Women's Tennis: 5 Players with Most Singles Titles in Open Era

#4 Margaret Court

Margaret Court

Australian Margaret Court has won more Grand Slam Singles titles than any other athlete - male or female. Her tally of 24 Grand Slam Singles titles continues to stand till date. She is one of 3 women along with Doris Hart and Martina Navratilova to have won all 4 Grand Slam titles across singles, doubles and mixed doubles competitions.

Margaret Court is the only tennis athlete to win a Calendar Slam in mixed doubles. She did this twice in 1963 and 1965. The 4-time Fed Cup winner with Australia, Court won a total of 192 Singles titles with 92 of those coming in the Open Era. Post-retirement, Court has been an active participant in religious activities. The famous Margaret Court Arena which is a common fixture of Australian Open matches is named after her.

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#3 Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf

The German Steffi Graf who prefers to be called Stefanie was the most popular face of tennis in the late 1980's and 1990's. Her crowning achievement of winning the Career Golden Slam in 1988 -winning all 4 Grand Slam Majors and the Olympic Gold Medal, looks unlikely to ever be broken. In that year she double bageled her opponent 6-0,6-0 at the French Open final to win the final in just 32 minutes - the record for the shortest final in any Grand Slam tournament.

The holder of the World Number 1 ranking for a record 377 weeks, Graf won an astounding 22 Grand Slam titles only behind Serena Williams and Margaret Court. Steffi and fellow German Boris Becker are widely credited in popularizing the sport of tennis in the football crazy Germany. Steffi is widely respected among the game's greatest and in the opinion of fellow tennis great Billie-Jean King, she is the greatest woman tennis player of all-time. She won a total of 107 Singles titles.