Most Grass Court Finals Reached
Most Grass Court Finals Reached
At the top of the Open Era list for most grass-court finals reached stands 
Roger Federer, with 27 tour-level singles finals on grass, built from an Open Era record 19 grass-court titles and 7 runner-up finishes.
Federerโs first grass final came at Halle 2003, where he faced 
Nicolas Kiefer, while his final grass-court title match came at Wimbledon 2019, against 
Novak Djokovic. His total is shaped by two historic strongholds: Wimbledon, where he reached 12 finals and won a menโs record eight titles, and Halle, where he reached 13 finals and won 10 titles.
Behind him stands 
Jimmy Connors, 18, one of the great grass-volume players of the early Open Era, with his finals record spread across a much richer grass calendar than todayโs. Connors reached grass finals at the Australian Open, Wimbledon, the grass-era US Open, and several tour events, including his Wimbledon title matches against 
Ken Rosewall in 1974, 
Bjรถrn Borg in 1977 and 1978, and John McEnroe in 1982 and 1984.
Then come the great grass specialists of the serve-and-volley era: John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall. Samprasโ grass-finals profile is concentrated above all at Wimbledon, where he reached seven finals and won all seven, including title matches against Jim Courier, 
Goran Ivaniลกeviฤ, Boris Becker and Patrick Rafter.
Djokovic 14 is the modern active reference point behind Federer: his grass finals include repeated appearances at Wimbledon, from his first final there against Nadal to later title matches against Federer, Matteo Berrettini, Nick Kyrgios and Carlos Alcaraz.
In this record, the final itself is the milestone: grass offers the shortest window of the tennis season, so reaching title matches repeatedly on the surface requires not only dominance, but timing, adaptation and durability. Federer set the modern ceiling at 27 grass-court finals; Connors represents the grass-heavy calendar of the 1970s; while Sampras, Becker, McEnroe and Djokovic define different eras of elite grass-court excellence.
