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Countries with Most Grand Slam Tennis Titles

Name the countries whose citizens have won the most men's or women's singles titles since the start of the Open Era in 1968.
One of these countries no longer exists!
Through 2023
Quiz by Rodman
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Last updated: September 11, 2023
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First submittedDecember 7, 2014
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Top Player
Country
144
Serena Williams
United States
45
Margaret Court
Australia
38
Rafael Nadal
Spain
35
Novak Djokovic
Serbia
32
Steffi Graf
Germany
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Top Player
Country
29
Roger Federer
Switzerland
25
Björn Borg
Sweden
15
Ivan Lendl
Czechoslovakia
14
Maria Sharapova
Russia
11
Justine Henin
Belgium
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Level 76
Jul 5, 2016
Ivan Lendl 8 + Navratilova 18 = 26? assuming you consider both Czechoslovakia - looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grand_Slam_related_tennis_records#Most_singles_titles_.28Open_Era.29 it looks like they can both be considered from USA
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Level 48
Jul 8, 2016
Monica Seles won 8 majors representing Yugoslavia. Serbia should only have 13, 12 for Djokovic and 1 for Ivanovic. If Serbia gets 20 then the Czech Republic should get 19 from Novtona, Korda and Kvitova in addition to Kodes, Lendl and Mandlikova.
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Level 73
Jul 8, 2016
Hear hear!
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Level ∞
Jul 8, 2016
The country Seles represented was Serbia and Montenegro, or alternately FR Yugoslavia. In any case, it's complicated and it doesn't matter since the list doesn't change either way.
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Level 69
Jul 9, 2016
Hear hear
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Level 50
Feb 5, 2017
Not correct. It was Yugoslavia with all republics until late 1991 so not all Seles titles should count plus Seles was never citizen of Serbia.
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Level 77
Sep 15, 2019
ivanb22 Seles was citizen of Serbia, but also Yugoslavia. Every citizen of Yugoslavia had citizenship of one of the republics he/she lived in.
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Level 72
Apr 8, 2023
This is true, she was born in Novy Sad, Serbia but, nonetheless, the main point here is that there were 8 titles won as a Serbian/Yugoslavian, not 9. Seles won her 9th and final Slam at the 1996 Australian Open, by which time she represented the USA (she also played on the winning Us Fed Cup teams in ‘96, ‘99 and ‘00. So, as of today, Serbias number should be 31 (22 for Djokovic, 1 for Ivanovic and 8 for Seles). This also means the US gets one more (they can also keep Navratilova’s, since she switched allegiance in 1975 and won her first slam at Wimbledon in 1978).
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Level 72
Nov 23, 2023
I think you are right (with Djokovic now being on 24), but there is Ana's 1 and the 8 of Seles, so the total now should be 33. Does not change anything in the grand scheme of things.

I dont know how they got 35, unless they are counting Monica's 9th which was as a US player and maybe Mima's in 1977, but that is OG Yugoslavia.

