Self Carlos Alcaraz he aims to do a double Paris-Wimbledona feat achieved by only 5 other tennis players in the history of tennis, Jannik Sinner at the Wimbledon tournament starting on Monday 1 July he aims to do the double Australian Open-Wimbledon.
But how many times has this pairing succeeded in the history of the Open Era? Who are the record holders? Let’s see which club Sinner could join if he won the Wimbledon tournament for the first time in his career.
We only consider the Open Era in this statistical analysis. The pairing with the same player who won theAustralian Open and at Wimbledon in the same year it also succeeded in this case with 5 players.
The feat obviously succeeded Rod Laver who in 1969 won the Grand Slam by winning all four of the most important events in the world of tennis. And he is also the last tennis player to have managed to win in the same year Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have succeeded in the Melbourne-Wimbledon pairing four times each
After Rod Laver in 1969 it was necessary to go to 1974 to find the winning combination of Australian Open and Wimbledon and on this occasion it was Jimmy Connors.
That the undertaking is not entirely easy is demonstrated by the fact that 20 years had to pass since 1974 to see this encore again. In 1994 he succeeded Pete Sampras who repeated the double also in 1997.
The joint record holders of this winning pairing are Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Federer succeeded 4 times: in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2017, managing to repeat himself 13 years after the first occasion.
Also Novak Djokovic he has collected the Australian Open-Wimbledon double 4 times: first in 2011, then in 2015 and again in 2019 and 2021. Now Jannik Sinner who triumphed in Melbourne in January knocks on the door of this exclusive club of players who managed to achieve this double in the same year.
