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International Tennis: The Four Grand Slams

Tennis’s four biggest titles are each played on a different surface. Winning all four in one career is one of the sport’s rarest feats.

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International Tennis

4 Surfaces, 4 Slams

Each Grand Slam is played on its own distinct court surface

Winning any one earns 2,000 ranking points, on both the ATP and WTA tours.

January · Hard Court

Australian Open

Opens the calendar each year, though founded last of the four, in 1905.

May-June · Clay Court

French Open

Also called Roland Garros; founded 1891, at its current stadium since 1928.

July · Grass Court

Wimbledon

Tennis’s oldest and most tradition-bound major.

Aug-Sep · Hard Court

US Open

Closes the Grand Slam calendar each year.

📑 Contents

Tennis has four Grand Slam tournaments each year: the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open.
Each Grand Slam is played on a different court surface.
The Australian Open is played on hard courts, in January.
The French Open, also called Roland Garros, is played on clay courts, in late May and early June.
Wimbledon is played on grass courts, in July.
The US Open is played on hard courts, in late August and early September.

Winning a Grand Slam singles title earns 2,000 ranking points, on both the ATP and WTA tours.
The ATP ranking counts a player’s best 19 results over the past 12 months.
The WTA ranking counts a player’s best 16 results in singles over the same period.
Novak Djokovic holds the men’s record for most Grand Slam singles titles, with 24.
Margaret Court holds the women’s record, also with 24 Grand Slam singles titles.

Djokovic completed a career Golden Slam: all four majors, plus Olympic gold.
The Australian Open opens the tennis calendar each year, but it wasn’t always the oldest major.
It was actually the last of the four Grand Slams created, starting only in 1905.
The French Open itself began in 1891, moving to its current Roland Garros stadium in 1928.
Carlos Alcaraz became the youngest man to complete the career Grand Slam, after his 7th major win at the 2026 Australian Open.

At the French Open final on 6 June 2026, Alexander Zverev of Germany beat Flavio Cobolli of Italy 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1, in a five-set final.
It was Zverev’s first Grand Slam title, after three previous major final losses.
He became the first German man to win a Grand Slam since Boris Becker’s 1996 Australian Open win.
He was also the first German ever to win Roland Garros.
In the women’s final, Mirra Andreeva of Russia, aged 19 years and 1 month, beat Maja Chwalińska of Poland 6-3, 6-2.
It was Andreeva’s first Grand Slam title.
She became the youngest woman to win the French Open since Monica Seles in 1992.
Chwalińska, ranked World No. 114, became the lowest-ranked finalist in French Open history.
She was only the second qualifier in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam final, after Emma Raducanu’s 2021 US Open run.