Most Tennis Grand Slams For These 20 Players

Mats Wilander is an ex-world number One tennis player from Sweden. Mats had tennis grand slam wins 7 times between 1982 and 1988, including 3 at the French Open, 3 at the Australian Open, 1 at the US Open, and 1 Grand Slam men's doubles trophy.

It was in 1982 after winning the French Open, his career progressed up and running with a breakthrough.

Wilander won three Grand Slam singles titles in a single year. He won three of the four Grand Slam singles events in 1988, finishing the year ranked first in the world.

He won the Australian Open twice when it was still held on grass courts. Mats joins Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, and Novak Djokovic as the only men to have won Grand Slam singles titles on grass, hard, and clay courts.

Wilander as well as Rafael Nadal are the only two men in tennis history to have won at least 2 Grand Slam singles titles on each of the 3 different surfaces: two Australians on grass, one Australian and one American on hard, and three French on clay.

Mats Wilander's Grand Slam wins into different Opens:

French Open: 1982, 1985, 1988

Australian Open: 1983, 1984, 1988

US Open: 1988

Mostly known for his rivalries with players like Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors and his aggressive behavior on the court, John McEnroe has a career grand slam of 7.

He was ranked world number one in singles ranking for around 1190 days, as he showed his consistency and brilliance. John has also won 77 career titles so far.

Talking about his doubles dynasty, he has been at the top for 1890 days and he made a record-breaking partnership with Fleming Stand for 57 titles, which is one the most by any pairs in the Open Era.

He made a big contribution to Davis Cup titles five times in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1992 for the United States and he even served as the captain.

John McEnroe's Grand Slam singles breakdown:

Wimbledon: 1981, 1983, 1984

US Open: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984

The French tennis queen, Suzanne Lenglen who was coached by his father Charles, went on to become a tennis icon.

From 1921 to 1926, Lenglen was the inaugural world number 1 as she won 8 grand slams in singles and 21 overall. She has also won World Hard Court Champion in singles 4 times and in total 10 times.

From 1919 to 1923, she managed to win 5 Wimbledon singles titles in a row but won it total of 6 times.

She went invincible without losing with her partner Elizabeth Ryan as they won another 6 titles at Wimbledon. The first leading amateur to turn pro is Suzanne Lenglen.

A large part of the credit should also go to his dad who worked hard to train Suzanne, who later also became the greatest women's tennis player in the world.

Suzanne Lenglen's grand slam breakdown into different Opens:

French Open: 1925, 1926

Wimbledon: 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925

One of the greatest players of all time, Andre Agassi is one of the grand slam winners, as he has won it 8 times. He has also been the world's number 1 before.

The 53-year-old tennis player is the 2nd of 5 men to accomplish a career Grand Slam in the Open Era.

Agassi was the first man to win all four singles majors on three distinct surfaces hard, clay, and grass, and he is still the only American to have won the French Open in 1999 and the Australian Open in 2003.

He also won 17 Masters championships and was a member of the Davis Cup winning teams in 1990, 1992, and 1995.

Agassi achieved No. 1 in the world for the first time in 1995, but was plagued by personal troubles in the mid-to-late 1990s and dropped to No. 141 in 1997, leading many to assume that his career was gone.

He returned to world's No. 1 in 1999 and went on to have his most successful four-year run. his Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1995, 2000, 2001, 2003

French Open: 1999

Wimbledon: 1992

US Open: 1994, 1999

Ivan Lendl is a former professional tennis player of Czech descent. He is largely considered one of the all-time great tennis players.

Lendl held the world No. 1 singles ranking for a then-record 270 weeks and won 94 singles titles. He won eight major singles titles and finished second 11 times, becoming the first man to compete in 19 major finals.

He also played in an unprecedented eight consecutive US Open finals and won five year-end titles.

Lendl is the only player in professional tennis history to record a match-winning percentage of 90 or above in five consecutive years in 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1989.

Further, he had a solid winning record when going head-to-head with his greatest opponents, resulting in 22–13 against Jimmy Connors, 4–3 in big games, and 21–15 against John McEnroe, 7–3 in big games.

