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Some major changes have taken place in history and have affected the number of titles that have been won by various players. These have included the opening of the French national championships to international players in 1925, the elimination of the challenge round in 1922, and the admission of professional players in 1968 (the start of the ...
Important note: by setting 1990 as the cut-off point, this list excludes many notable champions in high level tournaments from the previous years. High category tournaments equivalent to Tier 1/Premier/WTA 1000 existed before 1990, and the Grand Slam tournaments, Olympic Games and WTA Finals have been held since 1884, 1900 and 1972, respectively.
U.S. National Championships: 2: 1888, 1889: 6: Helena Rice: 1889: Wimbledon: 1: ... Majors Australian Open French Open ... List of WTA Tour top-level tournament ...
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.
Winning the four majors and a gold medal in tennis at the Summer Olympics has been called a "Golden Slam" since 1988. [1] Winning all four plus gold at some point in a career, even if not consecutively, is referred to as a "Career Golden Slam". Winning the Year-end Championship also having won a Golden Slam is referred to as a "Super Slam".
Sources: Except for the information concerning active players, the source for the all-time table is the '2014 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Official Guide'. Court and Wade began their careers and were winning tournaments long before the Open Era started in 1968; therefore, the statistics shown above do not reflect their entire careers.
The WTA Finals (formerly known as the WTA Tour Championships [3] or WTA Championships) is the season-ending championship of the WTA Tour.It is the most significant tennis event in the women's annual calendar after the four majors, as it features the top eight singles players and top eight doubles teams based on their results throughout the season.
List of women's doubles Grand Slam tennis tournament champions: The only pairing to complete the Grand Slam is the team of Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver in 1984, and their eight consecutive major win-streak remains the all-time record. [1] [2] Maria Bueno in 1960 and Martina Hingis in 1998 also won the Grand Slam, though with multiple ...