The 3 Spanish Grand Slam women’s champions as Paula Badosa looks to join the list

Only three Spanish women have lifted a Grand Slam trophy in the Open Era with Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Conchita Martinez and Garbine Muguruza sharing seven titles.
Paula Badosa is looking to expand the list to four players as she is now just two wins away from a maiden major trophy after upsetting Coco Gauff at the 2025 Australian Open.
It was a case of third time is a charm for Badosa after two quarter-final exits as she reached her first Grand Slam semi-final with a two-set win over the American.
If she is the last player standing at Melbourne Park, she will become only the fourth Spanish woman to win a major.
The 3 Spanish women’s Grand Slam winners:
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario – 4 titles
Baseliner Arantxa Sanchez Vicario followed in brothers Emilio Sanchez and Javier Sanchez’s footsteps in becoming a professional tennis player.
But she outperformed her two older siblings as she was the only Grand Slam singles champion in the family while Emilio also won doubles and mixed doubles titles.
Aged just 17, Sanchez Vicario made history as she became the first Spanish woman to win a major title when she beat two-time defending champion Steffi Graf in the 1989 French Open final.
After losing her next three Grand Slam finals – two against Monica Seles and one against Graf, she returned to the winner’s podium five years later as she won a second Roland Garros trophy, beating Mary Pierce in the final while later in the year she got the better of Graf in the US Open final.
Sanchez Vicario won the last of her four majors at the 1998 French Open as she beat Seles in three sets.
The former world No 1 also won six women’s doubles Grand Slams and four mixed doubles titles.
Conchita Martinez – 1 title
Three of the four Grand Slam titles were won by a Spanish woman in 1994 as Conchita Martinez – playing in her maiden major final – lifted the Wimbledon trophy after beating Martina Navratilova in three sets. It was a vintage year for Spain as Sanchez Vicario won at Roland Garros and the US Open while she also finished runner-up at the Australian Open.
Martinez reached two more finals, but finished runner-up to Martina Hingis at the 1998 Australian Open and lost the 2000 French Open final against Mary Pierce.
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Garbine Muguruza – 2 titles
After Sanchez Vicario won her last Grand Slam at Roland Garros in 1998, it would take nearly two more decades for another Spanish woman to lift a major trophy.
Garbine Muguruza stepped forward at the French Open in 2016 as she beat Serena Williams in the final – one year after the American beat her in the Wimbledon final.
The following year she again got the better of a member of the Williams family in a major final as she beat Venus at Wimbledon.
Muguruza reached the last of her four Grand Slam finals in 2020, this time losing against Sofia Kenin at the Australian Open.