All-time rankings · Wimbledon
The Top 50 Wimbledon Grass Court Players of All Time
The greatest players at Wimbledon on grass across every era, from the first Wimbledon champions to today. Each player is scored 1 to 10 on five criteria, for a maximum of 50. Doubles specialists are scored on their doubles record.
Men's 50
All-Time Elite
Career 1998-2022 · Peak 2003-2017
Federer was made for the surface that emerged after Wimbledon moved to all-ryegrass courts in 2001, the year he beat Sampras on Centre Court. Eight singles titles between 2003 and 2017, a record for the gentlemen's singles, and an ATP grass-court match record of 192-29, close to 87%. He made the surface beautiful to people who had never cared about tennis.
Wimbledon Supremacy 10, Grass Win Rate 10, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 10, Historical Impact 10
Career 1988-2002 · Peak 1993-2000
On the older Wimbledon grass, before the 2001 switch to pure ryegrass, Sampras was close to unchallengeable: seven titles between 1993 and 2000, the last four consecutive. He removed every inessential element from the serve-and-volley game and executed what remained with a precision his contemporaries could analyse but not replicate. His only defeat at the Championships between 1993 and 2000 came in the 1996 quarter-final.
Wimbledon Supremacy 9, Grass Win Rate 10, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 10, Historical Impact 8
Career 1956-1979 · Peak 1960-1969
The most complete grass-court player before Federer. Won the calendar Grand Slam as an amateur in 1962 and again in the Open Era in 1969. Turning professional in 1963 barred him from the next five Championships, and on his return he won the first two Open Wimbledons, 1968 and 1969, after amateur titles in 1961 and 1962. The counterfactual record belongs in the conversation with any player in history.
Wimbledon Supremacy 8, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 9
Career 1973-1981 · Peak 1976-1980
Five consecutive titles from 1976 to 1980, and a sixth successive final in 1981, from a player whose game was formed on clay and whose two-handed topspin seemed ill-suited to fast grass. The 1976 title came without the loss of a set; the 1980 final against McEnroe went to five. A sufficiently superior athlete can bend the surface to his game rather than the reverse; Borg was the proof.
Wimbledon Supremacy 8, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 10
Career 1880-1893 · Peak 1881-1889
Seven Wimbledon singles titles in nine years (1881-1886 and 1889) when the tournament was the entire world of grass-court tennis; his six in succession remain the record, though won under the challenge-round system that excused the holder from the draw. Noted for his serving and overhead smash, he helped set the tactical logic of grass-court play. Five doubles titles with his twin, Ernest. The founding champion.
Wimbledon Supremacy 9, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 8
Grass Court Greats
Career 1977-1992 · Peak 1979-1984
Three singles titles (1981, 1983, 1984) undercount his relationship with the grass. His left-handed slice serve, instinctive net approach and touch were the most naturally surface-suited of the Open Era. Five Wimbledon doubles titles, four with Peter Fleming and one with Michael Stich in 1992. His famous outrage at line calls was, in retrospect, an early demand for the accuracy that electronic line calling eventually delivered.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 10, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 10, Historical Impact 9
Career 2003-present · Peak 2014-2023
Seven titles between 2011 and 2022, including four consecutive editions from 2018 (there was no 2020 Championships), won by imposing a hard-court game on a surface that historically punished it. He was not a natural grass-court player. He solved the surface instead, through the quality of his return, his baseline precision and a tactical intelligence that nullified what remained of the serve-and-volley advantage.
Wimbledon Supremacy 9, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 8
Career 1929-1936 · Peak 1933-1936
The son of a Stockport cotton spinner who became a Labour and Co-operative MP, and world table tennis champion in 1929, Perry brought a wristy forehand and early ball-strike to a game the establishment had not prepared a defence against. Three consecutive titles, 1934 to 1936, plus two mixed titles with Dorothy Round. After his first, his All England Club tie was left on a chair in his dressing room. The club unveiled his statue in 1984.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 10
Career 1984-1999 · Peak 1985-1991
Won Wimbledon in 1985 as an unseeded 17-year-old and remains the youngest men's singles champion. His diving, full-extension volleys made the serve-and-volley game spectacular in a way it had not previously managed. Three titles (1985, 1986, 1989) and seven finals between 1985 and 1995, three of them in successive years against Edberg. Few players have owned Centre Court so completely, so young.
Wimbledon Supremacy 7, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 8
Career 1983-1996 · Peak 1988-1992
The ideal of the serve-and-volley game: classical serving motion, a sliced approach that kept the ball low on the skid, net position of commanding authority. Two titles, in 1988 and 1990, and the 1989 final between them, all three against Becker, is a modest return for the most technically accomplished grass-court specialist between McEnroe and Sampras. His misfortune was the era he inhabited.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 10, Historical Impact 7
Career 1897-1906 · Peak 1902-1906
Five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles from 1902 to 1906, and eight doubles titles with his brother Reginald between 1897 and 1905. In 1903 he became the first player from outside the United States to win the US Championships. The Doherty brothers together won nine Wimbledon singles titles and eight doubles titles in ten years, a family grip on the surface that has no parallel in the sport's history.
Wimbledon Supremacy 8, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 1988-2005 · Peak 1993-2004
Nine Wimbledon gentlemen's doubles titles, the most by any man in the Championships' history: six with Mark Woodforde (1993-1997 and 2000) and three with Jonas Björkman (2002-2004), plus the 1994 mixed with Helena Suková. His net positioning, poaching instincts and ability to read a serve-and-volley game from the receiving end were among the most refined the grass has seen. The Woodies were the last great grass-era doubles dynasty.
