Australian Open is one of the four major tennis events. The competition is usually held in Melbourne Sports Park, Victoria, Australia in the last two weeks of 1 month every year. It is the first of the four grand slams held every year, and it is also the youngest grand slam.

The Australian Open was founded in 1905, and has a history of more than 100 years. At the beginning of the competition, it was named "Australasian Championship". From 65438 to 0969, the competition entered an "open era". Starting from 1988, the competition will be held on the outdoor hard clay court in Melbourne Park.

There are men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles. The men's singles champion trophy is Norman Brooks Challenge Cup, and the women's singles champion trophy is Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.

The "Grand Slam" in tennis means that a player won 1 champion in the four Grand Slam events of Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open within one season (one year). ?

1933 used the word "grand slam" for the first time in English. ?

At that time, an American journalist named John Kieran compared Jack Crawford's ambition to win the four titles mentioned above to a fragile grand slam in bridge. Unfortunately, Crawford lost to Fred Perry in the final of the US Championship that year and failed to do so. ?

Until 1938, Donald Bachichael became the first grand slam winner in history.

Although the term Grand Slam was originally used only in tennis, it was gradually adopted by other sports to describe similar achievements made by players. A typical example is golf, and a grand slam also means that players win four major events at the same time in one year.