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Each year, the four main tournaments of professionals tennis-THE Australian OpenTHE Open of FranceTHE We openand the Wimbledon Championships-each crown A new champion. While winning one of these tournaments, only once is certainly impressive, you need a truly special player to finish what is known as the Grand Colem, or win the four major events of a calendar year. (Terminology can be confusing because each individual tournament is also familiarly known as a “Grand Chelem tournament”.) In order to win the Grand Colem, a player must master each playing surface (in modern game, these are grass, clay and hard short) and maintain his excellence during an exhausting tennis season. Only three women (Maureen Connolly,, Short margaretAnd Steffi Graf) and two men (Don’t move And Rod washingWho did it twice) made a big slam of the calendar year.
The variations of the Grand Chelem are also recognized, in particular the great career slam (winning the four tournaments during a career) and the Golden Slam career (completing the Grand Chelem of career and also winning a gold medal in Olympic Games). Some players won the four majors in a row, but spread over different years, so they failed to finish a real grand slam. In the tables, we list the eight men and the 10 women who finished the great career slam.
Champions in simple male
| player | country | Year | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Perry | England | 1935 | |
| Don’t move | UNITED STATES | 1938 | Budge was the first player to make the Grand Slam of the calendar year. |
| Rod washing | Australia | 1962 | Washing had two big across the distinct calems of the calendar year in 1962 and 1969. |
| Roy Emerson | Australia | 1964 | |
| Andre Agassi | UNITED STATES | 1999 | With his victory in 1999 French Open, Agassi ended the Golden Slam career, after winning a gold medal in Atlanta Olympics 1996. |
| Roger Federer | Swiss | 2009 | |
| Rafael Nadal | Spain | 2010 | Nadal has also completed the Golden Slam career, having won gold in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. |
| Novak Djokovic | Serbia | 2016 | Djokovic obtained his Grand Chelem in a career by winning the four tournaments consecutively from 2015 to 2016. He obtained the Golden Slam by winning gold at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. |
Female champions in simple
| player | country | Year | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maureen Connolly | UNITED STATES | 1953 | Connolly was the first woman to make the big home of the calendar year. |
| Doris Hart | UNITED STATES | 1954 | |
| Shirley Fry Irvin | UNITED STATES | 1957 | |
| Short margaret | Australia | 1963 | The court won the Grand Chelem in a single year in 1970. |
| Billie Jean King | UNITED STATES | 1972 | |
| Chris Evert | UNITED STATES | 1982 | |
| Martina Navratilova | Czechoslovakia / United States | 1983 | In 1983-1984, Navratilova won six major tournaments in a row but not four in the same year. |
| Steffi Graf | Germany | 1988 | Graf is the only player to make the incredible golden slam of a year, after winning the four majors and a gold medal in the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games. Graf also won four consecutive majors in 1993-1994. |
| Serena Williams | UNITED STATES | 2003 | Williams won the gold medal at 2012 London Gamessecuring his career Golden Slam. For two different sections of her career (2002-2003 and 2014-2015), she was the title champion of the four majors, although she never won the four in a single year. |
| Maria Sharapova | Russia | 2012 | |
