--- description: Find out why Nelly Korda was selected for TIME‘s 2026 list of the most influential people in sports. title: TIME100 Most Influential People in Sports 2026: Nelly Korda image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc28487a096d9beab/6a20a15816166219ec49cdd9/T100SPORTS-2026-Web-Nelly-Korda.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y0.00 --- Jun 09, 2026 # Nelly Korda by [Sean Gregory](/author/sean-gregory/) ## Sean Gregory Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent  Douglas P. DeFelice—Getty Images Few athletes can sizzle quite like Nelly Korda, the daughter of Czech tennis pros who raised a golf star in Florida. Two seasons ago, Korda won seven LPGA titles, including a major: her dominant run included a five-event winning streak, matching Annika Sörenstam, widely considered the greatest women’s golfer of all time, and Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez. In 2026, she’s on another hot streak. Through the first six tournaments of the calendar year, she hasn’t finished lower than second place; only Sörenstam has reached such sustained excellence. She has won four tournaments this year, including the Chevron Championship in April and the U.S. Women's Open in June, her third and fourth career majors, and reclaimed the world No. 1 spot. Korda has endorsement deals with Nike and Delta, has appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and in February added Upper Deck, the sports-collectibles company, as a sponsor. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-sports/2026/nelly-korda/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-sports/2026/nelly-korda/"},"headline":"Nelly Korda","datePublished":"2026-06-09T12:00:54.602Z","dateModified":"2026-06-09T12:00:54.901Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collection/time100-sports/2026/nelly-korda/","keywords":["list","franchise"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc28487a096d9beab/6a20a15816166219ec49cdd9/T100SPORTS-2026-Web-Nelly-Korda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y0.00&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sean Gregory","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/sean-gregory/"}],"creator":"Sean Gregory","articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc28487a096d9beab/6a20a15816166219ec49cdd9/T100SPORTS-2026-Web-Nelly-Korda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x100.00%2Coffset-y0.00&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-sports/2026/nelly-korda/","name":"Nelly Korda"}}]}] ```