Wimbledon Supremacy 9, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 7
Career 1960-1981 · Peak 1967-1974
Three Wimbledon singles titles (1967, 1970, 1971) and the most authoritative serve-and-volley game of his generation. 'Newk' embodied what the Australian grass-court system produced at its peak: powerful, technically complete, psychologically formidable. The last amateur men's champion in 1967, he won again in the Open Era, bridging the two without diminishment. Six Wimbledon doubles titles, five with Tony Roche and one with Ken Fletcher.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 8
Career 1894-1906 · Peak 1897-1901
Four consecutive Wimbledon singles titles (1897-1900) and eight doubles titles alongside his brother Laurence. Together they defined elite grass-court tennis at the turn of the century, and took that standard abroad: in 1902 Reginald reached the US Championships challenge round and the brothers won the US doubles title, which they retained in 1903, an international ambition the amateur game had not previously demonstrated.
Wimbledon Supremacy 7, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 1904-1914 · Peak 1910-1913
Four consecutive Wimbledon singles titles from 1910 to 1913; no man won four in succession again until Borg. A Cambridge-educated New Zealander whose physical power and technical refinement made him the dominant figure of the pre-war grass game, he also won four doubles titles, two each with Norman Brookes and Major Ritchie. Killed in action at Aubers Ridge, near Neuve-Chapelle, in May 1915, aged 31. Arguably the war's most significant sporting casualty.
Wimbledon Supremacy 7, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Champions of the Surface
Career 1984-2000 · Peak 1992-2000
The left-handed half of the Woodies, whose returning and passing created the pressure that Woodbridge's net presence converted. Six Wimbledon doubles titles (1993-1997 and 2000), the 1993 mixed with Martina Navratilova, Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996 and silver in Sydney in 2000, and a partnership whose tactical sophistication set a standard for grass-court doubles that has not been surpassed.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 7
Career 1950-1973 · Peak 1953-1957
Possessed what many who saw him considered the most naturally gifted grass-court game of the twentieth century. Two Wimbledon singles titles (1956, 1957) and three doubles titles, two with Ken Rosewall and one with Rex Hartwig. Turning professional after 1957 removed him from the Championships, and chronic back trouble, which began in the mid-1950s, shortened his peak. The player Wimbledon most regrets losing before the title count had reflected his talent.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 7
Career 1959-1980 · Peak 1968-1975
The 1975 final against Connors, won with slice, changes of pace and percentage tennis against the most aggressive returner in the game, is one of the great tactical performances in the Championships' history. The impact score reflects a significance beyond any title: the first Black man to win Wimbledon, and a figure whose advocacy after his playing days made him one of the sport's defining moral presences.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 10
Career 1976-1988 · Peak 1979-1984
Fleming's own quip, that the best doubles pair in the world was John McEnroe and anyone, concealed how much he contributed to the partnership. His court coverage, communication and the complementarity of his game to the most gifted tennis mind of his era produced four Wimbledon doubles titles (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984), two further finals together, and a style of play that sent the press box looking for new vocabulary.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 6
Career 1950-1980 · Peak 1953-1956, 1970-1974
The most technically complete player never to win the Wimbledon singles. He reached four finals across twenty years, 1954, 1956, 1970 and 1974, losing to Drobný, Hoad, Newcombe and Connors. Turning professional in 1957 kept him out of the Championships until 1968, eleven editions in his prime. His backhand was the finest of his generation. He won two doubles titles with Hoad, but the singles title remains the great unresolved injustice of the shamateur era.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 8
Career 1998-2020 · Peak 2005-2018
The right-handed twin, whose returning and volleying complemented Bob's left-handed serve and gave the partnership a tactical asymmetry opponents found hard to unsettle. Three Wimbledon titles with Bob (2006, 2011, 2013), a fourth with Jack Sock in 2018 while Bob was injured, and the 2012 mixed with Lisa Raymond. He held the world No. 1 doubles ranking for a record 506 weeks.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 6
Career 1998-2020 · Peak 2005-2014
The Bryan brothers were the most dominant doubles team of the Open Era across all surfaces, and grass rewarded their combination of powerful serving and aggressive net play with Wimbledon titles in 2006, 2011 and 2013. Bob, the left-hander, carried the heavier serve. He added the 2008 mixed title with Samantha Stosur, beating a team that included his brother in the final.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 6
Career 2018-present · Peak 2023-2025
Alcaraz won Wimbledon at 20, beating Novak Djokovic in a five-set final in 2023, and defended the title a year later with a straight-sets final against the same opponent. He added Queen's titles in 2023 and 2025 and reached a third consecutive Wimbledon final in 2025, losing to Jannik Sinner. His grass game rests on range: a heavy forehand, a dependable serve and a readiness to finish at the net with volleys and drop shots. A wrist injury kept him off grass in 2026.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 7
Career 2005-2024 · Peak 2012-2016
Two Wimbledon titles, in 2013, which ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's singles champion, and 2016, plus Olympic gold on Centre Court in 2012. Murray's grass game of aggressive returning, baseline depth and sudden conversion from defence to attack was built to overcome the serve dominance of earlier eras. On the modern ryegrass, with its higher bounce and reduced pace, his game was ideally calibrated.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 8
Career 2018-present · Peak 2024-2026
Sinner became the first Italian to win the Wimbledon singles title in 2025, beating Carlos Alcaraz in four sets, and defended it in 2026 with a four-set final win over Alexander Zverev. His first grass title came at Halle in 2024. He is a baseline player rather than a net rusher: he takes the ball early on both wings, uses the low bounce to rush opponents and has built a serve that now wins free points on fast courts. Close sets at the All England Club tend to go his way.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1970-1996 · Peak 1974-1982
Two Wimbledon singles titles eight years apart, in 1974 at 21 and 1982 at 29, and a grass record that extended into his thirties, with a semi-final in 1987 at 34. He also won the 1973 doubles with Ilie Năstase. The flat, early-strike fury of his game, taking everything on the rise, exploited the grass's quick pace in a way at odds with the gentleman-amateur tradition and commercially irresistible to its audiences.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 8
Career 1988-2004 · Peak 1992-2001
The 2001 title, won as a wildcard ranked 125th in the world on his fourth final appearance, remains the only Wimbledon singles title won by a wildcard and one of the Open Era's most emotional moments. He had lost the 1992 final to Andre Agassi and the 1994 and 1998 finals to Pete Sampras. At its peak his left-handed serve on grass was the hardest to return in the sport: flat, fast and angled wide. A career defined by one surface, one tournament and one fortnight when everything finally worked.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 8
Career 1951-1983 · Peak 1961-1967
