Only tennis player in history to win a Golden Slam
Five women in the history of the game have won the Calendar Slam – which is when a player holds the title at all four majors in a calendar year simultaneously. Graf achieved the feat in 1988, winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open all that year.
That same year, Graf also won singles gold at the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. Tennis had returned to the Olympic roster that year after a 64-year gap, and Graf dominated the tournament, facing Gabriela Sabatini in the final.
She had already played – and defeated – Sabatini in the finals of the US Open, and repeated the feat to take Olympic Gold – in the same year she won all four Grand Slams.
It is a feat no tennis player, male or female, has been able to replicate.
This year, however, World No. 1 Novak Djokovic, who has already won the Australian Open and French Open, has looked in dominant form; as the reigning champion at Wimbledon, the Serb looks to be in a position to win that title in addition to being the favourite for the men’s singles at the Olympics.
We could see Djokovic perhaps match Graf’s record this year at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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