Novak Djokovic and Margaret Court Share the Grand Slam Record of 24 Singles Titles

We counted the champion of every singles final at the four majors from the first Wimbledon, in 1877, through the 2026 US Open: 495 men's finals and 468 women's, from the tournaments' champion lists. Every Open Era final was checked against its draw, every women's champion since 1968 against the WTA's records and every men's champion since 2000 against the ATP's draws.

Most Grand Slam titles, men: Djokovic, Nadal and Federer

Djokovic's 24th title, at the 2023 US Open, tied Court's record and put him two ahead of Rafael Nadal and four ahead of Roger Federer. Pete Sampras is fourth with 14, and Roy Emerson fifth with 12, all of them won before 1968. Thirteen men have won at least eight, and Nadal's 14 French Open titles are the most any player has won at one major, ahead of Court's 11 Australian titles and Djokovic's 10.

Most Grand Slam titles, women: Court, Serena Williams and Graf

Court's 24 lead the women, ahead of Serena Williams with 23 and Graf with 22. Helen Wills Moody won 19 between 1923 and 1938, and Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova 18 each. Every total, and the split by major, matches the WTA's Grand Slam records.

Graf won each of the four majors at least four times, the only player to do so. Court, Serena Williams and Djokovic won each at least three times.

Most Grand Slam titles in the Open Era

Counting only the majors since the 1968 French Open, the first to admit professionals, Djokovic's 24 is the overall record and Serena Williams's 23 the women's. In that time 59 men and 63 women have won a major, out of 154 men since 1877 and 133 women since 1884. The next names on each list:

• Men: Nadal 22, Federer 20, Sampras 14, Bjorn Borg 11, and Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl and Andre Agassi eight each.
• Women: Graf 22, Evert and Navratilova 18 each, Court 11, Monica Seles nine and Billie Jean King eight.

Margaret Court's 24 and the amateur era

Thirteen of Court's titles came from 1960 to 1966, when professionals were barred from the majors, and seven of those 13 were at the Australian Championships, her home event, which she won seven years running. She added 11 in the Open Era, including all four majors in 1970, which puts her fifth on the Open Era list.

The cutoff matters for the men too. Emerson won all 12 of his titles before 1968 and Bill Tilden all 10, between 1920 and 1930, while Rod Laver won six before and five after and is the only player with two calendar-year Grand Slams, in 1962 and 1969. Three men won majors in both eras, Laver, Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe, and four women: Court, King, Ann Jones and Nancy Richey.

The Big Three's share of men's Grand Slams

From Federer's first title, at Wimbledon in 2003, to Djokovic's last, at the 2023 US Open, 81 men's majors were played, and Federer, Nadal and Djokovic won 66 of them, 81 percent. Over any 81 straight majors, no three women have won more than 52, 64 percent: Evert, Navratilova and Graf, between 1976 and 1996. The same three men finished 18 of the 20 seasons from 2004 to 2023 at No. 1, as our history of the year-end No. 1 shows.

Over a single decade, three women once matched it: in the 1980s Navratilova, Evert and Graf won 32 of 39 women's majors, 82 percent, almost exactly the Big Three's 33 of 40 in the 2010s. Since 2020 the top three men, Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, have won 20 of 27 majors, 74 percent, and the top three women, Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina, 13 of 27, 48 percent.

Most Grand Slam titles among active players

Among the players who played in a singles draw at a 2026 major, Djokovic, 39, leads with 24, and Serena Williams is second with 23. She returned to singles at Wimbledon, on the final wildcard, for her first singles match since the 2022 US Open, and lost in the first round to Maya Joint, according to the official draw.

Ten more players in 2026 draws have one title each: Daniil Medvedev, Marin Cilic, Jelena Ostapenko, Sloane Stephens, Bianca Andreescu, Sofia Kenin, Emma Raducanu, Madison Keys, Mirra Andreeva and Linda Noskova. That makes 23 champions in this year's draws, seven men and 16 women.

Career Grand Slam: the players who won all four majors

Nineteen players have won each of the four majors at least once: nine men and 10 women. Alcaraz became the ninth man at the 2026 Australian Open, aged 22, the youngest man to do it, taking the record from Don Budge, who completed his set in 1938. The youngest player of all is Maureen Connolly, 18 when she completed hers at the 1953 French Championships. The 19, with the year each completed the set:

• Men: Perry (1935), Budge (1938), Laver (1962), Emerson (1964), Agassi (1999), Federer (2009), Nadal (2010), Djokovic (2016) and Alcaraz (2026).
• Women: Connolly (1953), Doris Hart (1954), Shirley Fry (1957), Court (1963), King (1972), Evert (1982), Navratilova (1983), Graf (1988), Serena Williams (2003) and Maria Sharapova (2012).

Five players won all four in one calendar year: Budge in 1938, Laver in 1962 and 1969, Connolly in 1953, Court in 1970 and Graf in 1988.

Age at the first and last Grand Slam title

Among the 24 players with eight or more titles, Connolly and Seles won their first at 16, and Molla Mallory was the oldest at her last, 42, when she won the eighth of her US Championships in 1926. Rosewall's titles are the furthest apart, almost 19 years, from the 1953 Australian Championships at 18 to the 1972 Australian Open at 37; Serena Williams won majors from 17 to 35 and Nadal from 19 to 36. How old the champions have been since 2000, final by final, is in our piece on Grand Slam champions' ages.

Grand Slam titles in 2026

Alcaraz won the Australian Open, beating Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5, according to the tournament, for his seventh major. Alexander Zverev won his first two, at the French Open and the US Open, and Sinner his fifth at Wimbledon. The loss in Melbourne, at 38, was Djokovic's first in 11 Australian Open finals, and he has not won any of the 12 majors since his 24th; both of his finals in that time, at Wimbledon in 2024 and in Melbourne this year, were lost to Alcaraz.

Rybakina won the Australian Open and the US Open, beating Sabalenka in both finals, and now has three majors; Mirra Andreeva won a first at the French Open and Linda Noskova at Wimbledon. The next major is the 2027 Australian Open, whose main draw starts on Sunday, January 17, according to the tournament. Results from the events in play are on the Vertize tennis scores page, the rest of the tour is in the tennis section, and the American men's Grand Slam drought is a separate piece.

Most Grand Slam titles: frequently asked questions

Who has won the most Grand Slam titles in tennis? Novak Djokovic and Margaret Court, with 24 singles titles each. All of Djokovic's came in the Open Era; 13 of Court's came before it.

Who has the most Grand Slam titles in the Open Era? Djokovic, with 24, and among women Serena Williams, with 23, one more than Steffi Graf.

Which active player has the most Grand Slam titles? Djokovic, with 24. Among the other players in 2026 draws, Serena Williams has 23 and Carlos Alcaraz and Venus Williams seven each.

How many players have won the career Grand Slam? Nineteen in singles, nine men and 10 women. The latest is Carlos Alcaraz, at the 2026 Australian Open.

How this was built: every singles final at the four majors from 1877 through the 2026 US Open, 495 men's and 468 women's, from the tournaments' champion lists on Wikipedia, read through the MediaWiki API, checked as described above and against Wikipedia's lists of men's and women's champions and the WTA's Grand Slam records. The French Championships count from 1925, when they opened to foreign players, and the Open Era from the 1968 French Open. Active players are those in a singles main draw at a 2026 major, from the draws and the WTA's and ATP's records. Ages are at each final, from dates of birth in the WTA's and ATP's records or Wikipedia. Singles only. See also our methodology. Data collected October 20, 2026.