The 2025 Grand Slam season will continue with the French Open starting at the end of May, with Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys having triumphed at the Australian Open.
Keys is now in a career-high sixth ranking on the WTA Tour, with the American having clinched her first Grand Slam title last month.
Men’s champion Sinner meanwhile secured his third, with the world number one successfully defending his Australian Open title.
Sinner has now spent 36 weeks as number one, with his position at the summit under no real threat at this moment in time.
He does, of course, now have the chance to join the record books, but it will take some doing for Sinner to complete the calendar Grand Slam.
When Don Budge won six consecutive Grand Slam titles from 1937-1938
The Italian would be following in the footsteps of just two men to have achieved the feat; Don Budge in 1938 and Rod Laver in 1962 and 1969.
But not only did Budge become the first player, male or female, to achieve the calendar Grand Slam, he achieved the stunning feat of winning six consecutive Grand Slam titles.
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The phenomenal run from the American started at Wimbledon in 1937, with Budge also winning the Australian Open that year.
And he completed the achievement thanks to his calendar Grand Slam in 1938, with all six of his Grand Slam titles won at that time.
Don Budge considered by many as ‘the best of all time’
Born in Oakland, California in June 1915, Budge would go on to win 43 titles, with the right-hander winning 569 matches overall.
The former world number one sadly passed away in 2000, but his fantastic legacy remains, with the International Tennis Hall of Fame noting that in some circles, he was considered ‘the best of all time’.
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Fans of the likes of modern-day stars Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer may have something to say about that, but there is no denying just how successful a career Budge had.
Laver superbly followed suit with his calendar Grand Slams, with Maureen Connolly (1953), Margaret Court (1970) and Steffi Graf (1988) doing likewise over the years.
But it will take a monstrous effort for any man to emulate Budge by winning six consecutive Grand Slam titles.
Such a record definitely won’t be on the mind of Sinner right now, with the current world number one simply taking each tournament as it comes.
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