Here's the performance of top women's singles seeds at Wimbledon. The top seed has won the tournament 41 out of 79 attempts but only 3 times in the last 15 years. Martina Navratilova (1979, 1982-1987) and Helen Wills Moody (1927-1930, 1932, 1933, 1938) won this tournament the most times as the top seed (7). Margaret Smith Court (1962, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1973) failed to win this tournament the most times as the top seed (6).
2012: #1 Maria Sharapova lost fourth round. #6 Serena Williams won the title.
2011: #1 Caroline Wozniacki lost fourth round. #8 Petra Kvitova won the title. 2010: #1 Serena Williams won the title.
2009: #1 Dinara Safina lost semifinals. #2 Serena Williams won the title.
2008: #1 Ana Ivanovic lost third round. #7 Venus Williams won the title.
2007: #1 Justine Henin lost semifinals. #23 Venus Williams won the title. 2006: #1 Amelie Mauresmo won the title.
2005: #1 Lindsay Davenport lost final. #14 Venus Williams won the title.
2004: #1 Serena Williams lost final. #13 Maria Sharapova won the title. 2003: #1 Serena Williams won the title.
2002: #1 Venus Williams lost final. #2 Serena Williams won the title.
2001: #1 Martina Hingis lost first round. #2 Venus Williams won the title.
2000: #1 Martina Hingis lost quarterfinals. #5 Venus Williams won the title.
1999: #1 Martina Hingis lost first round. #3 Lindsay Davenport won the title.
1998: #1 Martina Hingis lost semifinals. #3 Jana Novotna won the title. 1997: #1 Martina Hingis won the title. 1996: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1995: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1994: #1 Steffi Graf lost first round. #3 Conchita Martinez won the title. 1993: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1992: #1 Monica Seles lost final. #2 Steffi Graf won the title. 1991: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1990: #1 Steffi Graf lost semifinals. #2 Martina Navratilova won the title. 1989: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1988: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1987: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title. 1986: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title. 1985: co-#1 Martina Navratilova won the title. co-#1 Chris Evert lost final. 1984: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title. 1983: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title. 1982: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title. 1981: #1 Christ Evert won the title.
1980: #1 Martina Navratilova lost semifinals. #4 Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the title. 1979: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1978: #1 Chris Evert lost final. #2 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1977: #1 Chris Evert lost semifinals. #3 Virginia Wade won the title.
1976: #1 Chris Evert won the title.
1975: #1 Chris Evert lost semifinals. #3 Billie Jean King won the title.
1974: #1 Billie Jean King lost quarterfinals. #2 Chris Evert won the title.
1973: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost semifinals. #2 Billie Jean King won the title.
1972: #1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley lost final. #2 Billie Jean King won the title.
1971: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost final. #3 Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the title. 1970: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1969: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost semifinals. #4 Ann Haydon Jones won the title. 1968: #1 Billie Jean King won the title.
1967: #1 Billie Jean King won the title. 1966: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost semifinals. #4 Billie Jean King won the title.
1965: #1 Maria Bueno lost final. #2 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1964: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost final. #2 Maria Bueno won the title.
1963: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1962: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost second round. #8 Karen Hantze Susman won the title.
1961: #1 Sandra Reynolds Price lost semifinals. #7 Angela Mortimer Barrett won the title.
1960: #1 Maria Bueno won the title. 1959: #1 Christine Truman Janes lost fourth round. #6 Maria Bueno won the title.
1958: #1 Althea Gibson won the title.
1957: #1 Althea Gibson won the title. 1956: #1 Louise Brough Clapp lost semifinals. #5 Shirley Fry Irvin won the title.
1955: #1 Doris Hart lost semifinals. #2 Louise Brough Clapp won the title.
1954: #1 Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title.
1953: #1 Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title. 1952: #1 Doris Hart lost quarterfinals. #2 Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title.
1951: #1 Louise Brough Clapp lost semifinals. #3 Doris Hart won the title.
1950: #1 Louise Brough Clapp won the title.
1949: #1 Louise Brough Clapp won the title. 1948: #1 Margaret Osborne DuPont lost semifinals. #1 Louise Brough Clapp won the title.
1947: #1 Margaret Osborne DuPont won the title.
1946: #1 Pauline Betz Addie won the title.
1939: #1 Alice Marble won the title.
