Top 7 players with the longest winning streaks in Women's Tennis
Martina Navratilova holds the record for the longest winning streak in women's tennis having won 74 consecutive matches. Her streak started in February at the 1984 and ended in December 1986.
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Steffi Graf features second on the list for the longest winning streak with the German going undefeated in 66 matches with the streak starting mid-way in the 1989 season and extending to the 1990 season.
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Martina Navratilova features once again in the list, this time in the 1986 and 1987 seasons. With the streak starting in '86, Martina's brilliance and dominance were again on display with the streak ending in the finals of the 1987 Australian Open.
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Margaret Court was the first to win 50 matches on the trot as she won 57 matches before being defeated in 1972. The record stood for more than a decade before Navratilova snapped it in 1984-85.
Chris Evert enters the list with 57 wins in 1974 before losing to Australia's Evonne Googalong Cawley in the semis of the US Open. She went on to win more than 40 consecutive matches later once again.
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Featuring in the list for the third time, the streak achieved during the 1983 and 84 seasons was Navratilova's third streak when she racked up 50 consecutive wins. Hana Mandlikova defeated her in the finals of Oklahoma in January 1984 ending her streak.
Graf's second appearance on the list comes with the courtesy of her 46-match unbeaten streak achieved during her Golden year in 1988 when she clinched all the majors and the Olympics Gold. The streak came to an end in the Virginia Slims Championships.