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1938 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles

Don Budge defeated Gene Mako 6–3, 6–8, 6–2, 6–1 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1938 U.S. National Championships to become the first player in history to complete the Grand Slam.

2007 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles

The French duo won their first Grand Slam as a team, however this was Llodra's third, having won the Australian Open twice previously with Fabrice Santoro in 2003 and 2004.

2010 ATP World Tour Finals

The top eight players (or teams) with the most countable points accumulated in Grand Slam, ATP World Tour and Davis Cup tournaments during the year qualify for the 2010 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

2011 Aegon Classic – Singles

Li Na was the defending champion, but chose not to compete after winning the Grand Slam singles title the week before.

2011 ATP World Tour Finals

The top eight players (or teams) with the most countable points accumulated in Grand Slam, ATP World Tour, and Davis Cup tournaments during the year qualify for the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

2011 Hopman Cup

Djokovic comes into the tournament fresh from reaching his third grand slam final at the US Open and winning the Davis Cup as well as reaching a career high of world number two in 2010.

AAA Texas 500

The race was acquired as a result of the Ferko lawsuit, which forced NASCAR to relinquish the sport's fourth major, the Mountain Dew Southern 500 and in the process end its Grand Slam, as the Southern 500 was one of the four races that made it up.

Anthony Floch

He held his place for the final game of the tournament against Wales in Cardiff where the hosts were victorious and secured their second Grand Slam in four seasons.

Asif Ismail

During the 2006 season, Ismail had his debut as a coach in Grand Slam tournaments, coaching Sania Mirza during the French Open and Wimbledon.

Bill Duggleby

Duggleby is the first of four major league players to hit a grand slam in his first major league at-bat; Jeremy Hermida, Kevin Kouzmanoff, and Daniel Nava are the other three.

Brian Fairlie

The 5' 8" player's best Grand Slam result was reaching the Men's Doubles semi-finals at the French Open in 1971 with partner Frew McMillan.

Daniel Nava

Taking the advice of Red Sox radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione, who before the game told him to swing as hard as he could on the first pitch because "that's the only first pitch in the majors you'll ever see," Nava did swing at the first pitch he saw and hit a grand slam off Phillies pitcher Joe Blanton into the Red Sox bullpen.

Don Money

On April 10, 1976, Money hit a grand slam off Dave Pagan of the New York Yankees, only to see it taken back because the first base umpire had called time before the pitch was delivered.

Ed Figueroa

Skip Lockwood struck out the first batter he faces, then gave up a grand slam to Jeff Burroughs.

Evie Dominikovic

Her best grand slam result is making it to the third round at the 2001 Australian Open and at the 2002 French Open.

Hitting for the cycle

Eight players have hit a grand slam as the home run of their cycle; in the 21st century, that list has included Miguel Tejada, Jason Kubel, and Bengie Molina.

Jake Higgs

In 2010, his team played in its first Grand Slam event, losing three straight before being eliminated at the 2010 Players' Championships.

Luke Putkonen

Putkonen was ejected for the first time in his MLB career on July 11, 2013 after throwing a first-pitch sinker high and inside to White Sox batter Alexei Ramirez immediately following a Josh Phegley grand slam.

Marjorie Cox Crawford

She also teamed with her husband Jack Crawford, a six-time winner of singles titles in Grand Slam tournaments and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, to win the mixed doubles title at the Australian Championships in 1931, 1932, and 1933.

Martin Blackman

Blackman beat future Grand Slam winners Michael Chang and Petr Korda en route to the semi-finals of the 1986 US Open Juniors and was also a semi-finalist at the same event a year later, with MaliVai Washington in the doubles.

Martin Wostenholme

Wostenholme was the first Canadian to win a match at each of the four Grand Slam events, reaching the second rounds of the 1985 U.S. Open, the 1986 French Open and Wimbledon Championships, and the 1990 Australian Open.

Nirupama Sanjeev

By then her ranking was in the 160s and in 1998 Australian Open, she became the first Indian woman in the modern era to feature and win a round at a main draw Grand Slam, beating Italy's Gloria Pizzichini.

Riccardo Cucciolla

After some minor roles, he had his first role of weight in Italiani brava gente (1965), followed by a significant role in Giuliano Montaldo's Grand Slam.

Satsuki Fujisawa

On the World Curling Tour, Fujisawa has played in three Grand Slam events: the 2011 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic (1-3), the 2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic (3-3) and the 2013 Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Women's Classic (0-3).

Shayne McCosh

He played with Sheffield for two seasons, during which time he helped them to win the Challenge Cup in 1999–00 and a Grand Slam of all available trophies in 2000–01.

Steve Bryan

It wasn't until his ninth Grand Slam singles match that he made it past the first round, breaking the drought at the 1994 US Open, with a comfortable win over Franco Davín, dropping just two games.

