The four Grand Slam tournaments

Hello everyone, I  am glad to introduce part of the most important tennis annual event to you: The four Grand Slam tournaments, also called Majors.

It is the video about some amazing or even ridiculous play and just use for amusement.

Australian Open , which first held in 1905, is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events of the year ,and it starts in mid January . It features not only men's and women's singles, men's, women's, and mixed doubles but also junior's championships, wheelchair, legends and exhibition events. What interesting is the prize money it awarded to all the attendants in 2013 is AUD$31,000,000(equals to NT＄857,243,000), which is the highest in the four Grand Slam tournaments.

The United States Open Tennis Championships(US open for short) is the last of tennis major ,which kicks off in late August and early September. Coincidentally, the first and the final tournament both play on hard court. Besides men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, it additionally contains the competition of senior, junior, and wheelchair players. The thrilling thing is that its court is unique, for all of them are illuminated, meaning that television coverage of the tournament can extend into prime time to attract higher ratings. Even more, the deciding heat of women’s singles is thus influenced to move to Saturday night to draw better television ratings.

 the trophy of US open

 the trophy of Australian Open

It is the highlights about the final US Open 2013 Djokovic vs Nadal and Rafael Nadal won his second US Open crown.

It is the conference which Novak Djokovic discusses his US Open Men's Final loss to Rafael Nadal.

Thank for your reading. Next week I will present the characteristic of four kinds of tennis courts, and other Majors, Wimbledon and French Open. By the way, I will seek some interesting video to put them on the blog and I am sure that you won’t want to miss them.