Golden Slam winners: Tennis aces Steffi Graf, Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic headline list
Paris 2024 Olympic champion Novak Djokovic is the latest entrant to the list. Serena Williams is the only player to have achieved a Golden Slam in both singles and doubles.
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The Golden Slam is one of the most prestigious honours that can be achieved in the sport of tennis.
Only 13 tennis players have managed to win a Golden Slam in their careers so far.
A player is said to have achieved a Golden Slam when they have won each of the four Grand Slam titles - Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open - as well as an Olympic gold medal.
Steffi Graf of Germany was the first to achieve this feat in singles tennis. She is also the only player to have completed the Golden Slam in a single year. Her achievement of winning all five tournaments in 1988 is also titled a Calendar Golden Slam.
In 1988, Steffi Graf won her first Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open women’s singles titles and her second French Open title. She also won the gold medal at the Seoul 1988 Olympics.
Meanwhile, the Bryan brothers - Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan - of the USA have also won all five tournaments consecutively, albeit not in the same calendar year.
They won the men’s doubles gold medal at the London 2012 Olympics and went on to win the 2012 US Open, 2013 Australian Open, 2013 French Open and 2013 Wimbledon Championships on the trot.
While Steffi Graf was the first to win a Golden Slam in women’s singles, Pam Shriver of the USA was the first to do so in doubles. She won it in the same year as Graf after winning the gold medal at the Seoul 1988 Olympics.
Serena Williams of the USA, a 23-time women’s singles Grand Slam winner, is the only player to have completed a Golden Slam in both singles and doubles tennis. Besides winning 23 women’s singles Grand Slam titles, she is also a 14-time Grand Slam winner in doubles and has also won two mixed doubles Grand Slams.
Serena Williams has won three Olympic gold medals (Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008 and London 2012) in women’s doubles along with her sister Venus Williams who has also completed a Golden Slam. At the London 2012 Olympics, Serena also won the women’s singles gold medal.
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, who has won a record 24 Grand Slam men’s singles titles, became the latest entrant to the list after winning the Olympic gold medal at Paris 2024.
At 37, Djokovic became the oldest Olympic gold medallist in men’s singles tennis after beating Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in the final.
Here is a full list of tennis players who have won the Golden Slam.