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In 1965, Margaret Court won a record nine titles out of twelve available to a player in the same year: the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. [ citation needed ] In 1985, Martina Navratilova reached the final in all Grand Slam events held that year, equaling the record of eleven final appearances set by Court ...
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).
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.
A player who won all three in a calendar year was considered retrospectively to have achieved a "Professional Grand Slam", or "Pro Slam". [ 189 ] [ 190 ] In the pre-open era the terms did not exist. The feat was accomplished by Ken Rosewall in 1963 [ 191 ] and Rod Laver in 1967, [ 192 ] while Ellsworth Vines , Hans Nüsslein and Don Budge have ...
List of Grand Slam women's singles finals This page was last edited on 19 August 2024, at 20:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
This is a list Grand Slam tennis champions during the Open Era, organized by country. First career wins and highest total counts are boldfaced, and first wins per category are listed in parentheses. The gold-highlighted years with symbol ☆ denote Career Grand Slam achievement years.
Female tennis players who have won at least one of the four Grand Slam titles in singles. 130 women have won at least one of the 460 majors staged. They are listed here in order of their first win. Players in bold are still active.
In the history of men's tennis, only two players have won the calendar Grand Slam, Don Budge (1938) and Rod Laver (1962 and 1969). [13] Budge remains the sole player to have won six majors in a row (1937–1938). In the Open Era, only one player has achieved the non-calendar year Grand Slam, Novak Djokovic (2015–2016). This is followed by a ...