Tennis players with most titles in the Open Era

This article lists the tennis players who have won the most tour-level professional tournament titles since the Open Era began in 1968. Titles can be any combination of singles and doubles, so the combined total is the default sorting of the lists. The current top-level events are on the ATP Tour for men and the WTA Tour for women.

Overall titles (Open Era)

John McEnroe, the male player with the most titles in the Open Era.

Martina Navratilova, the female player with the most titles in the Open Era.

Currently active players.

Men
Total	Player	Span	Singles	Doubles	Mixed
156	John McEnroe	1978–06	77	78	1
128	Mike Bryan	1998–20	0	124	4
126	Bob Bryan	1998–20	0	119	7
125	Jimmy Connors	1972–96	109	16	0
111	Roger Federer	1998–	103	8	0
109	Ilie Năstase	1968–89	64	45	0
104	Stan Smith	1968–86	48	56	0
102	Rafael Nadal	2001–	91	11	0
100	Rod Laver	1968–76	72	28	0
100	Ivan Lendl	1978–94	94	6	0
96	Tom Okker	1968–82	28	68	0
95	Daniel Nestor	1991–18	0	91	4
91	Todd Woodbridge	1988–05	2	83	6
87	Novak Djokovic	2003–	86	1	0
79	Raúl Ramírez	1973–83	19	60	0
79	Brian Gottfried	1972–85	25	54	0
78	Guillermo Vilas	1968–92	62	16	0
78	Bob Hewitt	1968–83	7	65	6
76	Mark Woodforde	1984–00	4	67	5
74	John Newcombe	1968–83	41	33	0
70	Frew McMillan	1968–83	2	63	5
70	Björn Borg	1973–83	66	4	0
69	Marty Riessen	1968–81	9	53	7
67	Wojtek Fibak	1973–89	15	52	0
67	Anders Järryd	1980–96	8	59	0
66	Pete Sampras	1988–02	64	2	0
65	Leander Paes	1991–21	1	54	10
65	Emilio Sánchez	1984–97	15	50	0
64	Tomáš Šmíd	1976–92	9	55	0
64	Boris Becker	1984–99	49	15	0
63	Peter Fleming	1973–88	3	60	0
61	Andre Agassi	1986–06	60	1	0
60	Jonas Björkman	1991–08	6	54	0
60	Mahesh Bhupathi	1995–16	0	52	8
59	Stefan Edberg	1983–96	41	18	0
59	Nenad Zimonjić	1995–	0	54	5
58	Arthur Ashe	1968–79	44	14	0
58	Max Mirnyi	1996–18	1	52	5
56	Manuel Orantes	1968–83	34	22	0
56	Mark Knowles	1992–12	0	55	1
55	Paul Haarhuis	1989–03	1	54	0
54	Ken Rosewall[1]	1968–80	40	14	0
54	Sherwood Stewart	1968–85	1	51	2
54	Andrés Gómez	1979–95	21	33	0
53	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1992–03	26	27	0
52	Robert Lutz	1968–85	9	43	0
50	Rick Leach	1987–06	0	46	4
49	Andy Murray	2005–	46	3	0
49	Sergio Casal	1981–95	1	47	1
48	Jacco Eltingh	1988–98	4	44	0
45	Thomas Muster	1985–99	44	1	0
40	Mark Edmondson	1975–88	6	34	0
40	Mats Wilander	1981–96	33	7	0
40	Martin Damm	1990–11	0	40	0
40	Nicolas Mahut	2000–	4	36	0
39	Balázs Taróczy	1972–90	13	26	0
39	Yannick Noah	1977–96	23	16	0
39	Guy Forget	1982–00	11	28	0
39	Horia Tecău	2003–21	0	38	1

