Grand Slam (tenesi)

Grand Slam mu tenesi ndikupambana kupambana mipikisano yayikulu ikuluikulu inayi pachaka chimodzi chaka chomwecho, chomwe chimatchedwanso "Grand Slam Calendar-year" kapena "Calendar Grand Slam". Pawiri, gulu litha kukwaniritsa Grand Slam kusewera limodzi kapena wosewera akhoza kulikwaniritsa ndi anzawo osiyanasiyana. Kupambana mipikisano yonse inayi motsatizana koma osati mchaka chomwecho kumatchedwa kuti Grand Slam, pomwe kupambana maudindo anayi nthawi iliyonse pantchito yotchedwa Career Grand Slam.

Masewera a Grand Slam, omwe amatchedwanso majors, ndi zochitika zinayi zapadera kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi za tenisi. Masewerawa amapereka malo apamwamba kwambiri, ndalama zamtengo wapatali, chidwi pagulu ndi atolankhani, mphamvu yayikulu komanso kukula kwa mundawo, komanso masewera ataliatali kwambiri kwa amuna (magulu asanu abwino). Amayang'aniridwa ndi International Tennis Federation (ITF), m'malo mwa mabungwe omwe akukonzekera kuyendera amuna ndi akazi, Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ndi Women Tennis Association (WTA), koma mphotho ya ATP ndi WTA zisudzo zosewerera pamasewera.

Masewera anayi a Grand Slam ndi Australia Open mu Januware, French Open kuyambira kumapeto kwa Meyi mpaka koyambirira kwa Juni, Wimbledon kumapeto kwa Juni mpaka koyambirira kwa Julayi, ndi US Open mu Ogasiti – Seputembala, iliyonse imasewera pamasabata awiri. Mpikisano wa Australia ndi United States umaseweredwa m'makhothi olimba, achi French pamatope, ndi Wimbledon paudzu. Wimbledon ndiye mpikisano wakale kwambiri, womwe udakhazikitsidwa mu 1877, wotsatiridwa ndi US ku 1881, aku France mu 1891, ndi Australia mu 1905, koma si onse omwe adasankhidwa kukhala akulu mpaka 1923.