Top 7 Greatest Female Tennis Players In History

Her week-to-week reliability and major-final record are historically elite, but her peak feels slightly less overwhelming than the top four.

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.

The major record demands a top-tier place, but era depth and field-strength questions keep her below Serena, Graf, and Navratilova.

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.

Her singles résumé is great, and her structural impact on women's tennis makes her historically indispensable.

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.

Best combination of major count in the professional era, peak dominance, longevity, and era-adjusted strength of field.

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.

Her singles greatness plus unmatched total-career breadth make her hard to rank below third, even with fewer singles majors.

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.

Her peak and age-adjusted major pace were historically rare, earning a top-seven place despite an interrupted career.

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.