The 36 Best Australian Open Women's Singles Champions of All Time

Melbourne has crowned everyone from an amateur-era record-setter to a modern power baseliner. Eleven titles or two, hard court or grass — pick the champion who owns the Australian Open.

1. 1
   Serena Williams

   Seven Melbourne titles between 2003 and 2017, the last of them won while pregnant.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Margaret Court

   Eleven Australian singles titles, seven of them in a row from 1960 to 1966, a record at any major.
   965pts
3. 3
   Aryna Sabalenka

   Back-to-back Melbourne titles in 2023 and 2024, her first majors.
   624pts
4. 4
   Justine Henin

   Won the 2004 title over Kim Clijsters with her famous one-handed backhand, and reached two more finals in Melbourne.
   624pts
5. 5
   Chris Evert

   Two titles, in 1982 and 1984, from a player who often skipped the trip entirely.
   577pts
6. 6
   Martina Navratilova

   Three Australian titles in 1981, 1983 and 1985 — the slam she reached last and left earliest.
   577pts
7. 7
   Caroline Wozniacki

   Won the 2018 title over Simona Halep in a three-set final, her only major and the one that returned her to world No. 1.
   576pts
8. 8
   Hana Mandlíková

   Won in 1980 and 1987, the second time ending Martina Navratilova's run in a final at Kooyong.
   523pts
9. 9
   Angelique Kerber

   The 2016 title, beating Serena Williams in the final on her way to world No. 1.
   523pts
10. 10
    Thelma Coyne Long

    Won the singles in 1952 and 1954 and was a regular doubles champion at the Australian Championships across two decades.
    523pts
11. 11
    Li Na

    Champion in 2014 after losing two finals, the first Asian player to win the Australian Open singles title.
    523pts
12. 12
    Louise Brough

    Won the 1950 title in the same year as the third of her three straight Wimbledon singles crowns.
    523pts
13. 13
    Billie Jean King

    Won the 1968 title, the last Australian Championships before the Open era, on her way to twelve major singles crowns.
    461pts
14. 14
    Maria Sharapova

    The 2008 title, completing three legs of her career Grand Slam.
    461pts
15. 15
    Mary Pierce

    Won the 1995 title without dropping a set, beating Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the final.
    461pts
16. 16
    Lindsay Davenport

    The 2000 title, the third and last major of a career built on flat power.
    461pts
17. 17
    Elena Rybakina

    Won the 2026 title by beating world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in a third-set fight, avenging her loss in the 2023 final.
    461pts
18. 18
    Virginia Wade

    Won the 1972 title at Kooyong, the second of her three major singles championships.
    461pts
19. 19
    Evonne Goolagong Cawley

    Four Australian titles between 1974 and 1977, three of them in a row, all on the Kooyong grass.
    390pts
20. 20
    Maureen Connolly

    Won the 1953 title at eighteen as the first leg of the first women's calendar Grand Slam.
    390pts
21. 21
    Madison Keys

    Won the 2025 title at 29 for her first major, beating the two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka 7-5 in the third set.
    390pts
22. 22
    Daphne Akhurst

    Five-time champion between 1925 and 1930; the women's singles trophy, the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup, bears her name.
    390pts
23. 23
    Victoria Azarenka

    Back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013, both of which took her to world No. 1.
    390pts
24. 24
    Doris Hart

    Champion in 1949 who went on to win the singles at all four majors, a career Grand Slam rare in her era.
    307pts
25. 25
    Kerry Melville Reid

    Won the January 1977 title in an all-Australian final against Dianne Fromholtz.
    307pts
26. 26
    Monica Seles

    Four titles between 1991 and 1996, the last of them after her stabbing and comeback.
    210pts
27. 27
    Martina Hingis

    Three in a row from 1997 to 1999, the first of them at sixteen years old.
    210pts
28. 28
    Jennifer Capriati

    Two titles in 2001 and 2002, a decade after arriving as a teenage prodigy.
    210pts
29. 29
    Shirley Fry

    Won the 1957 title in her final major, completing a career Grand Slam before retiring that year.
    210pts
30. 30
    Kim Clijsters

    Took the 2011 title, her only major away from New York, and became known in Melbourne as 'Aussie Kim'.
    210pts
31. 31
    Amélie Mauresmo

    Won the 2006 title for her first major, months before adding Wimbledon to finish her career as a two-time Grand Slam champion.
    210pts
32. 32
    Steffi Graf

    Four Australian titles, including the 1988 leg of the only calendar Golden Slam in tennis.
    210pts
33. 33
    Ashleigh Barty

    The 2022 title, the first by a home player in forty-four years, months before she retired.
    210pts
34. 34
    Sofia Kenin

    Won the 2020 title at 21, beating Garbiñe Muguruza in the final for her first and only major.
    210pts
35. 35
    Nancye Wynne Bolton

    Six-time champion between 1937 and 1951, second only to Margaret Court for Australian women's singles titles.
    210pts
36. 36
    Naomi Osaka

    Champion in 2019 and 2021, winning every major final she has reached.
    0pts

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