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Throughout its history, many changes in the Grand Slam tennis tournaments have affected the number of titles won by various players. These have included the opening of the French national championships to international players in 1925, the elimination of the challenge round in 1922, and the admission of professional players in 1968 (the start of the Open Era).
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. Roger Federer completed a career Grand Slam at the 2009 French Open.
[citation needed] The French Championship tennis tournament at the time was a domestic competition not recognized as an international major. [ citation needed ] At the time, the major clay court event (actual precursor of the French Open in its current international format) was the World Hard Court Championships , where Suzanne Lenglen also ...
Combining the Grand Slam and the non-calendar-year Grand Slam, only eight singles players on 11 occasions achieved the feat of being the reigning champion of all four majors, three men (Don Budge, Rod Laver, Novak Djokovic) [147] and five women (Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams). [148]
This is an all-time list of winners of the four Grand Slam men's and women's singles tennis tournaments, organized by country. The year of the first win in each tournament is shown in parentheses. Each player's first grand slam tournament win is shown in bold. The greatest number of wins in each country (in the total column) is shown in bold.
This is a list of all the men's Grand Slam singles finals in tennis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] From the 1877 Wimbledon Championship up to and including the 2023 US Open, there have been 483 finals contested between 273 different men, with 152 champions emerging.
8 July 1996: 20 years, 272 days Gustavo Kuerten: 1997 French Open: 10 September 1976: 9 June 1997: 1st of 3 24 years, 254 days Patrick Rafter: 1997 US Open: 28 December 1972: 8 September 1997: 1st of 2 30 years, 9 days Petr Korda: 1998 Australian Open: 23 January 1968: 1 February 1998: 21 years, 285 days Carlos Moyá: 1998 French Open: 27 ...
List of Grand Slam champions can refer to: List of Grand Slam men's singles champions; List of Grand Slam women's singles champions;