Grand Slam

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Federer

Rosewall

  • Ken Rosewall
    In Ken Rosewall

    …for 25 years, winning 18 Grand Slam titles, 8 of which were in men’s singles.

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Sampras

  • Pete Sampras
    In Pete Sampras

    …enabled him to win 14 Grand Slam singles titles, a record among male players until 2009, when it was broken by Roger Federer. Sampras during his career won seven Wimbledon singles championships (1993–95, 1997–2000), five U.S. Open titles (1990, 1993, 1995–96, 2002), and two Australian Open championships (1994, 1997), but…

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tennis

  • Serena Williams
    In tennis: The early 20th century

    …to be known as the Grand Slam. Alice Marble, the most aggressive net rusher the women’s game had seen to that time, won the U.S. singles in 1936 and from 1938 to 1940, and in 1939 she won the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at Wimbledon, a “triple” previously accomplished…

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