Court v King
WTA Tour career
Lineball analyst9–0
Margaret Court takes it, 9–0 on categories
Court wins on titles. WTA Tour career: Court 692 matches, Jean King 900 matches.
- Court has 96 titles (one every 7.1 matches) to Jean King’s 83 titles (one every 10 matches).
- Court has 11 grand slam titles (one every 33.3 matches) to Jean King’s 9 grand slam titles (one every 50 matches).
- Court has 214 sets lost (one every 3.2 matches) to Jean King’s 473 sets lost (one every 1.9 matches).
- Winners’ edge: Court’s team won 91%, Jean King’s team won 81% of the matches they played.
- Not every stat was recorded for every match (grand slam titles, davis/bjk cup matches, retired hurt): those averages use only the games that logged them.
Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.
Tale of the tape
Per game. Totals and best single game underneath.
- 0.196 total · best 1Titlesper game0.183 total · best 1
- 0.011 total · best 1Grand Slam titlesper game0.09 total · best 1
- 12.68,690 total · best 25Games wonper game12.311,033 total · best 23
- 85.7Sets won %76.3
- 66.9Games won %60.7
- 0.2117 total · best 1Finalsper game0.1125 total · best 1
Head to head
1222 matches
since 196810
since 196810
- Grass · 10 matchesCourt 5King 5
- Carpet · 5 matchesCourt 4King 1
- Hard · 5 matchesCourt 2King 3
- Clay · 2 matchesCourt 1King 1
- Grand Slams · 4 matchesCourt 2King 2
- Finals · 18 matchesCourt 12King 6
Last meetings
- 6 Aug 1973 · Nashville · Final · ClayCourt won 6-3 4-6 6-2
- 11 Apr 1973 · Quincy · Final · CarpetCourt won 6-2 6-4
- 8 Mar 1973 · Chicago · Final · CarpetCourt won 6-2 4-6 6-4
- 22 Feb 1973 · Indianapolis · Semifinal · CarpetKing won 6-7(0) 7-6(2) 6-3
- 27 Sept 1972 · Phoenix · Final · Hard
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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