The 7 women to win multiple WTA 1000 titles since 2020: Coco Gauff joins Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka
After a bumpy 2024, Coco Gauff returned to fine form with a run to the China Open title this past weekend.
The 20-year-old had won just one title this season up to that point – at the WTA 250 event in Auckland – and winning her latest WTA 1000 crown adds significant prestige to her already impressive career.
In fact, the US No 2 is now one of just seven women – and six active players – to win multiple WTA 1000 titles this decade.
Coco Gauff – 2
Gauff has now won two WTA 1000 titles thanks to her China Open triumph last weekend, with both of her titles coming on hard courts – and against the same opponent.
The world No 4 defeated Karolina Muchova for the loss of just four games in Beijing, having rallied from a set and a break down in the semi-final against Paula Badosa.
Gauff also beat Muchova to win the Cincinnati Open title in 2023, a title that was the biggest of her career until she won the US Open.
Elena Rybakina – 2
World No 5 Rybakina has not won a WTA 1000 title this season but two triumphs in 2023 place her on this list.
The Kazakh won her biggest title outside of her Wimbledon success at Indian Wells in 2023, beating Aryna Sabalenka in a rematch of the Australian Open final she had lost less than two months earlier.
That was followed by a run to the Italian Open title in Rome last May, with Rybakina lifting the title after Anhelina Kalinina retired injured in the final.
Simona Halep – 2
Halep has won an impressive nine WTA 1000 titles across her career, with two of the Romanian’s triumphs coming this decade.
The former world No 1 captured her first Italian Open title in 2020, lifting the title after reigning champion Karolina Pliskova retired injured in the final.
Halep’s most recent tour title then came at WTA 1000-level in 2022, beating Beatriz Haddad Maia in three sets to win the Canadian Open for a third time.
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Ashleigh Barty – 2
Barty retired weeks into the 2022 season, though two WTA 1000 triumphs in 2021 are more than enough to seal her place in this list.
The Australian won her first Miami Open title in 2019 and, after the tournament was cancelled in 2020, successfully defended her title in 2021 when Bianca Andreescu retired injured in the final.
Barty then won her third and final WTA 1000 title at the Cincinnati Open, downing surprise finalist Jill Teichmann.
Jessica Pegula – 3
One of the most consistent players on the WTA in recent years, only two women have won more WTA 1000 titles this decade than current world No 3 Pegula.
The American captured her first WTA 1000 title in Guadalajara in 2022, beating Maria Sakkari to lift the joint-biggest title of her career.
Since then, Pegula has gone on to win back-to-back Canadian Open titles in 2023 and 2024, beating Liudmila Samsonova and Amanda Anisimova in her two finals.
Aryna Sabalenka – 4
Sabalenka is a six-time champion at WTA 1000 events, and four of her triumphs have come since 2020.
The Belarusian beat Petra Kvitova in straight sets to win the Qatar Open in 2020, and the battled past Barty to lift the Madrid Open title in 2021.
The former world No 1 then edged past Iga Swiatek to win her second Madrid title in 2023, before defeating Pegula to lift her first Cincinnati Open title this summer.
Iga Swiatek – 10
Well out in front at the top of this list is Swiatek, whose ten WTA 1000 titles place her joint-sixth in the all-time standings.
The Pole famously double-bagelled Pliskova to win her first WTA 1000 title at the Italian Open in 2021 and has since gone on to win that tournament twice more, in 2022 and 2024.
Swiatek has also twice triumphed at Indian Wells, beating Sakkari in both the 2022 and 2024 finals, and has two Qatar Open titles to her name.
The world No 1 won the Miami Open in 2022 and China Open in 2023, and also lifted her first Madrid Open title this spring – beating Sabalenka in a 2023 final rematch.
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