Grand Slam (tennis) - Multiple Slam Sets

Multiple Slam Sets

Of the many players who have managed to win a full set of four Majors, there is a small number who have gone on to win all four Majors a second – or even multiple – times. The completion of “multiple slam sets” (MSS) has been achieved by only 18 unique players up to the J of the 2012 season. MSS players can be found in each of the 5 tennis disciplines: men's or women's singles, men's or women's doubles, and mixed doubles. Of these, 4 players have completed MSS in more than one discipline: Roy Emerson, Martina Navratilova and Frank Sedgman have MSS in 2 disciplines, Margaret Court has MSS in 3 disciplines.

This table shows each multiple occurrence of a complete MSS for each of the players who have accomplished multiple slams in a particular tennis discipline. The year shown for each of the 4 Majors is the year that particular Major win was repeated as part of that player’s achievement of their second (all 17 players) and third (7 players) and fourth (4 players) and fifth through seventh (Martina Navratilova, in women’s doubles) complete slam set of Major wins.

For example, the fourth row shows that Margaret Court completed her third career slam set in Women's Singles —winning each of the four majors three times— during the 1970 Wimbledon Championships (bold). More specific, she won: Australian open 11 times, the third in 1962; French Open 5 times, the third in 1969; Wimbledon 3 times (determins the maximum of sets), the third in 1970 and finally US Open 5 times, the third in 1969. Grey background shades lesser achievements by the same player in the same discipline (e.g., Court in the seventh row); yellow highlights the greatest achievement in the discipline (e.g., Graf in the third row).

Slam Sets completed, second and subsequent sets
(chronological sequence in column one)
Name Country Discipline MSS Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open
09 Roy Emerson AUS Men's Singles 2 1963 1967 1965 1964
12 Rod Laver AUS Men's Singles 2 1962 1969 1962 1969
33 Steffi Graf GER Women's Singles 4 1994 1995 1992 1995
14 Margaret Court AUS Women's Singles 3 1962 1969 1970 1969
20 Martina Navratilova USA Women's Singles 2 1983 1984 1979 1984
21 Chris Evert USA Women's Singles 2 1984 1975 1976 1976
06 Margaret Court AUS Women's Singles 2 1961 1964 1965 1965
29 Steffi Graf FRG Women's Singles 2 1989 1988 1989 1989
30 Steffi Graf GER Women's Singles 3 1990 1993 1991 1993
15 Roy Emerson AUS Men's Doubles 3 1969 1962 1971 1965
17 John Newcombe AUS Men's Doubles 3 1971 1973 1968 1973
01 Frank Sedgman AUS Men's Doubles 2 1952 1952 1951 1951
04 Neale Fraser AUS Men's Doubles 2 1958 1960 1961 1960
13 Ken Rosewall AUS Men's Doubles 2 1956 1968 1956 1969
07 Roy Emerson AUS Men's Doubles 2 1966 1961 1961 1960
16 John Newcombe AUS Men's Doubles 2 1967 1969 1966 1971
27 Martina Navratilova USA Women's Doubles 7 1988 1988 1986 1987
28 Pam Shriver USA Women's Doubles 4 1985 1988 1984 1987
34 Natasha Zvereva BLR Women's Doubles 3 1997 1993 1993 1995
11 Margaret Court AUS Women's Doubles 2 1962 1965 1969 1968
31 Gigi Fernández USA Women's Doubles 2 1994 1992 1993 1990
35 Jana Novotná CZE Women's Doubles 2 1995 1991 1990 1997
37 Serena Williams USA Women's Doubles 2 2003 2010 2002 2009
38 Venus Williams USA Women's Doubles 2 2003 2010 2002 2009
18 Martina Navratilova USA Women's Doubles 2 1982 1982 1979 1978
19 Martina Navratilova USA Women's Doubles 3 1983 1984 1981 1980
22 Martina Navratilova USA Women's Doubles 4 1984 1985 1982 1983
24 Martina Navratilova USA Women's Doubles 5 1985 1986 1983 1984
25 Martina Navratilova USA Women's Doubles 6 1987 1987 1984 1986
23 Pam Shriver USA Women's Doubles 2 1983 1985 1982 1984
26 Pam Shriver USA Women's Doubles 3 1984 1987 1983 1986
32 Natasha Zvereva BLR Women's Doubles 2 1994 1992 1992 1992
10 Margaret Court AUS Mixed Doubles 4 1969 1969 1968 1964
02 Doris Hart USA Mixed Doubles 2 1950 1952 1952 1952
03 Frank Sedgman AUS Mixed Doubles 2 1950 1952 1952 1952
05 Margaret Court AUS Mixed Doubles 2 1964 1964 1965 1962
08 Margaret Court AUS Mixed Doubles 3 1965 1965 1966 1963
36 Mahesh Bhupathi IND Mixed Doubles 2 2009 2012 2005 2005

Discipline (number of players and table entries)

  • Men's Singles (2 people; 2 entries)
  • Women's Singles (4 people; 7 entries)
  • Mixed Doubles (4 people, 6 entries)
  • Men's Doubles (5 people; 7 entries)
  • Women's Doubles (8 people; 16 entries)

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