<P> The ITF's plan was to offer the cash bonus for three years, apparently to encourage players to compete in all four major tournaments as much as to reward success at them . </P> <P> Even before the ITF had announced their bonus, the Grand Slam controversy had taken on a life of its own . Writing in 1982, Neil Amdur claimed, "Now the sport spins nervously under the influence of big dollars and even bigger egos, and tradition has almost gone the way of white balls and long flannels (...) If the four major tournaments want to offer a $1 million incentive for any player in the future who can sweep their titles--and such talks have been rumored--that bonus would be a welcome addition . But changing what the Grand Slam is all about is like a baseball player believing that he' hit for the cycle' after slugging a single, double and triple in the first game of a doubleheader and a home run in his first time at bat in the second game ." Despite seeming clarity from the ITF, some journalists suggested that the sport's organizing body had turned its back on history and changed the "rules" of tennis by redefining a Grand Slam . Such confusion continued for years . For instance, when Steffi Graf completed the Grand Slam in 1988, George Vecsey wrote, "Even the International Tennis Federation, which should have more respect for history, ruled in 1982 that winning any four straight majors constituted a Grand Slam--and offered a $1 million bonus for it (...) But many tennis people, and most writers, and probably most fans, too, did not accept the new rules, and the I.T.F. has dropped the gimmick ." Vecsey was only half right: the ITF dropped the "gimmick" of the cash bonus, but it had never changed any rules . </P> <P> However, the ambiguous way the ITF described the Grand Slam in their Constitution led to journalists continuing to make the same assumption as Vecsey over two decades later . For instance, when Rafael Nadal was on the verge of completing a non-calendar year Grand Slam at the 2011 Australian Open, one writer observed, "Most traditionalists insist that the' Grand Slam' should refer only to winning all four titles in a calendar year, although the constitution of the International Tennis Federation, the sports governing body, spells out that' players who hold all four of these titles at the same time achieve the Grand Slam' ." This was true until later in 2011, when the ITF edited the description to eliminate all confusion . As it now stands, "The Grand Slam titles are the championships of Australia, France, the United States of America and Wimbledon . Players who hold all four of these titles in one calendar year achieve the' Grand Slam' ." </P> <P> When Martina Navratilova won the 1984 French Open and became the reigning champion of all four women's singles events, she was the first player to receive the bonus prize in recognition of her achievement . Some media outlets did, indeed, say that she had won a Grand Slam . Others simply noted the ongoing controversy: "Whether the Slam was Grand or Bland or a commercial sham tainted with an asterisk the size of a tennis ball, Martina Navratilova finally did it ." Although the ITF recognizes what is now unofficially known as the "non-calendar year Grand Slam" on its Roll of Honour, no subsequent player to win four or more majors in a row--Steffi Graf, Serena Williams, or Novak Djokovic--has received bonus prize money . </P>

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