Roll of grass champions

Every champion on grass

Every champion of 49 leading grass court championships, from the first Wimbledon in 1877 to today, with each result checked against a second, independent source wherever one exists.

The grass majors

Other leading grass championships

How the roll was made

The roll covers the grass majors (Wimbledon in every year, the Australian Championships to 1987, the US Championships to 1974), the tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. Challenger, ITF and county events and the Davis Cup are not included.

Each result was checked against a second, independent source: the Wimbledon Compendium, the Australian Open and US Open champion records, the ATP and WTA archives, Tennis Archives and contemporary newspapers. A result marked † rests on a single source; ‡ marks a result where the sources disagree. Where a champion is known only by initials, the name stands as printed.

Grass titles only

A championship that began on grass did not always stay there. Some moved to clay or hard courts, some were played indoors, and some spent a year or two at another venue. A title counts on this roll only if it was won on grass, so the years a championship was played on another surface are left out, even when the event kept its name.

Years left out because they were not played on grass:

Irish Championships 1879 and 1880: hard courts (source)
Irish Championships 1946 to 1965: clay (source)
Victorian Championships 1879, 1880 and 1882 to 1892: asphalt courts at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (source)
South Australian Championships 1894: asphalt (source)
Pennsylvania Championships, Merion 1970 to 1972: outdoor hard courts (source)
Birmingham 1978: indoor carpet, in Birmingham, Alabama (source)

A player whose only titles fell in those years does not appear on the roll. The surface of every year was checked against the tournament's own history and, where possible, a second source.

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