ALL TIME GREATEST FEMALE PLAYERS OF TENNIS

GREATEST FEMALE TENNIS PLAYERS OF ALL TIME

Following are the all-time greatest female players of Tennis having glorious tennis carrier and win many titles of tennis tournaments.

Martina Naveratilova(1956	Steffi Graf (1969)	Monica Seles (1973)	Anna Kornikova	Justine Henin
Martina Hingis	Venice Williams	Serena Williams	Maria Sherapova	Ana Ivonovic

1.       Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech American tennis player and coach. Billie Jean King, former World No. 1 player, said in 2006 that Navratilova is "the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived." Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles, and 10 major mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record.

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2.       Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player. In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24. Her 22 singles titles mark the record for most Grand Slam wins by a tennis player since the introduction of the Open Era in 1968. In 1988, she became the first and only tennis player to achieve the Calendar Year Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year.

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3.       Monika Seleš is the former Yugoslav world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born and raised in Novi Sad, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. She won nine Grand Slam singles titles, winning eight of them while a citizen of Yugoslavia and one while a citizen of the United States. In 1990, at the age of 16, Seles became the youngest-ever Female tennis player.

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4. Anna Kournikova Tennis player, Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her never winning a WTA singles title. Wikipedia

Born: June 7, 1981 (age 33), Moscow, Russia

Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Weight: 123 lbs (56 kg)

Partner: Enrique Iglesias (2001–)

Spouse: Sergei Fedorov (m. 2001–2003)

Parents: Alla Kournikova, Sergei Kournikov

5.    Justine Henin, known as Justine Henin-Hardenne between 2002 and 2007, is a Belgian retired professional tennis player and former World No. 1. Henin won 43 WTA singles titles and seven Grand Slam singles titles, including four French Open titles, one Australian Open title, and two US Open titles. She has also won the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships twice and the singles gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Tennis experts cite her mental toughness, the completeness and variety of her game.

6.       Martina Hingis is a Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as world no. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles. She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. Hingis set a series of "youngest-ever" records before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw temporarily from professional tennis in 2002 at the age of 22. After several surgeries and long recuperate she again played tennis.

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7.       Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 36 in singles as of July 29, 2013. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate occasions. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on February 25, 2002, becoming the first black woman to achieve this feat during the Open Era. She is credited as changing the women's game and ushering a new, modern era of power and athletic…more

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8.       Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her World No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002, and regained this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013, becoming the oldest world no. 1 player in WTA's history. She is the only female player to have won over $50 million in prize money. Williams is the reig…more

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9.       Maria Sharapova is a professional tennis player who became the worlds highest-paid female athlete in 2008. She was born in Russia in April 19, 1987 in the town of Nyagan in western Siberia. At the age of 2 Maria and her parents moved to the town of Sochi where her interest for tennis started while watching her father playing on the courts. Sharapova is the winner of 3 Grand Slam titles: Wimbledon (2004), US Open (2006) and Australia Open (2008)

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10. Ana Ivanovic Tennis player, Ana Ivanovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who as of 27 October 2014 is ranked world No. 5 by the Women's Tennis Association.Wikipedia

Born: November 6, 1987 (age 27), Belgrade, Serbia

Height: 6' 0" (1.84 m)

Weight: 152 lbs (69 kg)

Grand slams won (singles): 1

Siblings: Miloš Ivanović

Parents: Dragana Ivanović, Miroslav Ivanović