Most French Open Titles in the Open Era

Rafael Nadal holds the record for the most French Open singles titles with 14, won between 2005 and 2022 — the most titles any player has won at any Grand Slam event. On the women's side, Chris Evert leads the Open Era with 7 titles, won between 1974 and 1986. Evert's total stood as the all-time Roland-Garros singles record for 27 years, until Nadal claimed his eighth title in 2013.

Men's Singles: Most Titles (Open Era)

The scale of Nadal's lead is hard to overstate: his 14 titles are more than the combined totals of the next three men on the list. He compiled a 112-4 match record in Paris and never lost a final. Borg's six titles, packed into the eight years between 1974 and 1981, were themselves considered untouchable until Nadal arrived. Among active players, Novak Djokovic sits on three titles — each one earned in the teeth of the Nadal era — while Carlos Alcaraz won back-to-back titles in 2024 and 2025 before a wrist injury kept him out of the 2026 tournament.

Women's Singles: Most Titles (Open Era)

Evert's seven titles came over a 12-year span, a run of consistency on clay that no woman has matched since. Steffi Graf's six titles were spread across an even longer arc, from her first major title in Paris in 1987 to her final one in 1999. Among active players, Iga Świątek is the clear leader: four Roland-Garros titles by 2024, including three in a row from 2022 to 2024, as part of her six Grand Slam titles overall. She is the only active player within realistic range of Evert's record.

Recent Champions and the Record Chase

The 2026 tournament crowned two first-time major champions. Alexander Zverev beat Flavio Cobolli in the men's final for his first Grand Slam title, and Mirra Andreeva defeated Maja Chwalińska to win the women's crown — her first major as well. They join Coco Gauff, the 2025 women's champion, as recent additions to the winners' list; the full rundown is on our current champions page.

Where does the chase go from here? Alcaraz, who owns 7 majors and completed the career Grand Slam at the 2026 Australian Open as the youngest man ever to do so, remains the most likely challenger to Borg's second-place total of six once he returns from the wrist injury that sidelined him in Paris this year. On the women's side, Świątek's four titles by 2024 put her three behind Evert with most of her career still ahead of her — though the last three editions have produced three different champions, a reminder that sustained runs like hers are the exception, not the rule. Novak Djokovic, still active with a men's record 24 Grand Slam titles overall, remains on three in Paris.

What makes multiple French Open titles so rare is the nature of the surface itself. Clay slows the ball and lengthens rallies, so winning seven best-of-five (or best-of-three) matches over two weeks demands a combination of fitness, patience and point construction that few players sustain across multiple years. That is why the leaderboards above are so top-heavy: the players who solve clay tend to keep solving it, and everyone else struggles to break through even once. For more on how these champions fit into the tournament's longer story, see our French Open history section.

Statistics verified against official ATP/WTA and Roland-Garros records, July 2026.