There are four Grand Slam tournaments, also called Majors. These are the most important annual tennis events.

	Australian Open	French Open	Wimbledon	US Open
Founded	1905	1891	1877	1881
Itinerary	January	May/June	June/July	August/September
Played on	Hard courts	Clay	Grass	Hard courts
Venue	Melbourne Park (since 1988)	Stade Roland Garros (since 1928)	All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Church Road (since 1922)	USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (since 1978)
Prize Money	A$80,000,000 (2021)	€34,367,215	£35,000,000 (2021)	US$57.5 million (2021

 

 

2021 Winners	Australian Open	French Open	Wimbledon	US Open
Men’s Singles	Serbia Novak Djokovic df Russia Daniil Medvedev	Serbia Novak Djokovic  df Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas	Serbia Novak Djokovic df Italy Matteo Berrettini	Russia Daniil Medvedev df Serbia Novak Djokovic
Women’s Singles	Japan Naomi Osaka df US States Jennifer Brady	Czech Republic Barbora  Krejčíková df Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Australia Ashleigh Barty df Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková	United Kingdom Emma Raducanu df Canada Leylah Fernandez
Men’s Doubles	Croatia Ivan Dodig & Slovakia Filip Polášek	France Pierre-Hugues Herbert & France Nicolas Mahut	Croatia Nikola Mektić & Croatia Mate Pavić	United States Rajeev Ram& UK Joe Salisbury
Women’s Doubles	Belgium Elise Mertens & Belarus Aryna Sabalenka	Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková & Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková	Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei & Belgium Elise Mertens	Australia Samantha Stosur & China Zhang Shuai
Mixed Doubles	Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková & US Rajeev Ram	United States Desirae Krawczyk & United Kingdom Joe Salisbury	United States Desirae Krawczyk & UK Neal Skupski	United States Desirae Krawczyk UK Joe Salisbury