The Pursuit of Tennis Greatness: Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer’s Grand Slam Records

The American Don Budge he won all four Grand Slams in the same season, in 1938. The most remembered and recognized is the Australian Rod Laverwho made the plenary session of ‘big’ the same year twice, in 1962 and, at the beginning of the Open era that abolished the distinction between amateurs and professionals, 1969.

In women, the American signed the feat Maureen Connolly (1953), the Australian Margaret Court (1970) and the German Steffi Graf (1988), the only tennis player to have done it on three different surfaces, since her predecessors, as well as Budge and Laver, competed in an era when everything was grass, except the land of Roland Garros.

It is a feat that the American pursued without success. Serena Williamswhich also does not appear in the extensive list of records of the ‘Big Three’, the three greats: the Serbian Novak Djokovicthe Spanish Rafael Nadal and the swiss Roger Federer.

Federer he retired with 20 Grand Slam titles. Roland Garros clay, especially Rafael Nadal, was his only absence in the triplet of 2004, 2006 and 2007. The Spaniard came to chain three ‘big’ in 2010, but Australia was missing. In 2022, after winning in Melbourne, his weak point, and Roland Garros, he was injured in the Wimbledon semifinals. He began an ongoing ordeal with hip ailment that he tries not to be the conclusion of his career. He wants to say goodbye competing.

Novak Djokovic He reached the 22 Grand Slams of Nadal in Australia, he took the solo record for the first time (23) triumphing at Roland Garros. He opened the perspective of the Grand Slam again in the same course, the one that escaped him in 2021, when he gave in on the last day, in the US Open final against the Russian Daniil Medvedev.

That option evaporated this year, she will try to reach the 24 Grand Slams of the Australian Margaret Court at the US Open. Although in New York the defender from Flushing Meadows, Carlos Alcaraz, who has indirectly gotten into the Djokovic-Federer-Nadal pulse, will wait again. He kept the Balkan from many things and dreams of having a really successful career. The Murcian does not rule out anything. He didn’t get close to those ‘monsters’ either.

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Djokovic’s record is very complete, he has the Olympic gold medal spot, which Rafa Nadal does, also a doubles champion and with five Davis Cups, four more than the Serbian and Federer. Although he does not have the Final Masters of these two, with six each. At the age of 20, Carlos Alcaraz exposes two Grand Slams and number one, establishing himself as a worthy successor to the ‘Big 3’.

Then other scales enter, ranging from charisma or international status as an icon due to its impact on the sport to the accounting of other successes.

Djokovic’s 23 Grand Slams

10 Australian Open (2008, 2011 to 2013, 2015 and 2016, 2019 to 2021, 2023)
​3 Roland Garros (2016, 2021 y 2023)
7 Wimbledon (2011, 2014 and 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022)
​3 US Open (2011, 2015 y 2018)

Rafael Nadal’s 22 Grand Slams

2 Australian Open (2009 and 2022)
​14 Roland Garros (2005 a 2008, 2010 a 2014, 2017 a 2020, 2022)
​2 Wimbledon (2008 y 2010)
​4 US Open (2010, 2013, 2017 y 2019)

Roger Federer’s 20 Grand Slams

6 Australian Open (2004, 2006 and 2007, 2010, 2017 and 2018)
1 Roland Garros (2009)
​8 Wimbledon (2003 a 2007, 2009, 2012 y 2017)
​5 US Open (2004 a 2008)

2023-07-16 18:36:27
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