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Tennis All-Time Records

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Complete lists:

Winning "The Grand Slam" in singles: all four majors in the same calendar year

  1. Don Budge 1938
  2. Maureen Connolly 1953
  3. Rod Laver 1962 and 1969
  4. Margaret Smith Court 1970
  5. Steffi Graf 1988
Winning "The Grand Slam" in doubles with the same partner
  1. Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor 1951
  2. Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver 1984
Winning "The Grand Slam" in mixed doubles with the same partner
  1. Margaret Smith (Court) and Ken Fletcher 1963
Top Five Lists:

Most Grand Slam singles titles: men

  1. Roger Federer 15
  2. Pete Sampras 14
  3. Roy Emerson 12
  4. Rod Laver 11
  5. Bjorn Borg 11
Most Grand Slam singles titles: women

  1. Margaret Smith Court 24
  2. Steffi Graf 22
  3. Helen Wills Moody 19
  4. Martina Navratilova 18
  5. Chris Evert 18
Most career singles titles: men
  1. Jimmy Connors 109
  2. Ivan Lendl 94
  3. John McEnroe 77
  4. Pete Sampras 64
  5. Bjorn Borg and Guillermo Vilas each 62
Most career singles titles: women
  1. Martina Navratilova 167
  2. Chris Evert 154
  3. Steffi Graf 107
  4. Margaret Smith Court 92
  5. Billie-Jean King 67
Most career singles and doubles* titles: men
  1. John McEnroe 152
  2. Jimmy Connors 128
  3. Ilie Nastase 108
  4. Tom Okker 108
  5. Stan Smith 100
Most career singles and doubles* titles: women
  1. Martina Navratilova 344
  2. Chris Evert 189
  3. Billie-Jean King 168
  4. Margaret Smith Court 127
  5. Rosie Casals 123

*Doubles titles counts do not include mixed doubles.

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