List of Grand Slam women's singles champions
The list of winners of the Grand Slam tournaments in women's singles lists all the winners in the four Grand Slam tournaments in tennis - Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open - since 1884. In another list, the players are sorted by the number of their victories. It is stated also the period in which the athlete has won, and the number of victories in the individual tournaments. Since the concept of the Grand Slam tournament was only coined in the 1930s, the term is ahistorical " victory in a Grand Slam tournament " for the title reached before this time. They were nevertheless included in the rating.
Margaret Smith Court of Australia has 24 Grand Slam titles ( All- Time) 1960-1973 the most successful player. In the professional era (from 1968 ) Steffi Graf won between 1988 and 1999 a total of 22 Grand Slam titles. Margaret Smith Court won 11 titles. Steffi Graf is the most successful player in the professional era, Margaret Smith Court, the most successful player in total. Serena Williams is with its 17 victories since 1999, the most among active tennis player. Ten tennis players succeeded so far to win in each of the four tournaments. Margaret Smith Court, Steffi Graf, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams have won at least twice as only every tournament, with Steffi Graf won every tournament at least four times and thus holds the record. All four tournaments in a year, the so-called Grand Slam, winning, succeeded so far Steffi Graf (1988, with the Olympics, the so-called Golden Slam ), Margaret Smith Court (1970) and Maureen Connolly ( 1953).
With the approval of professional tennis players began in 1968, the Open Era. The French Open were reserved until 1925 for French and a very limited number of foreign players. The Australian Open were played up to and including 1977 in January, then in December. 1977, therefore, the tournament was held twice. In 1986, the discharge was again postponed in January, so that in that year there has been no tournament.
Competitions
List of winners
- Place: are again the order of the athletes according to their number of victories
- Name: gives the name of the athlete
- Country: identifies the nation for which launched the athlete
- From: the year in which the athlete has won for the first time
- To: the year in which the athlete has recently won
- Total time: is the total number of acquired Grand Slam tournaments the player
- Australian Open: lists the number of wins at the Australian Open since 1922
- French Open: lists the number of wins at the French Open since 1897
- Wimbledon: called the number of wins at Wimbledon since 1884
- U.S. Open: lists the number of wins at the U.S. Open since 1887
Note: Still active athletes are highlighted in bold. The list is sortable: the list by clicking on a column header sorts the results by that column, double clicking reverses the sorting order.