1938: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title. 1937: #1 Helen Jacobs lost quarterfinals. #7 Dorothy Round Little won the title.
1936: #1 Dorothy Round Little lost quarterfinals. #2 Helen Jacobs won the title.
1935: #1 Dorothy Round Little lost quarterfinals. #4 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
1934: #1 Helen Jacobs lost final. #2 Dorothy Round Little won the title.
1933: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
1932: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
1931: #1 Cilly Aussem won the title.
1930: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
1929: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
1928: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
1927: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
Number of times each seed has won the title: #1: 41
#2: 15
#3: 7
#4: 4
#5: 2
#6: 2
#7: 3
#8: 2
#13: 1
#14: 1
#23: 1
Unseeded: 0
Here's the performance of top women's singles seeds at the French International Championships / French Open. The top seed has won the tournament 32 out of 81 attempts but only twice in the last 19 years. Chris Evert (1974, 1975, 1979, 1980) and Margaret Smith Court (1964, 1969, 1970, 1973) won this tournament the most times as the top seed (4). Martina Hingis (1997-2001) failed to win this tournament the most times as the top seed (5). Margaret Scriven Vivian (1933) is the only unseeded player to have won the title. Francesca Schiavone is the lowest seeded player (#17) to have won the title (2010). No top seed has ever lost in the first round. Zsuzsa Kormoczy (1960) is the only top seed to have lost her first match.
2012: #1 Victoria Azarenka lost fourth round. #2 Maria Sharapova won the title.
2011: #1 Caroline Wozniacki lost third round. #6 Li Na won the title.
2010: #1 Serena Williams lost quarterfinals. #17 Francesa Schiavone won the title.
2009: #1 Dinara Safina lost final. #7 Svetlana Kuznetsova won the title.
2008: #1 Maria Sharapova lost fourth round. #2 Ana Ivanovic won the title. 2007: #1 Justine Henin won the title.
2006: #1 Amelie Mauresmo lost fourth round. #5 Justine Henin won the title.
2005: #1 Lindsay Davenport lost quarterfinals. #10 Justine Henin won the title.
2004: #1 Justine Henin lost second round. #6 Anastasia Myskina won the title.
2003: #1 Serena Williams lost semifinals. #4 Justine Henin won the title.
2002: #1 Jennifer Capriati lost semifinals. #3 Serena Williams won the title.
2001: #1 Martina Hingis lost semifinals. #4 Jennifer Capriati won the title.
2000: #1 Martina Hingis lost semifinals. #6 Mary Pierce won the title.
1999: #1 Martina Hingis lost final. #6 Steffi Graf won the title.
1998: #1 Martina Hingis lost semifinals. #4 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario won the title.
1997: #1 Martina Hingis lost final. #9 Iva Majoli won the title. 1996: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1995: #1 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario lost final. #2 Steffi Graf won the title.
1994: #1 Steffi Graf lost semifinals. #2 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario won the title. 1993: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1992: #1 Monica Seles won the title. 1991: #1 Monica Seles won the title.
1990: #1 Steffi Graf lost final. #2 Monica Seles won the title.
1989: #1 Steffi Graf lost final. #7 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario won the title. 1988: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1987: #1 Martina Navratilova lost final. #2 Steffi Graf won the title.
1986: #1 Martina Navratilova lost final. #2 Chris Evert won the title.
1985: #1 Martina Navratilova lost final. #2 Chris Evert won the title. 1984: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1983: #1 Martina Navratilova lost fourth round. #2 Chris Evert won the title.
1982: #1 Chris Evert lost semifinals. #2 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1981: #1 Chris Evert lost semifinals. #4 Hana Mandlikova won the title. 1980: #1 Chris Evert won the title. 1979: #1 Chris Evert won the title.
1978: #1 Mima Jausovec lost final. #2 Virginia Ruzici won the title. 1977: #1 Mima Jausovec won the title. 1976: #1 Sue Barker won the title. 1975: #1 Chris Evert won the title.
1974: #1 Chris Evert won the title. 1973: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1972: #1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley lost final. #3 Billie Jean King won the title.
1971: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost third round. #3 Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the title. 1970: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1969: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1968: #1 Billie Jean King lost semifinals. #5 Nancy Richey won the title.
1967: #1 Billie Jean King lost quarterfinals. #6 Francoise Durr won the title.
1966: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost semifinals. #3 Ann Haydon Jones won the title.
