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Honouring Outstanding Performance: Past Champions

Most successful ITF World Champions

Some of the biggest names in the sport are repeat fixtures in the honour roll of ITF World Champions. Discover the most prolific champions - and the full roll of honour for each award - below.

Esther Vergeer 13-time Women's Wheelchair World Champion

Esther Vergeer was crowned ITF World Champion in 13 consecutive years during a remarkable period of dominance between 2000 and 2012

Mike Bryan 12-Time Men's Doubles World Champion

Mike Bryan holds the record for the most ITF World Champion accolades in the men's doubles category - one more than his brother Bob, whom he won 11 World Champion awards alongside

Shingo Kunieda 10-Time Men's Wheelchair World Champion

Shingo Kunieda was named ITF World Champion for a record 10th time in the men's wheelchair category in 2022, 15 years on from first collecting the award back in 2007

Steffi Graf 7-time Women's World Champion

Steffi Graf is the most prolific recipient of the Women's World Champion award, with her seven wins putting her ahead of Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams on six

Novak Djokovic 8-Time Men's World Champion

Novak Djokovic holds the record for the most ITF World Champion accolades in the men's category - ahead of fellow serial-winners Pete Sampras (6), and Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (5)

Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova 3-Time Women's Doubles World Champions

Eight players have been named ITF World Champion on three occasions in the women's doubles category, including formidable team Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova in 2018, 2021 and 2022

Junior World Champions

The legendary Czech duo of Ivan Lendl and Hana Mandlikova received the opening ITF World Champion junior honours in 1978, paving the way for some of the game's all-time greatest players to use it as a spring board for success - including the likes of Roger Federer (1998) and Martina Hingis (1994)

Dylan Alcott 3-Time Quad World Champion

David Wagner became the inaugural ITF Quad Wheelchair World Champion in 2017. Dylan Alcott ruled the Quad division in 2018, 2019 and 2021, before Niels Vink took over the mantle in 2022