Top 10 women players of all time per surface

Grass:

1. Navratilova
2. Graf
3. Lenglen
4. Wills Moody
5. Connolly
6. Evert
7. Jean King
8. Court
9. Bueno
10. Venus

Venus can thank her non existant grass court competition for much of her grass court dominance so I dont rank her as highly. The same is true of Graf but she atleast took advantage of it to dominate longer on the surface, and didnt suffer some of the ultra embarassing losses during her reign at Wimbledon as Venus has (eg-losing to Sprem).

Clay:

1. Evert
2. Graf
3. Connolly
4. Lenglen
5. Seles
6. Navratilova
7. Henin
8. Court
9. Sanchez Vicario
10. Sabatini

I know my ranking Martina on clay might look partial. While biased I think Martina was an amazing clay courter in her time who was unlucky to be in the era of the greatest clay courter ever- Chris Evert. It was the same consideration to why I ranked Evert higher on grass then the OP. Martina in her prime clobbered Chris once in the French Open final, clobbering the greatest clay courtever ever in her prime in a French Open final. That is phenomenal, just imagine Federer ever doing that to Nadal at the French Open. Almost all her losses to Chris at the French were extremely close. At 30 years old she nearly beat a near prime Steffi in the French Open final too.


Hard courts I will also only rank the last 30 years since you cant really tell the players before that. Last 30 years only:

1. Navratilova
2. Graf
3. Evert
4. Serena
5. Seles
6. Henin
7. Venus
8. Hingis
9. Davenport
10. Austin
Evert over King on grass is a fictional novel to me.
 
Hewittboy. while you busy downgrading all of the competition, Evert faced on clay courts, take a look at where that leaves you. With her incredibly consistent lifetime record on grass, playing in a great grass court era, compared to the people you laud as so wonderful on grass. How bout to start giving credit where its due and denying credit for folks who can't manage to make to the semis on their best surface more often than Evert can on her worst. Oh leave off all those excuses.
1. Steffi Graf
2. Martina Navratilova
3. Helen Wills Moody
4. Suzanne Lenglen
5. Maureen Connoly
6. Venus Williams
7. Billie Jean King
8. Margaret Court
9. Maria Bueno
10. Evonne Goolagong

Here's the whole truth

Bueno played a total of 25 grass slams and has 4 qf losses, one 4th rd loss, two 3rd rd losses, and two 2nd rd losses.

Court played 37 grass slams and has 4 QF losses, and two 2nd rd losses.

King played 51 grass slams has 8 QF losses, two 3rd rd losses, 2 2nd rd losses, and two occasions when she lost in the first rd.

Goolagong played 29 grass slams has 3 Qf losses, 0ne 4th rd loss, four 3rd rd losses, four 2nd rd losses.

Navratilova has played 31 grass slams and has 3 QF losses, two 3rd round losses, and three first round losses.

Graf played 13 grass slams and has two 4th rd losses, two 3rd round losses, and two first rd losses.

Williams has 2 QF losses, one 3rd rd loss, one 2nd rd loss, and one first rd loss just bay playing Wimbledon alone.

Evert has played 27 grass court slams and one 4th rd loss.


What was it Hopman used to say? ( paraphrased) If you show up on the court, you are healthy and ready to play!
Chrissie lost to Jordan in the 3rd round at Wimbledon, not the fourth round in 1983.
 
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