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He also held the most major titles in singles between 2009 and 2022. Bill Tilden won 10 major singles titles in the 1920s, including an all-time record of seven U.S. Championships titles. Don Budge is the only man to have won six consecutive major singles titles, from Wimbledon 1937 to U.S. Championships 1938 , and the first player ever to ...
This list excludes the 1909 Triple Crown of Jeanne Matthey at the French Championships and the 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923 Triple Crown wins of Suzanne Lenglen at the French Championships. [citation needed] The French Championship tennis tournament at the time was a domestic competition not recognized as an international major.
[2] [3] [4] Winning the four majors in all three disciplines a player is eligible for–singles, doubles and mixed doubles–is considered winning a "boxed set" of Grand Slam titles. Prior to 1924, the major tennis championships, governed by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF), were the World Hard Court Championships, World Grass ...
The term Grand Slam is also attributed to the Grand Slam tournaments, usually referred to as Majors, and they are the world's four most important annual professional tennis tournaments. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of the field and, in recent years, the longest ...
This article lists the tennis players who have won the most tour-level professional tournament titles since the Open Era began in 1968. The current top-level events are on the ATP Tour for men and the WTA Tour for women.
In men's tennis, the Grand Slam tournaments, the Masters tournaments, and the year-end championships are considered the top-tier events of the annual ATP Tour calendar, in addition to the quadrennial Olympics. They are collectively known as the 'Big Titles'. [a] [1] The ATP defined the mandatory events (Slams, Masters and YEC) as follows
Rod Laver completed a Grand Slam at the 1962 U.S. Championships and the 1969 US Open. Roy Emerson completed a career Grand Slam at the 1964 Wimbledon and the 1967 French Championships . Andre Agassi completed a career Grand Slam at the 1999 French Open .
ITF World Champions; List of tennis players career achievements; Tennis players with most titles in the Open Era; List of highest ranked tennis players per country; List of Olympic medalists in tennis; List of tennis rivalries; Longest tennis match records & Shortest tennis match records; Longest tiebreaker in tennis; Fastest recorded tennis serves