Torpex

Torpex was used only in critical applications, e.g. torpedoes and the Upkeep, Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs.

Veli Paloheimo

His best performance at a Grand Slam came at the 1990 Australian Open, where he made the fourth round.

Warren Norris

During this season, Norris helped Sheffield win a Grand Slam of all available trophies when they won the Benson & Hedges Cup, the Challenge Cup, the league championship and the playoffs.

Westside Tennis Club

The club is unique in that it offers courts of all the Grand Slam surfaces: Rebound Ace (Australian Open), red clay (French Open), grass (Wimbledon), and DecoTurf (US Open).

Yasmin Schnack

Yasmin played her first Grand Slam match at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships where she entered the Ladies' Doubles event with compatriot Vania King.


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2000 WTA German Open

It was one of two Tier I events that took place on red clay in the build-up to the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open.

2009 Roger Federer tennis season

In addition, Federer made two other Grand Slam finals, Australian Open losing to Rafael Nadal, and the US Open, losing to Juan Martín del Potro.

2009 US Open – Men's Singles

This was the last Grand Slam which was not won by one of the Big Four since the 2005 Australian Open (which was won by Marat Safin), until Stanislas Wawrinka won the 2014 Australian Open.

2010 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions

Ivanovic's performances at the Grand Slams tournaments were dismal; apart from reaching the fourth round of the US Open (losing to the eventual champion Kim Clijsters), she was defeated in the second round at Australian and French Opens and in the first round at Wimbledon, in the process winning a total of only five Grand Slam matches.

2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling

2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (December), the Grand Slam held in December 2011 as part of the 2011–12 curling season

2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (January), the Grand Slam held in January 2011 as part of the 2010–11 curling season

Aaron Conneely

Conneely, who plays his club rugby for the Galway city team Corinthians, came through the Connacht academy and was part of the Connacht Under-20 side that took the Grand Slam in the Interprovincial Championship during the 2011-12 season.

Alexei Ramírez

On September 19, 2008, Ramírez hit his third grand slam of the season off of pitcher Brian Bannister of the Kansas City Royals in a 6–4 White Sox win, tying an American League rookie record set by Shane Spencer of the New York Yankees in 1998.

Alexei Shirov

In September 2010, Shirov participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters preliminary tournament in Shanghai from September 3 to 8, where he faced world No. 4 Levon Aronian, world No. 5 Vladimir Kramnik, and Wang Hao; the top two scorers qualified for the Grand Slam final supertournament from October 9 to 15 in Bilbao against world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and world champion Viswanathan Anand.

Anna Sidorova

Sidorova's Russian rink had a fairly successful Grand Slam season in 2012-13, making it as far as the semi-finals at the 2012 Colonial Square Ladies Classic.

Brock Virtue

The team played in one Grand Slam event during the 2012-13 season, the 2012 Rogers Masters, where they went 2-3.

Colby Rasmus

Rasmus hit his first career grand slam against the Cincinnati Reds' Bronson Arroyo.

Cubs–White Sox rivalry

When play finally resumed, outfielder Scott Podsednik promptly got on base, loading the bases up, and second baseman Tadahito Iguchi cleared them with a grand-slam.

Dmitri Barsouk

In August, 2008 at the A1 Beach Volleyball Grand Slam presented by NOKIA in Klagenfurt, Austria, Barsouk and team mate Igor Kolodinsky won their first Swatch FIVB World Tour gold medal.

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included Peterpan Complex, Siberian Husky, Naked, Samcheong, Jihad, Johnny Royal, Sister's Barbershop, Vassline, Blackhole, No Brain, Grand Slam, Lazybone, Gaia, Lorelei, Jeremy, Black Syndrome, Do Won Kyoung, Crying Nut and Jun In Kwon

Doris Hart

(The other woman was Barbara Scofield Davidson, who defeated Connolly in the second round of the 1949 U.S. Championships, 6–4, 6–3.) Connolly won a total of nine Grand Slam singles tournaments during her career, defeating Hart in the final of four of them.

Eyal Erlich

Three years later he qualified for his second Grand Slam, the 1998 US Open, but exited again in the opening round, losing to 20th seed Michael Chang.

George Pipgras

He was the umpire behind the plate in one of baseball's most dramatic wins ever: on September 30, 1945, at St. Louis' Sportsman's Park, when Hank Greenberg hit a ninth inning Grand Slam, after Pipgras suggested to Greenberg that the game should be called on account of darkness.

Glamorosa

The series brings back two of the Philippine Award Winning Actress, Lorna Tolentino and the Grand-Slam Best Actress and the Philippine Timeless Beauty Alice Dixson.

Glynis Coles

As a doubles player, she reached the quarterfinals of many Grand Slam contests, most notably in 1975, when she and Sue Barker made the quarterfinals of all of the Grand Slam events in the same year.

