【049】Grand Slam - 大满贯

Grand slam tennis tournaments

 

Australian Open          Melbourne       1905    hard courts

The Australian Open is a major tennis tournament held annually over the last fortnight of January in Melbourne, Australia. First held in 1905, the tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events of the year. The tournament plays on hard courts at Melbourne Park.

 

French Open          Paris            1891    clay

The French Open, often referred to as Roland Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Roland Garros. It is the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world and the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments.

 

Wimbledon Championships  London              1877    grass

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon (25 June – 8 July in 2012), is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, Wimbledon is the only Major still played on grass, the game's original surface, which gave the game of lawn tennis its name.

 

U.S. Open         New York          1881    hard courts

The US Open Championship, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hard court tennis tournament, first held in 1881, the US Open is the fourth and final tennis major comprising the Grand Slam each year. It is held annually in August and September over a two-week period in Queens, New York City.

 

The main tournament consists of five different event championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles.

 

Tennis match rules

 

A tennis match is composed of points, games, and sets.

man's single    best of five      

other           best of three

 

Number of points won     Corresponding call

0   "love"  1   "15"     2   "30"     3   "40"     4   "game"

 

AD

In standard play, scoring beyond a "deuce" score, in which both players have scored three points each, requires that one player must win two consecutive points in order to win the game. This type of tennis scoring is known as "advantage scoring" (or "ads"). In this type of scoring, the player who wins the next point after deuce is said to have the advantage. If the player with advantage loses the next point, the score is again deuce, since the score is tied.

 

ACE

An ace is a legal serve that is not touched by the receiver, winning the point.

 

LOVE

The origin of the use of "love" for zero is also disputed. It is possible that it derives from the French expression for "the egg" (l'œuf) because an egg looks like the number zero.

 

Tie-break

At a score of 6–6, a set is often determined by one more game called a "twelve point tiebreaker." The set is decided by the player who wins at least seven points in the tiebreak but also has two points more than his opponent. In scoring, sometimes the tiebreak points are also included, for example 7–6 (7–5). Another way of listing the score of the tiebreak is to list only the loser's points.

 

Won all the four grand slam tournaments. (active players)

 

Roger Federer 27

Rafael Nadal    24 

Serena Williams     21

 

Three Major tournament titles in a year. (active players)

 

Roger Federer 2004、2006、2007   F

Rafael Nadal    2010    A

Novak Djokovic     2011    F

2005 - 2012 （2009）

Serena Williams     2002    A

 

Most Grand Slam singles titles

 

Roger Federer 16

Rafael Nadal    10（11）

Novak Djokovic     5（6）

Serena Williams     13

Venus Williams       5