Ivan Lendl's Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1989, 1990

French Open: 1984, 1986, 1987

US Open: 1985, 1986, 1987

From 1974 to 1977, James Connors set a record by holding the ATP rating 160 times in a row. Over his career, he achieved 1876 days at the top of the world.

Three main Open Era men's singles records are still held by Connors thanks to his lengthy and successful career, with 1274 match victories, 1,557 matches played, and 109 titles.

Besides, three year-end championships, he holds eight major singles titles, a record shared by the Open Era that includes 5 US Opens, 2 Wimbledons, and 1 Australian Open.

He became the second man in Open Era history to win 3 major championships in a single calendar year in 1974, and he was disqualified from the French Open, the fourth title.

From 1974 to 1978, he topped the ATP rankings after the year. He was the 1982 ATP Player of the Year, the ITF World Champion, and the winner of both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. At the age of forty-three, he announced retirement in 1996.

Jimmy Connors' Grand Slam wins in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1974

Wimbledon: 1974, 1982

US Open: 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983

Monica Seles' turning point was in 1990 when she became the youngest-ever French Open champion at the age of 16, a record that remains today too.

Seles maintained her domination, winning multiple Grand Slam titles, including eight major titles, before the age of 20. She revolutionized women's tennis with her powerful two-handed strokes and persistent playing style, rising to World No. 1 in 1991.

Her rivalry with Steffi Graf, another tennis legend of the time, was one of the most memorable aspects of her career. On the court, the two players fought in epic clashes, attracting viewers with their opposing playing styles and strong competition.

At the 1990 French Open, Seles became the first woman to defeat Graf in a Grand Slam final, ending Graf's attempt for a calendar-year Grand Slam.

The 50-year-old tennis player represented both Yugoslavia and the U.S. and in 2009, was introduced into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Monica Seles' Grand Slam wins in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996

French Open: 1990, 1991, 1992

US Open: 1991, 1992

Maureen Connolly who earned massive success in his very short tennis career had 9 grand slam victories. On top of that, she was the first female tennis player to win it.

She also sets a record for winning a title without getting defeated in any set at any Major 4 championships.

Back in 1954, she suffered an injury to her right leg after falling from a horse, while riding and she was forced to quit her short but quite successful tennis career at the age of 19.

Unfortunately, she suffered from Ovarian Cancer which took her life at the very young age of 34.

She was once highest highest-ranking player with 1st position in singles in 1952. Maureen Connolly's Grand Slam wins in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1953

French Open: 1953, 1954

Wimbledon: 1952, 1953, 1954

US Open: 1951, 1952, 1953

Bjorn Borg, who hails from Sweden, was once the world's number-one tennis player. He was the first male tennis player in the Open Era to clinch 11 Grand Slam singles championships.

6 of them being at the French Open and another 5 in a row at Wimbledon from 1974 to 1981,

Borg also won the Team competition, the Davis Cup in 1975. His Grand Slam wins in different Opens:

French Open: 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981

Wimbledon: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980

Billie Jean King has won a total of 39 Grand Slam championships including 12 in singles and 16 in women's doubles. Along with 11 in mixed doubles.

In the triumph of the United States team in the nine Wightman Cups and seven Federation Cups, King was one of the important players.

She was the captain of the US in the Federation Cup.

In 1987, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She also managed to win the Presidential Medal of Freedom as well as the Sportswoman of the Year lifetime achievement award from the Sunday Times.

In 1990, she was recognized by the National Women's Hall of Fame along with the USTA National Tennis Center in N.Y City, which is now called the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Billie Jean King's Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1968

French Open: 1972

Wimbledon: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975

US Open: 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974

Pete Sampras is considered one of the best-ever tennis players of all time as he began his pro career in the year 1988.

In the 2002 U.S. Open, he outplayed his rival Andre Agassi in the deciding match and went on to win it.

All in all, he won 64 ATP tour-level singles championships. In 1993, he was ranked world's number 1 for around 2002 days, which is the third most of all time.

In 2007, he was nicknamed "Pistol Pete" for his accurate and powerful service. He was introduced into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2007.

