Most Grand Slam doubles titles won

Martina Navratilova (USA, b. Czechoslovakia) won a record 41 Grand Slam doubles titles: 31 in women’s doubles (1975-90) and 10 in mixed doubles (1974-2006). She achieved her greatest success with Pam Shriver, with whom she won 20 women’s doubles titles between 1981 and 1989.

Navratilova won at least one women’s doubles (WD) and one mixed doubles (XD) crown at each Grand Slam. She claimed nine titles at the Australian Open (8 WD, 1 XD), nine at the French Open (7 WD, 2 XD), 11 at Wimbledon (7 WD, 4 XD) and 12 at the US Open (9 WD, 3 XD).

In 2006, one month short of her 50th birthday, Navratilova won the mixed doubles at the US Open with Bob Bryan to complete her 41st – and final – Grand Slam triumph. This took her one doubles title clear of Margaret Court, who won 40 tournaments (19 women’s doubles, 21 mixed doubles) between 1961 and 1975.

Her US Open mixed doubles success with Bob Bryan on 9 September 2006, when she was 49 years 326 days old, made Navratilova (b. 18 October 1956) the oldest winner of a Grand Slam title (singles or doubles). Her 41st Grand Slam title came 32 years after her first, having won mixed doubles at the French Open, with Colombia’s Iván Molina, in June 1974.