Twelve Grand Slam singles titles, a men's record that stood until Pete Sampras passed it at Wimbledon in 2000, all won as an amateur while the leading professionals were barred from the majors. He won the Wimbledon singles in 1964 and 1965, and Wimbledon doubles titles in 1959 and 1961 with Neale Fraser and in 1971 with Rod Laver. A product of Harry Hopman's demanding regime, he was renowned for his fitness, and eight Davis Cup titles between 1959 and 1967 made him the engine room of Australia's great teams.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 2001-2024 · Peak 2006-2019
Two Wimbledon titles, in 2008 and 2010, are historically remarkable given the construction of his game, and he reached five finals in six years from 2006 to 2011, missing 2009 with knee tendinitis. His grass record divides into two phases: the 2006 and 2007 finals lost to Federer, then titles once his heavy topspin, struck from closer to the baseline, became effective on the all-ryegrass courts introduced in 2001. The 2008 final against Federer is widely regarded as the greatest match ever played.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 9
Career 1982-1997 · Peak 1986-1988
The 1987 victory over Ivan Lendl produced one of the most recognisable moments in the championship's history: Cash climbing through the stands to his players' box to celebrate with his family and coach, starting a tradition many champions have followed since. His serve-and-volley game was among the most technically efficient of the 1980s, built for fast surfaces, and he also reached the Wimbledon doubles final in 1984 and 1985. Recurring injuries curtailed a career that his technique deserved to last longer.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 7
Distinguished Practitioners
Career 1991-2020 · Peak 1999-2015
One Wimbledon gentlemen's doubles title, with Mahesh Bhupathi in 1999, and four mixed titles with four partners: Lisa Raymond (1999), Martina Navratilova (2003), Cara Black (2010) and Martina Hingis (2015). Paes brought exceptional net instinct and anticipation to the grass across a professional career of three decades, and with Bhupathi set the Davis Cup record of 24 consecutive doubles wins.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1998-2016 · Peak 2001-2006
Won the 2002 title with a straight-sets final over David Nalbandian, the first baseliner to win the men's singles since Andre Agassi in 1992. His retrieving, counter-punching game suited grass better than its reputation suggested: the surface rewarded his ability to redirect pace rather than generate it. He became the youngest man to reach world number one in November 2001, won four titles at Queen's Club and led Australia to Davis Cup titles in 1999 and 2003.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 1905-1928 · Peak 1907-1914
In 1907 Brookes became the first non-British player, and the first left-hander, to win the Wimbledon singles, beating Arthur Gore in the deciding match. His significance for Australian tennis is comparable to Perry's for Britain: the moment it became clear that British dominance of the championship was not a geographical given. He won again in 1914, beating Anthony Wilding, his partner for both of his Wimbledon doubles titles. He later served as president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia from 1926 to 1955.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 1993-2007 · Peak 1998-2002
Four Wimbledon semi-finals between 1998 and 2002 without reaching the final that would have made his grass record feel proportionate; he also never won a grass-court singles title, losing all three of his grass finals. His serve-and-volley game was technically well suited to the surface, and his cultural impact on British tennis during the grass season was, for several years, as commercially significant as the tournament itself. Henman Hill is the proof.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1995-2016 · Peak 1997-2006
In 1999 Bhupathi and Leander Paes reached all four Grand Slam doubles finals, the first team to do so in the Open Era, winning the French Open and Wimbledon and becoming the world's top-ranked pair. He added Wimbledon mixed titles with Elena Likhovtseva in 2002 and Mary Pierce in 2005. On grass his serving and his precision at the net suited the surface well. His significance for Indian tennis, and for South Asia's link to its grass-court heritage, is the justification for his impact score.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1991-2008 · Peak 2002-2006
Three consecutive Wimbledon doubles titles, 2002 to 2004, with Todd Woodbridge after the Woodies partnership ended, showing that Woodbridge's grass success did not depend on a single partner. He was also a twice beaten Wimbledon mixed finalist, and in 2006, aged 34, reached the singles semi-finals, the oldest man to get that far since Jimmy Connors in 1987. His returning and movement at the net were among the best in the game, reflecting the technical flexibility shared by great doubles players.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1989-2003 · Peak 1994-1998
The 1996 title rested on one of the great serving performances of the Open Era: a first serve that was close to unreturnable and a readiness to close the net on any short ball. He beat Pete Sampras, the three-time defending champion, in the quarter-finals, Sampras's only Wimbledon defeat between 1993 and 2000, and MaliVai Washington in the final. Initially unseeded, he became the 17th seed when Thomas Muster withdrew. A one-surface, one-tournament peak that was complete and genuine.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1988-1997 · Peak 1991-1993
Won Wimbledon in 1991, beating world number one Stefan Edberg in the semi-finals without dropping his own serve and Boris Becker in the final, with a serve-and-volley game of unusual elegance for a player not then regarded as a grass specialist. He also won the 1992 Wimbledon doubles with John McEnroe, evidence that his grass-court excellence extended beyond a single fortnight. Technically one of the cleanest strikers of the ball in the modern game.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1952-1977 · Peak 1958-1962
A left-handed serve-and-volleyer who won the 1960 Wimbledon singles, beating Rod Laver in the final two years after losing the 1958 final to Ashley Cooper. He won two Wimbledon doubles titles with Roy Emerson (1959, 1961) and the 1962 mixed with Margaret duPont. His left-handed serve, swinging away from right-handed returners, was as effective a weapon on Wimbledon grass as any of the pre-Open Era. He later captained Australia's Davis Cup team for a record 24 years.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 1988-1998 · Peak 1994-1998
Won the 1998 Wimbledon doubles with Paul Haarhuis, beating Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde 10-8 in the fifth set a year after losing the 1997 final to the same pair. With Haarhuis he won all four Grand Slam doubles titles, becoming the youngest man of the Open Era to complete a career doubles Grand Slam, and he reached world number one. His volleying and ability to redirect pace suited fast grass, and the partnership was among the most effective of the 1990s.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 5
Career 1989-2003 · Peak 1994-1998
The other half of the Eltingh partnership, with whom he won the 1998 Wimbledon doubles and all four Grand Slam doubles titles. He reached three further Wimbledon doubles finals: 1997 with Eltingh, 1999 with Jared Palmer and 2000 with Sandon Stolle. A former world number one in doubles, his record reflects a game suited to fast surfaces, and his path from the Dutch system to Wimbledon champion shows technical excellence compensating for the absence of a grass-court tradition.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 5
Career 2004-2026 · Peak 2016-2018
Won the Wimbledon mixed doubles in 2007 with Jelena Janković and in 2017 with Martina Hingis, and reached the 2015 gentlemen's doubles final with John Peers. His 2016 Grand Slam titles with Bruno Soares came at the Australian Open and US Open, not Wimbledon. His grass doubles game reflects the tactical intelligence associated with the Murray family: serving with placement rather than power, and constructing points rather than ending them explosively. He retired in April 2026.