1965: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost final. #3 Lesley Turner Bowrey won the title. 1964: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1963: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost quarterfinals. #2 Lesley Turner Bowrey won the title.
1962: #1 Ann Haydon Jones lost semifinals. #2 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1961: #1 Darlene Hard lost fourth round. #6 Ann Haydon Jones won the title.
1960: #1 Zsuzsa Kormoczy lost third round (her 1st match after bye & walkover). #6 Darlene Hard won the title.
1959: #1 Zsuzsa Kormoczy lost final. #2 Christine Truman Janes won the title.
1958: #1 Shirley Bloomer Brasher lost final. #3 Zsuzsa Kormoczy won the title. 1957: #1 Shirley Bloomer Brasher won the title.
1956: #1 Angela Mortimer Barrett lost final. #3 Althea Gibson won the title.
1955: #1 Beverly Baker Fleitz lost semifinals. #2 Angela Mortimer Barrett won the title. 1954: #1 Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title. 1953: #1 Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title.
1952: #1 Shirley Fry Irvin lost final. #2 Doris Hart won the title.
1951: #1 Doris Hart lost final. #3 Shirley Fry Irvin won the title.
1950: #1 Margaret Osborne DuPont lost semifinals. #3 Doris Hart won the title. 1949: #1 Margaret Osborne DuPont won the title.
1948: #1 Patricia Canning Todd lost semifinals. #3 Nelly Adamson Landry won the title.
1947: #1 Margaret Osborne DuPont lost semifinals. #5 Patricia Canning Todd won the title.
1946: #1 Pauline Betz Addie lost final. #2 Margaret Osborne DuPont won the title. 1939: #1 Simone Passemard Mathieu won the title. 1938: #1 Simone Passemard Mathieu won the title. 1937: #1 Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling won the title. 1936: #1 Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling won the title.
1935: #1 Margaret Scriven Vivian lost semifinals. #3 Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling won the title.
1934: #1 Helen Jacobs lost final. #2 Margaret Scriven Vivian won the title.
1933: #1 Lolette Payot Dodille lost third round. Unseeded Margaret Scriven Vivian won the title. 1932: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title. 1931: #1 Cilly Aussem won the title. 1930: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title. 1929: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title. 1928: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
1927: #1 Marguerite Broquedis Billout Bordes lost quarterfinals. #3 Kornelia Bouman won the title. 1926: #1 Suzanne Lenglen won the title. 1925: #1 Suzanne Lenglen won the title.
Number of times each seed has won the title: #1: 32
#2: 18
#3: 12
#4: 4
#5: 3
#6: 6
#7: 2
#8: 0
#9: 1
#10: 1
#17: 1
Unseeded: 1
Here's the performance of top women's singles seeds at the U.S. Championships / US Open.
2011: #1 Caroline Wozniacki lost semifinals. #9 Samantha Stosur won the title.
2010: #1 Caroline Wozniacki lost semifinals. #2 Kim Clijsters won the title.
2009: #1 Dinara Safina lost third round. Unseeded Kim Clijsters won the title.
2008: #1 Ana Ivanovic lost second round. #4 Serena Williams won the title. 2007: #1 Justine Henin won the title.
2006: #1 Amelie Mauresmo lost semifinals. #3 Maria Sharapova won the title.
2005: #1 Maria Sharapova lost semifinals. #4 Kim Clijsters won the title.
2004: #1 Justine Henin lost fourth round. #9 Svetlana Kuznetsova won the title.
2003: #1 Kim Clijsters lost final. #2 Justine Henin won the title. 2002: #1 Serena Williams won the title.
2001: #1 Martina Hingis lost semifinals. #4 Venus Williams won the title.
2000: #1 Martina Hingis lost semifinals. #3 Venus Williams won the title.
1999: #1 Martina Hingis lost final. #7 Serena Williams won the title.
1998: #1 Martina Hingis lost final. #2 Lindsay Davenport won the title. 1997: #1 Martina Hingis won the title. 1996: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1995: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1994: #1 Steffi Graf lost final. #2 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario won the title. 1993: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1992: #1 Monica Seles won the title.
1991: #1 Steffi Graf lost semifinals. #2 Monica Seles won the title.
