when you win all 4 grand slam titles in a year Wimbledon US Open French Australian Open
Louise Brough Clapp & Margaret Osborne duPont, and Martina Navratilova & Pam Shriver, all from the USA, have 20 women's doubles Grand Slam titles each.
Steffi Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. Her first was the 1987 French Open and her last was the 1999 French open. She racked up 4 Australian Open titles, 6 French Open titles, 7 Wimbledon championships, and 5 US Open titles. In 1988, Steffi won all four Grand Slam tournaments.
Rod Laver in 1962 and 1969.
Of the thirty-two Grand Slam singles finals she played, she won eighteen. 3 Australian, 2 French, 9 Wimbledon and 4 USA titles. This tally left her second only to Stefi Graf in all time singles Grand Slam titles. Martina is also second in the all time ranking of doubles titles, achieving twenty of those with Pam Shriver and another eleven with other partners. In mixed doubles she won a modest ten Grand Slam trophies. In all tournaments therefore, Martina Navratilova ended her career with FIFTY-NINE Grand Slam trophies in her cabinet.
Rafael Nadal
Ana Ivanovic won just 1 Grand Slam title, Roland Garros 2008, but hopes she will win it this year also:)
It's Steffi Graf - she has won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, including the Golden Slam (all four Grand Slams in a year + the Olympic Gold Medal in singles, in 1988). Martina Navaratilova has won the most number of doubles Grand Slam titles. She is also the leading winner of overall Grand Slam titles.
As of Wimbledon 2008, Venus Williams has won 8 Grand Slam singles titles and 6 Grand Slam doubles titles but never all four Grand Slam events in the same year.
A true Grand Slam in tennis is when a player wins all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year. Otherwise it is just a career Grand Slam, and not a true Grand Slam.
Nickname for every Major tournament. The title 'Grand Slam' in tennis once meant winning all 4 major tennis tournaments in one calender year. The four majors are The Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and The US Open. This has now been changed to holding all 4 titles at once, regardless of the order of winning them.
The Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.