Forty grand slam tournaments have been played in the last ten years. From Australian Open 2013 until Australian Open 2023 forty men and forty ladies singles trophies were awarded. And nothing shows the difference between men’s and ladies’ tennis better than the number of winners of grand slam tournament singles.
Twenty-two versus Nine
Twenty-two ladies celebrated at least once at a grand slam in the last ten years. Though, just nine men split all forty trophies.
The dominance of the best three players in men’s tennis is overwhelming. Conversely, competitiveness and equality in ladies’ tennis are overwhelming too.
Of course, this pattern will probably change. We have already seen in the last three US Opens that brought three different men’s singles winners that the balance is coming to men’s tennis too.
List of all ladies’ grand slam winners from 2013
8 titles [1 player]
Serena Williams [FO 2013, USO 2013, USO 2014, AO 2015, FO 2015, W 2015, W 2016, AO 2017]
4 titles [1 player]
Osaka [USO 2018, AO 2019, USO 2020, AO 2021]
3 titles [3 players]
Kerber [AO 2016, USO 2016, W 2018]
Barty [FO 2019, W 2021, AO 2022]
Swiatek [FO 2020, FO 2022, USO 2022]
2 titles [2 players]
Muguruza [FO 2016, W 2017]
Halep [FO 2018, W 2019]
1 title [15 players]
Azarenka [AO 2013]
Bartoli [W 2013]
Li Na [AO 2014]
Sharapova [FO 2014]
Kvitova [W 2014]
Pennetta [USO 2015]
Ostapenko [FO 2017]
Stephens [USO 2017]
Wozniacki [AO 2018]
Andreescu [USO 2019]
Kenin [AO 2020]
Krejcikova [FO 2021]
Raducanu [USO 2021]
Rybakina [W 2022]
Sabalenka [AO 2023]
List of all men grand slam winners from 2013
17 titles [1 player]
Djokovic [AO 2013, W 2014, AO 2015, W 2015, USO 2015, AO 2016, FO 2016, W 2018, USO 2018, AO 2019, W 2019, AO 2020, AO 2021, FO 2021, W 2021, W 2022, AO 2023]
11 titles [1 player]
Nadal [FO 2013, USO 2013, FO 2014, FO 2017, USO 2017, FO 2018, FO 2019, USO 2019, FO 2020, AO 2022, FO 2022]
3 titles [2 players]
Federer [AO 2017, W 2017, AO 2018]
Wawrinka [AO 2014, FO 2015, USO 2016]
2 titles [1 player]
Murray [W 2013, W 2016]
1 title [4 players]
Cilic [USO 2014]
Thiem [USO 2020]
Medvedev [USO 2021]
Alcaraz [USO 2022]