1990: #1 Steffi Graf lost final. #5 Gabriela Sabatini won the title. 1989: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1988: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1987: #1 Steffi Graf lost final. #2 Martina Navratilova won the title. 1986: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1985: #1 Chris Evert lost semifinals. #3 Hana Mandlikova won the title. 1984: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1983: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1982: #1 Martina Navratilova lost quarterfinals. #2 Chris Evert won the title.
1981: #1 Chris Evert lost semifinals. #3 Tracy Austin won the title.
1980: #1 Tracy Austin lost semifinals. #3 Chris Evert won the title.
1979: #1 Chris Evert lost final. #3 Tracy Austin won the title.
1978: #1 Martina Navratilova lost semifinals. #2 Chris Evert won the title. 1977: #1 Chris Evert won the title. 1976: #1 Chris Evert won the title. 1975: #1 Chris Evert won the title.
1974: #1 Chris Evert lost semifinals. #2 Billie Jean King won the title.
1973: #1 Billie Jean King lost third round. #2 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1972: #1 Billie Jean King won the title.
1971: #1 Billie Jean King won the title.
1970: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1969: No #1 seed (Ann Haydon Jones withdrew). #2 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1968: #1 Billie Jean King lost final. #6 Virginia Wade won the title. 1967: #1 Billie Jean King won the title.
1966: #1 Billie Jean King lost second round. #2 Maria Bueno won the title. 1965: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1964: #1 Maria Bueno won the title.
1963: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost final. #4 Maria Bueno won the title. 1962: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1961: #1 Darlene Hard won the title.
1960: #1 Maria Bueno lost final. #4 Darlene Hard won the title. 1959: #1 Maria Bueno won the title. 1958: #1 Althea Gibson won the title. 1957: #1 Althea Gibson won the title. 1956: #1 Shirley Fry Irvin won the title.
1955: #1 (domestic) Doris Hart won the title. #1 (foreign) Angela Mortimer Barrett lost first round.
1954: #1 (domestic) Louise Brough Clapp lost final. #1 (foreign) Helen Fletcher Parker lost second round. #2 (domestic) Doris Hart won the title.
1953: #1 (domestic) Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title. #1 (foreign) Thelma Coyne Long lost third round.
1952: #1 (domestic) Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title. #1 (foreign) Thelma Coyne Long lost quarterfinals.
1951: #1 Doris Hart lost semifinals. #4 Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title. 1950: #1 Margaret Osborne DuPont won the title.
1949: #1 (domestic) Louise Brough Clapp lost semifinals. #1 Betty Hilton lost semifinals. #2 (domestic) Margaret Osborne DuPont won the title.
1948: #1 (domestic) Louise Brough Clapp lost final. #3 (domestic) Margaret Osborne DuPont won the title.
1947: #1 (domestic) Margaret Osborne DuPont lost final. #2 (domestic) Louise Brough Clapp won the title.
1946: #1 Pauline Betz Addie won the title.
1945: #1 Pauline Betz Addie lost final. #2 Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig won the title. 1944: #1 Pauline Betz Addie won the title. 1943: #1 Pauline Betz Addie won the title.
1942: #1 Louise Brough Clapp lost final. #2 Pauline Betz Addie won the title.
1941: #1 Paulize Betz Addie lost final. #2 Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig won the title. 1940: #1 Alice Marble won the title.
1939: #1 (domestic) Alice Marble won the title. #1 (foreign) Katherine Stammers Menzies Bullitt lost semifinals.
1938: #1 (domestic) Helen Jacobs lost third round. #1 (foreign) Jadwiga Jedrzejowska lost quarterfinals. #2 (domestic) Alice Marble won the title.
1937: #1 (domestic) Alice Marble lost quarterfinals. #1 (foreign) Jadwiga Jedrzejowska lost final. #2 (foreign) Anita Lizana won the title.
1936: #1 Helen Jacobs lost final. #3 Alice Marble won the title. 1935: #1 (domestic) Helen Jacobs won the title. #1 (foreign) Katherine Stammers Bullitt lost final.
1934: #1 (domestic) Helen Jacobs won the title. #1 (foreign) Betty Nuthall Shoemaker lost second round.
1933: #1 (domestic) Helen Wills Moody lost final. #1 (foreign) Dorothy Round Little lost semifinals. #2 (domestic) Helen Jacobs won the title.
1932: #1 (domestic) Helen Jacobs won the title. #1 (foreign) Elsie Goldsack Pittman lost semifinals. 1931: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
1930: #1 (foreign) Betty Nuthall Shoemaker won the title. #1 (domestic) Anna McCune Harper lost final.
