Top 10: Longest WTA winning runs
A win streak of more than 40 WTA singles matches has been achieved 10 times in the Open Era.
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10. Martina Navratilova put together a 41-match winning streak in 1982, with her run ended by Pam Shriver at the 1982 US Open in the quarterfinals.
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9. Chris Evert also put together a 41-match undefeated run, doing so over the course of 1975 and 1976. It was Navratilova who ultimately ended this sequence in Houston.
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8. In 1987, Stefanie Graf produced a run of 45 wins in succession. Again, Navratilova was the player to put an end to the streak, doing so in the Wimbledon final.
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7. Graf went one better in 1988 as she won 46 matches in a row. Shriver was the player to get the better of her in the semifinals of the Virginia Slims Championships.
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6. Navratilova surpassed her previous best winning run in 1983 as she won 54 consecutive matches only for the run to end in Oakland in January 1984. Hana Mandlikova was the player who beat her over three sets.
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5. Evert’s best career run came in 1974 as she negotiated 55 encounters without a loss. Evonne Goolagong ended her run in the semifinals of the US Open.
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4. Margaret Court set the record for consecutive wins in 1972 as she won 57 in a row before Billie Jean King put a stop to her in Indianapolis. Court’s mark would stand for more than a decade.
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3. The 1987 Australian Open final would put an end to a winning sequence of 58 matches for Navratilova. Once again, Mandlikova proved her nemesis.
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2. Graf won 66 successive matches from 1989 into 1990. The German was finally beaten by Monica Seles in the final of Berlin.
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1. The all-time longest win streak is held by Navratilova, who pieced together 74 successive wins during 1984, only for Helena Sukova to come from a set down to beat her in the semifinals of the Australian Open.
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