Most Grand Slam Titles in Tennis

Four tournaments a year carry the weight of a career: the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Everything else in tennis is measured against them. This page is the running record of who has won the most of them, on both tours, with the per-major breakdown that a single headline number hides.

All counts on this page are current through Wimbledon 2026, as of 2026-08-26. The 2026 US Open began on August 25 and is still being played, so nothing from it is included yet.

Most Grand Slam singles titles, men

Novak Djokovic leads the men's list with 24 majors, one clear of Rafael Nadal and four clear of Roger Federer. The per-major columns are where the shapes of those careers separate: Djokovic's total is built on ten Australian Opens, Nadal's on fourteen Roland Garros titles, and Federer's on eight Wimbledons.

The list mixes eras on purpose. Tilden, Perry, Emerson, and Rosewall played all or part of their careers before the Open Era began in 1968, when professionals were barred from the majors and the Australian Championships drew thin fields. Renshaw, Sears, and Larned won all seven of theirs at a single championship in the 1880s and 1900s. The totals are real, and they were compiled under conditions that no longer exist. Read the table as a record book, not as a ranking of ability.

Most Grand Slam singles titles, women

The women's list has been settled at the top for a long time, and it is tighter than the men's: Margaret Court, Serena Williams, and Steffi Graf sit within two titles of each other. Court completed the calendar Grand Slam in 1970 and Graf did it in 1988; Serena never won all four in the same year.

The same era caveat applies, and harder. Eleven of Court's 24 came at the Australian Championships in years when most of the world's best players skipped the trip, and Lenglen, Mallory, Wills Moody, and Lambert Chambers competed in a three-major or two-major world. The totals stand; the schedules behind them do not compare.

The career Grand Slam

A career Grand Slam means winning all four majors at some point, in any order, across any number of years. It is rarer than a big title count, because it requires a player to solve clay, grass, and hard courts rather than dominate one of them.

Nine men have completed it in singles:

Alcaraz is the newest name on it and the first man to join since Djokovic in 2016. He completed the set at 22, beating Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 in the 2026 Australian Open final, the one major that had been missing from a collection that already held two Wimbledons, two Roland Garros titles, and two US Opens.

Ten women have completed the career Grand Slam in singles: Maureen Connolly, Doris Hart, Shirley Fry Irvin, Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams, and Maria Sharapova.

Winning all four in the same calendar year is rarer still. Don Budge did it in 1938 and Rod Laver did it twice, in 1962 and 1969. On the women's side it belongs to Maureen Connolly in 1953, Margaret Court in 1970, and Steffi Graf in 1988, whose year also included Olympic gold and is the only calendar-year Golden Slam in singles.

Most Grand Slam finals played

Titles reward the last match. Finals reached reward everything that got a player there, and the gap between the two columns is often the more interesting number: Ivan Lendl won 8 of his 19 finals, while Bjorn Borg won 11 of 16.

The finals record is kept for the Open Era, from 1968 onward, so players whose finals came earlier do not appear here even when they are near the top of the title lists above.

Men, Open Era:

Djokovic's 38 includes the 2026 Australian Open final, which he lost to Alcaraz. That is the record by a distance, and it is worth sitting with: he has played in more major finals than Lendl and Sampras did between them.

Women, Open Era:

Four women reached 31 or more, and then the list falls off a cliff to 18. Evert and Navratilova played each other in 14 of those finals, which is why their numbers rise together.

The active players still climbing

Twenty-six majors have been decided since the start of 2020, counting through Wimbledon 2026 and leaving out the 2026 US Open, which is in progress. Wimbledon 2020 was cancelled, so 2020 contributed three.

The first table is the current tour: every player with a tour match in 2026 who has won two or more majors, career totals.

Several active players sit on one major apiece, including Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Marin Cilic, Mirra Andreeva, Madison Keys, Linda Noskova, Emma Raducanu, Sofia Kenin, Marketa Vondrousova, Jelena Ostapenko, Sloane Stephens, and Bianca Andreescu.

The second table is the last six and a half seasons in full. Every major from the 2020 Australian Open through Wimbledon 2026 is accounted for, so each column adds to 26.

Thirteen different women have won a major since 2020 against seven different men, and that gap is the clearest statement of how the two tours have run over the last six seasons.

The 2026 season pushed both lists around. Alcaraz took the Australian Open from Djokovic and completed his career Grand Slam doing it, Zverev won his first major at Roland Garros over Flavio Cobolli, and Sinner beat Zverev at Wimbledon for his fifth. On the women's side, Rybakina beat Sabalenka in Melbourne, Mirra Andreeva won Roland Garros, and Linda Noskova won Wimbledon: three different champions in three majors, none of them repeat winners from 2025.

If you want a read on who is genuinely strongest right now rather than who has banked the most ranking points, the Elo comparison is a better lens than the ATP and WTA lists.

Frequently asked questions

Who has the most Grand Slam titles in tennis?

Margaret Court and Novak Djokovic share the overall record with 24 Grand Slam singles titles each. Court won hers between 1960 and 1973, and Djokovic won his between 2008 and 2023. Serena Williams is next with 23, then Steffi Graf with 22 and Rafael Nadal with 22. Among men only, Djokovic leads with 24, ahead of Nadal on 22 and Roger Federer on 20. Among women only, Court leads with 24, ahead of Serena Williams on 23 and Graf on 22. These counts are current through Wimbledon 2026.

Has anyone won all four majors in one year?

Yes, six times in singles. Don Budge won all four in 1938 and Rod Laver did it in 1962 and again in 1969, which makes him the only player of either gender to complete the calendar Grand Slam twice. Maureen Connolly did it in 1953, Margaret Court in 1970, and Steffi Graf in 1988. Graf's 1988 season is the only calendar-year Golden Slam in singles, because she added Olympic gold in Seoul to the four majors. Several players hold a career Golden Slam, collecting the four majors and an Olympic title across different years, but only Graf has done it inside one season. No one has completed a calendar Grand Slam in singles since.

What is a career Grand Slam?

A career Grand Slam is winning each of the four majors at least once, in any order and across any number of seasons. Nine men and ten women have done it in singles. Carlos Alcaraz is the most recent, completing the set with the 2026 Australian Open, and he is the first man to join the list since Novak Djokovic in 2016.

Who has won the most majors on each surface?

Rafael Nadal's 14 Roland Garros titles are the most anyone has won at a single major, and nothing else on clay is close. At Wimbledon, Martina Navratilova's 9 singles titles lead, one clear of Helen Wills Moody and Roger Federer on 8 each. In Melbourne, Margaret Court won 11 and Novak Djokovic won 10, the two highest counts at that event. At the US Open, Molla Mallory's 8 leads the women's list, and Bill Tilden, Richard Sears, and Bill Larned share the men's record with 7.

Which active players have the most Grand Slam titles?

Novak Djokovic leads all active men with 24, followed by Carlos Alcaraz with 7 and Jannik Sinner with 5. Among active women, Serena Williams has 23, Venus Williams has 7, and Iga Swiatek has 6. Alcaraz and Sinner have won 10 of the last 11 majors between them, with Alexander Zverev's 2026 Roland Garros title the only break in that run.

Records current through Wimbledon 2026, as of 2026-08-26. The 2026 US Open is in progress, and this page updates once it finishes.