First tennis player to achieve an open-era “Double Career Grand Slam” (male)

Novak Djokovic (Serbia) won the French Open for a second time in 2021 to complete his collection of two Grand Slam singles titles at each of the four Grand Slam tournaments. He was the only man to achieve the feat in the open era (since 1968) until Rafael Nadal took an equally treacherous five-set path to glory for his second Australian Open win in 2022.

Djokovic won the French Open for the first time in 2016. By the time he collected a second title in Paris on 13 June 2021, by beating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-7, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in the final, he had 19 of his 20 major titles under his belt, with just Wimbledon 2021 to follow four weeks later.

Nadal was the second man in the open era to complete a “Double Career Grand Slam” when he beat Daniil Medvedev 2-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 in the Australian Open final on 30 January 2022. Thirteen years earlier, in 2009, Nadal had won his first title at Melbourne Park.