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List of Grand Slam women's singles finals

List of Grand Slam women's singles finals

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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.

Chronological list

 Player's first Grand Slam title.
 Player's only Grand Slam final.
 Player's only Grand Slam title.

Amateur Era

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Open Era

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Records and statistics

Longest and shortest finals

Longest by number of games

Best of 3 (post-tiebreaker introduction)
1996 French Open: 40 games.
Germany Steffi Graf 66410
Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 3778
Best of 3 (pre-tiebreaker introduction)
1948 U.S. National Championships: 48 games.
United States Margaret Osborne duPont 4615
United States Louise Brough 6413
Best of 5 (U.S. National Championships 1891–1901)
1898 U.S. National Championships challenge round: 51 games.[lower-alpha 2]
United States Juliette Atkinson 65627
United States Marion Jones 37465

Shortest by number of games

1911 Wimbledon Championships: 12 games.[4]
United Kingdom Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers 66
United Kingdom Dora Boothby 00
1988 French Open: 12 games.[5]
West Germany Steffi Graf 66
Soviet Union Natasha Zvereva 00

First-timer finals

There have been 26 finals contested between first-time finalists (11 in the Open Era):

All-countrywomen finals (Open Era)

Five countries (Australia, Belgium, Italy, Russia and the United States) have had two countrywomen meet in a final in the Open Era:

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Notes

  1. On 1 March 2022, the WTA announced that players from Belarus will not be allowed to compete under the name or flag of Belarus following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]
  2. However, in 1902, Muriel Robb defeated Charlotte Cooper Sterry 7–5, 6–1 after abandonment of an overnight score of 4–6, 13–11, thus needing a total of 53 games to win the title.
  3. Evert defeated Navratilova in their first Grand Slam final meeting at the 1975 French Open when Navratilova was competing for Czechoslovakia.

See also


References

  1. "Maud Watson, the 'first lady' of Wimbledon". Wimbledon. 2016-07-20. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  2. "Joint Statement by the International Governing Bodies of Tennis". WTA Tour. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  3. "Wilding wins all-England cup" (Press release). The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 July 1911.

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