First tennis player to win a "Career Super Slam"

Steffi Graf (Germany) was the first tennis player – male or female – to achieve a "Career Super Slam" (winning the four Grand Slam tournaments, an Olympic gold medal, the Fed Cup/Davis Cup and the WTA Tour Championships/ATP World Tour Finals). Graf, who turned professional in 1982, won the first of her 22 Grand Slam titles at the French Open in 1987, the year she also claimed the Fed Cup (as a member of the German team) and the WTA Tour Championships. In 1988, she won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and a gold medal in the singles competition at the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. Graf capped an incredible run of success by winning the US Open in 1988 to complete a "Career Super Slam" in little over 12 months. Steffi Graf's full "Career Super Slam" record is as follows: French Open - 1987-88, 1993, 1995-96 and 1999; Fed Cup - 1987 and 1992; WTA Tour Championships - 1987, 1989, 1993 and 1995-96; Australian Open - 1988-90 and 1994; Wimbledon - 1988-89, 1991-93 and 1995-96; Olympic Games gold medal (singles) - 1988; US Open - 1988-89, 1993 and 1995-96.

Graf is the only tennis player - male or female - to win all four Grand Slam tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in the same year (1988).

Only two other players have claimed a "Career Super Slam": Andre Agassi (USA, the first male tennis player to do so and, incidentally, Graf's husband) in 1999 and Serena Williams (USA) in 2012.

The phrase "Career Super Slam" was coined by Sports Illustrated magazine.