50 Greatest Tennis Players of All Time
Grand Slams, weeks at world number one and career records compared.
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Grand Slams, weeks at world number one and career records compared.
Novak Djokovic
24-time Grand Slam champion and world No.1 for a record 428 weeks — the most statistically successful player in tennis history.
24 Grand Slams · 428 weeks at No.1
Roger Federer
Eight-time Wimbledon champion and 20-time Grand Slam winner — the most technically complete player in tennis history.
20 Grand Slams · 310 weeks at No.1
Rafael Nadal
King of Clay — 14-time French Open champion and holder of a record 22 Grand Slams, one of the greatest athletes of any sport.
22 Grand Slams · 209 weeks at No.1
Rod Laver
The only player to win the Grand Slam twice — 11 majors and the most complete player in the amateur and open era.
11 Grand Slams
Pete Sampras
14-time Grand Slam champion who dominated the 1990s with an unmatched serve-and-volley game and seven Wimbledon titles.
14 Grand Slams · 286 weeks at No.1
Serena Williams
23-time Grand Slam champion and the greatest female athlete of her generation — transformed tennis and redefined possibility.
23 Grand Slams · 319 weeks at No.1
Steffi Graf
The only player to achieve the Golden Slam — all four Grand Slams and Olympic gold in the same year (1988).
22 Grand Slams · 377 weeks at No.1
Martina Navratilova
18-time Grand Slam singles champion and arguably the greatest serve-and-volley player in tennis history.
18 Grand Slams · 332 weeks at No.1
Chris Evert
18-time Grand Slam champion and holder of a 90% career win rate — one of the most consistent players in tennis history.
18 Grand Slams · 260 weeks at No.1
Andre Agassi
Career Grand Slam winner and Olympic gold medallist whose journey from rebellious teenager to elder statesman is tennis's greatest redemptio
8 Grand Slams · 101 weeks at No.1
John McEnroe
You cannot be serious — the most gifted touch player men's tennis has produced and the sport's most combustible personality. John McEnroe's
7 Grand Slams · 170 weeks at No.1
Jimmy Connors
Eight Grand Slam singles titles and the most combative champion tennis has produced — Jimmy Connors never retreated, never gave up a point w
8 Grand Slams · 268 weeks at No.1
Ivan Lendl
Eight Grand Slam titles and the most systematic training-first approach that defined modern professional tennis.
8 Grand Slams · 270 weeks at No.1
Ken Rosewall
The Little Master — one of the greatest technicians in tennis history and an eight-time Grand Slam champion.
8 Grand Slams
Margaret Court
The record-holder with 24 Grand Slam singles titles — the most of any player in history.
Australian Open 11x
Billie Jean King
The Battle of the Sexes — the most important tennis match in history, for reasons beyond sport.
39 Grand Slams · 52 weeks at No.1
Monica Seles
The double-handed wonder — stabbed on court in 1993, but her nine Grand Slams still define a generation.
9 Grand Slams · 178 weeks at No.1
Justine Henin
Seven Grand Slams and the finest one-handed backhand in women's tennis history — Henin retired at 25 at the absolute peak of her powers.
7 Grand Slams · 117 weeks at No.1
Venus Williams
Seven-time Grand Slam singles champion and pioneer of power tennis in the women's game. Won five Wimbledon titles and was the first Black wo
7 Grand Slams · 11 weeks at No.1
Boris Becker
Wimbledon's youngest ever champion (aged 17) who won six Grand Slams and embodied 1980s tennis glamour.
6 Grand Slams · 12 weeks at No.1
Stefan Edberg
Six-time Grand Slam champion and two-time world No.1 whose serve-and-volley game at its peak was impossible to handle.
6 Grand Slams · 72 weeks at No.1
Mats Wilander
The quiet champion — seven-time Grand Slam winner who won three different Slams in a single year (1988) and reached world number one through
7 Grand Slams
Carlos Alcaraz
The youngest world number one in ATP history — the Wimbledon champion at 20 who may become the greatest ever.
