The 7 youngest women when they won their 25th Grand Slam match: Does 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva feature?
Mirra Andreeva has already won 25 Grand Slam matches at the age of 18, but she is well outside the top 10 in terms of the youngest women to notch up that achievement at the four majors.
The teenager Andreeva defeated Hailey Baptiste in straight sets in the third round of Wimbledon 2025 to secure her 25th win at the Slams.
The Russian turned 18 on April 29 and she is the third-youngest player since the early 2000s to record 25 wins with Nicole Vaidisova (17 years and 280 days) and Maria Sharapova (18 years and 47 days) ahead of her with Coco Gauff (18 years and 119 days), Kim Clisters (18 years and 233 days) and Serena Williams (18 years and 286 days) completing the top five.
But Andreeva and Sharapova don’t make the top 10 of the all-time Open Era list of youngest women to win 25 matches at Grand Slams while Vaidisova sits at ninth.
The 7 youngest women when they won their 25th Grand Slam match:
7. Tracy Austin – 17 years and 206 days
American Austin won the US Open as a 16-year-old in 1979 and at that stage she also had two quarter-final appearances at the tournament and a semi-final at Wimbledon to her name.
The fact that she didn’t compete at the Australian Open/French Open until 1981/1982 counted against her in terms of racking up more Grand Slam wins before the age of 18.
Austin’s career was cut short by injuries and she ended up making just 17 Grand Slam main draw appearances.
6. Steffi Graf – 17 years and 85 days
Legend Graf made her Grand Slam debut as a 13-year-old at the 1983 Australian Open before winning her first match at the majors at the French Open a few months later.
Three years later, she would secure her 25th win at the Slams, shortly after turning 17, with her maiden major trophy arriving in 1987 at Wimbledon.
Graf went on to win 22 Grand Slams and finished with a win-loss record of 278–32.
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5. Monica Seles – 17 years and 56 days
Just in front of Graf is her great rival Seles with the Yugoslav-born American reaching the semi-final at the French Open at the age of 15.
The following year she won the French Open at the age of 16 and won No 25 at the Grand Slams during her run to the quarter-final at Wimbledon.
Seles won eight majors before she turned 20, but of course her rise and potential dominance were stopped by the horrific stabbing incident in 1993.
4. Andrea Jaeger – 17 years and 30 days
American Jaeger is the only player on this list who didn’t win a Grand Slam as her best performances were runners-up spots at the 1982 French Open and Wimbledon the following year.
Sadly for Jaeger, she competed in the era of Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin.
Her first 25 Grand Slam wins were propped up by runs to the semi-final at the 1980 US Open and 1981 French Open.
3. Gabriela Sabatini – 17 years and 22 days
Argentine great Sabatini made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the age of 14 at the 1984 US Open and at her next major – the 1985 French Open – she reached the semi-final. She was only 15 years and three weeks when she made the last four at Roland Garros.
Three years after her debut, she notched up match win No 25 at the majors.
But her first and Grand Slam title only arrived in 1990 when she beat Graf in the final of the US Open.
2. Martina Hingis – 16 years and 118 days
The Swiss Miss set several “youngest-ever” records at the start of her career. She was only 16 years and three months when she beat Mary Pierce in the 1997 Australian Open final.
She went on to win the French Open and US Open as well that year, while she also finished runner-up at Wimbledon – all before turning 17.
Hingis ended up winning five Grand Slams, with all of them coming before she turned 20.
1. Jennifer Capriati – 15 years and 303 days
Andrea Jaeger was the youngest woman to be seeded at Wimbledon as she was 15 years and 19 days, but Jennifer Capriati broke that record in 1990 as she was only 14 years old.
Her Wimbledon seeding came on the back of reaching the semi-final at the French Open and the next year she would also make the last eight at the All England Club and US Open to secure 25 Grand Slam match wins before turning 16.
Capriati’s Grand Slam titles came later in life as she won the 2001 Australian Open and French Open, and successfully defended her crown in Melbourne in 2002.