1929: #1 (domestic) Helen Wills Moody won the title. #1 (foreign) Betty Nuthall Shoemaker lost quarterfinals.
1928: #1 Helens Wills Moody won the title. 1927: #1 (domestic) Helen Wills Moody won the title. #1 (foreign) ????
1926: #2 Molla Bjurstedt Mallory won the title. #1 Elizabeth Ryan lost final.
1925: #1 (domestic) Helen Wills Moody won the title. #1 (foreign) Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers lost quarterfinals.
1924: #1 Helen Wills Moody won the title.
Number of times each seed has won the title 1924-present: #1: 35
#1 domestic: 10
#1 foreign: 1
#2: 15
#2 domestic: 5
#2 foreign: 1
#3: 7
#3 domestic: 1
#4: 6
#5: 1
#6: 1
#7: 1
#8: 0
#9: 2
Unseeded: 1
Here's the performance of top women's singles seeds at the Australasian Championships / Australian Championships / Australian Open. The top seed has won the tournament 45 out of 84 attempts. Margaret Smith Court (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1973) won this tournament the most times as the top seed (9). Martina Navratilova (1980, 1982, 1984, 1987) failed to win this tournament the most times as the top seed (4). Since the seeding system began, an unseeded player has won this event 2 times: Serena Williams (2007), Chris O'Neil (1978).
2012: #1 Caroline Wozniacki lost quarterfinals. #3 Victoria Azarenka won the title.
2011: #1 Caroline Wozniacki lost semifinals. #3 Kim Clijsters won the title. 2010: #1 Serena Williams won the title.
2009: #1 Jelena Jankovic lost fourth round. #2 Serena Williams won the title.
2008: #1 Justine Henin lost quarterfinals. #5 Maria Sharapova won the title.
2007: #1 Maria Sharapova lost final. Unseeded Serena Williams won the title.
2006: #1 Lindsay Davenport lost quarterfinals. #3 Amelie Mauresmo won the title.
2005: #1 Lindsay Davenport lost final. #7 Serena Williams won the title. 2004: #1 Justine Henin won the title. 2003: #1 Serena Williams won the title. 2002: #1 Jennifer Capriati won the title.
2001: #1 Martina Hingis lost final. #12 Jennifer Capriati won the title.
2000: #1 Martina Hingis lost final. #2 Lindsay Davenport won the title.
1999: #1 Lindsay Davenport lost semifinals. #2 Martina Hingis won the title. 1998: #1 Martina Hingis won the title.
1997: #1 Steffi Graf lost fourth round. #4 Martina Hingis won the title. 1996: #1 Monica Seles won the title.
1995: #1 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario lost final. #4 Mary Pierce won the title. 1994: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1993: #1 Monica Seles won the title. 1992: #1 Monica Seles won the title.
1991: #1 Steffi Graf lost quarterfinals. #2 Monica Seles won the title. 1990: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1989: #1 Steffi Graf won the title. 1988: #1 Steffi Graf won the title.
1987: #1 Martina Navratilova lost final. #2 Hana Mandlikova won the title.
1985: #1 Chris Evert lost final. #2 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1984: #1 Martina Navratilova lost semifinals. #2 Chris Evert won the title. 1983: #1 Martina Navratilova won the title.
1982: #1 Martina Navratilova lost final. #2 Chris Evert won the title.
1981: #1 Chris Evert lost final. #3 Martina Navratilova win the title.
1980: #1 Martina Navratilova lost semifinals. #3 Hana Mandlikova won the title.
1979: #1 Virginia Ruzici lost first round. #5 Barbara Jordan won the title.
1978: #1 Sue Barker lost quarterfinals. Unseeded Chris O'Neil won the title. 1977 (Dec): #1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the title.
1977 (Jan): #1 Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat lost final. #2 Kerry Melville Reid won the title. 1976: #1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the title.
1975: #1 Margaret Smith Court lost quarterfinals. #3 Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the title.