Pete Sampras' Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1994, 1997

Wimbledon: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

US Open: 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2002

Martina Navratilova, who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia represented both Czechoslovakia and the United States of America after 1975.

Navratilova has also won the women's doubles championship 31 times and ten major mixed doubles championships, which totals 59 major championships, the most ever in the Open Era.

She has won 18 Grand Slams, to break it down into different Opens:

Australian Open: 1981, 1983, 1985

French Open: 1982, 1984

Wimbledon: 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990

US Open: 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987

Christine Evert is a former world number-one tennis player from the United States. She won a record 7 French Open titles and a joint-record 6 U.S. Open trophies, together with Serena Williams.

Evert held the world No. 1 ranking for 1820 days and was the year's top singles player seven times from 1974-78, in 1980, and 1981.

She along with her main competitor Martina Navratilova, took over women's tennis for much of the 1970s and 1980s.

She holds the record for the most consecutive years of 13 in which she has won at least one major championship. Her career singles winning percentage of 89.97% is the second highest in the Open Era, either men or women.

Likewise, her career victory percentage in singles matches on clay courts is around 94.55 percent, a WTA Tour record. She also won two major doubles titles with Martina Navratilova and one with Olga Morozova.

From 1975 to 1976, Evert was president of the Women's Tennis Association for 11 years, and again from 1983 to 1991. She also received the Philippe Chatrier Award and was introduced into the Hall of Fame.

Chris Evert's Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1982, 1984

French Open: 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986

Wimbledon: 1974, 1976, 1981

US Open: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982

Helen Wills, who won a total of 31 Grand Slam titles, and 19 singles at the very young age of 13, was already in her first-ever tournament in 1919-21.

In 1922, at the age of around 15, she was the U.S. Championships finalist and later went on to win her first U.S. Open singles at the Pacific Coast Championships.

Representing the United States of America in the Olympic Games - Tennis, she won the gold in 1924, Paris Singles as well as Doubles.

Apart from winning titles in tennis tournaments, she also won numerous awards in the likes of Female Athlete of the Year which was organized by the Associated Press in 1935.

In 1959, she was introduced into the International Tennis Hall of Fame as well as the Bay Area Athletic Hall of Fame in 1981.

Likewise, Wills was also introduced into the Women's Hall of Fame of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association in 1996. Helen Wills' Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

French Open: 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932

Wimbledon: 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1938

US Open: 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931

Roger Federer is a name that is very popular among tennis fans, he has won everything and is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland.

Federer was the Association of Tennis Professionals' world No. 1 in singles for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and was the year-end No. 1 five times.

The 42-years-old won 103 ATP Tour singles titles, the second-most of all time, including 20 major men's singles victories including an Open Era record 8 men's singles Wimbledon titles and an Open Era joint-record 5 men's singles U.S. Open titles and 6-year-end championships.

He is one of the grand slam leaders tennis. He earned his first major singles title at Wimbledon in 2003 when he was just 21 years old.

He appeared in 21 out of the 28 major singles finals between 2003 and 2009. In 2004, 2006, and 2007, he won 3 of the 4 majors and the ATP Finals, as well as 5 straight Wimbledon and U.S. Open crowns.

After 3 consecutive runner-up finishes to Rafael Nadal, his primary opponent until 2010, he completed his career Grand Slam at the 2009 French Open.

In 2009, at the age of 27, he broke Pete Sampras's record of 14 major men's singles victories at Wimbledon.

Roger Federer's Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2017, 2018

French Open: 2009

Wimbledon: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2017

US Open: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

Stefanie Graf is a former prof. tennis player from Germany, who won 22 major singles titles, the second-most in women's singles since the Open Era began in 1968 and the third-most in history.

She became the first tennis player in history to complete the Golden Slam by winning all four major singles titles as well as the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year, in 1988.

She is the only male or female tennis player to have won each major singles competition at least four times.

The Women's Tennis Association ranked Graf world No. 1 in singles for a record 377 weeks, which is 2639 days.

Steffi Graf's Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994

French Open: 1987, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999

Wimbledon: 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996

US Open: 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996

Rafael Nadal is a professional tennis player from Spain. The Association of Tennis Professionals has ranked him as the world No. 1 in singles for 209 weeks and has concluded as the year-end Number one 5 times.

