Multiple Grand Slam Records: Tennis History & the Men's Wimbledon Final
Congratulations are due to Novak Djokovic who not only won Wimbledon for the 6th time but has joined the elite club of 3 Grand Slams in a row in the same calendar year on 3 different surfaces. This is called achieving a 'surface slam'. The only other players to achieve this are: Navratilova (1984), Graf (1993, 1995 and 1996), Serena Williams (2002), Nadal (2010). However, all four of these succeeded in doing so by winning the last 3 Grand Slams in the year ie French Open (RG), Wimbledon and US Open. Djokovic is the only one, apart from Laver in 1969, to win the 3 in a row by winning the first 3 starting with the Australian Open. The 'calendar slam' is surely Djokovic's next goal which means all 4 grand slams in the same calendar year. In the modern era only Steffi Graf has managed this. She is also the only one to achieve a Golden Slam which means she also has an Olympic Gold medal in addition to a calendar grand slam in the same calendar year. The other historic mo...