Wimbledon Supremacy 2, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1994-2008 · Peak 1998-2003
Lost the 2003 Wimbledon final to Roger Federer, the first of Federer's major titles. His serve, recorded at up to 142mph and among the fastest of his generation, was built for grass: in the fourth round that year he beat Andre Agassi while serving 46 aces, an Australian record. He had earlier reached the 1998 US Open final, and repeated knee surgery limited what his game could produce when fit. The career the surface lost to his body.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1958-1978 · Peak 1963-1966
Reached three consecutive Wimbledon singles finals, 1963 to 1965, losing to Chuck McKinley and then twice to Roy Emerson; his major singles titles came at the 1965 French and 1966 US Championships. He won two Wimbledon doubles titles with Bob Hewitt (1962, 1964) and three mixed titles (1961 and 1964 with Lesley Turner, 1969 with Ann Jones). A Harry Hopman disciple whose career spanned the end of the amateur era and the arrival of Open tennis, his record reflects the depth of the mid-century Australian grass tradition.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 1961-1983 · Peak 1967-1981
Three Wimbledon doubles titles across twelve years, all with Bob Hewitt (1967, 1972, 1978) and every final won in straight sets, plus two mixed titles with Betty Stöve (1978, 1981). Instantly recognisable in his white cap, he hit two-handed on both forehand and backhand, an unorthodox construction for the serve-and-volley era. His returning and his ability to redirect pace before approaching the net made him an unusually effective grass-court doubles player for a game not built on the classic volleying template.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 5
Career 1940-1969 · Peak 1953-1956
Won the 1953 Wimbledon singles, beating Kurt Nielsen in the final, and four consecutive Wimbledon mixed titles from 1953 to 1956, three with Doris Hart and one with Shirley Fry; he also reached the gentlemen's doubles final in 1952 and 1954. One of the least celebrated post-war champions, partly because professionals were barred from Wimbledon in his era. Fifteen major titles across singles, doubles and mixed reflect a grass-court intelligence that the singles record alone does not capture.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 5
Career 2013-present · Peak 2019-2022
The most naturally grass-suited game of his generation: a serve approaching Ivanisevic's for difficulty on the surface, a forehand taken early and an instinctive net game that recalls the serve-and-volley era. As a 19-year-old wildcard ranked 144th he beat world number one Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2014, and in 2022 he reached the final, losing to Novak Djokovic in four sets. What sustained application might have produced is the question his mastery score, the highest of any player ranked 40 or below, is designed to pose.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 4, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 6
Career 1888-1897 · Peak 1891-1896
Three Wimbledon singles titles (1891, 1892, 1895) from six consecutive finals, the first won aged 19 years and five months, which made him Wimbledon's youngest men's champion until Boris Becker in 1985. He also won four Wimbledon doubles titles with his twin brother Herbert. His significance is partly his record and partly his timing: he was the leading figure between the Renshaw and Doherty eras before retiring at 25 to concentrate on a legal career.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 5
Career 1956-1969 · Peak 1961-1964
Won Wimbledon in 1963 without losing a set, beating Fred Stolle in the final; he is one of five men to win the title without dropping a set, with Don Budge, Tony Trabert, Björn Borg and Roger Federer. Two years earlier, as a college sophomore, he had reached the final against Rod Laver. Compact, athletic and armed with an effective kick serve, he was a more formidable grass-court opponent than his fourth seeding suggested, and he helped the United States win the 1963 Davis Cup.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 5
Career 1878-1890 · Peak 1884-1888
Reached six Wimbledon singles finals in the 1880s (1880 and 1884 to 1888) and was the Renshaw era's most persistent challenger, winning the title in 1887, when William Renshaw did not defend, by beating Ernest Renshaw in five sets. His significance is partly his record and partly his technique: he is credited with introducing topspin through his forehand, known as the 'Lawford stroke', evidence that technical innovation on grass was present within a decade of the first championship.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 5
Women's 50
All-Time Elite
Career 1919-1926 · Peak 1919-1926
Six singles titles, five in succession from 1919 to 1923, plus six doubles with Elizabeth Ryan and three mixed. Her first final, against Dorothea Lambert Chambers in 1919, ran to 44 games and she saved two match points. She played without a corset, in a calf-length pleated skirt, with a competitive intensity the amateur game had no framework for. Her drawing power was a major factor in the club's move to Church Road in 1922, and in 1926 she became the first leading amateur to turn professional.
