The Grand Slam of tennis is considered to be any of the 4 Grand Slam championships (Wimbledon, Roland Garros, Australian Open and US Open). A Year Slam is when you win the 4 in the same year. A surface Slam is when you win at least one championship in all of the surfaces. A carrer slam is when you win the 4 grand Slams throughout your career although not in the same year. An Olympic Slam is when you win throughout your career the 4 Slams and the Olympic Gold medal.

In 2009, there were 61 countries represented.

The French Open is held at the Stade Roland Garros, which is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris district. This is to the right bank of the River Seine.

No, it's made of chalk. It's kinda like track and field where they use those machines that pour chalk in a straight line.

According to the official Australian Open Tennis Championships website (refer to the link, below), as of May 29, 2009, information concerning tickets for the 2010 event have not been released, yet.

Each singlesrunner-up gets £800,000 ($1.2mil).

in what year did serena Williams win the French open

20

Of the thirty-two Grand Slam singles finals she played, she won eighteen.

3 Australian, 2 French, 9 Wimbledon and 4 USA titles.

This tally left her second only to Stefi Graf in all time singles Grand Slam titles.

Martina is also second in the all time ranking of doubles titles, achieving twenty of those with Pam Shriver and another eleven with other partners.

In mixed doubles she won a modest ten Grand Slam trophies.

In all tournaments therefore, Martina Navratilova ended her career with FIFTY-NINE Grand Slam trophies in her cabinet.

The four major tennis tournaments; the US Open, the Open Championships(wimbledon), Roland Garros (French Open), and the Australian Open are known as the Grand Slam of tennis. Hitting a grand slam in baseball scores four runs and is the greatest accomplishment a baseball player can achieve during one at bat. Likewise, winning the Grand Slam of tennis involves winning four tournaments and is considered the greatest accomplishment in tennis. Because "tournament which makes up part of the Grand Slam of tennis" is so long it is usually shortened to "Slam".

May 24 - June 7, 2009

Before hard court, the Australian Open was played on grass. The tournament was played on grass from 1905 to 1987 and was switched to hard court in 1988 when the Australian Open was forced to move to a bigger venue. A Rebound Ace surface was used from 1988-2007 and Plexicushion is the current surface.

depends on if you only mean singles play or singles/doubles in toto

A female holds the record for both, considering the "open era" and excluding junior titles

Singles titles -Margaret Court (24 titles)

singles/doubles - Margaret Court (62 titles)

According to Bleacher Report, the 2013 1st place prizes for men and women are 1,500,000 Euros or 1,987,000 million U.S. dollars.

The Wimbledon Tennis starts on the 23rd of June 2008, today!

Check out www.welovewimbledontennis.co.uk/ for lots of tennis news and information over the 2 weeks of the tournament.

Sounds like you may have missed getting some tickets, so get comfy on your couch and watch it on the BBC.

their colours are blue and red (but mostly blue)

They played five sets it went like this 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14 In the last set they didn't have tiebreaker and had to win by 2 games.

The first male in the Open Era to win 3 or more major titles in a calendar year was Rod Laver. He achieved a Grand Slam, winning all 4 titles in 1969. This was the first complete calendar year of the Open Era.

The longest Men's Final at Wimbledon was in 2008 between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. It took 4hrs 48mins for Rafael Nadal to win his first Wimbledon Championship.

According to the U.S. Open website (refer to the link, below), the women's U.S. Open singles title was won in 1990 by Gabriela Sabatini.

The French Open is the only one of the four Grand Slam tournaments to be played on clay courts.

Cara Black (Zimbabwe)

Leander Paes (India)

Andre Agassi

Well, you should say five players, as two players are tied in the number 1 spot #1 Roger Federer - 15 Slams #2 Pete Sampras - 14 Slams = Roy Emerson - 12 Slams #4 Bjorn Borg - 11 Slams = Rod Laver - 11 Slams