Don Budge

In the meantime Rod Laver, who won all four Grand Slams in a row in 1962 and 1969, and Don Budge, who did the same in 1938, remain the only two members of the most exclusive club in tennis.

Nadal's Grand Slam Streak Ends Nicolas Brulliard 2011

Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, German tennis player; Don Budge, an American player from head to toe; and Bill Tilden, one of the mightiest racquet-wielders ever: these three players gave heart and soul to tennis not (only) for the bucks but for the love of the game.

Nina Sankovitch: Close Open: A Terrible Splendor Is Best Tennis Book Of 2009 2009

We had great champions in the 1920s and '30s, like Bill Tilden and Don Budge, but tennis became a second-tier sport again after World War II and didn't really pop back into Americans' consciousness until the '70s and' 80s boom.

Matthew DeBord: U.S. Open Tennis: The American Tennis Boom Was a Fluke 2009

But one year after the Berlin Olympics and one year before the Louis-Schmeling rematch, there was another epic sporting event — this one on center court at Wimbledon — that pitted the two best players in the world: a blue-collar youngster from hardscrabble Oakland, Don Budge, against the German aristocrat and Aryan ideal, Gottfried von Cramm.

Serving for Supremacy 2009

Today in Sports: The great Don Budge, by winning the U.S.

Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories 2009

Don Budge, who completed the first-ever Grand Slam in 1938.

NY Daily News NICHOLAS HIRSHON 2011

The world No 1, who is aiming to join Don Budge and Rod Laver as the only men to hold all four Grand Slam titles, sympathised with his opponent, having had to retire with a knee injury of his own 12 months ago in losing to Murray in the quarter-finals here.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

Like so many high-profile players before him, from Don Budge to Yannick Noah to John McEnroe, Federer is greatly moved by playing for his country.

SI.com 2011

Querrey is still recovering from elbow surgery in June, and won't get a chance to join Fred Perry and Don Budge as the only players to three-peat in Los Angeles.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

It was after Don Budge managed it in the 1938 season that tennis looked for what they should be calling this unprecedented feat, before stealing a phrase from the bridge tables; he had done the grand slam.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011