Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi won all Four major games but sad enough…
From Williams to Nadal, Djokovic and more, we rate the 16 best tennis players of all time, based on statistics. Image credits: Getty Images
Fans will forever be ready to debate any GOAT list, and tennis is no exception. From number of titles, to expert opinion and cultural impact, there is no shortage of ways to crown the best of the best. Dominant on the hard court, current men’s number one Daniil Medvedev has 13 tour-level titles. Still, he is a self-admitted struggler on clay, and has just one major title to his name. Medvedev’s fiercest rival Novak Djokovic was virtually unbeatable in his prime year in 2021. Often named the greatest ever, Djokovic was in the running for a calendar Grand Slam before Medvedev beat him at the 2021 US Open. No GOAT list is complete without Serena Williams, the reigning major title record-holder of the Open Era. On top of almost 40 major titles, Williams’s cultural impact is massive, with an Oscar-winning movie about her family released last year. Still, she isn’t the richest female player in the sport; that title is claimed by Naomi Osaka. With so many ways to measure it, we’ve had the pleasure of narrowing it down. Here, we name the 16 best tennis players of all time, ranked by the number of major titles to their names.
16. Andre Agassi (USA) — 8 major titles Former number one tennis player, Agassi, starts the list off strong as an eight-time Grand Slam champion, Olympic gold medalist, and seven-time major-title runner up. Among these accolades, Agassi holds the ‘career Grand Slam’ for his victories in each of the four major tournaments—Wimbledon, the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open—at least once.
15. Bill Tilden (USA) — 10 major titles Tilden was the first player from the United States to win the men’s championship at Wimbledon in 1920, and held the title for the next two years. Rumoured to be clocked at 263 km/h, his serve is the second
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