams’ most recent hard court title came at last year’s U.S. Open, where she defeated Maria Sharapova in the final to claim her sixth major championship.

Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf is considered by many to be the best female tennis player of all time. She won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, which is more than any other female player in history. She also won the golden slam in 1988, which is an achievement that has only been accomplished by two other players.

Grand Slam titles

Steffi Graf is widely regarded as one of the best female tennis players of all time. She was the dominating player in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During that time, she won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. That is more than any other woman in history. In 1988, she became the only tennis player (male or female) to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same year.

Graf was born on June 14, 1969, in Mannheim, West Germany. She started playing tennis when she was three years old. When Graf was 13 years old, she turned professional. In 1987, at the age of 18, she won her first Wimbledon singles title. She went on to win Wimbledon six more times. In 1999, Graf retired from tennis with 107 career singles titles (second only to Margaret Court’s 109).

Overall record

In 1988, Graf became the only tennis player (male or female) to achieve a Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year. Furthermore, she is the only tennis player to have won each Grand Slam event at least four times (a feat known as a Career Grand Slam). In singles, Graf won 107 titles. She won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, tied with Serena Williams for second place on the all-time list behind Margaret Court (24).

In 1987, she became the first – and as of 2016, remains the only – player to achieve a calendar-year Grand Slam in women’s singles by winning all four majors in the same year. Furthermore, she is the only woman to have won all four majors at least four times each.

Career Golden Slam

Steffi Graf is a former German tennis player who was ranked World No. 1 during much of the 1980s and early 1990s. She won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, including seven French Opens, six Wimbledons, and four US Opens. In 1988, she became the only tennis player (male or female) to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all four major singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year.

Margaret Court

Margaret Court is often considered the best female tennis player of all time. She is the most successful player in Grand Slam history, with 24 singles, 19 doubles, and 21 mixed doubles titles. Court is also a former world No. 1 singles player, and held that ranking for a total of 310 weeks.

Grand Slam titles

Court won 24 Grand Slam singles titles, which is a record for both men and women. She also won 19 Grand Slam doubles titles and 21 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, for a total of 64 major titles, which is also a record.

Overall record

In Grand Slam singles competition, Court won a record 24 times, a record still held as of 2021. She also won 19 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles and 21 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles,Court is one of only five tennis players (all women) to win a multiple slam set in two disciplines, matching Roy Emerson, Martina Navratilova, Frank Sedgman and Serena Williams. In 1970, Court became the first woman during the Open Era to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year. She won a calendar-year slam again in 1973, but this has been equalled only three other times since then by Steffi Graf (1988),Martina Hingis (1999) and Serena Williams (2015).

She won a record-tying five consecutive Wimbledon singles crowns from 1966 through 1970. Overall, Court won 13 women’s doubles and 12 mixed doubles Grand Slam events. By winning three mixed doubles Crowns with Ken Fletcher in 1963, Court became one of only four tennis players – all female – to have accomplished this feat during the Open Era. This record was not bettered until Martina Navratilova teamed with Mark Woodforde to win three consecutive Wimbledon mixed doubles titles between 1985–87.

Court is one of just four women ever – the others being Dorothea Lambert Chambers, Billie Jean King and Serena Williams – to have completed a career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles (all four grand slam events plus an Olympic gold medal).

Dominance on all surfaces

No other player has come close to Court’s record of winning a grand slam title on all three surfaces (grass, hard court, and clay), in both the singles and doubles competitions. In 1970, Court completed the grand slam when she won the French Open Women’s Singles tournament, making her the first and only player to win all four grand slam singles titles in a calendar year. She went on to win the Australian Open Women’s Singles tournament a record 11 times (tied with Serena Williams), the French Open Women’s Singles tournament five times, Wimbledon Women’s Singles tournament three times, and the US Open Women’s Singles tournament five times.

In addition to her 24 major singles titles, Court won 19 major women’s doubles titles (an all-time record) and 21 mixed doubles titles (also an all-time record). She holds numerous other records including being the only player (male or female) to have won more than 200 major tennis tournaments (a total of career 210 wins).