3 male tennis players who have won a single Grand Slam the most number of times

In tennis, each player would have a surface that he/she likes the most. Some might like the clay court, where the ball stops, loses its momentum and long rallies are played out. Some might like the grass court, where the ball skids and the serve and volley game finds its fullest value. Some might like the hard courts, where the ball tends to bounce high.

And that is why a legend like Pete Sampras who won a staggering 7 Wimbledon titles could not win even a single French Open title. That is why, Bjorn Borg won six French Open titles but could not win a single hard court Slam, because the surface did not suit his type of playing.

In this article let us look at three players who have won a single Grand Slam the most number of times.

Novak Djokovic - Australian Open | 8 times

Novak Djokovic with the 2020 Australian Open title

At No.3 comes Serbian tennis legend Novak Djokovic. Djokovic has won 17 Grand Slam titles and has won the Australian Open a colossal eight times. In fact, Djokovic boasts of a whopping 16-0 record in the semi-finals and the finals of the Australian Open. The current World No.1 has never lost a single match after crossing the quarter-final stage of the Australian open.

Djokovic won his first Australian Open title in the year 2008. And, in the subsequent decade between 2010 to 2019, the Serb won as many as six titles. Between 2011 and 2016, Djokovic won the Australian Open five times, and again triumphed in 2019 and 2020 to take his tally to eight titles.

The 2012 Australian Open final between Rafael Nadal and Djokovic is widely considered as the greatest Australian Open final in history. The two icons battled for 5 hours and 53 minutes, before Djokovic got the better of his rival, winning 5-7,6-4,6-2,6-7,7-5.

Roger Federer - Wimbledon | 8 times

Roger Federer has won the Wimbledon title on eight occasions.

Roger Federer is considered by many as the greatest tennis player of all time. The 38-year-old Swiss has won a staggering 20 Grand Slam titles and has spent a record 310 weeks as World No.1. Federer is the undisputed emperor of the grass court. The iconic Swiss has won the Wimbledon title on eight occasions and has given tennis aficionados memories that will last a lifetime.

Federer won the Wimbledon Championships for five consecutive years between 2003 and 2007, a time when he was unchallenged on the grass courts. His bid for a record sixth consecutive title was thwarted by his great rival Rafael Nadal, who beat him 6-4,6-4,6-7,6-7,9-7 in the 2008 Wimbledon final. This match between the two men will be etched in the memories of tennis fans for a long time, for the ethereal performance that they provided on that day.

Federer won the Wimbledon in 2009 again, edging out Andy Roddick 5-7,7-6,7-6,3-6,16-14. After a gap of two years, Federer won the title in 2012, by defeating Andy Murray in four sets to equal Pete Sampras’s record. And then, in the year 2017, the emperor won a record eighth Wimbledon title, defeating Marin Cilic in straight sets.

Rafael Nadal - French Open | 12 times

No player in the history of the sport has defined one particular Grand Slam in the same way that Rafael Nadal has defined the French Open. The legendary Spaniard has won a whopping 12 French Open titles and has not lost the final even once. Nadal won four consecutive French Open titles between 2005 and 2008. He then won another five in a row between 2010 and 2014.

And, after a gap of two years, the clay-court maestro won three more consecutive titles in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Nadal has lost just two matches in his entire career on his favorite clay court. And, none of the finals that he has played at the French Open have even lasted five sets. Such has been Nadal’s domination at the French Open.

Even if we were to count only his French Open triumphs, he would still rank at No.5 in the list of all time Grand Slam winners!