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Triple Crowns

In the history of the national championships, 30 times a player has accomplished the feat of winning all three possible titles in the same year - singles, doubles and mixed doubles. This has been done by 21 players, 15 women and 6 men. Here are the three-championship winners:

1892 - Mabel Cahill
1895 - Juliette P. Atkinson
1909 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
1910 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
1911 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
1912 - Mary K. Browne
1913 - Mary K. Browne
1914 - Mary K. Browne
1917 - Molla Bjurstedt
1922 - Bill Tilden
1923 - Bill Tilden
1924 - Helen N. Wills
1928 - Helen N. Wills
1934 - Helen H. Jacobs
1938 - Don Budge, Alice Marble*
1939 - Alice Marble
1940 - Alice Marble
1941 - Sarah Palfrey (Fabyan) Cooke
1947 - Louise Brough
1950 - Margaret O. duPont
1951 - Frank Sedgman
1954 - Vic Seixas, Doris Hart*
1956 - Ken Rosewall
1959 - Neale Fraser
1960 - Neale Fraser
1967 - Billie Jean King
1970 - Margaret Smith Court
1987 - Martina Navratilova

*Only twice have two players combined on a championship mixed doubles team and also won both of their own titles in singles and doubles - 1938 (Budge and Marble) and 1954 (Seixas and Hart).
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