French Open

Serena Williams won the 2013 women's singles French Open title.

Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek won the 2012 Australian Open in Men's Doubles. They beat Americans Mike and Bob Bryan in straight sets, 7-6 (7-1) and 6-2. Leander Paes is from India and Radek Stepanek is from the Czech Republic. They also won the US Open Mens' Doubles in 2013.

In the "open era" only 3 players have done this in a calendar year, considering Singles play

Steffi Graf, Rod Laver and Margaret Court

(Stefan Edberg did it as a junior)

He won it once it was the year Nadal was injuries and did not compete.

In 1989, Michael Chang of the USA won the French grand slam title at 17 yrs, 3 months. He also holds the record for the youngest winner of any grand-slam tennis tournament.

First, I have included 2 links with audio pronunciations of "Roland Garros."

This first link has a woman's voice giving a fairly realistic pronunciation for a non native French speaker to pick up on; it is spoken methodically and with meticulous clarity.

http://www.pronounceitright.com/pronuncia.php?id_pronuncia=5363

This second link is spoken without regard to the non native French speaker. It is a male voice speaker the name as I am sure most Frenchmen would if spoken in the middle of a sentence in conversation with another native French Speaker.

http://www.forvo.com/word/roland_garros/

I have also put together an English language phonetic spelling of the term:

ʁɔlɑ̃ ɡaʁɔs --- is the French phonetic spelling of Roland Garros. The link below is how to convert the French phonetic to English phonetic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_French

Roland Gaucher was born on April 13, 1919.

Victory of Saratoga

Yes Im on novanet too. Decided to answer since it wasn't on here.

Enjoy your test/quiz. :D

The French word for Deuce is 'Egalite', but in French Open tennis it appears the first call of Deuce ie. the next score after 30-40 or 40-30 is 'Quarante a' or obviously '40 all'. Apologies for the lack of accents!

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Martina Navrátilová is 54 years old (birthdate: October 18, 1956).

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The four Major tournaments, also incorrectly called the Grand Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open, played in that order. Both the Australian Open and the US Open are played on hard courts, while the French Open is played on clay, and Wimbledon is played on grass. A Grand Slam is a statistic, achieved when a tennis player wins all four Major tournaments in the same competitive season, which in tennis is the same calender year. Recently, the phrase "grand slam" has been incorrectly applied, resulting in a cheapening of the real Grand Slam.

The Open Era of tennis began in 1968 when the Major tournaments agreed to allow professional players to compete. Wimbledon, the first of the Majors, began in 1877, followed by the US Open (1881), the French Open (1891), and the Australian Open (1905). Beginning in 1905 and continuing to the present day, all four majors have been played yearly, with the exception of the 1st and 2nd World Wars and 1986 for the Australian Open. The Australian Open is the 1st Major of the year (January), followed by the French Open (May-June), Wimbledon (June-July), and US Open (August-September). Winning both Wimbledon (on grass) and the French Open (on clay), back-to-back, is quite an achievement considering the traditional difference between the court surfaces and the fast turnaround time between the tournaments.

In modern years, the Majors have begun to add instant replay, giving the players the ability to challenge calls. The US Open was to the first to allow this in 2006. Both the US Open and Australian Open also feature night matches played under the lights. The US Open was the first to feature night matches and also features the most night matches of any Major. The US Open is the only Major to have a tie-breaker in the 5th set of Men's Single's play, whereas in all the other Majors players play out the 5th set (until one player leads by 2 games).

A singles player or doubles team that wins all four Major tournaments in the same year is said to have achieved the "Grand Slam". If the player or team wins all four consecutively, but not in the same calendar year, it is called a "Non-Calendar Year Grand Slam". Winning all four at some point in a career, even if not consecutively, is referred to as a "Career Grand Slam". Winning the four Majors and a gold medal in tennis at the Summer Olympics has been called a "Golden Slam" since 1988, when Steffi Graf became the only person to accomplish that feat in a single calendar year. Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal have accomplished a "Career Golden Slam", winning all five events but not in the same calendar year.

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Mats Wilander is 52 years old (birthdate: August 22, 1964).

Men Singles: Rafael Nadal

Women's Singles: Justine Henin

Men's Doubles: Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor

Women's Doubles: Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo

Mixed Doubles: Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram

SHE cannot have a wife as she is "SHE".

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yes He is.

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