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The four Slam tournaments, also called the Majors, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention. They are:
Australian Open
French Open
Wimbledon
US Open
A singles player or doubles team that wins all four Slam tournaments in the same year is said to have achieved the Grand Slam. If the player or team wins all four consecutively, but not in the same calendar year, it is called a Non-Calendar Year Grand Slam. Winning all four at some point in a career, even if not consecutively, is referred to as a Career Grand Slam, while winning the four majors and a gold medal in tennis at the Summer Olympics has been called a Golden Slam since 1988, when Steffi Graf accomplished that feat in a single calendar year.
Winning all four Grand Slam tournaments during a career is termed a Career Grand Slam. Six men and nine women have accomplished this in singles play, but only three men (Rod Laver, Andre Agassi and Roger Federer) and five women (Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams) have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments at least once since the beginning of the open era.
A number of high-achievement players have failed to achieve the Career Grand Slam because they did not have long careers or because particular tournaments were ill-suited to their games. Bjrn Borg never won the US Open or the Australian Open. John McEnroe never won the Australian Open or the French Open.
Ken Rosewall, Guillermo Vilas, Ivan Lendl, Monica Seles, and Mats Wilander failed to win Wimbledon. John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport failed to win the French Open, Evonne Goolagong Cawley never won the US Open and Althea Gibson never won the Australian Open.
Venus Williams thus far has failed to win either the Australian Open or the French Open, Justine Henin hasn't won Wimbledon ,Rafael Nadal has yet to win the US Open and Maria Sharapova has not yet won the French Open.
The following lists the players who have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments. The year in which they won their first Grand Slam singles tournament is listed first. The tournaments (or years) needed to complete their first Career Grand Slam were won are then listed. The ages of the players when their Career Grand Slam was completed are shown in square brackets.
Gigi Fernndez: partnering Mary Joe Fernandez won the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Gold Medal (Doubles); partnering Robin White to win the 1988 US Open; partnering Jana Novotn to win the 1991 French Open; and partnering Natasha Zvereva to win the 1992 Wimbledon Tennis and the 1993 Australian Open.
Daniel Nestor (2000-02-04-07-08): Partnering Sebastien Lareau to win the 2000 Olympic Gold Medal (Doubles); partnering Mark Knowles to win the 2002 Australian Open, the 2004 US Open and the 2007 French Open; partnering Nenad Zimonji to win the 2008 Wimbledon Tennis.
Roger Federer: Partnering Stanislas Wawrinka won the Beijing 2008 Olympic Gold medal next to his (singles) Career Grand Slam.
Serena Williams: Partnering Venus Williams won the Australian Open 2003, French Open 2002, Wimbledon 2002, US Open 1999, Olympic Gold Medal 2000 and 2008 (Women's Doubles).
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