5 Tennis Players To Complete Career Golden Slam ft. Novak Djokovic

Only five tennis players have achieved Career Golden Slam in a sport which has a long history. A Career Golden Slam consists of winning all major titles- the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and U.S Open– and an Olympic gold medal in singles.

To complete a Career Golden Slam is quite challenging for any tennis player given the Olympics come only once in four years.

Here are the five tennis players who accomplished the Career Golden Slam.

Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic became the most recent player to have completed a tennis Career Golden Slam with a gold medal at the Paris Olympics 2024. The Serb also holds the record of holding the most number of Grand Slam titles at 24. He has 10 Australian Opens, three French Opens, seven Wimbledon and four US Open titles. The 37-year-old bagged the most awaited gold medal in men’s single at Paris 2024.

Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal completed his Career Golden Slam with the title win at 2010 US Open. He won the Olympic gold medal in men’s singles in tennis at 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Spaniard has a total of 22 Grand Slam titles. He has a record 14 French Open titles, two titles reach of Australian Open and Wimbledon, and four US Open championships wins.

Serena Williams

Serena Williams, widely hailed as one of the greatest in the history of tennis, has 23 Grand Slam titles in women’s singles. The American boasts of seven Australian Open, three French Open, seven Wimbledon and six US Open titles in an illustrious career spanning from 1995 to 2022. She clinched an Olympic gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics to achieve a Golden Slam in women’s singles. Williams is the only player to have accomplished a Career Golden Slam in doubles, too. She has 14 Grand Slam doubles titles including four Australian Open, two French Open, six Wimbledon and two US Opens. She has three Olympic gold medals in women’s doubles which she earned at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics.

Andre Agassi

Andre Agassi is the first man to complete a tennis Career Golden Slam in the history of the sport. He has eight Grand Slam titles including four Australian Opens, two US Opens and one each of French Open and Wimbledon. The American won a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in men’s singles.

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Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf became the only tennis player to accomplish the Career Golden Slam by winning all four major singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year in 1988. The German already had a 1987 French Open title in her kitty in women’s singles. In 1988, Graf went on to bag her maiden Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open titles as well as a gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in women’s singles.