Most Grand Slam Titles in Men's Tennis (1925–2026): The 102-Year Race

A century of majors, counted title by title — and a ban that kept the best players out for twenty years. The race for the most Grand Slam singles titles, 1925–2026. Chapters 0:00 The race begins (1925) 1:12 Budge and the war years (1938) 1:53 Australia takes over (1960) 3:02 Borg, Connors and McEnroe (1974) 4:03 Sampras and Agassi (1990) 5:32 The Big Three (2009) 7:01 Final ranking What is measured • Metric: career Grand Slam singles titles — the four majors, added up year by year • Which tournaments count: Wimbledon from 1877, the US Championships and US Open from 1881, the Australian from 1905 and Roland-Garros from 1925, the year it opened to international players. The French events of 1891-1924 and the wartime Tournoi de France of 1941-1945 were closed to foreigners and are not majors • Period: the chart runs from 1925, the first year with the four modern majors, and every earlier title is already counted in the totals • Amateur era: from 1927 to 1967, players who turned professional were banned from these events. Their professional titles are not counted by any official record, and neither are the years they lost • Nothing here is estimated or interpolated: every value is a count of titles Sources • Grand Slam winner lists, compiled via Wikipedia from tournament records: • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... Credits Photos (cropped; author; licence; source page): Djokovic — Andymiah; CC BY-SA 4.0; https://w.wiki/UHUw Nadal — Barcex; CC BY-SA 4.0; https://w.wiki/UHUx Federer — Tatiana; CC BY-SA 2.0; https://w.wiki/UHV9 Sampras — Shinya Suzuki; CC BY 2.0; https://w.wiki/UHVA Emerson — Christophe Badoux; CC BY-SA 3.0; https://w.wiki/UHVB Laver — Brisbane City Council; CC BY 2.0; https://w.wiki/UHVC Borg — Michaël Bemelmans; CC BY-SA 4.0; https://w.wiki/UHVD Tilden — Unknown derivative Fyunck(click); Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVE Rosewall — Unknown author; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVF Agassi — Shinya Suzuki; CC BY 2.0; https://w.wiki/UHVG Connors — John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com; CC BY-SA 2.0; https://w.wiki/UHVH Lendl — Charlie Cowins; CC BY 2.0; https://w.wiki/UHVJ Perry — Unknown - Distributed by AFP and ACME Newspictures; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVW Lacoste — Unknown, PHOTO © POPPERFOTO – GETTY; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVX Sears — Unknown author; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVY Cochet — Unknown (Keystone-France); Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVZ Newcombe — Unknown author; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVa McEnroe — Eurosport; CC BY 3.0; https://w.wiki/UHVb Renshaw — J. Russell & Son; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVc Budge — Unknown author; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVd Crawford — Unknown author; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVe Wilding — Eliot & Fry; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVf Laurence Doherty — Lavis (photographer); Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVk Borotra — Unknown; CC BY-SA 3.0 de; https://w.wiki/UHVm Wrenn — Unknown author; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVn Reginald Doherty — Voigt; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVo Johnston — George Grantham Bain; Public domain; https://w.wiki/UHVp • Music: "Five Armies" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... • SFX: Kenney (CC0), https://kenney.nl/assets/interface-so... Names, photos, logos and flags are used editorially for identification, commentary and education. No sponsorship or affiliation is implied. Data reflects the cited sources and may be revised by their publishers. Who would be on top if the professionals had never been banned? Tell us in the comments. Subscribe for the next ranking story. Every ranking is a rivalry. #Tennis #GrandSlam #DataVisualization