Who is the greatest Australian Open women's singles champion 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
   Margaret Court

   Eleven Australian singles titles, seven of them in a row from 1960 to 1966, on the grass at Kooyong.
2. 2
   Serena Williams

   Seven Melbourne titles across seventeen years, the last of them in 2017 while pregnant.
3. 3
   Steffi Graf

   Four Australian titles, including the 1988 leg of the only calendar Golden Slam in tennis.
4. 4
   Monica Seles

   Four titles in five years between 1991 and 1996, the last after her stabbing and return.
5. 5
   Evonne Goolagong Cawley

   Four straight Australian titles from 1974 to 1977, all on the Kooyong grass.
6. 6
   Martina Navratilova

   Three Australian titles in 1981, 1983 and 1985 — the slam she reached last and left earliest.
7. 7
   Martina Hingis

   Three in a row from 1997 to 1999, the first of them at sixteen years old.
8. 8
   Chris Evert

   Two titles, in 1982 and 1984, from a player who often skipped the trip entirely.
9. 9
   Victoria Azarenka

   Back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013, both of which took her to world No. 1.
10. 10
    Naomi Osaka

    Champion in 2019 and 2021, winning every major final she has reached.
11. 11
    Aryna Sabalenka

    Back-to-back Melbourne titles in 2023 and 2024, her first majors.
12. 12
    Jennifer Capriati

    Two titles in 2001 and 2002, a decade after arriving as a teenage prodigy.
13. 13
    Maria Sharapova

    The 2008 title, completing three legs of her career Grand Slam.
14. 14
    Lindsay Davenport

    The 2000 title, the third and last major of a career built on flat power.
15. 15
    Ashleigh Barty

    The 2022 title, the first by a home player in forty-four years, months before she retired.
16. 16
    Angelique Kerber

    The 2016 title, beating Serena Williams in the final on her way to world No. 1.