Don Budge was an American tennis player who in 1938 became the first player, male or female, to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in a single calendar year, a feat known as the calendar Grand Slam. He dominated amateur tennis in the late 1930s before turning professional.
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Career HighlightBudge was the world Number 1 amateur in 1937 and 1938 and world Number 1 professional in 1939, 1940 and 1942. 1 Classification
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June 13, 1915
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January 26, 2000
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was an American tennis player
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Budge was the world Number 1 amateur in 1937 and 1938 and world Number 1 professional in 1939, 1940 and 1942.
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Budge is also the only man to have achieved the Triple Crown (winning singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles at the same tournament) on three separate occasions (Wimbledon in 1937 and 1938, and the US Championships in 1938), and the only man to have achieved it twice in one year.
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Did Don Budge win his calendar Grand Slam as an amateur or as a professional?
He won it in 1938 as an amateur and was later world Number 1 professional.
He won it as an amateur. Budge won all four Grand Slam singles titles in 1938, the first player of either sex to do so in a single calendar year, and he was the world Number 1 amateur in both 1937 and 1938. He then turned professional and was ranked the world Number 1 professional in 1939, 1940 and 1942.
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