Grand Slam Prize in harness racing

From 2001-2003, the Grand Slam Prize of $1 million was offered to any harness racing pacer who could win the North America Cup (Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto), Meadowlands Pace (Meadowlands Racetrack, N.J.), Little Brown Jug (Delaware County Fair, Ohio) and their Breeders Crown event (Meadowlands Racetrack, NJ).

Igor Kolodinsky

In August, 2008 at the A1 Beach Volleyball Grand Slam presented by NOKIA in Klagenfurt, Austria, Kolodinsky and team mate Dmitri Barsouk won their first Swatch FIVB World Tour gold medal.

Jérôme Golmard

Among the many notable players he beat on the ATP Tour are former World No. 1s Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Gustavo Kuerten, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marcelo Ríos and Carlos Moyá, as well as Grand Slam champions Richard Krajicek, Goran Ivanišević, Albert Costa, Gastón Gaudio, Thomas Johansson and Michael Chang.

John Dykes

Highlights of his time with ESPN STAR Sports include his anchoring the broadcast of cricket's 1999 World Cup in England, trips to Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows to work alongside Vijay Amritraj on Grand Slam tennis, and his work in Augusta for Tiger Woods' triumph at the 2001 Masters.

Jojo Lastimosa

He skippered the Milkmen to the 1996 Grand Slam together with eventual 1996 MVP Johnny Abarrientos, Bong Hawkins and Jeffrey Cariaso, only the fourth Grand Slam in the league's history.

Juice Leskinen

One more record, Per Vers, runoilija, was made under the same band name, but from then on he released records with several line-ups, most notably Juice Leskinen Slam and Juice Leskinen Grand Slam from the late

Kurt Nielsen

With Althea Gibson, Nielsen won the US Open mixed doubles in 1957, thereby becoming the first Dane to have ever won a Grand Slam event as a senior.

Marcelo Ingaramo

He broke through for his first at the 1986 US Open, his four Grand Slam appearance, with a win over Luiz Mattar.

Mark Frost

His other books on golf are The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever, about a 1956 match pitting pros Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson against amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi, and The Grand Slam, about the 1930 golf season of Bobby Jones.

Mark Kean

The rink also played in two Grand Slam events that season, the 2011 World Cup of Curling where they went 0-5 and the 2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling where they won their first game (defeating John Epping) in a Grand Slam event, going 1-4

Miguel Olivo

Olivo hit his second grand slam of his career on July 21, 2011, against the Blue Jays in Rogers Centre.

Nancy Chaffee

Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1951 when, partnered with Patricia Todd, she reached the final of the doubles competition at the U.S. Championships.

Neil Cottrill

Once John recovered, the pair quickly became one of the top pairs in the UK, winning numerous county events, Friends Provident Grand Slam Series events and reaching the National Men's Doubles final, losing to Chris Hunt & Simon Archer.

Olga Morozova

Earlier, she and Alex Metreveli were the first players from the Soviet Union to reach a Grand Slam final when they teamed at Wimbledon in 1968, losing to Margaret Court and Ken Fletcher.

Penicuik RFC

Most notable amongst those is Jim Aitken, who captained the Scotland team to a Grand Slam victory in the 1984 Five Nations tournament.

Phoebe Holcroft Watson

Her other Grand Slam title was the women's doubles at the French Championships in 1928 with partner Eileen Bennett Whittingstall.

Renée Schuurman

Her best Grand Slam singles result was when she reached the final at the 1959 Australian Championships, losing to Mary Carter Reitano 6–2, 6–3.

Rodney Harmon

Perhaps Rodney's greatest result came at the 1982 U.S. Open, during his Grand Slam debut, when he got through to the quarterfinals overcoming Eliot Teltscher, seeded 8th, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(1) in a long fourth round battle.

Roland Garros

French Open, a major (grand slam) tennis tournament also known as Roland Garros, named after the aviator

Rosalyn Fairbank

She won a WTA Tour singles event in Richmond in 1983 and numerous doubles titles, with the highlight being her Grand Slam titles at the 1981 French Open with Tanya Harford and 1983 with Candy Reynolds.

Stein Metzger

They won in Belmar, then placed second in an FIVB Grand Slam event in Paris, logging the highest finish by an American team in 2005.

Steve Finley

He hit his second career game-ending grand slam October 2, 2004.

Swatch FIVB World Tour 2010

Rome, Italy- Foro Italico Beach Volley Grand Slam, 17 - 23 May, 2010

Vadim Kutsenko

Kutsenko's best performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 2003 Australian Open, where he reached the second round.

Vanessa O'Brien

Having trekked to Mount Everest base camp and reached the summits of a number of notable mountains, including two of the world's fourteen 8,000 meter peaks (Shishapangma and Cho Oyu), she decided to build on her passion for mountaineering and set herself the challenge of achieving the Explorer's Grand Slam.