Most Australian Open Titles in History

Novak Djokovic holds the record for the most Australian Open men’s singles titles, with 10, won between 2008 and 2023. On the women’s side, Margaret Court stands alone with 11 singles titles, the most by any player in the tournament’s history, making these two the defining champions of Melbourne’s Grand Slam.

The Australian Open is the first major of the tennis season, played on the hard courts of Melbourne Park in the heat of the southern summer. Winning it once is a career highlight; winning it repeatedly, as the champions on this list have, marks a player as a master of the surface and the conditions. Here is the full leaderboard of Australian Open singles greats, across both the men’s and women’s draws. All figures are as of the 2025 season.

The men’s record: Novak Djokovic and 10 titles

Djokovic’s relationship with the Australian Open is the most dominant in the tournament’s history. He won his first in 2008 and returned again and again, reeling off titles in clusters and rarely losing once he reached the second week. His tenth, in 2023, extended a men’s record that already looked out of reach, and no other man has managed more than six.

The margin is what makes it remarkable. At 10 titles, Djokovic sits four clear of the field, a gap that reflects both his peak dominance and his longevity on a surface that has always suited his game.

The men’s singles leaderboard

The table below ranks the most successful men’s singles champions at the Australian Open. Active players are noted.

Rank	Titles	Player	Era
1	10	Novak Djokovic*	2008-2023
2	6	Roger Federer	2004-2018
2	6	Roy Emerson	1961-1967
4	4	Andre Agassi	1995-2003
4	4	Ken Rosewall	1953-1972
4	4	Jack Crawford	1931-1935
7	3	Mats Wilander	1983-1988
7	3	Rod Laver	1960-1969
7	3	Adrian Quist	1936-1948

*Novak Djokovic is active; his total is current through the 2025 season and could still climb.

Roger Federer and Roy Emerson share second on six, decades apart, with Emerson’s haul coming in the amateur era of the 1960s and Federer’s spread across the modern game. Andre Agassi and Ken Rosewall headline the group on four.

The women’s record: Margaret Court and 11 titles

Margaret Court’s 11 Australian singles titles are the most by any player, man or woman, at the tournament. The Australian great won seven of them in the amateur era and four more after tennis turned professional, dominating her home Grand Slam like no one before or since. Her total is the overall benchmark that even Djokovic’s men’s record does not reach.

The women’s singles leaderboard

The table below ranks the most successful women’s singles champions at the Australian Open.

Rank	Titles	Player	Era
1	11	Margaret Court	1960-1973
2	7	Serena Williams	2003-2017
3	6	Nancye Wynne Bolton	1937-1951
4	5	Daphne Akhurst	1925-1930
5	4	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	1974-1977
5	4	Steffi Graf	1988-1994
5	4	Monica Seles	1991-1996

Serena Williams, second with seven, is the most successful champion of the modern era, while the women’s trophy itself is named after Daphne Akhurst, a five-time winner from the 1920s and 1930s.

The modern chase and the all-time picture

Among active players, only Djokovic sits near the top of either list, and even he would need more titles to stretch a record that is already historic. No current woman is close to Court’s 11 or Williams’s seven. The broader story of tennis’s greatest careers runs through our rankings of the greatest tennis players and the record for the most Grand Slam titles in tennis, where Australian Open crowns count toward the ultimate career total.

Why the record matters

The Australian Open tests players in extreme heat on a fast, high-bouncing surface at the very start of the year, before match sharpness has fully returned. Winning it 10 or 11 times, as Djokovic and Court have, demands supreme conditioning as well as class. These titles also feed the larger Grand Slam picture, sitting alongside the grass-court mastery tracked on our most Wimbledon titles leaderboard.

The short version: Novak Djokovic holds the Australian Open men’s singles record with 10 titles, and Margaret Court leads the women, and the tournament overall, with 11. Serena Williams (7) and the pairing of Roger Federer and Roy Emerson (6) follow. As of the 2025 season, only Djokovic among active players is positioned to extend his mark.