He has 22 Grand Slam men's singles titles to his name, including a record 14 French Opens. He has 92 ATP singles trophies, including 36 Masters titles, 63 of which he has won on clay courts.

Nadal is one of just two athletes in history to have achieved the Career Golden Slam in singles.

He has been at the top of men's tennis for nearly a decade, alongside Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as the Big Three.

He was one of the most successful youngsters in ATP Tour history at the outset of his professional career, reaching the world No. 2 position and winning 16 titles before the age of 20, including his first French Open and six Masters events.

He achieved world Number-one status for the first time in 2008 when he thrashed Federer in a historic Wimbledon final, his first major victory away from clay.

He backed up his victory with an Olympic singles gold medal in Beijing in 2008.

After defeating Djokovic in the 2010 US Open final, Nadal became the Open Era's youngest man to complete the Career Grand Slam, as well as the first man to win majors on 3 distinct surfaces in the same year.

Rafael Nadal's Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 2009, 2022

French Open: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022

Wimbledon: 2008, 2010

US Open: 2010, 2013, 2017, 2019

Serena Williams is a former professional tennis player from the United States, who is popularly known as one of the best tennis players of all time, and the WTA ranked her world No. 1 in singles for 319 weeks or 2233 days.

She won the most Grand Slam women's singles titles in the Open Era and the second most all time. She is the first and only player in history to have achieved a career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles.

She has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles with sister Venus, as well as three Olympic gold medals, an unprecedented record in tennis history.

Williams is the world's first Black woman to be ranked No. 1, motivating future generations of athletes and breaking down racial barriers.

Apart from being one of the best-ever tennis players, she is a successful entrepreneur, fashion star, and philanthropist who uses her platform to help others.

Serena Williams' Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017

French Open: 2002, 2013, 2015

Wimbledon: 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016

US Open: 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014

Margaret Court is one of the two tennis players who have won career grand slam tennis singles along with Novak Djokovic.

The legendary player who is now 81 years old has won Grand Slams for a record-breaking 24 times, which is the most tennis grand slams female.

Talking about women's doubles, she has won 19 championships, which is second of all-time.

The queen of records has recorded 21 mixed doubles championships, which is also a record across both men and women. So, overall, she has won a total of 64 Grand Slam championships.

Margaret Court has won titles on all different surfaces as she has won it in clay, grass as well and hard courts, showing her versatility and talents.

She was the first Australian woman to clinch the victory of the French Championships which she won in 1962, the U.S. Championships in 1962, and Wimbledon in 1963.

Across both singles and doubles, she has been listed in the number one position for a whopping 1876 days which is 268 weeks.

She showed her potential and class in 3 different decades in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s by winning the Grand Slam championship which shows that she was a born winner.

Margaret Court's Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973

French Open: 1962, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1973

Wimbledon: 1963, 1965, 1970

US Open: 1962, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1973

One of the best active tennis players Novak Djokovic hails from Serbia, and is the current world's number-one ranked player in singles.

He has maintained the No. 1 spot for a record 402 weeks, which is 2814 days in a record 13 different years, and he has finished the year as the No. 1 spot a record 8 times.

He has the most grand slams titles of 24, which is a record that he has achieved, is more than the famous Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal got. He has also reached 36 Grand Slam finals.

It includes 11 Australian Open titles, a record. He has won 98 singles titles in total, including a record 71 Big Titles: 24 majors, 40 Masters, and seven ATP Finals.

Djokovic is the only guy in tennis history to be the reigning champion of all four majors on three distinct surfaces at the same time.

He is the only player to complete a triple Career Grand Slam in singles, as well as the only player to finish a career Golden Masters, which he has done twice.

Djokovic won the year-end No. 1 ranking for a record-extending 8th time in November 2023. This broke Pete Sampras' previous record of 6 and strengthened his standing as the most consistent player over long periods.

Novak Djokovic's Grand Slam wins breakdown in different Opens:

Australian Open: 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023

French Open: 2016, 2021, 2023

Wimbledon: 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022

US Open: 2011, 2015, 2018, 2023