American Men Have Gone 91 Grand Slams Without a Title Since Andy Roddick's 2003 US Open

To measure the drought we rebuilt all 495 men's major finals since the first Wimbledon in 1877 from the four tournaments' champion lists, and the last eight of the 234 men's draws of the Open Era, 1968 to 2026. From 2000 on, every quarterfinal, semifinal and final matches the ATP's official draws.

Last American man to win a Grand Slam, at each major

Roddick was the fourth seed in New York in 2003. He came back from two sets down against David Nalbandian in the semifinals and beat Ferrero, the third seed, in the final.

The title came the same year as Andre Agassi's at the Australian Open, his eighth major and the last by an American man in Melbourne. Pete Sampras last won Wimbledon in 2000, and Agassi's 1999 French Open is the last by an American man in Paris.

How many Grand Slams American men have won, decade by decade

American men have won 52 majors in the Open Era, more than any other country (Spain is next with 36), and 147 since the US Championships began in 1881. Thirteen players won the 52: Sampras 14, Jimmy Connors and Agassi eight each, John McEnroe seven, Jim Courier four, Arthur Ashe three, Stan Smith two, and Roscoe Tanner, Vitas Gerulaitis, Brian Teacher, Johan Kriek, Michael Chang and Roddick one each.

The 1990s were the peak of the Open Era, 21 titles in 40 majors, 12 of them by Sampras. The 2010s were the first decade since 1881 in which no American man won a major or even reached a final.

How long the US men's Grand Slam drought has lasted

Ninety-one majors and 23 years. Before 2004 the longest gap between American men's titles was 30 majors, from Tony Trabert's 1955 US Championships to Chuck McKinley's 1963 Wimbledon, or 20, from McKinley's title to Arthur Ashe's 1968 US Open, if Alex Olmedo, who won two majors in 1959 representing the United States but held Peruvian citizenship, is counted. Within the Open Era it was 17, between McEnroe's 1984 US Open and Chang's 1989 French Open. The current run is more than three times as long as the longest gap before it.

The late rounds dried up too. After Roddick lost the 2009 Wimbledon final, 59 majors went by without an American man in a final, and none reached a semifinal in the 31 majors from the 2009 US Open to the 2017 French Open. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic won 65 of the 91 majors played since Roddick's title, 71 percent, and Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner 12 more.

American men in Grand Slam finals and semifinals since 2003

Since the 2003 US Open, American men have reached the semifinals 21 times, nine different players, and played seven finals. Federer won five of those finals, four of them against Roddick and one against Agassi. The 2009 Wimbledon final went to 16-14 in the fifth set. Sinner beat Taylor Fritz in the 2024 US Open final, and Alexander Zverev beat Ben Shelton in 2026.

Nine of the 21 runs came at the US Open, six each at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and none at the French Open, where no American man has reached the semifinals since Agassi won the title in 1999. Three of those US Opens had two Americans in the last four: Agassi beat Robby Ginepri in 2005, Fritz beat Frances Tiafoe in 2024 and Shelton beat Tiafoe in 2026.

Longest Grand Slam droughts by country

By the standards of other tennis countries, 91 majors is not an extreme wait. Britain went 286 majors, 76 years, between Fred Perry's title at the 1936 US Championships and Andy Murray's at the 2012 US Open, and Italy went 189 between Adriano Panatta's 1976 French Open and Sinner's 2024 Australian Open. France has not had a men's champion since Yannick Noah won the 1983 French Open, 173 majors and 43 years ago, longer than its 146-major wait before Noah. Spain's longest wait, 69 majors, came between Manuel Orantes's 1975 US Open and Sergi Bruguera's 1993 French Open.

Four of those countries are waiting longer than the US right now: France; the Czech Republic, without a men's champion since Petr Korda at the 1998 Australian Open, 114 majors ago; Sweden, since Thomas Johansson at the 2002 Australian Open, 98; and Australia, second to the US with 100 titles, since Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon in 2002, 96. Germany ended its wait this year: Zverev's French Open title was the first by a German man since Boris Becker at the 1996 Australian Open, 119 majors earlier, and he added the US Open.

American women's Grand Slam titles since 2003

Over the same 91 majors American women won 25 titles: Serena Williams 17, Venus Williams three, Coco Gauff two, and Sloane Stephens, Sofia Kenin and Madison Keys one each. An American woman played in 42 of the 91 finals, six of them all-American. The most recent title is Gauff's at the 2025 French Open; American women have not won any of the six majors since, although Amanda Anisimova reached the 2025 Wimbledon and US Open finals.

Across the Open Era American women have won 90 majors to the men's 52, and more than the men in every period except the 1990s.

American men at the 2026 Grand Slams

Shelton came closest this year. Seeded eighth at the US Open, he beat Alcaraz in a fifth-set tiebreak in the quarterfinals and Tiafoe in the semifinals, then lost the final to Zverev 6-3 7-6 5-7 6-2, according to the official draw. Tiafoe had beaten a third American, Alex Michelsen, in the quarterfinals.

At the Australian Open and Wimbledon the best American results were quarterfinals: Learner Tien and Shelton in Melbourne, beaten by Zverev and Sinner, and Fritz at Wimbledon, beaten by Zverev. No American man reached the last eight of the French Open. The next chance is the 2027 Australian Open, whose main draw starts in Melbourne on Sunday, January 17, according to the tournament.

Live draws and results are on the Vertize tennis scores page and the rest of the tour in the tennis section. Related: how old Grand Slam champions are, the last Australians to win the Australian Open and how often men come back from two sets down at a major.

American men and the Grand Slams: frequently asked questions

When did an American man last win a Grand Slam? At the 2003 US Open, where Andy Roddick beat Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final. No American man has won any of the 91 majors played since.

Who was the last American man to win Wimbledon? Pete Sampras, in 2000. The last at the French Open was Andre Agassi in 1999, at the Australian Open Agassi in 2003, and at the US Open Roddick in 2003.

Who was the last American man in a Grand Slam final? Ben Shelton, who lost the 2026 US Open final to Alexander Zverev. Before him, Taylor Fritz lost the 2024 US Open final to Jannik Sinner.

How many Grand Slams have American men won? 147 singles titles since 1881, more than any other country, 52 of them in the Open Era, which began in 1968.

When did an American woman last win a Grand Slam? Coco Gauff, at the 2025 French Open.

How this was built: the 495 men's singles finals at the four majors from 1877 to the 2026 US Open (the French Championships count from 1925, when they opened to foreign players) and every women's final come from the four tournaments' champion lists on Wikipedia, read through the MediaWiki API; the title counts by country match Wikipedia's list of Grand Slam champions. The last eight of the 234 Open Era men's draws come from the Wikipedia draw pages, checked against the finals and, from 2000, against the official ATP draws; the 2026 finals match the tournaments' results. Nationality is the flag each player carried at the time (Britain includes the British Isles before 1922, Germany West Germany and the Czech Republic Czechoslovakia). A wait counts the majors played between two titles, or since the last one. See also our methodology. Data collected October 14, 2026.