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All of these tournaments have been listed based on the modern definition of a tennis major, rather than when they were officially recognized by the ILTF. The Australian , French Championships , and U.S. tournaments were officially recognized by the ILTF in 1924, though the French Championships were not played in 1924 because of the Olympics.
This is a list of the women's singles tennis champions at the Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA championships, the Olympic Games, and the WTA Tier I/Premier (Premier Mandatory and Premier Five)/1000 tournaments since 1990.
Female tennis players who have won at least one of the four Grand Slam titles in singles. 130 women have won at least one of the 460 majors staged. They are listed here in order of their first win. Players in bold are still active.
These are some of the important records since the start of women's tennis in 1884. Most statistics are based on the data at the WTA Tour and International Tennis Federation , the official websites of each respective Grand Slam tournament and published sources though this is not a definitive list due to the time periods involved.
This is a list of all the Grand Slam women's singles finals in tennis. [1] From the 1884 Wimbledon Championships up to and including the 2022 Australian Open, there have been 449 finals contested between 221 different women, with 126 champions emerging.
The tie-break system was introduced in 1970 for all sets, in its best-of-nine points sudden death version until 1974, and in its best-of-12 points lingering death version since 1975. [ 11 ] [ 4 ] [ 12 ] The US Open is the only Grand Slam tournament to have a third set tie-break, which has occurred twice in women's singles finals in 1981 and in ...
This is a list of Women's Tennis Association (WTA) records since its inception in June 1973. Some records additionally extend back a few more years in order to include the immediately preceding Virginia Slims Circuit era for completeness. The Virginia Slims Circuit started in September 1970 and was replaced in 1973 by the WTA.
This is a list of female tennis players who meet one or more of the following criteria: Singles: Officially ranked among the top 25 by the Women's Tennis Association (since 1975) Ranked among the top 10 by an expert (e.g. A. Wallis Myers) before 1975; Reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament; Reached the finals of or won the year ...