Wimbledon Supremacy 8, Grass Win Rate 10, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 10
Career 1924-1938 · Peak 1927-1935
Eight singles titles between 1927 and 1938, a record until Navratilova won a ninth in 1990. Her only singles defeat at Wimbledon came in the 1924 final, to Kitty McKane; she never lost there again. From 1927 to 1933 she won 180 consecutive matches. Grantland Rice named her 'Little Miss Poker Face' for her unchanging expression, and her flat, driving groundstrokes won on a surface the game's architects had designed for the net. A record of near-total command at a single venue.
Wimbledon Supremacy 10, Grass Win Rate 10, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1995-2022 · Peak 2002-2016
Seven singles titles from 11 finals between 2002 and 2016, six doubles titles with Venus and the 1998 mixed with Max Mirnyi. Her serve was the defining weapon of her era on grass, a flat, heavy delivery that made full use of the surface's low bounce. Her relationship with Wimbledon was never only about titles: her power and her refusal to perform the decorousness the club's history expected made her the sport's most compelling figure, and continued a story Althea Gibson began in 1957.
Wimbledon Supremacy 9, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 9
Career 1982-1999 · Peak 1987-1996
Seven singles titles from nine finals, and the 1988 doubles with Gabriela Sabatini. Her 1988 Wimbledon title formed part of the Golden Slam: all four majors and Olympic gold in one calendar year, a feat no other player has matched in the main singles draws. Her forehand was taken early, hit flat and hard, leaving opponents little time on the quick grass bounce, and her movement made her as hard to pass as she was to hold off. The complete grass court player of her generation.
Wimbledon Supremacy 9, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 8
Grass Court Greats
Career 1959-1990 · Peak 1966-1975
Six singles, ten doubles and four mixed: 20 Wimbledon titles, a record she shares with Martina Navratilova. Her campaign for equal prize money and her part in founding the WTA in 1973 were preconditions for the professional women's game; without them the careers Navratilova, Graf and the Williams sisters built would not have been economically possible. She created the conditions in which the women's game could produce its greatest champions. An impact score of 10 is the least contestable score in this ranking.
Wimbledon Supremacy 8, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 10
Career 1887-1893 · Peak 1887-1893
Won her first Wimbledon title in 1887 aged 15 years and 285 days, and remains the youngest ladies' singles champion. She took five titles, the last in 1893, losing only one set across those five championships, then left competitive tennis at 21. She went on to win the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship in 1904, play hockey for England and take Olympic archery silver in 1908. Her athleticism and confident overhead startled the Victorian establishment and delighted its crowds.
Wimbledon Supremacy 7, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 8
Career 1994-present · Peak 2000-2008
Five singles titles from nine finals between 2000 and 2017, plus six doubles titles with Serena. Her 2000 title came two years before her sister's first, proving that the Williams approach of power, physicality and athletic commitment could win on a surface whose traditions had marginalised that style. Her serve, reach and readiness to close at the net suited grass ideally. Reaching the 2017 final at 37 made her the outstanding grass court player of her generation in longevity as well as titles.
Wimbledon Supremacy 7, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 8
Career 1950-1958 · Peak 1956-1958
In 1957 she became the first Black player to win Wimbledon, and she retained the title in 1958; she also won the doubles in 1956, 1957 and 1958. She learned the game through paddle tennis on a Harlem play street. Her aggressive serve-and-volley game won on grass at a time when the amateur code denied her any prize money. In later life medical costs left her in dire financial circumstances, until her former partner Angela Buxton raised nearly a million dollars on her behalf.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 10
Career 1957-1977 · Peak 1958-1966
Three singles titles, in 1959, 1960 and 1964, from five finals, and five doubles titles with four different partners. She was the first South American woman to win Wimbledon and was ranked world No. 1 in 1959 and 1960. Her serve-and-volley game, built on touch and elegance rather than force, sat at an angle to the orthodoxies of the surface. Arm and leg injuries curtailed her career before the Open Era took hold; she was the first international superstar of women's tennis since Lenglen.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1900-1927 · Peak 1903-1914
Seven singles titles between 1903 and 1914 from 11 finals, the last won at 35. Her 1919 final against Lenglen, the first Championships after a four-year wartime suspension, set the Victorian ideal of the grass court against the modern disruption. Chambers, then 40, held two match points at 6-5 in the final set; Lenglen won 10-8, 4-6, 9-7 in 44 games, then a record for a women's final. She continued to play doubles at Wimbledon until 1927.
Wimbledon Supremacy 8, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 10, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 1951-1954 · Peak 1952-1954
Three consecutive titles from 1952 to 1954, and unbeaten at Wimbledon. In 1953 she became the first woman to win the calendar Grand Slam, and she won the last nine major singles tournaments she entered, including 50 consecutive matches. In July 1954, two weeks after her third Wimbledon title, a riding accident ended her career at 19. The most statistically dominant women's career in grass court history relative to its duration.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 9, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 8
Career 1939-1959 · Peak 1947-1955
Four singles, five doubles and four mixed: 13 Wimbledon titles. She won the singles three years running from 1948 to 1950 and again in 1955, and took the doubles five times with Margaret Osborne duPont, in 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1954. In 1948 and 1950 she won all three events. The most complete grass court performer of the immediate post-war era; her serve-and-volley game was the technical ideal of what grass demanded, expressed without excess.