4 Grand Slams
Jannik Sinner
The first Italian man to win a Grand Slam — Australian Open champion 2024 and 2025 and world number one.
3 Grand Slams
Qinwen Zheng
China's Olympic champion and rising Grand Slam contender with an aggressive all-court game.
Olympic Gold Paris 2024
Alexander Zverev
Germany's top men's player and 2020 ATP Finals champion and Olympic gold medallist.
Olympic Gold Tokyo 2020
Belinda Bencic
Olympic champion and Swiss star who became a major champion with a stunning US Open run.
Olympic Gold Tokyo 2020
Andy Murray
Three-time Grand Slam champion who ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's Wimbledon title in 2013. Won two Olympic singles gold medals — t
3 Grand Slams · 41 weeks at No.1
Stan Wawrinka
Three-time Grand Slam champion and Swiss legend known for his fearsome backhand.
3 Grand Slams
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Two-time Grand Slam champion and first Russian man to win a Grand Slam title.
2 Grand Slams
Lindsay Davenport
Three Grand Slams and Olympic gold — Lindsay Davenport's powerful baseline game made her the dominant American female player at the turn of
3 Grand Slams · 98 weeks at No.1
Jennifer Capriati
The greatest comeback story in tennis history — a child prodigy who reached the top 10 at 14, then battled personal demons before returning
3 Grand Slams
Helen Wills Moody
Dominant champion who won 19 Grand Slams and was unbeaten in singles for six years in the 1920s.
19 Grand Slams
Björn Borg
The Ice Man — 11 Grand Slam titles including five consecutive Wimbledons, and tennis's first global superstar.
11 Grand Slams · 109 weeks at No.1
Suzanne Lenglen
La Divine — the most dominant player of the 1920s and arguably the greatest female player of all time before the Open Era.
12 Grand Slams
Maureen Connolly
Little Mo — the first woman to complete the calendar Grand Slam, a champion cut short by tragedy.
9 Grand Slams
Fred Perry
Fred Perry — the last Briton to win Wimbledon, and one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century.
8 Grand Slams
Martina Hingis
The youngest world number one in tennis history — five Grand Slam singles titles built on intelligence and movement rather than power.
5 Grand Slams · 209 weeks at No.1
Althea Gibson
Pioneer who broke the colour barrier in tennis and won two Wimbledon and two US Championship titles.
5 Grand Slams
Iga Świątek
Poland's world No. 1 and four-time French Open champion — the dominant women's player of the 2020s.
5 Grand Slams · 220 weeks at No.1
Angelique Kerber
Three-time Grand Slam champion and Olympic gold medallist who ended Germany's long wait for a women's major.
4 Grand Slams
Maria Sharapova
Five Grand Slams and one of sport's most recognised commercial brands — tennis's most famous Russian.
5 Grand Slams · 21 weeks at No.1
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Spain's greatest tennis player — four Grand Slam singles titles, the first Spanish woman to win a Grand Slam, and the tireless retriever who
4 Grand Slams
Arthur Ashe
The first African-American man to win Wimbledon — Arthur Ashe's grace, intelligence and activism made him one of sport's most significant fi
3 Grand Slams
Jim Courier
Jim Courier — two consecutive French Opens and two consecutive Australian Opens in the early 1990s, completing the career Grand Slam and rea
4 Grand Slams
Kim Clijsters
The comeback queen — retired, raised a family, returned as a wildcard and won the 2009 US Open as a new mother.
4 Grand Slams · 20 weeks at No.1
Virginia Wade
Britain's last female Grand Slam singles champion — Virginia Wade's 1977 Wimbledon title, won on the Silver Jubilee year in front of the Que
3 Grand Slams
Guillermo Vilas
Argentine legend with the most clay-court titles in history and a record-breaking career spanning decades.
4 Grand Slams
Naomi Osaka
Four Grand Slams and the athlete who sparked the global conversation about mental health in sport.
4 Grand Slams · 25 weeks at No.1
Ashleigh Barty
The most complete player in women's tennis — retired at 25 as world number one, unbeaten.
3 Grand Slams · 121 weeks at No.1