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Australian Open
History of the Australian Open starts in 1905 on the lawns of the Warehouseman’s Cricket Club.
In 1927 tennis tournament became known as Australian Championships and only in 1969 it got his official title - Australian Open.
In 1905-1927 Championships hold five Australian cities - Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and two New Zealand cities - Christchurch(1906), Hastings (1912).
The Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne became the next home of the Australian Open in 1972-1987.
In 1988 Australian Open established a new home at Flinders Park (since 1996 - Melbourne Park) and attendance increase almost twice.
In 2000 Centre Court got name of Australian tennis legend - Rod Laver Arena.
Australian Open Prize money:
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Wimbledon
In 1877 on the area of the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club the history of the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world began.
It's first ground was situated off Worple Road, Wimbledon.
The competition had only 22 male participants and the first winner was Spencer Gore.
The Men's Doubles event was added in 1879, Women's Singles in 1884, and the Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles in 1913.
In 1905 May Sutton of the United States became the first Women's Singles overseas winner
and Norman Brookes of Australia in 1907 won first Men's Singles as international player.
In 1922 new ground in Church Road was opened by King George V.
New Centre Court had a capacity of 14 thousand people.
The Royal Box of Centre Court seats 75 people and is used for royalty and celebrities, who got official invitation from the Chairman of the Club.
In 2009 the new retractable roof was built on Centre Court which enable all weather play during The Championships.
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French Open
The first tennis tournament was held on the courts of Stade Francais club in Paris in 1891 as one-day national championship.
Only French players and players from Francais clubs took part in tournament, but first winner was H. Briggs from England.
In 1925 French Tennis Federation decided to open the championship for the best foreign players.
When in 1927 the French Musketeers, Jacques Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Rene Lacoste beat USA in The Davis Cup it was required a new stadium
to be built to host the following year's return match.
The French Tennis Federation allocated the area of three hectares near Porte d'Auteuil and their requirement was to name the new stadium as Roland Garros
in honor of the former member of the Stade Francais club, aviator, who was the first man who flew
over the Mediterranean.
In 2001 centre court got name of the former president of the French Tennis Federation - Court Philippe Chatrier.
French Open Prize money:
U.S. Open
The first tennis tournament for men was held at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1881 and was known as U.S. National Championships.
Only players from clubs who were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association were permitted to enter.
In 1887 the first official U.S. Women's National Singles Championship was held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club.
Men and women competed at different cities before 1968 when five major events -
Men's and Women's Singles, Men's and Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles
moved to new location - West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills.
Since 1968 Championship became known as U.S. Open.
In 1978 tournament moved to its current location - USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.
The Centre Court is located at the Arthur Ashe Stadium, named after tennis player who won men's final of the US Open in 1968.
US Open Prize money:
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Serena Williams kept telling herself she was facing just another foe in the Wimbledon final Saturday, just another woman who hits the ball quite hard, just another player trying to deny her a Grand Slam title. She wasn't facing just anyone, of course. She was playing her older sister Venus. And when the latest all-Williams final finished, when Serena wrapped up a 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory for a third...
04 Jul 2009 Federer goes for Slam record vs. Roddick (AP)
A year ago, plenty of people were feeling sorry for Roger Federer. They were sending him letters with good wishes or -- believe it or not -- tennis tips. They were offering advice about how to deal with a perceived drop in performance and ideas for how to beat Rafael Nadal. "If you achieved a lot, like I did, for so many years, and then you don't win some tournaments, people say, 'Oh,...
04 Jul 2009 Williams sisters win doubles title (AP)Venus and Serena Williams have won their fourth women's doubles title at Wimbledon by beating Rennae Stubbs and Samantha Stosur of Australia 7-6 (4), 6-4. The doubles final began a few hours after Serena beat Venus for the singles championship Saturday. It's the Williams sisters' second consecutive doubles title at the All England Club and their ninth Grand Slam doubles title as a pair.
04 Jul 2009 Nestor-Zimonjic repeat as doubles champ (AP)Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia won their second straight Wimbledon men's doubles title Saturday, beating top-seeded American twins Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6 (7), 6-7 (3), 7-6 (3), 6-3. Nestor and Zimonjic were playing in their third Grand Slam final together. Besides winning the Wimbledon title last year, they lost in the 2008 French Open final.
03 Jul 2009 Murray disappoints boisterous crowd (AP)With an often boisterous crowd fully behind him, it was the man in front of Andy Murray that kept the third-ranked Scot from becoming the first British man to reach the Wimbledon final in 71 years. Murray didn't play poorly in his 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (7) loss to Andy Roddick, far from it. He even gave the thousands of fans on Centre Court plenty to scream and cheer about throughout the...
03 Jul 2009 Haas plays well, but falls to Federer (AP)Against almost any other player, Tommy Haas would have had a fighting chance in the Wimbledon semifinals. Instead, the German's solid play on Centre Court ended up in a relatively tame 7-6 (3), 7-5, 6-3 loss to five-time champion Roger Federer on Friday. "I served extremely well," Haas said.
02 Jul 2009 Agassi set to play World Team Tennis (AP)Andre Agassi wanted to smack some tennis balls around this summer, so he decided to take Billie Jean King up on her offer. King, the co-founder of World Team Tennis, and commissioner Ilana Kloss traveled to his home in Las Vegas earlier this year and asked the eight-time major champion to play in their league.