Wimbledon Supremacy 8, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1884-1913 · Peak 1886-1900
Six singles titles between 1886 and 1900 and 13 finals, still the most by any player in the ladies' singles; the 14-year span between her first and last titles has since been equalled by Serena Williams. She played in the first ladies' event in 1884, won her last title at 36 and kept competing until 49, playing her last Wimbledon in 1913. Her career spanned the Victorian and Edwardian eras, a longevity with few parallels in the women's game.
Wimbledon Supremacy 7, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 1959-1977 · Peak 1963-1973
Twenty-four major singles titles, the most in women's tennis and equalled among men only by Novak Djokovic, including three Wimbledons (1963, 1965, 1970) and the 1970 calendar Grand Slam. She also won two Wimbledon doubles and five mixed titles, four with Ken Fletcher. Wimbledon was the major where she was least dominant: she lost the 1964 and 1971 finals, and her 1970 win over Billie Jean King took 14-12, 11-9. Her power and court coverage were ahead of the women's game in the 1960s.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 8
Champions of the Surface
Career 1971-1989 · Peak 1973-1986
Three singles titles (1974, 1976 and 1981) and the 1976 doubles with Martina Navratilova. Her natural surface was clay, which makes the grass record more impressive for the adaptation it required: a two-handed backhand and a taste for long baseline rallies were not the weapons grass favoured, yet tactical intelligence took her to ten finals in the 13 years from 1973 to 1985. An impact score of 9 reflects two decades of defining what the women's game looked like in the mainstream imagination.
Wimbledon Supremacy 6, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 9
Career 1978-1997 · Peak 1981-1989
Five Wimbledon doubles titles with Martina Navratilova, in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1986, part of a partnership that in 1984 became the only women's pair to win the calendar Grand Slam. Shriver won 21 major women's doubles titles in all, and Olympic gold with Zina Garrison in 1988. A six-foot serve-and-volleyer with a strong slice forehand, she was not merely the secondary player in the partnership but a component that made it work. Her only major singles final came at the 1978 US Open.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 9, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1970-1983 · Peak 1971-1980
Two singles titles separated by nine years, 1971 and 1980, from five finals, and the 1974 doubles with Peggy Michel. Her 1980 win made her the first mother to take the title in 66 years, and the first of the Open Era. Her movement had exceptional fluidity and her attacking instinct suited grass. Among the most watchable players in the game's history and, as a Wiradjuri woman, one of the most significant figures in Indigenous Australian sport.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 8
Career 2006-2025 · Peak 2011-2019
Two singles titles, in 2011 and 2014, both won in straight-sets finals. Her left-handed serve and flat, powerful groundstrokes made her the most dangerous left-hander on grass since Navratilova, the serve swinging wide to pull right-handed returners out of position. On her best days at Wimbledon she produced ball-striking that rivals any in the women's history of the surface. She recovered from a 2016 knife attack to return to the top level, and retired in 2025.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 9, Historical Impact 7
Career 1988-2002 · Peak 1991-1997
Five Wimbledon doubles titles: in 1991 with Larisa Savchenko Neiland, and in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1997 with Gigi Fernandez. She reached four other Wimbledon doubles finals. Her serve-and-volley instincts, unusually developed for a player from the Soviet baseline tradition, found their fullest expression on grass. Off court she was the first major Soviet athlete to demand publicly the right to keep her tournament earnings, an early sign of the independence that marked her career.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1884-1886 · Peak 1884-1885
The first Wimbledon ladies' singles champion, winning the inaugural event in 1884, aged 19, by beating her sister Lilian in the final. She defended the title in 1885, a season in which she was unbeaten in singles, before Blanche Bingley ended her reign in the 1886 final. An impact score of 9 reflects the weight of being first: her titles established the category of Wimbledon ladies' champion at the moment of its creation.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 9
Career 1983-1997 · Peak 1991-1997
Four Wimbledon doubles titles, all with Natasha Zvereva, in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1997, plus losing finals in 1991 and 1995. The partnership won three successive Wimbledons and was as dominant as any women's team on grass in the early 1990s. Fernandez also won Olympic doubles gold for the United States in 1992 and 1996. Her returning and her ability to manufacture angles from difficult positions made her dangerous on grass, where redirecting pace mattered more than generating it.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1893-1914 · Peak 1895-1908
Five singles titles between 1895 and 1908 from 11 finals, the last won at 37: she remains the oldest ladies' singles champion. In 1900 she became the first female Olympic tennis champion. She played 21 Wimbledons, the bridge between the Watson era and the Hillyard and Lambert Chambers years, and competed across the Victorian and Edwardian game with a consistency the sport's early records have not always reflected.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 7
Career 1905-1929 · Peak 1905-1907
In 1905 she became the first American, and the first non-British woman, to win the Wimbledon singles, beating the champion Dorothea Douglass. She shocked the crowd by rolling up her sleeves to bare her elbows and wearing a skirt that showed her ankles. Douglass beat her in the 1906 final; Sutton regained the title in 1907. She returned in 1929, aged 42, to reach the quarter-finals. The American presence at Wimbledon begins with her.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 8
Career 1983-1998 · Peak 1985-1996
Seven Wimbledon titles: four doubles (1987 with Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, 1989 and 1990 with Jana Novotna, 1996 with Martina Hingis) and three mixed (1994 with Todd Woodbridge, 1996 and 1997 with her brother Cyril Suk). Her best Wimbledon singles results were quarter-finals, though she reached four major singles finals elsewhere and ended Navratilova's 74-match winning streak at the 1984 Australian Open. At 1.88 m, a serve-and-volleyer, she found angles on grass that shorter opponents could not reach.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1993-2010 · Peak 1998-2005
The 1999 Wimbledon champion, beating Steffi Graf in the final, and world number one for a combined 98 weeks. In the same year she also won the doubles with Corina Morariu, and she reached two further singles finals, in 2000 and 2005, losing both to Venus Williams. Her grass game was built on flat, early-taken groundstrokes that robbed opponents of time, a quality whose suitability to the surface has not been fully recognised.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 8, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1931-1937 · Peak 1933-1937
Two Wimbledon singles titles, in 1934 and 1937, and three consecutive mixed doubles titles, the first with Ryuki Miki and two with Fred Perry: the most significant British women's grass court career of the 1930s. Round won in an era still shaped by Helen Wills Moody, who beat her in the 1933 final but dropped a set doing so. Coached by Dan Maskell, she declined to play on Sundays for religious reasons, and in 1935 became the first overseas winner of the Australian Championships.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 8, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 1994-2017 · Peak 1997-2000
Six Wimbledon titles: the 1997 singles, doubles with Helena Sukova in 1996, Jana Novotna in 1998 and Sania Mirza in 2015, and mixed with Leander Paes in 2015 and Jamie Murray in 2017. Her 1996 doubles win, at 15 years and nine months, made her the youngest Grand Slam champion. She did not win through power but through anticipation, angles and shot selection, and a net game honed in doubles, qualities that grass rewards.
