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Golden Slam

Achieving the Grand Slam requires a player to win all four major tournaments in the same calendar year. Before 1988, only one man, Rod Laver in 1969, and one woman, Margaret Court in 1970, had ever achieved it. In 1988, Germany’s Steffi Graf not only completed the Grand Slam but also took it one step further. Graf started by winning both the Australian and French Open finals in straight sets. At Wimbledon she earned her first title there by winning 12 of the last 13 games in the final. She completed the Grand Slam by dominating the third set in a win over Gabriella Sabatini at the U.S. Open. Just a few weeks later at the Seoul Olympics, she won the gold medal with a straight sets win over Sabatini. No other man or woman has ever won all five tournaments in the same year, a feat dubbed the Golden Slam.

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