There have been many remarkable achievements in tennis history, but arguably, the most notable are those of the longest winning streaks of female players.
Brilliance, competence, and mental strength can lead to wins that leave spectators and opponents breathless. And now we have the secret revealed.
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1. Martina Navratilova (74 games)
Martina Navratilova holds the world record for the longest winning streak in sports history.
The American was nearly unbeatable in the early 1980s when she changed her workout schedule and racquet.
She won every Grand Slam trophy between 1983 and 1984, never losing a match.
That last Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open, was the only time she lost, beaten in the semis by Helena Sukova, who had come back in two sets after falling a set down to break the streak and reach the final.
2. Stefanie Graf (66 games)
Her last loss, in 1989, was at the French Open (she lost to Arantxa Sanchez Vicario), and her famous 66-match winning streak was broken by the then-young Berliner Monica Seles in 1990.
Graf won the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, and the Australian Open during this spell.
3. Margaret Court (57 games)
She has won more titles than any other tennis player. Of all tennis players, she won the most Grand Slam singles tournaments, 24.
Combining that with her 21 Grand Slam mixed doubles wins and 19 Grand Slam women’s doubles crowns, she’s a contender with the most overall titles in the game’s history.
When she won the first of only three Grand Slam championships in 1970, she was the first woman in tennis to win all three in the same year. She was on a roll when King finally beat her in Indianapolis in 1972.
4. Chris Evert (55 games)
Her closest rival, Chris Evert, put a winning streak together in 1974.
However, her 55-game run (including the French Open and Wimbledon, as well as 14 other events around the world) fell short by nearly a decade in terms of longevity, peters-ing out only after she lost to Evonne Goolagong in the semi-finals of the U.S. Open.
5. Venus Williams (35 matches)
To date, however, the longest winning streak in the contemporary history of tennis belongs to Venus Williams, with 35 straight victories – and this one came in 2000.
After claiming her first Grand Slam championship at Wimbledon, Williams rattled off another 35 consecutive match wins.
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She won the singles title and the doubles crown there, besting the world No 1 [Martina Hingis], Lindsay Davenport, and the second-best woman that year, Serena Williams’ sister.
She had won three straight events leading up to the U.S. Open. In New York, she won two Grand Slam events in a row.
She beat the world number one and two players, Hingis and Davenport, respectively, to take the title.
This made for a 26-match winning streak. Despite this success in the Sydney Olympics, there was no indication that Venus Williams’s reign would end soon.
Following her expected victory in Sydney, where she won the gold medal in both singles and doubles, Williams cemented her position as the dominant player on the women’s circuit.
This was followed by Davenport’s defeat in the final at the Linz Open in three sets, ending his winning streak at 35.
6. Serena Williams (34 matches)
During 2013, we witnessed the apogee of Serena Williams – a season that ranked as her greatest ever, at 78-4 W-L wins/losses, 11 crowns from 13 finals, and 21 wins vs top-10 players.
At the Miami Open, Serena Williams won her sixth championship there to set the record for the longest winning run of her career. Elsewhere, she added a Charleston Open championship and two Fed Cup wins.
During the European clay season, the following months, it was all smooth sailing for the Americans.
Williams swept the red clay courts in Spain (Madrid) and Italy (the Italian Open) before going to Roland Garros in Paris, where she brilliantly sealed the Majors with a barely broken heart.
And then it was a stone-cold certainty she would retain her Wimbledon title, having come into the tournament on a 31-match win streak.
However, Serena Williams’s 34-match winning streak was ended in the fourth round at the hands of Sabine Lisicki.
7. Justine Henin (32 matches)
2007 represented the finest season yet of Justine Henin’s blazing career.
Having taken 10 of the season’s finals and been named the year-end number one, she was appearing in her third Wimbledon final in 2008, having won the Australian and French Opens.
She’d lost only once all year, in a Wimbledon semi-final to France’s Marion Bartoli. In 2007, she’d gone a perfect season, winning every single match she’d entered.
The run started following the title she won in Canada at the Rogers Cup.
After adding another championship in Germany – two indoor titles, she won a U.S. Open crown, her eighth slam title, and then went on to defend her WTA Finals title, extending to 25 matches her run.
She then promptly added the Sydney International to start her 2008 season.
The next tournament she entered was the Australian Open, where Henin was to play the quarter-final against the heavy favorite Maria Sharapova.
Those were the high times. As Henin lost that set, her 32-game winning streak was over.
Conclusion
I’m betting there will never be a better run than Martina Navratilova’s 74 consecutive wins in 1984, the longest in WTA history.
Steffi Graf came close to that – she pulled off 66 straight victories from one July season in 1989 to another in 1990.