Wimbledon Supremacy 5, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1987-1999 · Peak 1993-1998
Her 1998 Wimbledon singles title completed one of the championship's most resonant stories. In the 1993 final against Steffi Graf she won the second set and led 4-1 in the third, then lost five games in a row and wept on the Duchess of Kent's shoulder at the presentation; she lost the 1997 final to Martina Hingis before winning a year later. Six Wimbledon titles in all. Her serve-and-volley game was among the most complete of her era.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1962-1985 · Peak 1972-1977
Won Wimbledon in 1977, the centenary championships and the Queen's Silver Jubilee year, with the Queen attending the final for the first time since 1962. Wade beat Chris Evert in the semi-final and Betty Stove 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the final. Her impact score reflects the cultural moment as much as the title: she remains the last British woman to win the singles, and her significance for British tennis is disproportionate to a single title.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 8
Distinguished Practitioners
Career 1988-2006 · Peak 1993-1996
Won Wimbledon in 1994, the first Spanish woman to do so, as a player whose natural home was clay. Nicknamed 'Señorita Topspin', she was a patient baseliner who disrupted opponents by varying spin, pace, height and angle, mixing a heavy topspin forehand with sliced and topspin backhands. Her three-set win over the 37-year-old Martina Navratilova in the final remains one of the great tactical grass court performances by a player whose instincts lay elsewhere.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 1946-1955 · Peak 1950-1955
Ten Wimbledon titles: the 1951 singles, doubles with Pat Todd in 1947 and Shirley Fry from 1951 to 1953, and five consecutive mixed titles with Frank Sedgman and Vic Seixas. She also reached singles finals in 1947, 1948 and 1953. A childhood bone infection, osteomyelitis, permanently impaired her right leg, and her game was built around placement and tactical intelligence rather than movement: a technical quality that grass rewarded.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 1993-2009 · Peak 2004-2006
Won Wimbledon in 2006, coming from a set down to beat Justine Henin, the first Frenchwoman to win the title since Suzanne Lenglen. Mauresmo was an aggressive all-court player and a proficient serve-and-volleyer, with a one-handed backhand she could hit flat, with topspin or with slice. Her game reflected the French tradition of finesse over power, which grass accommodated better than the baseline power game that dominated the women's tour of her era.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 2010-2022 · Peak 2019-2022
Won Wimbledon in 2021, fifty years after Evonne Goolagong's first title, wearing a dress whose scalloped hem paid tribute to the one Goolagong wore at Wimbledon. Barty, the 2011 girls' champion, regarded Goolagong as mentor and idol, and her slice backhand and variety recalled an older grass court style. She played the surface as if she understood its physics rather than merely its results, and her voluntary retirement in March 2022, aged 25 and ranked number one, is the most unusual conclusion to a great grass court career.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 7
Career 1939-1947 · Peak 1942-1946
Won the first post-war Wimbledon in 1946 without dropping a set, beating Louise Brough in the final, in a field affected by the war's disruption. Her American record suggests a player of genuine quality: four US National titles, in 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1946. She played Wimbledon only once, since the USLTA revoked her amateur status in 1947 for exploring a professional career, so her one title was won in the championship's most complicated year.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 1998-2015 · Peak 2004-2010
Five Wimbledon titles: doubles with Rennae Stubbs in 2004 and Liezel Huber in 2005 and 2007, and mixed with her brother Wayne Black in 2004 and Leander Paes in 2010. Black reached the world number one doubles ranking in 2005 and finished three years, 2007 to 2009, as year-end number one. Her anticipation and volleying were central to a doubles game that suited grass, and she is one of the most complete doubles players of her generation.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 5
Career 2014-present · Peak 2022-present
Won Wimbledon in 2022, coming from a set down to beat Ons Jabeur, the first major title for a player who had switched from Russia to Kazakhstan in 2018. She has since reached the 2024 semi-final, and in 2026 won the Australian and US Opens and became world number one. Her grass game is built around a powerful serve and early, flat hitting, among the most naturally grass-suited games of the current generation.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 8, Historical Impact 6
Career 1919-1934 · Peak 1923-1926
Four Wimbledon titles: singles in 1924 and 1926, and mixed in 1924 with Brian Gilbert and 1926 with her husband, Leslie Godfree. She also lost the 1923 singles final to Suzanne Lenglen. Her 1924 final win over Helen Wills, from a set down, was the only singles defeat Wills ever suffered at Wimbledon. Both titles came in years when Lenglen withdrew mid-tournament, which makes them legitimate but contextually complicated.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 7, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 6
Career 2003-2024 · Peak 2016-2018
Won Wimbledon in 2018, beating Serena Williams 6-3, 6-3 in a rematch of the 2016 final, which she had lost. Her title was built on defence of exceptional quality: retrieving, redirecting and finding cross-court angles from deep positions on a surface that usually punishes the counter-puncher. A left-hander with a two-handed backhand, she could open the court with the wide serve to the advantage side, and her movement on grass was, at her peak, among the best in the women's game.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 2006-2025 · Peak 2017-2019
Won Wimbledon in 2019 with a 6-2, 6-2 defeat of Serena Williams in 56 minutes, one of the most one-sided finals of the Open Era. Her grass game suited the post-2001 ryegrass courts: her movement allowed her to take the ball early without rushing, and her ability to change the direction of a rally with a single stroke neutralised the serve-dominant games of players who should, on paper, have beaten her.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 7, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 1953-1970 · Peak 1957-1963
