A Grand Slam is a term in tennis used to denote
winning all four Grand Slams of the following championship
titles in the same year:
These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand
Slam tournaments, and rank as the most important tennis
tournaments of the year in the public mind as well as in terms
of the ranking points and prizemoney awarded for performances
in them. The titles are known as Grand
Slam titles.
 History
The term Grand Slam was first used in 1933, by the American
journalist John Kieran. In describing the attempt that year
by Jack Crawford
to win all four titles, he compared it with "a countered
and vulnerable grand slam in bridge". However, in the
finals of the U.S. Championships, Crawford
was unable to defeat Fred
Perry. It wasn't until 1938 that Donald
Budge became the first person to win the Grand Slam.
The expression, used to describe the winning of the tennis
major events, was later incorporated by other sports, to describe
a similar accomplishment. The main example being golf, where
the Grand Slam represents winning the four majors in the same
calendar year.
Winnners
 True
Grand Slam
The winners of the Grand Slam (all four tournaments in the
same calendar year) in Singles are:
Of these, Steffi
Graf was the only one to win each title on a different
surface: Carpet, clay, grass, and hardcourt.
The doubles winning the Grand Slam are:
Additionally, three players won all four Doubles Grand Slam
titles, but switched partners after the Australian Open:
 Four
consecutive Grand Slam titles
Though the term was originally restricted to the winning
of all four tournaments in the same calendar year, it is now
sometimes used for holding all four titles simultaneously,
regardless of the calendar. During an interview with Serena
Williams at the U.S. Open,
after she had won the title, an interviewer coined the term
"Serena Slam" for this achievement. Serena did indeed
succeed in winning this honour, but counter to Martina
Navratilova before her, she had to leave it at four titles.
Winners of all four Grand Slam
tournaments consecutively, but not in a single calendar year,
were:
 Career
Grand Slam
Winning all four Grand Slam
tournaments non-consecutively, is described as a "career
Grand Slam."
Players who won all four Grand Slam tournaments but not within
the same year include:
Of these, Andre
Agassi was the only one to win each title on a different
surface: Carpet, clay, grass, and hardcourt.
 Golden
Slam
True Golden Slam
The Golden Slam, or Golden Grand Slam, is winning all four
Grand Slam tournaments, as well as the Gold medal in tennis
at the Summer Olympics, in the same calendar year. The opportunities
to do so have been rare, not just because the Summer Olympics
are held only once every four years, but also because in between
the games of 1924 and 1988, tennis was not a medal sport at
the Games.
So far this feat has been achieved only once:
Career Golden Slam
Winning all tournaments in a True Golden Slam, but non-consecutively:
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