The career achievement of all four major championships in one discipline is termed a Career Grand Slam in that discipline. Dozens of players have accomplished that (column two) and 17 have doubled it: won a second championship in each of the four majors in one discipline (column three). Two or more career championships in all four majors is sometimes called a "Multiple Slam Set". Three players have Multiple Slam Sets in two disciplines, one in three disciplines, so 22 players are counted in the table (column three). Their achievements are tabulated below.
Discipline | Numbers of players | |
---|---|---|
completed the Career GS | completed at least two | |
Men's Singles | 7 players (2 Golden) | 2 players |
Women's Singles | 10 players (2 Golden) | 4 players |
Men's Doubles | 21 players (14 as teams) | 5 players (? as teams) |
Women's Doubles | 21 players (10 as teams) | 8 players (? as teams) |
Mixed Doubles | 15 players (5 as teams) | 3 players (? as teams) |
Seven men and ten women have won Career Grand Slams in singles play (rows one and two); among them two men and four women have at least two CGS in singles (column three).
Since the beginning of the open era, four men and six women have done it (Rod Laver, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal; Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova).
Several singles players have won multiple major championships without achieving the Career Grand Slam. Björn Borg never won the US Open or the Australian Open, and John McEnroe never won the Australian Open or the French Open. Ken Rosewall, Guillermo Vilas, Ivan Lendl, Monica Seles, Mats Wilander, and Justine Henin failed to win Wimbledon. Pete Sampras, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Martina Hingis, and Lindsay Davenport failed to win the French Open. Evonne Goolagong Cawley never won the US Open. Helen Wills Moody and Althea Gibson never won the Australian Open.
Among active singles players who won multiple championships, Venus Williams has not won either the Australian Open or the French Open; Novak Djokovic has not won the French Open.
The remainder of this section is a complete list, by discipline, of all players who have won the Career Grand Slam. Players are ordered chronologically by their completion of the Slam.
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