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Nadal finds spark as Tour Finals get lift off


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madanmohan siddhanthi
PRACTICE
by madanmohan siddhanthi on Nov 23, 2010 11:51 AM  | Hide replies

Nadal save your best to Australian next so you have sequnetially all the four titles which no one has got in open era.

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ganesh
Re: PRACTICE
by ganesh on Nov 23, 2010 12:45 PM
You have forgotten Rod Laver who won all the four major Slam titles in the open era in 1969, thus being the inly peron to win all the four major in a calender year and also all the four sequentially.


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kaustubh saha
Re: Re: PRACTICE
by kaustubh saha on Nov 23, 2010 01:56 PM
Steffi Graf won Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open as well as Olympic Gold in 1988

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cmm
Re: Re: PRACTICE
by cmm on Nov 23, 2010 05:50 PM
rod laver won twice (1962 and 1969)

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cmm
Re: PRACTICE
by cmm on Nov 23, 2010 05:41 PM
Grand Slam winners

grand slam refers to winning four major tennis events in one calender year.
male players-
1.Don Budge (1938)
2.Rod Laver (1962,1969) - he achieved this feet twice

female players-
1. Maureen Connolly Brinker (1953)
2. Margaret Court (1970)
3. Steffi Graf (1988) - she also won a gold medal in olympic in the same year, which refers to golden grand slam

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