A Grand Slam tournament in tennis is a special tournament that is only reserved for the best tennis masters. Specifically, there are 4 tournaments of this type, which have great prestige within the community and make you a legend when you win it.
These tournaments are only available for the 128 best tennis players in the ATP men’s and WTA women’s rankings, a ranking that decides the best players in this sport. This ensures that these tournaments are difficult to win and have a high level of competition, with victory reserved for the biggest players.
This list of ATP scores is a list in which the better you have in the tournaments, the more points you will get. The more important the tournament, the better score you will get with victory in a tournament, since for example a Master 1000 is worth more than a local tournament and a Grand Slam is worth more than a Master 1000.
Being an important tournament, many points are also awarded, which will allow the tennis player to climb several places in the ranking at once, earning more money and more fame as a tennis player and ensuring participation in the next Grand Slam of the season.
Grand Slam scoring system for ATP and WTA ranking
- Everyone receives 25 points just for qualifying, points that are added to the result obtained.
- Tournament champion 2000 ATP or WTA points.
- Grand Slam runner-up: 1,200 ATP or WTA points.
- Grand Slam semifinalist: 750 ATP or WTA points.
- Reach the quarterfinals of the grand slam: 360 ATP or WTA points
- Be among the top 16 in the tournament: 180 ATP or WTA points.
- Be among the top 32 in the tournament: 90 ATP or WTA points.
- Be among the top 64 in the tournament: 45 ATP or WTA points.
- Be among the top 128 in the tournament: 10 ATP or WTA points.
2000 points is a very good result for a tournament, since it will allow you to climb several places or stay at number 1 if you are one of the best tennis players in the world. It is not surprising that great tennis players focus on winning these tournaments, since they offer a great reward in the form of points that will allow them to have more fame and better ranking in the world of tennis.
In addition, they not only offer points, since if that were not enough, there is also a large amount of money and fame waiting for the tennis players who are able to win one of these tournaments. For example, the US Open gives out almost a million dollars to the winner of the tournament, a huge amount that they can afford due to the large audience of these tournaments.
If you want to learn where these tournaments are played, either because you want to attend one of them or because you like to learn things about tennis, you are in the right place. I am going to explain to you the location of the 4 grand slams and I am also going to show you what surface they are played on, the dates on which they are played and their historical importance in the world of tennis.
Instructions
- Australian Open:
The first Grand Slam of the year is the Australian Open, a tournament that is played in the city of Melbourne in the month of January Melbourne. This tournament is played on a blue court, which can be converted to an indoor court in case of inclement weather. The reason for playing it in January is that since Australia is in the southern hemisphere, it is summer on that continent and you can play better this way. This tournament is the starting point for the season, however, within the 4 grand slams it is the one with the least prestige and the one with the fewest people following. Of course, it is still a very prestigious tournament in broad strokes.
Roland Garr’s:
The second tournament to be played throughout the year is the great Roland Garr’s tournament, which is played in the month of May in the city of Paris. It is considered the best tournament in the world on clay(brown court) and one of the best known and most prestigious. In addition, we Spaniards know him a lot, since Rafi Nodal, our local champion, has won a lot of Roland Garr’s, since he is one of the best in the world on clay. If you are going to watch tennis, I advise you to go to Roland Garr’s, mainly because it is the Grand Slam tournament that is closest to our country, having only to go to the neighboring country. - Wimbledon:
The third tournament in chronological order is the Wimbledon tournament, which is played in the city of the same name, between the months of May and June and on grass. It is considered the oldest tennis tournament in the world and therefore the most prestigious of all Grand Slam tournaments. The most curious thing about this tournament is that it does not take into account the ATP ranking, but only takes into account points in high-class grass tournaments and points that have been obtained the week before in tournaments of all kinds. Therefore, it is a unique tournament of its kind, with more complicated access for people who are not good at playing on grass. - US Open:
It is the last grand slam of the year and is played between August and September, specifically it is played in New York and it is played on court. This tournament is the last big tournament of the year and winning it means great prestige, but above all a lot of money, since it is the tennis tournament that moves the most money.
Tips
- Going to see a Grand Slam:
Going to see a tournament of this category can be a good idea to plan a different vacation, since it will allow you to enjoy one of the most beautiful and exciting competitions with prestige. As it is a prestigious tournament full of people, the tickets are going to be expensive, that added to the trip that you are going to have to stick to a foreign country, next to the hotel if you want to stay more than one day. However, tennis is usually much cheaper than other sports such as football, so going to see tennis is not going to be as expensive as it may initially seem. Today I am going to give you three infallible tips to go to see a Grand Slam without problems, that is, without having to complicate your life and being able to save the maximum amount of money possible.- Buy tickets in advance:
The first piece of advice I give you is to buy tickets in advance, since the more time left for the tournament, the less money they will cost you. Tickets usually go on sale 6 months before the tournament, so keep an eye out for them. Tickets can be obtained on the website of each tournament, in addition to the fact that some travel agencies can offer great discounts that will allow you to get much cheaper tickets, since they can also offer you ticket plus hotel packages. Also keep in mind that depending on the tennis players in the ranking, the ticket will be more expensive or cheaper. - The more cache the entry has, the more money it is worth:
The cache of the entry tells the audience and the prestige that it will have. The cache of an entry basically depends on two things; first of all, it depends on the tennis player who is in the match, since it is not the same to see the tennis player number 1 in the ATP than to see the tennis player number 128. Men also tend to have more cache than women, unless it’s a very good woman like Serena Williams. Finally, you have to take into account the round in which the tournament is, since the end of the tournament is going to be much more expensive than a normal round. Buy the ticket that you can afford and in which your favorite tennis player appears, who does not have to be number 1 in the ranking. - Keep in mind that tennis matches have an indeterminate duration:
Tennis is not like other sports such as football, since even if the grand slams are 5 sets, in case of a tie, the match will go on until it is over. For example, if in a set you go tied at 5 points, the set will be given at 7 points and not at 6 as normally happens. If you go 6 to 6, the game will go up to 8 points and so on until it’s over. In addition, even if it goes to 5 sets, a beating match in which all sets are won at 6 to 5 does not last the same, since there in 3 sets it will end (by winning the first 3 sets, it is considered the winner without playing the other two, since if they were played and won by the other, it would be useless because the match would be 3-2). Therefore, think that you are going to stay for a long time watching the game, so see if watching tennis is compatible with the agenda you have at that moment, since a match could take too long.
- Buy tickets in advance:
