G7 - The Grand Seven of tennis

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Seven players have won career grand slams in the history and Rafael Nadal became the latest to join the elite club. Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal completed their career slam post 1991.Here we take a look at the "Magnificent Seven" men to have won all four Grand Slam singles titles.

Fred Perry

Perry is considered by some to have been one of the greatest male players ever. He was the World No. 1 player for five years, four of them consecutive, 1934 to 1938, the first three years as an amateur.As an eight-time Slam winner, Perry is the last British male player to win any of tennis's Grand Slam events.

Kings of the Court, a video-tape documentary made in 1997 in conjunction with the International Tennis Hall of Fame, named Perry one of the ten greatest players of all time.

8 titles- Australian Open: 1934; French Open: 1935; Wimbledon: 1934, 1935, 1936; US Open: 1933, 1934, 1936

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