1974: #1 Chris Evert lost final. #2 Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the title. 1973: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1972: #2 Virginia Wade won the title. #1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley lost final. 1971: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1970: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1969: #1 Billie Jean King lost final. #2 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1968: #1 foreign Billie Jean King won the title. #1 domestic Lesley Turner Bowrey lost semifinals. 1967: #1 foreign Nancy Richey won the title. #1 domestic Lesley Turner Bowrey lost final. 1966: #1 domestic Margaret Smith Court won the title. #1 foreign Nancy Richey lost final. 1965: #1 domestic Margaret Smith Court won the title. #1 foreign Maria Bueno lost final. 1964: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1963: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1962: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title. 1961: #1 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1960: #1 Maria Bueno lost quarterfinals. #7 Margaret Smith Court won the title.
1959: #1 Sandra Reynolds Price lost quarterfinals. #4 Mary Carter Reitano won the title. 1958: #1 Angela Mortimer Barrett won the title. 1957: #1 Shirley Fry Irvin won the title.
1956: #1 Mary Bevis Hawton lost semifinals. #2 Mary Carter Reitano won the title.
1955: #1 Thelma Coyne Long lost final. #2 Beryl Penrose Collier won the title.
1954: #1 domestic Thelma Coyne Long won the title. #1 foreign Hazel Redick Smith lost third round.
1953: #1 foreign Maureen Connolly Brinker won the title. #1 domestic Helen Angwin lost quarterfinals.
1952: #1 Nancye Wynne Bolton lost semifinals. #2 Thelma Coyne Long won the title. 1951: #1 Nancye Wynne Bolton won the title. 1950: #1 Louise Brough Clapp won the title. 1949: #1 Doris Hart won the title. 1948: #1 Nancye Wynne Bolton won the title. 1947: #1 Nancye Wynne Bolton won the title. 1946: #1 Nancye Wynne Bolton won the title. 1940: #1 Nancye Wynne Bolton won the title.
1939: #1 Nancye Wynne Bolton lost second round. #4 Emily Hood Westacott won the title. 1938: #1 Dorothy Bundy Cheney won the title.
1937: #1 Joan Hartigan Bathurst lost quarterfinals. #2 Nancye Wynne Bolton won the title.
1936: #1 Thelma Coyne Long lost semifinals. #2 Joan Hartigan Bathurst won the title. 1935: #1 Dorothy Round Little won the title. 1934: #1 Joan Hartigan Bathurst won the title. 1933: #1 Joan Hartigan Bathurst won the title.
1932: #1 Esna Boyd Robertson withdrew before her first match in the second round. #3 Coral McInnes Buttsworth won the title.
1931: #1 Marjorie Cox Crawford lost final. #4 Coral McInnes Buttsworth won the title. 1930: #1 Daphne Akhurst Cozens won the title. 1929: #1 Daphne Akhurst Cozens won the title.
1928: #1 Esna Boyd Robertson lost final. #2 Daphne Akhurst Cozens won the title. 1927: #1 Esna Boyd Robertson won the title. 1926: #1 Daphne Akhurst Cozens won the title.
1925: #1 Sylvia Lance Harper lost semifinals. #2 Daphne Akhurst Cozens won the title.
1924: #1 Margaret Mutch Molesworth lost quarterfinals. #3 Sylvia Lance Harper won the title.
Margaret Smith Court has been seeded #1 in singles at Grand Slam tournaments more times than any other woman. She received the top seed 30 times, and went on to justify her seeding by winning the tournament 18 times.
Martina Hingis was seeded #1 in singles at 18 Grand Slam tournaments but won only 3 of them. Her 15 defeats as the top seed is the most ever by a woman.
Updated through 2012 Wimbledon.
Steffi Graf 18-11
Margaret Smith Court 18-12
Helen Wills Moody 13-0
Martina Navratilova 12-11
Chris Evert 8-13
Maureen Connolly Brinker 7-0
Monica Seles 6-1
Nancye Wynne Bolton 5-2 Serena Williams 5-3
Billie Jean King 5-7
Althea Gibson 4-0
Pauline Betz Addie 4-2
Daphne Akhurst Cozens 3-0
Alice Marble 3-1
Maria Bueno 3-3
Louise Brough Clapp 3-3
Margaret Osborne DuPont 3-3
Justine Henin 3-4
Helen Jacobs 3-5
Martina Hingis 3-15
Serena Williams was the second #6 seed to win Wimbledon, with Maria Bueno in 1959 being the other. Williams's victory was the 10th time that a #6 seed has won a Grand Slam singles title.
Maria Sharapova has never won a Grand Slam singles title as the top seed, in four attempts.
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