roger federer has won the highest number of grand slams.
roger federer has won the highest number of grand slams.
who has won the highest number of grand slams?
roger federer
roger federer has won an all-time record 20 grand slam singles titles and has reached a record 31 grand slam finals (10 consecutive, and another 8 consecutive – the two longest streaks in history), 45 semi-final appearances, and 55 quarter-final appearances. he is one of eight men to have won a career grand slam (winning all four grand slams at least once) and one of four players to have won a career grand slam on three different surfaces, hard, grass and clay courts. federer has won 8 wimbledon titles, an all-time record. from 2005-2010 federer astonishingly reached the finals in 18 out of 19 grand slams, winning 12 titles and 6 runner up trophies. he is the only male player to win 2 different grand slam tournaments at least 6 times (australian open, wimbledon) and the only player to win 3 different tournaments at least 5 times (wimbledon, australian open, us open). he is the only player to win two grand slams five consecutive times at wimbledon from 2003–07 and the us open from 2004–08. federer has spent 310 weeks as the no. 1 ranked player in the world (ranked no. 1 for 237 consecutive weeks), the most of any men's tennis player since the inception of these rankings in 1973.
list of career achievements by roger federer
in men's singles, kei nishikori was finalist at the 2014 us open and two atp masters 1000 tournaments, whereas vijay amritraj reached quarter-finals at four grand slams and was semifinalist at the 1982 wct finals. in men's doubles, leander paes won eight grand slams tournaments and mahesh bhupathi won four grand slams tournaments and in mixed double paes won 10 and bhupathi won 8 grand slams. leander paes won total of 18 grand slams which is the highest by an asian tennis player and also he is among the very few to complete career slam in both men's doubles and mixed doubles. rohan bopanna won his first mixed doubles grand slam title at the 2017 french open. so far only indian men are successful in winning grand slams and also the most successful asian team at the davis cup having reached the finals on three occasions.
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