Grand Slam (Tennis)
A Grand Slam (English for big blow ) in tennis is to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in a calendar year by a player or a player.
The Grand Slam tournaments: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon Championships and U.S. Open, both in terms of prize money and world ranking points awarded to the most highly doped tournaments in the Schedules. You will both be held in about two weeks in knockout system for men and women as single and double and as a mixed competition.
The term " Grand Slam" in tennis was coined in 1933 by the American journalist John Kieran. He borrowed the concept of the English card game Bridge, in which a Grand Slam ( German: grand slam ) means the profit of all stitches for a party. After the tennis player Jack Crawford had won this year's Australian and French Championships and Wimbledon, Kieran wrote in the New York Times when it would now also win the U.S. Championships, this would be like a Grand Slam in tennis courts.
Grand Slam winner
The Grand Slam is the biggest success that a tennis player can achieve. In the individual competitions he only managed five players. Even rarer is the Grand Slam in doubles competitions, where he has been won only two double pairs and a mixed pair. In the double also comes down to the question of whether a Grand Slam also exists when a player wins the Grand Slam tournaments in a year with different partners. This has so far been denied a regular basis and includes, for example, Martina Hingis, which won in 1998, although all four tournaments in women's doubles, but just with two different partners.
Due to the observed also in tennis increasing specialization, especially because of the different floor coverings, such a success hardly seems achievable nowadays. Rod Laver, for example, won the Grand Slam in only two different types of flooring. Apart from the traditional tournament in Paris, which will be played on clay, at the time all other tournaments had only grass courts. The U.S. Open will be held in 1978 in Flushing Meadows on hard court, before they found in Forest Hills initially on grass instead and the last three years on sand. The Australian Open will be played since the move in 1988 by investing in Kooyong to Flinders Park on Hard Court.
Spurious Grand Slam
Since the Grand Slam is a very rare event because of the difficulties its coming, is already spoken at winning four Grand Slam tournaments in a row from a "non-genuine " Grand Slam; eg when Martina Navratilova, the 1983/84 with six wins in succession, a record at the Grand Slam tournament victories succeeded without that she had achieved a real Grand Slam.
Career Grand Slam
A Career Grand Slam reaches a player if he wins all four major tournaments during his career.
Men's Singles
The following players have won all four Grand Slam tournaments during her career, though not necessarily in one year or in direct sequence.
The dates refer to the year in which the player completed the career Grand Slam.
Only Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal reached the career Grand Slam on three different surfaces ( grass, clay and hard court). Earlier it was only played on sand and grass pitches.
Women's Singles
Following players succeeded in the course of her career, a victory at all four Grand Slam tournaments, though not necessarily in one year or in direct sequence.
The dates indicate the year in which the player completed the career Grand Slam.
Men's Doubles
The following players have won all four Grand Slam tournaments in a double in the course of her career, although not necessarily within one year or in direct sequence.
The dates refer to the year in which the player completed the career Grand Slam.
The following pairings were able to win the career Grand Slam as a team:
The dates indicate the year in which the pairing completed the career Grand Slam as a team.
Women's Doubles
The following players have won all four Grand Slam tournaments in a double in the course of her career, although not necessarily within one year or in direct sequence.
The dates refer to the year in which the player completed the career Grand Slam.
Mixed
The dates indicate the year in which the player or the player completed the career Grand Slam.
The dates indicate the year in which the pairing completed the career Grand Slam as a team.
Golden Slam
Victories at all four Grand Slam tournaments in a year and additionally at the Olympic tennis tournament unofficially referred to as the Golden Slam. So far such a success was only Steffi Graf in 1988.
Between 1928 and 1984, tennis was not part of the program of the Olympic Games, so that would have been theoretically possible before Graf winning the Golden Slam only five times 1906-1924.
2012 reached the American tennis player Serena Williams with her victory in the single XXX. Summer Olympic Games a career Golden Slam. In the doubles with her sister Venus she reached the Career Golden Slam already by winning the Australian Open in 2001., A US -American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan completed the victory in the men's doubles, the 2012 Olympics his career Golden Slam, the well in a spurious Golden Slam was because they were able to win all four Grand Slam tournaments following.
Other winners of the Career Golden Slam are Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal in the men's singles, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde in the men's doubles as a team, Daniel Nestor single player on the men's doubles as well as Pam Shriver and Gigi Fernández as individual players in women's doubles.