Top 5 Tennis Players with The Highest Number of Grand Slams Titles

The 2019 tennis season has fully kicked off with its first major tournament, The Australian Open, coming to an end yesterday.

There are many tennis tournaments in a season but the major ones are called the Grand Slam Tournaments. They are the Australian Open, usually played on Hard Court in Mid-January, the French Open played on Clay in May/June, the Wimbledon played on grass in June/July and the US Open played on hard Court in August/September.

The first grand slam tournament this year saw Japan’s Naomi Osaka win the women’s singles on Saturday and Novak Djokovic win the men’s singles yesterday. As a result, Naomi Osaka climbed up the WTA rankings to become World’s number 1 and Djokovic (already holding the number 1 spot on the ATP rankings) win the 15^th Grand Slam Title of his career.

In winning his 15^th grand slam title, Djokovic became the third man with the highest man number of grand slam titles in the history of tennis. But who are the others who have won more titles than Novak?

Take a look at the top five tennis players with the highest number of grand slam titles.

1. Roger Federer – 20 titles.

Roger Federer has won a staggering 20 Grand Slam titles starting with his Wimbledon 2003 win, and here is a look back at all of them. #rolandgarros https://t.co/QD6JOWmyFN pic.twitter.com/UhYbMnG3fc

— Jack Clue (@jackclue3) November 30, 2018

2. Rafael Nadal – 17 titles

Rafael Nadal defeats Dominic Thiem to win a record-extending 11th French Open title that took his tally of grand slam titles to 17. #RG18 pic.twitter.com/1UDM1j9cmh

— China Daily (@ChinaDaily) June 10, 2018

3. Novak Djokovic – 15 titles

27th of January: Picture of the day – in Tennis: Novak Djokovic celebrates his seventh Australian Open title win, becoming the man with the most AO titles in tennis history, and surpassing Pete Sampras to achieve 15 Grand Slam titles. Power, talent, legend. pic.twitter.com/fHbAKHiWSW

— OanaVancea (@OanaVancea) January 27, 2019

4. Pete Sampras – 14 titles

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5. Roy Emerson – 12 titles.

Happy birthday Roy Emerson. The first man to win the #AusOpen singles title six times, matched only by Djokovic. pic.twitter.com/CWElK6apPx

— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) November 3, 2017

After winning his 15^th grand slam, Novak Djokovic admitted on having eyes on the spot held by Roger Federer as the man with the highest grand slam titles.

Do you think he can equal or even surpass that record?