Seven Wimbledon titles, all in doubles: ladies' doubles with Althea Gibson in 1957, Jeanne Arth in 1959 and Maria Bueno in 1960 and 1963, and mixed with Mervyn Rose in 1957 and Rod Laver in 1959 and 1960. In singles she lost the 1957 and 1959 finals. Hard was an aggressive serve-and-volleyer, and her doubles record at Wimbledon is among the best of the post-Brough generation; her 1957 title with Gibson came in the year Gibson became the first Black singles champion.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 1989-2003 · Peak 1990-1993
Never won Wimbledon, and grass was not her natural surface: her two-handed groundstrokes from both sides were better suited to clay and hard courts, though she reached the 1992 final, losing to Steffi Graf. She is ranked here because her impact on the women's game is too large to exclude: the stabbing in Hamburg in April 1993 removed her from the tour until August 1995, at the peak of her powers, and its effect on the era's balance of power at Wimbledon cannot be measured.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 8
Career 2012-2023 · Peak 2015-2017
Won Wimbledon in 2017, beating Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0, two years after losing the 2015 final to Serena Williams. Muguruza was an aggressive all-court player whose flat, powerful groundstrokes and strong first serve let her take control of rallies early, which suited grass, where the surface's pace compressed the time opponents had to reset. Born in Caracas and trained at the Bruguera academy in Barcelona, she was a clay-raised player who found grass's demands congenial.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 1956-1969 · Peak 1967-1969
Won Wimbledon in 1969, beating Margaret Court in the semi-final and Billie Jean King in the final, the first left-handed woman to win the title; she also won the mixed that year with Fred Stolle. A natural baseliner who worked to become a capable net player, she had lost the 1967 final to King. She was the last British woman to win the singles before Virginia Wade in 1977, and her path past the era's two dominant players remains one of the championship's most impressive.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 6, Historical Impact 7
Career 1951-1962 · Peak 1955-1961
Won Wimbledon in 1961, beating Christine Truman in the last all-British final, and became the first British champion since Dorothy Round in 1937. She had lost the 1958 final to Althea Gibson and won the 1955 doubles with Anne Shilcock. Partially deaf, she said that not hearing the ball helped her concentrate. Her game was built on baseline consistency and tactical intelligence rather than power: she understood that on grass a point could be won by refusing to make errors.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 6, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 6
Career 2000-2013 · Peak 2007-2013
Won Wimbledon in 2013, her second final after losing to Venus Williams in 2007, without dropping a set, beating Sabine Lisicki 6-1, 6-4. She played with two hands on both forehand and backhand, a style modelled on Monica Seles and developed by her father, Walter, a doctor who retrained as a coach; her return of serve and early ball-striking shortened points on grass. She won under Amélie Mauresmo and retired weeks later, the most unconventionally constructed Wimbledon champion of the Open Era.
Wimbledon Supremacy 4, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 5
Career 2010-present · Peak 2021-2023
Two Wimbledon finals without a title, in 2022 and 2023, a record that will shape how her grass career is remembered. Her impact score reflects a significance the titles column does not capture: in 2022 she became the first African woman and the first Arab player in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam singles final, and she reached world number two. Her drop shots and variety on grass are technically sophisticated. She has been on an indefinite break from the tour since July 2025.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 4, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 7
Career 1993-2017 · Peak 2005-2011
Two Wimbledon doubles titles, both with Cara Black, in 2005 and 2007, after losing the 2004 final with Ai Sugiyama; she was also a mixed finalist in 2001 with Mike Bryan. Her serve, flat and placed to the body, gave her partners straightforward first volleys from a commanding net position. Huber became joint world number one in doubles with Black in 2007 and sole number one in 2010, and switched from South Africa to the United States in 2007.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 5
Career 1992-2011 · Peak 2000-2006
Two Wimbledon doubles titles, with Lisa Raymond in 2001 and Cara Black in 2004, and a runner-up finish with Samantha Stosur in 2009. Her grass court doubles game drew on the Australian tradition of net aggression, serve precision and the ability to close points with the volley that the Australian coaching system has historically produced. Her success came with different partners across nearly a decade, evidence of a doubles game that adapted to the player alongside her.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 5
Career 1989-2015 · Peak 1999-2012
Three Wimbledon titles: doubles with Rennae Stubbs in 2001 and mixed with Leander Paes in 1999 and Mike Bryan in 2012, a span of thirteen years. She also reached the 2008 doubles final and the 2010 and 2013 mixed finals. World number one in doubles for a combined 137 weeks, she built her game on returning and net coverage suited to fast surfaces. Her consistency over more than a decade earns her the fiftieth position in a ranking that began with Navratilova.
Wimbledon Supremacy 3, Grass Win Rate 6, Era Dominance 5, Technical Mastery 7, Historical Impact 5
For doubles players, Wimbledon Supremacy reflects doubles titles, weighted accordingly, and Technical Mastery reflects net skills, positioning and partnership. Era Dominance is judged against contemporaries on grass. Pre-Open Era careers are adjusted for the years professionals were barred from Wimbledon.
An independent editorial ranking by Grass Tennis Club, not official ATP, WTA, ITF or AELTC data. Records checked October 2026. How we rate
