Top 7 Greatest Female Tennis Players In History

#2 because the final validated order places "Chris Evert" here with 83 framework points. It follows #1 "Steffi Graf" after those deterministic tie-breaks. It leads #3 "Margaret Court" by 4 points.

Evert won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, reached 34 major finals, and set a standard for consistency with a career winning percentage often cited among the best in tennis history.

#3 because the final validated order places "Margaret Court" here with 79 framework points. It trails #2 "Chris Evert" by 4 points. It is placed above #4 "Billie Jean King" by the deterministic evidence, prompt-fit, source-count, and title tie-breaks.

Court holds the all-time record with 24 Grand Slam singles titles and dominated both singles and doubles across the amateur-to-Open Era transition.

#4 because the final validated order places "Billie Jean King" here with 79 framework points. It follows #3 "Margaret Court" after those deterministic tie-breaks. It leads #5 "Serena Williams" by 4 points.

King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and had an impact beyond results, helping create the modern women's tour and becoming a central figure in equal-prize-money history.

#5 because the final validated order places "Serena Williams" here with 75 framework points. It trails #4 "Billie Jean King" by 4 points. It is placed above #6 "Martina Navratilova" by the deterministic evidence, prompt-fit, source-count, and title tie-breaks.

Williams owns the Open Era record with 23 Grand Slam singles titles, added long stretches at No. 1, and won majors across three decades against increasingly global and athletic fields.

#6 because the final validated order places "Martina Navratilova" here with 75 framework points. It follows #5 "Serena Williams" after those deterministic tie-breaks. It is placed above #7 "Monica Seles" by the deterministic evidence, prompt-fit, source-count, and title tie-breaks.

Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 167 tour-level singles titles, and became the defining all-court force of the 1980s while also setting extraordinary doubles benchmarks.

#7 because the final validated order places "Monica Seles" at the publication cutoff with 75 framework points. It follows #6 "Martina Navratilova" after those deterministic tie-breaks.

Seles won nine Grand Slam singles titles before age 20 and was the sport's dominant force before the 1993 stabbing disrupted one of the strongest early-career arcs ever.