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Golden Slam! I'm speechless
," de Groot wrote on Instagram."This is just incredible. Thank you so much everyone for all the support and love." Just two hours or so after de Groot wrote her name in the record books, Australian quad player Dylan Alcott completed his own Golden Slam."," he said after the match, according to the US Open site."I was the second person to win a Golden Slam today, the third person ever by an hour. It's crazy, yeah?" Until this weekend, Germany's Steffi Graf was the only player to have ever achieved a Golden Slam .
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