The American Don Budge he won all four Grand Slams in the same season, in 1938. The most remembered and recognized is the Australian Rod Laverwhich made the plenary session of the ‘big’ in the same year twice, in 1962 and, at the beginning of the Open era that eliminates the distinction between novices and professionals, 1969.
Among the women, the American signed the act Maureen Connolly (1953), the Australian Margaret Court (1970) and the German Steffi Graf (1988), the only tennis player to have done it on three different surfaces, as his predecessors, as well as Budge and Laver, competed in an era when everything was grass, except for the land of Roland Garros .
It was a feat the American pursued without success. Serena Williamswhich also does not appear in the extensive list of records of the ‘Big Three’, the three great ones: the Serbian Novak DjokovicThe Spanish Rafael Nadal and the swiss Roger Federer.
Federer he retired with 20 Grand Slam titles. Roland Garros clay, especially Rafael Nadal, his only absence from the triplet in 2004, 2006 and 2007. The Spaniard came to chain the three ‘big ones’ in 2010, but Australia was missing out. In 2022, after winning Melbourne, his weak point, and Roland Garros, he was injured in the Wimbledon semifinals. He began a trial that continues with hip pain that he is trying not to end his career. He wants to say goodbye to competing.
Novak Djokovic He reached 22 Grand Slams of Nadal in Australia, he took the solo record for the first time (23) who won at Roland Garros. He reopened the vision of the Grand Slam on the same course, the one that eluded him in 2021, when he succumbed on the last day, in the final of the US Open against the Russian. Daniel Medvedev.
That choice evaporated this year, he will try to reach the Australian’s 24 Grand Slams Margaret Court at the US Open. Although in New York the defender from Flushing Meadows, Carlos Alcaraz, who did not directly enter the Djokovic-Federer-Nadal pulse, will wait again. He separated the Balkans from many things and he dreamed of having a real, very successful career. The Murcian does not exclude anything. Don’t go near those ‘monsters’ either.
Djokovic’s record is so complete, he has an Olympic gold medal spot, shared by Rafa Nadal, also a doubles champion and with five Davis Cups, four more than the Serbian and Federer. Although he has no Final Masters these two, with six each. At the age of 20, Carlos Alcaraz revealed two Grand Slams and number one, establishing himself as a worthy successor to the ‘Big 3’.
Then other dimensions come in, from charisma or international status as an icon due to its impact on the sport to accounting for other achievements.
Djokovic’s 23 Grand Slams
10 Australian Opens (2008, 2011 to 2013, 2015 and 2016, 2019 to 2021, 2023)
3 Roland Garros (2016, 2021 and 2023)
7 Wimbledon (2011, 2014 and 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022)
3 US Opens (2011, 2015 and 2018)
Rafael Nadal’s 22 Grand Slams
2 Australian Open (2009 and 2022)
14 Roland Garros (2005 to 2008, 2010 to 2014, 2017 to 2020, 2022)
2 Wimbledon (2008 and 2010)
4 US Opens (2010, 2013, 2017 and 2019)
Roger Federer’s 20 Grand Slams
6 Australian Opens (2004, 2006 and 2007, 2010, 2017 and 2018)
1 Roland Garros (2009)
8 Wimbledon (2003 to 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2017)
5 US Opens (2004 to 2008)
Source: La Verdad
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