What is "grand slam" in Tennis? Why are there only 4 grand slam events? Who invented Tennis? Who won it 1st?

Question

What I want to know in the last question is who won the first grand slam single titles (both male and female)

Answer 1

I don't know if any one particular person claims to be the inventor. "Lawn Tennis" and "Real Tennis" was played in early Europe (amongst the elite class) and moved to England who became its foster parent. The Grand Slams are the four major tournaments: Australia, US, Brittish and French. I am not sure who was the first male although Lew Hoad comes to mind, but certainly Rod Laver--as for the ladies Maureen Connolly, I believe was the first, then Court and Graf, with Navratilova awarded it byt the ITF.

Answer 2

the grand slam is when you win all four slams in a calendar year. There are only 4 grand slam events, because it wouldnt make much sense if there were any more or less considering a grand slam in baseball is a 4-run home run.

to be absolutely technical about it...the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Opens shouldnt be called a grand slam at all. They should be call major championships and if you were to win all 4 in a year, that would be called a grand slam. This is similar to golf.

but somehow over the years, the media has changed the term so you can win a grand slam without winning the grand slam.

Answer 3

4 Qs and only 2 points....
Grand Slam - Winning all 4 major (Auss, French, Wimbledon
and US opens) in a calendar year.

Why only 4? - Just because these are old and prestigious
tournaments and the trend is adding major events. If you look
at the history, US Open got started in 1881, followed by
French in 1891 and Australian Open in 1905. Winbledon got
around the same time as US open(1877). Names got
changed, surfaces got changed so did the locations.

Invention - French. But it can be traced back to Greeks in 1200s. But French took the real tennis.

Wimbledon winner Men Spencer Gore (1877)
Wimbledon winner women M.E.E. Watson (1884)
US Open winner Men Richard Sears ( 1881 - 1887 )
US Open winner Women Ellen Hansell (1887)

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The four grand slam events, in seasonal order, are the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. These are the four biggest tournaments of the year in terms of number of participants, events (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles), spectators, prize money, and prestige. The first winner of the grand slam (winning all four events in the same calendar year) was Donald Budge of the U.S. in 1938. The first woman to do so was Maureen Connolly of the U.S. in 1953. The other singles grand slam winners were Rod Laver of Australia, who did it twice in 1962 and again in 1969, Margaret Smith Court of Australia in 1970, and Steffi Graf of Germany in 1988.

Answer 6

The four grand slam events are the grand slam. Win all four in the same year and that's a grand slam.

Answer 7

Tennis as the modern sport can be dated to two separate roots. Between 1859 and 1865, Major Harry Gem and his friend Augurio Perera developed a game that combined elements of rackets and Spanish ball game pelota, which they played on Perera's croquet lawn in Birmingham, England.[1][2] In 1872, along with two local doctors, they founded the world's first tennis club in Leamington Spa.[3] The Courier of 23 July 1884 recorded one of the first tennis tournaments, held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall.[4]

In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed a similar game for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.[5] He based the game on the older sport of indoor tennis or real tennis. According to most tennis historians, modern tennis terminology also derives from this period, as Wingfield borrowed both the name and much of the French vocabulary of real tennis and applied them to his new game.

The first championships at Wimbledon, in London were played in 1877.[6] On May 21, 1881, the United States National Lawn Tennis Association (now the United States Tennis Association) was formed to standardize the rules and organize competitions.[7] The U.S. National Men's Singles Championship, now the U.S. Open, was first held in 1881 at Newport, Rhode Island.[8] The U.S. National Women's Singles Championships were first held in 1887.[9] Tennis was also popular in France, where the French Open dates to 1891.[10] Thus, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open, and the Australian Open (dating to 1905) became and have remained the most prestigious events in tennis.[11][12] Together these four events are called the Grand Slam (a term borrowed from bridge).[13]The comprehensive International Lawn Tennis Federation rules promulgated in 1924 have remained remarkably stable in the ensuing eighty years, the one major change being the addition of the tie-breaker system designed by James Van Alen.[14]The Davis Cup, an annual competition between national teams, dates to 1900.[15]

In 1926, promoter C.C. Pyle established the first professional tennis tour with a group of American and French tennis players playing exhibition matches to paying audiences.[12][16] The most notable of these early professionals were the American Vinnie Richards and the Frenchwoman Suzanne Lenglen.[12][17] Once a player turned pro he or she could not compete in the major (amateur) tournaments.[12]

In 1968, commercial pressures and rumors of some amateurs taking money under the table led to the abandonment of this distinction, inaugurating the open era, in which all players could compete in all tournaments, and top players were able to make their living from tennis.[18] With the beginning of the open era, the establishment of an international professional tennis circuit, and revenues from the sale of television rights, tennis has spread all over the world and has lost its upper-class English-speaking image.

In 1954, James Van Alen founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a non-profit museum in Newport, Rhode Island.[19] The building contains a large collection of tennis memorabilia as well as a hall of fame honoring prominent members and tennis players from all over the world. Each year, a grass-court tournament is hosted on its grounds, as well as an induction ceremony honoring new Hall of Fame members.