11 tennis players who have completed the Channel Slam: Winning French Open & Wimbledon back-to-back ft. Novak Djokovic, Steffi Graf

Winning the French Open-Wimbledon double, also referred to as the 'Channel Slam', is considered to be one of the toughest feats to achieve in tennis.The chalk-and-cheese nature of the surfaces at Roland Garros and Wimbledon is probably what makes this feat so difficult to achieve and so special whenever it actually has been accomplished.Here, we take a look at the only 10 players in tennis' Open Era who have managed to win the 'Channel Slam' (slideshow arranged in chronological order of the first time each player accomplished the feat).

#11 Rod Laver's French Open- Wimbledon double (1969)

Rod Laver, the Australian tennis legend and arguably the greatest player to have ever played tennis, was the first player in the Open Era to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year.

Laver beat fellow Australian Ken Rosewall at the 1969 French Open final in straight sets before going on to beat another one of his countrymen, John Newcombe, in the SAW19 final to complete the rare double.