Soon after the International Olympics Committee announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pand...
Soon after the International Olympics Committee announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, world No 1 Novak Djokovic tweeted his photograph with a shoe that had Tokyo 2020 painted over it.
The Serb, who won the year’s first Grand Slam in Australia, is looking to become only the fifth player in the history of the sport to clinch all the four Slams along with the Olympics gold. While three others – Andre Agassi, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal – have a career slam to go with their Olympic gold medals, a certain Steffi Graf surprised the world by winning all the five titles in the same calendar year to complete a Golden Slam back in 1988.
Graf, just 19 then, had won her first Major a year earlier beating Martina Navratilova in the French Open final but no one would have predicted such a domineering performance from the German.
She began by winning the Australian Open crown without dropping a set, clinched the French Open five months later by blanking USSR’s Natasha Zvereva 6-0, 6-0 in the summit clash and then ended Navratilova’s unbeaten run since 1981 at the Wimbledon with a come from behind 5-7, 6-2,...