Women
Total	Player	Span	Singles	Doubles	Mixed
354	Martina Navratilova	1975–06	167	177	10
189	Chris Evert	1972–89	157	32	0
147	Margaret Court	1968–77	92	48	7
133	Pam Shriver	1979–97	21	111	1
126	Rosemary Casals[2][3]	1968–91	11	112	3
118	Steffi Graf	1982–99	107	11	0
114	Martina Hingis	1994–17	43	64	7
104	Jana Novotná	1987–99	24	76	4
102	A. Sánchez Vicario	1985–02	29	69	4
101	Billie Jean King	1968–83	78	16	7
98	Serena Williams	1995–	73	23	2
93	Lindsay Davenport	1993–08	55	38	0
88	Lisa Raymond	1993–15	4	79	5
86	Natasha Zvereva	1988–02	4	80	2
84	Helena Suková	1981–98	10	69	5
80	E. Goolagong Cawley	1968–83	68	11	1
73	Venus Williams	1994–	49	22	2
71	Gigi Fernández	1983–97	2	69	0
71	Larisa Neiland	1982–99	2	65	4
69	Wendy Turnbull	1970–89	9	55	5
66	Cara Black	1998–15	1	60	5
62	Rennae Stubbs	1986–11	0	60	2
59	Monica Seles	1989–08	53	6	0
55	Virginia Wade	1968–86	55	0	0
55	Liezel Huber	1993–17	0	53	2
52	Kim Clijsters	1999–	41	11	0
48	Paola Suárez	1991–12	4	44	0
48	Katarina Srebotnik	1995–	4	39	5
47	V. Ruano Pascual	1992–10	3	43	1
47	Sania Mirza	2003–	1	43	3
46	Hana Mandlíková	1978–90	27	19	0
46	Conchita Martínez	1988–06	33	13	0
45	Ai Sugiyama	1992–09	6	38	1
45	Justine Henin	1999–11	43	2	0
44	Lori McNeil	1983–02	10	33	1
41	Gabriela Sabatini	1985–96	27	14	0
40	Samantha Stosur	1999–	9	28	3
39	A. Medina Garrigues	1997–18	11	28	0
39	Maria Sharapova	2001–20	36	3	0
37	Elizabeth Smylie	1982–97	2	32	3
37	Nadia Petrova	1999–17	13	24	0
36	Sara Errani	2002–	9	27	0
36	Květa Peschke	1993–	1	35	0
36	Latisha Chan	2004–	0	33	3
35	Tracy Austin	1978–94	30	4	1
35	Roberta Vinci	1999–18	10	25	0
34	Svetlana Kuznetsova	2000–	18	16	0
33	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch	1980–94	8	25	0
33	Zina Garrison	1982–97	11	19	3
33	Nathalie Tauziat	1984–03	8	25	0
33	Victoria Azarenka	2003–	21	9	3
33	Barbora Strýcová	2003–21	2	31	0
32	Caroline Wozniacki	2005–20	30	2	0
32	Hsieh Su-wei	2001–	3	29	0
31	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1999–	0	27	4

Correct as of 17 April 2022.

Singles titles

Men

Currently active players.

Open Era[4]
Player	Titles
Jimmy Connors	109
Roger Federer	103
Ivan Lendl	94
Rafael Nadal	91
Novak Djokovic	86
John McEnroe	77
Rod Laver	72
Björn Borg	66
Ilie Năstase	65
Pete Sampras	64
Guillermo Vilas	62
Andre Agassi	60
Boris Becker	49
Stan Smith	49
Andy Murray	46
Arthur Ashe	45
Thomas Muster	44
Stefan Edberg	42
John Newcombe	41
Ken Rosewall	40
Manuel Orantes	35

All-time[5]
Player	Titles
Rod Laver	198
Jimmy Connors	149
Ken Rosewall	147
Jaroslav Drobný	147
Ivan Lendl	146
Bill Tilden	138
Anthony Wilding	118
Pancho Gonzales	113
Roy Emerson	110
John McEnroe	104
Roger Federer	103
Björn Borg	101
Bobby Riggs	95
Rafael Nadal	91
Novak Djokovic	86
Gardnar Mulloy	80
Budge Patty	78
Manuel Santana	74
Arthur Ashe	73
Martin Mulligan	72
John Newcombe	70

Open Era title leaders composition

Correct as of 17 April 2022.

Sources: ATP; Michel Sutter, Vainqueurs Winners 1946–2003, Paris 2003; Joe McCauley, The History of Professional Tennis, London 2001; Robert Geist, Der Grösste Meister Die denkwürdige Karriere des australischen Tennisspielers Kenneth Robert Rosewall, Vienna 1999; Tony Trabert in "Tennis de France" magazine; ATP; John Barrett editor, World of Tennis Yearbooks, London 1969 to 1983.

