The Greatest Tennis Players of All Time, Ranked
All 16 players here, ranked by 51 players. Novak Djokovic leads: it wins 84.6% of its matchups (n = 149) and was champion in 23 of 51 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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Martina Navratilova18 Grand Slams
Steffi Graf22 Grand Slams
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Tennis Players: the community’s best
Win rate across 725 head-to-head picks from 51 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Tennis player | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novak Djokovic24 Grand Slams | 126–23 | 84.6% | 23 | 149 | |
| 2 | Roger Federer20 Grand Slams | 100–39 | 71.9% | 11 | 139 | |
| 3 | Rafael Nadal22 Grand Slams | 84–44 | 65.6% | 6 | 128 | |
| 4 | Serena Williams23 Grand Slams | 73–46 | 61.3% | 4 | 119 | |
| 5 | Steffi Graf22 Grand Slams | 50–46 | 52.1% | 0 | 96 | |
| 6 | Carlos Alcaraz7 Grand Slams | 44–45 | 49.4% | 2 | 89 | |
| 7 | Pete Sampras14 Grand Slams | 39–47 | 45.3% | 0 | 86 | |
| 8 | Andre Agassi8 Grand Slams | 36–49 | 42.4% | 2 | 85 |
Tennis Players: the community tier list
From 725 head-to-head picks in 51 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Novak Djokovic
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Roger Federer
- Rafael Nadal
- Serena Williams
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Steffi Graf
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Carlos Alcaraz
- Pete Sampras
- Andre Agassi
- Jannik Sinner
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Bjorn Borg
- Venus Williams
- Rod Laver
- Martina Navratilova
- Billie Jean King
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- John McEnroe
- Arthur Ashe
How the Tennis Players bracket works
This tennis player ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal? Novak Djokovic or Serena Williams? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 16-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 16 contenders in the field. Everyone gets the same draw on a given day, so you can compare runs with friends; New draw gives you a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams. Updated
- Roger Federer20 Grand SlamsPhoto: Tatiana / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Rafael Nadal22 Grand SlamsPhoto: Barcex / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Novak Djokovic24 Grand SlamsPhoto: Andymiah / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Serena Williams23 Grand SlamsPhoto: Vbrunophotog / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Steffi Graf22 Grand SlamsPhoto via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Pete Sampras14 Grand SlamsPhoto: Shinya Suzuki / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Bjorn Borg11 Grand SlamsPhoto: Michaël Bemelmans / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- John McEnroe7 Grand SlamsPhoto: Eurosport / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- Billie Jean King12 Grand SlamsPhoto: Claire Fridkin / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Venus Williams7 Grand SlamsPhoto: Hameltion / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Andre Agassi8 Grand SlamsPhoto: Shinya Suzuki / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Martina Navratilova18 Grand SlamsPhoto: Andrew Campbell / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- Carlos Alcaraz7 Grand SlamsPhoto: Like tears in rain / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jannik Sinner5 Grand Slams
- Arthur Ashe3 Grand SlamsPhoto: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
- Rod Laver11 Grand SlamsPhoto: Brisbane City Council / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Tier list instead?
Load all 16 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own tennis player bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Decide your criteria before you start — peak, longevity or trophies — and hold to it all the way through.
- The default run puts all 16 contenders in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Questions people ask
What is the best tennis player?
According to 51 BracketRanker players, Novak Djokovic (24 Grand Slams). It wins 84.6% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 149) and was champion in 23 of 51 brackets (45.1%).
How many contenders are in the Tennis Players bracket?
The pool holds 16 contenders. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which contenders are included?
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, Steffi Graf, Pete Sampras, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Billie Jean King, Venus Williams, Andre Agassi and Martina Navratilova, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Tennis Players bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other contender grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two contenders that never met. If you would rather place the contenders into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these contenders?
Every completed bracket feeds the Tennis Players community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own tennis players bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own contenders, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.