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who is considered the best tennis player of all time
100 greatest of all time - wikipedia 100 greatest of all time For similarly - named listings , see 100 greatest . 100 Greatest of All Time was a television series of five one - hour episodes , produced and first aired by Tennis Channel in March 2012 . It presented a list of the `` 100 greatest tennis players of all time '' , both men and women . The series was hosted by Jack Nicklaus , Jerry Rice , Wayne Gretzky , Lisa Leslie and Carl Lewis . Many retired tennis luminaries provided commentary , including Rod Laver , Billie Jean King , Chris Evert , Björn Borg , John McEnroe , Martina Navratilova , Pete Sampras , and Andre Agassi . Contents 1 List 2 See also 3 References 4 External links List ( edit ) An `` international panel of tennis experts '' determined this ranking of 62 men and 38 women . The United States was credited with the most great players ( 38 ) , followed by Australia ( 17 ) , France ( 7 ) , Great Britain ( 6 ) and Czechoslovakia ( 5 ) . Forty - three players made the list from the Americas , 39 from Europe and 18 from Oceania . Note : Bolded players are still active today . Slams figures reflect number of wins in Singles draws and are up - to - date , meaning that they may now be higher than the numbers used to determine the March 2012 list . Rank Name Gender Nationality Grand Slam tournaments Pro Slam tournaments Total Slam tournaments Roger Federer SUI 20 0 20 Rod Laver AUS 11 8 19 Steffi Graf GER 22 0 22 Martina Navratilova TCH / USA 18 0 18 5 Pete Sampras USA 14 0 14 6 Rafael Nadal ESP 17 0 17 7 Björn Borg SWE 11 0 11 8 Margaret Court AUS 24 0 24 9 Chris Evert USA 18 0 18 10 Billie Jean King USA 12 0 12 11 Don Budge USA 6 10 12 Andre Agassi USA 8 0 8 13 John McEnroe USA 7 0 7 14 Serena Williams USA 23 0 23 15 Jimmy Connors USA 8 0 8 16 Bill Tilden USA 10 14 17 Roy Emerson AUS 12 0 12 18 Ivan Lendl TCH 8 0 8 19 Monica Seles YUG / USA 9 0 9 20 Ken Rosewall AUS 8 15 23 21 Boris Becker GER 6 0 6 22 Venus Williams USA 7 0 7 23 Fred Perry GBR 8 10 24 Suzanne Lenglen FRA 8 0 10 25 Stefan Edberg SWE 6 0 6 26 Justine Henin BEL 7 0 7 27 Maureen Connolly USA 9 0 9 28 Arthur Ashe USA 0 29 Helen Wills USA 19 0 19 30 Martina Hingis SUI 5 0 5 31 John Newcombe AUS 7 0 7 32 Lew Hoad AUS 5 33 Mats Wilander SWE 7 0 7 34 Jack Kramer USA 5 35 Pancho Gonzalez USA 12 14 36 René Lacoste FRA 7 0 7 37 Evonne Goolagong Cawley AUS 7 0 7 38 Maria Bueno BRA 7 0 7 39 Althea Gibson USA 5 0 5 40 Novak Djokovic SRB 14 0 14 41 Guillermo Vilas ARG 0 42 Jim Courier USA 0 43 Lindsay Davenport USA 0 44 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario ESP 0 45 Kim Clijsters BEL 0 46 Henri Cochet FRA 7 8 47 Jean Borotra FRA 0 48 Frank Sedgman AUS 5 7 49 Ilie Năstase ROU 0 50 Tony Trabert USA 5 7 51 Doris Hart USA 6 0 6 52 Jack Crawford AUS 6 0 6 53 Tracy Austin USA 0 54 Manuel Santana ESP 0 55 Gustavo Kuerten BRA 0 56 Stan Smith USA 0 57 Jennifer Capriati USA 0 58 Alice Marble USA 5 0 5 59 Margaret Osborne duPont USA 6 0 6 60 Virginia Wade GBR 0 61 Neale Fraser AUS 0 62 Hana Mandlíková TCH 0 63 Lleyton Hewitt AUS 0 64 Ellsworth Vines USA 5 8 65 Pancho Segura ECU 0 66 Bobby Riggs USA 6 67 Fred Stolle AUS 0 68 Helen Hull Jacobs USA 5 0 5 69 Louise Brough USA 6 0 6 70 Patrick Rafter AUS 0 71 Maria Sharapova RUS 5 0 5 72 Gottfried Von Cramm GER 0 73 Jaroslav Drobný TCH 0 74 Tony Roche AUS 0 75 Pauline Betz Addie USA 5 0 5 76 William Renshaw GBR 7 0 7 77 Molla Mallory USA 8 0 8 78 Ashley Cooper AUS 0 79 Gabriela Sabatini ARG 0 80 Marat Safin RUS 0 81 Vic Seixas USA 0 82 Yevgeny Kafelnikov RUS 0 83 Jan Kodeš TCH 0 84 Norman Brookes AUS 0 85 Yannick Noah FRA 0 86 Tony Wilding NZL 6 0 6 87 Mary Pierce FRA 0 88 Amélie Mauresmo FRA 0 89 Dorothea Lambert Chambers GBR 7 0 7 90 Bill Johnston USA 0 91 Shirley Fry Irvin USA 0 92 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS 0 93 Nicola Pietrangeli ITA 0 94 Andy Roddick USA 0 95 Thomas Muster AUT 0 96 Manuel Orantes ESP 0 97 Pat Cash AUS 0 98 Bunny Austin GBR 0 0 0 99 Ann Haydon - Jones GBR 0 100 Michael Chang USA 0 See also ( edit ) 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS Era ( 2005 ) References ( edit ) ^ Jump up to : `` Tennis Panorama News '' . Tennis Panorama . Retrieved 2012 - 03 - 23 . External links ( edit ) Official site Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=100_Greatest_of_All_Time&oldid=862337424 '' Categories : Tennis - related lists Top sports lists Talk Contents About Wikipedia Bosanski Italiano Nederlands Edit links This page was last edited on 3 October 2018 , at 18 : 49 ( UTC ) . Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply . By using this site , you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy . Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation , Inc. , a non-profit organization . About Wikipedia