Top 40 Tennis Players Never to Win a Calendar-Year Grand Slam

Only five players have won all four majors inside one calendar year. Everyone here came close and did not — some by a single match. Pick the greatest of them.

1. 1
   Novak Djokovic

   Held all four across 2015-16 and lost the 2021 US Open final one match short.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Rafael Nadal

   Won three majors in 2010 and took the first two legs in 2022 before injury halted him.
   969pts
3. 3
   Boris Becker

   Six majors and never a French Open final.
   897pts
4. 4
   Maria Bueno

   Seven major singles titles and a 1960 calendar Grand Slam in doubles, but never all four in singles.
   808pts
5. 5
   Carlos Alcaraz

   Won majors on clay, grass and hard courts before turning 22, yet has never taken all four in one season.
   778pts
6. 6
   Aryna Sabalenka

   World No. 1 who won the Australian Open in 2023 and 2024 and the US Open in 2024 and 2025.
   728pts
7. 7
   Suzanne Lenglen

   Six Wimbledon and six French titles, but she never entered the Australian and retired from her only US Championships match.
   728pts
8. 8
   Justine Henin

   Seven majors including four French Opens, never a Wimbledon title.
   728pts
9. 9
   Ivan Lendl

   Nineteen major finals, eight titles, and Wimbledon always missing.
   728pts
10. 10
    Billie Jean King

    Twelve majors and a career Grand Slam, spread across fifteen years.
    692pts
11. 11
    Lew Hoad

    Won the Australian, French and Wimbledon titles in 1956 and lost the US final to Ken Rosewall, one match from the Grand Slam.
    610pts
12. 12
    Andre Agassi

    Completed the career Grand Slam at the 1999 French Open but never won more than two majors in a season.
    610pts
13. 13
    Serena Williams

    Held all four at once twice, in 2002-03 and 2014-15, and never in one calendar year.
    610pts
14. 14
    Fred Perry

    Won the Australian, Wimbledon and US titles in 1934, then completed the first men's career Grand Slam in Paris a year later.
    610pts
15. 15
    Bill Tilden

    Ten major titles in the 1920s, but he never travelled to Australia and lost both of his French finals.
    538pts
16. 16
    Tony Trabert

    Won the French, Wimbledon and US titles in 1955 after losing the Australian semi-final, then turned professional.
    538pts
17. 17
    Guillermo Vilas

    Won the French and US Opens in 1977 plus two Australian titles, but never went beyond the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
    538pts
18. 18
    Kim Clijsters

    Four majors, three of them at the US Open, and never more than one in any single year.
    538pts
19. 19
    Mats Wilander

    Won the Australian, French and US Opens in 1988, falling only at Wimbledon in his perfect-season attempt.
    455pts
20. 20
    Monica Seles

    Won three of four in 1991 and 1992, skipping Wimbledon or losing it.
    455pts
21. 21
    Bjorn Borg

    Won the French and Wimbledon in the same year three times, but never the US Open.
    455pts
22. 22
    Pancho Gonzales

    Dominated professional tennis for a decade, but turning pro in 1949 barred him from the majors for eighteen years.
    455pts
23. 23
    Venus Williams

    Seven majors, all of them at Wimbledon or the US Open.
    455pts
24. 24
    Martina Hingis

    Won three of the four majors in 1997 at sixteen and lost only the French Open final to Iva Majoli.
    455pts
25. 25
    Maria Sharapova

    Completed the career Grand Slam with five majors, yet never won more than one in a single season.
    455pts
26. 26
    Iga Świątek

    Won four French Opens in five years and added Wimbledon in 2025, but the Australian Open has always eluded her.
    359pts
27. 27
    Arthur Ashe

    Won the US, Australian and Wimbledon titles in three different years, the last over Jimmy Connors in 1975.
    359pts
28. 28
    Helen Wills

    Nineteen major singles titles, eight of them at Wimbledon, without ever making the trip to the Australian Championships.
    359pts
29. 29
    Ken Rosewall

    Eight majors spread across nineteen years and four lost Wimbledon finals, with his pro years shutting him out of the majors entirely.
    359pts
30. 30
    Martina Navratilova

    Won six consecutive majors across 1983 and 1984, but never four inside one year.
    359pts
31. 31
    John McEnroe

    Seven majors, none of them in Melbourne or Paris.
    245pts
32. 32
    Pete Sampras

    Fourteen majors and never a French Open title, so never even close.
    245pts
33. 33
    Andy Murray

    Three majors and two Olympic golds in the Big Three era, never more than one major in a year.
    245pts
34. 34
    Evonne Goolagong Cawley

    Seven majors including four Australian titles, but four US Open finals all ended in defeat.
    245pts
35. 35
    Jannik Sinner

    Held three majors at once after Wimbledon 2025 as world No. 1, but never four within one calendar year.
    245pts
36. 36
    Chris Evert

    Eighteen majors and thirty-four finals, but never more than two in a season after 1975.
    245pts
37. 37
    Roger Federer

    Reached all four major finals in 2006 and 2007 and won three each year, beaten both times at Roland Garros.
    245pts
38. 38
    Stefan Edberg

    Six majors and a serve-and-volley game built for grass, but the 1989 French Open final was as close as Paris came.
    0pts
39. 39
    Jimmy Connors

    Won three of the four in 1974 and was barred from entering the French Open.
    0pts
40. 40
    Roy Emerson

    Twelve majors and three of the four in 1964, missing only Roland Garros in the year he came closest.
    0pts

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