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Level 39
Jul 8, 2016
Seems a bit harsh to not accept "Czech Republic".
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Level 63
Jul 8, 2016
Why? They haven't won any
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Level 73
Jan 24, 2018
wrong... heard about Kvitova at Wimbledon (twice) and Korda at the australian, for example ?
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Level 70
Sep 13, 2019
along with "Czechia"
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Level 70
Sep 15, 2019
Agreed.
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Level 74
Jul 8, 2016
Showing Czechoslovakia in one instance and not Yugoslavia in another is not consistent.
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Level 77
Jul 8, 2016
No. Lendl won his titles for Czechoslovakia, not the Czech Republic. Dvokovic won his titles for Serbia, not Yugoslavia. Timing matters.
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Level 82
Jul 8, 2016
Interesting how by default women are considered part of the stats for tennis, but they are not for some other sports.
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Level 84
Jul 8, 2016
Well, it counts for *these* stats. In my opinion, total majors by country is just an interesting way to slice the overall data; never remember anyone really talking about it this way. It seems that it's only when discussing total Olympic medals won by each country do the male/female totals get counted together.
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Level 73
Jul 8, 2016
Maybe because sports like tennis, croquet... were considered competitive for women way earlier than the vast majority of other sports.
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Level 63
Jul 9, 2016
Mainly to do with the competitiveness. The problem with many female sports is that there isn't much interest in doing them due to low prize money so there's only a few players/teams in the world that take it seriously, a good example of this is women's football (soccer) where USA dominates due to being one of the only national sides made up of full-time professionals in comparison to a team like England (who finished 3rd in the last World Cup) where many of the players have day jobs. In women's tennis though you need to dedicate your life to the game to have any chance of winning a major, which makes it more competitive and so harder to win.
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Level 82
Sep 13, 2019
This is a ridiculous excuse I hear Europeans use all the time. There are countries competing in the Women's World Cup from all over the world. It's more internationally competitive as a women's sport than any other. Just because you suck at it or your country doesn't do a good job of supporting its female athletes in this sport doesn't make it less competitive. Nor does the fact that the #1 team in the world is so dominant and has been for decades, as there is still heated competition for 2nd place and below. But it's not even as if they never lose; they do. Imagine how competitive these other teams would have to be to go up against such a dominant squad and still win from time to time. There are many more countries where football is popular than tennis, and they come from every continent other than Antarctica.
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2019
A true statement might be that men's and women's tennis are more similar in their level of popularity than men's and women's soccer or men's and women's basketball and some other sports. But it's inaccurate to say that women's tennis is more competitive than women's football.
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Level 78
Mar 4, 2021
I thought sport held no interest for you. Anyhow, women's tennis is much more established and has a more established viewership. All manner of people are interested in watching tennis and yet still hold no interest in team sports like Association Football etc.
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Level 82
Jul 6, 2022
I rarely watch and don't know much trivia because I'm not emotionally invested in the outcome of events and don't care much about statistics. My interest in sports is anthropological; I don't find spectating them entertaining. The average sports quiz is tuned toward sports fanatics, though, meaning I can't do well on them.
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Level 36
Jul 8, 2016
I am curious why you would not accept Czech Republic for Czechoslovakia since that it what the country is now called. I tried this and Slovakia, but neither worked.
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Level 66
Jul 9, 2016
Because Czechoslovakia is a country that comprises the current lands of Czechia and Slovakia. Neither state is a successor state, so the former country of Czechoslovakia stands on its own.
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Level 70
Feb 10, 2018
interestingly, the day when Czechoslovakia was established is still of big significance here (it's a national holiday, celebrations take place, president awards people Orders and such). The "problem" with the split of Czechoslovakia is that it was so peaceful that people don't think of it as such a turning point in our history :)
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Level 75
Jul 8, 2016
Here's the equivalent quiz for golf majors.
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Level 69
Jul 11, 2016
Tried both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and it never occured to me Czechoslovakia could be correct.
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Level 20
Mar 17, 2019
Rog is the only reason Switzerland is on there XD
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Level 72
Jun 3, 2019
Mmh, Roger has 20, Stan 3, Martina Hingis 5. So without Roger, 8 is still a good result, as much as the UK, more than France, Argentina or Croatia! Anyway Switzerland has 28, not 29.
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Level 83
Sep 13, 2019
The total given for Switzerland appears to include Lolette Payot's French title in 1945. Though born in Switzerland, she became a French citizen in 1937, so if she is counted, she ought to count for France. But she probably should not be counted at all, as the International Tennis Federation does not recognize the championships held during German occupation of France.
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Level 76
Sep 13, 2019
I don't follow and sports and I really don't know anything about tennis, but I always thought the UK (well, England) did well in tennis. I guess not.
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Level 60
Sep 13, 2019
Sadly no
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Level 65
Sep 16, 2019
Brittons are better at inventing games than at playing them
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Level 56
Apr 19, 2022
We are extremely good at the ones no-one else plays. How many times has the world snooker championship not been won by a Britisher, I should like to know?
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Level 72
Jul 2, 2023
I believe the answer to that is 4: Without looking it up, I wanna say Cliff Thorburn (Canada 1980) Ken Doherty (Republic of Ireland - 1997), Neil Robertson (Australia - 2010) and most recent World Champ as of writing this: Luca Brecel (Belgium 2023).
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Level 56
Mar 5, 2024
Wow. I bet he alone represents more than 1% of Belgium's snooker players, and he still beats all the Britishers. Just goes to show
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Level 64
Sep 13, 2019
why is Spain 4th if it has more than Germany?
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Level ∞
Sep 13, 2019
Forgot to reorder after all of Rafa's titles have moved Spain higher. Fixed now.
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Level 67
Sep 14, 2019
Only missed Belgium. I only got Czechoslovakia when I read that one doesn't exist.
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Level 88
Nov 12, 2019
The Iron Curtain would've never come down if they'd known it would cause so many problems on the tennis quiz.
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2020
Gee. I wonder why someone named Court is good at tennis. :-D
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Level 55
Mar 19, 2021
Ever since the Big Three took over, the US seems to have lost their tennis pedigree. Before Federer, the three best players were Sampras, Agassi, and Roddick.
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Level 75
Aug 3, 2021
Liked this quiz a lot better when there weren't any 'country' clues - no debates back then and you had to think a bit more.
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Level 89
Jul 2, 2022
By country clues do you mean... the caveat at the top that says one of these countries no longer exists? Or are the clues in the names of the players? I'm not sure what you're talking about.
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Level 57
Sep 23, 2021
Good quiz but two words missing after Maria Sharapova's name - 'the cheat'.
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Level 73
Jun 6, 2023
this one's easy, just a buncha white people. Check please!
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Level 89
Sep 11, 2023
Serbia has 25 titles, 24 by Djokovic and 1 by Ivanovic. Yugoslavia has 9 titles, Seles 8 and Jausovec 1. Monika Seles also won 1 Grand Slam as a US citizen.
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Level 87
Oct 7, 2023
I think this quiz should be titled “which country do these really well-known tennis players come from?”