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Serena Williams returns a shot to Victoria Azarenka during the U.S. Open women’s singles final in New York City on September 8, 2013. Williams defeated Azarenka to claim the U.S. Open crown and her 17th career Grand Slam tennis title.
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in Pete Sampras
American tennis player whose exceptional all-around game enabled him to win 14 Grand Slam singles titles, a record among male players until 2009, when it was broken by Roger Federer. Sampras during his career won seven Wimbledon singles championships (also a record; 1993–95, 1997–2000), five U.S. Open titles (1990, 1993, 1995–96, 2002), and two Australian Open championships...
in tennis: The early 20th century
...Vines, and Don Budge, who in 1938 became the first man to win all four major titles—the Australian, French, Wimbledon, and U.S.—in one season, a feat that came to be known as the Grand Slam. Alice Marble, the most aggressive net rusher the women’s game had seen to that time, won the U.S. singles in 1936 and from 1938 to 1940, and in 1939 she won the singles, doubles, and...