Before 1972 tennis results were not automatically registered as they are now with the ITF (International Tennis Federation) and the ATP. Many have been lost or never even recorded. In particular, many professional results before 1968 have disappeared or are contradictory (for instance Ray Bowers, who gives a very detailed account of the 1926–1945 pro era called "History of the Pro Tennis Wars" in the "Tennis Server" Web site, categorically affirms that there was no 1936 Wembley Pro tournament (and no 1938 edition too) while McCauley lists a final result). However the most important ones have been preserved. ATP data is far from being exhaustive. They only begin in 1968 and they omit many results until 1971–1972 and even after. For example, there are no results of the New South Wales Championships in 1973 (Mal Anderson) or in 1974 (Tony Roche).

Therefore, the global numbers listed here are at least equal if not superior to those of the ATP (even the modern players as Connors, Lendl, McEnroe, Nastase, Ashe or Borg have more titles here (for instance Borg won his first tournament at Helsinki in 1973 and it doesn't appear in the ATP statistics)). Other remark: Michel Sutter chose about 150–200 tournaments each year including some invitation tournaments or tournaments which were at the time (before the nineties) the equivalent of the challenger series tournaments of today. When those tournaments appeared in the early nineties Sutter listed them in his book. Sutter, being the main source of that part of the article, such tournaments are counted in this list (this explains for instance why Federer has four more wins than his ATP wins number).

Women

Currently active players.

Open Era[6]
Player	Titles
Martina Navratilova	167
Chris Evert	154
Steffi Graf	107
Margaret Court	92
Serena Williams	73
Evonne Goolagong	68
Billie Jean King	67
Virginia Wade	55
Lindsay Davenport	55
Monica Seles	53

All-time
Player	Titles
Margaret Court[7]	192
Martina Navratilova	167
Chris Evert	157
Billie Jean King	129
Steffi Graf	107
Evonne Goolagong	86
Suzanne Lenglen[8]	81
Serena Williams	73
Maria Bueno	72
Helen Wills	57

Correct as of 17 April 2022.

Gallery

Margaret Court, won the most women's singles major titles (24).
Ken Rosewall, won the most professional majors of the pre-Oper Era (15).
Rod Laver, won the most singles titles in men's tennis (198).
Chris Evert, won the most women's single titles on clay (70).
Jimmy Connors, won the most men's singles titles in the Open Era (109).
Martina Navratilova, won the most women's singles titles in the Open Era (167).
Monica Seles, won the most major titles as a teenager (8).
Roger Federer, won the most men's single titles on hard (71).
Novak Djokovic, won the most men's singles Big Titles (62).
Serena Williams, won the most women's singles major titles in the Open Era (23) .
Rafael Nadal, won the most men's singles major titles (21).
Bryan brothers, together they won more double titles than any other team (119).

References

listed at Ken Rosewall career statistics
Rosemary Casals Encyclopedia.com
Joel Drucker (March 3, 2009). "Casals far more than King's sidekick". sports.espn.go.com. ESPN.
"Most singles titles in the Open Era".
"Record: Most Titles". thetennisbase.com.
"WTA records" (PDF).
"Serena Williams: US Open champion's career in numbers". BBC Sport. 9 September 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
Gerstner C, Joanne (28 May 2012). "'La Divine' Suzanne Lenglen". ESPN. Retrieved 23 January 2015.

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[1] sted at Ken Rosewall career statistics

[2] Rosemary Casals Encyclopedia.com

[3] Joel Drucker (March 3, 2009). "Casals far more than King's sidekick". sports.espn.go.com. ESPN.

[4] "Most singles titles in the Open Era".

[5] "Record: Most Titles". thetennisbase.com.

[6] "WTA records" (PDF).

[7] "Serena Williams: US Open champion's career in numbers". BBC Sport. 9 September 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

[8] Gerstner C, Joanne (28 May 2012). "'La Divine' Suzanne Lenglen". ESPN. Retrieved 23 January 2015.

Tennis players with most titles in the Open Era

Overall titles (Open Era)

Singles titles

Men

Women

Gallery

See also

References