Women's tennis records

These are just some of the records kept. They will not always be accurate as you read them as the statistics change every week. Mostly these records are accurate as of the end of 2004. They are statistics for singles only.

Calendar-year Grand Slams

Maureen Connolly - 1953
Margaret Court - 1970
Steffi Graf - 1988

Non calendar grand slam winners

Martina Navratilova - 1983 Wimbledon / US / Australian & 1984 Roland Garros
Steffi Graf - 1993 Roland Garros / Wimbledon / US / 1994 Australian
Serena Williams - 2002 Roland Garros / Wimbledon / US / 2003 Australian


Most Grand Slam wins

Margaret Smith Court 24
Steffi Graf 22
Helen Wills Moody 19
Martina Navratilova 18
Chris Evert 18


Open era title leaders (this will be out of date)

1 Navratilova 167
2 Evert 154
3 Graf 107
4 Court 92
5 Cawley 68
6 King 67
7 Wade 55
8 Seles 53
9 Davenport 45
10 Hingis 40 (needs updating since her comeback)
11 C. Martinez 32
12 V. Williams 33
13 Austin 30
14 Justine Henin-Hardenne 29
15 Serena Williams 27

Oldest Winners of a Title

Billie Jean King, 39 yrs, 7 mos, 23 days 1983
Martina Navratilova, 37 yrs, 4 mos, 2 days 1994
Margaret Court, 34 yrs, 4 mos, 26 days 1976

Youngest Winners of a Title

Tracy Austin, 14 yrs, 28 days 1977
Andrea Jaeger, 14 yrs, 7 mos, 14 days 1980
Kathy Rinaldi, 14 yrs, 6 mos, 24 days 1981

Longest Winning Streaks (this could be out of date)

Martina Navratilova, 74, 1984
Steffi Graf, 66, 1989-90
Navratilova, 58, 1986-87
Court, 57, 1972-73
Evert, 55, 1974
Navratilova, 54, 1983-84

Miscellanaeous

Wimbledon and the US Open

Venus Williams is one of eight women in the Open era to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same year, and one of only three to achieve the feat more than once.

Steffi Graf won both championships five different years, and Martina Navratilova did it on four separate occasions.

Other women who have won the two tournaments in the same year are Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Hingis and Serena Williams.