2015-08-31 The US Open

• The tournaments
• Women's singles
• Men's singles

Who will win in New York this year?

With the Australian Open, French Open and the Wimbledon Championships behinds us, the last 2015 Grand Slam event begins today. The next two weeks will be filled with thrills for tennis fans watching this year's US Open.

The tournaments 
The US Open includes tournaments for men's and women's singles and doubles as well as mixed doubles, juniors and wheelchair matches. These events all take place in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York. The center is currently making strategic changes, adding and updating stadiums.

The first year, the all-volunteer effort drew only a few participants. Today, however, the festival averages around 30,000 people! Festival participants enjoy many aspects of Asian-Pacific American culture. The festival’s two stages feature music ranging from rock to jazz. Diverse cultural entertainment, including Chinese Lion dances, Hawaiian music and traditional Japanese drummers, is on display as well. Along with Asian food, Asian-inspired crafts can be purchased Japantown’s youth, with their energy, passion and creativity, remain an important part of this successful event.

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What exactly is a grand slam?

Well, this would depend on who you are asking?

Right. If you are asking a baseball fan, a grand slam is a home run, it would all of the bases loaded giving the header’steam for runs at once.

If you talk to a tennis fan, a grand slam is winning all for major tennis competitions. The Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.

And if you talk to a golf fan, a grand slam is winning the foremost prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf.

The master tournament, the US Open, the Open Championship and the PGA Championship.

So one might hit a grand slam in a baseball game, but intennis and golf one would have to win for tournaments in a year’s time.

But did you know that the term grand slam originated not from any sporting arena, but from the cart table. In the game of bridge, a grand slam is winning all thirteen tricks of a hand as opposed to a little slam winning twelve of the thirteen tricks.

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tournament n.
a sports competition or series of contests that involves many players or teams and that usually continues for at least several days
- The women's golf tournament was broadcasted on Fox Sports Channel.
- Our team won in the first round of the tournament.
- The duo breezed into the semi-finals of the tennis tournament.

update v.
to change (something) by including the most recent information;
to make (something) more modern
- The bank recently updated its computer system for security reasons.
to give (someone) the most recent information about something
- I'll update you on the latest development of the personnel changes.
update n.
- news update