{"id":38397,"date":"2011-08-31T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38397"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:28:44","slug":"us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38397","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Slams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39697\">open era slams<\/a> have becoming increasingly popular.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/09\/07\/346600093\/u-s-open-women-s-final-serena-williams-goes-for-record-win\">Serena took $4m<\/a>\u00a0in 2014 ($1m for winning the Emirates Airline US Open Series;\u00a0she took in $3.6m in 2013).\u00a0Here is when she won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_jeLRxslqDw\">her first WTA title<\/a>, defeating Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo in France. The\u00a0singles\u2019 champions were rewarded in 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2.49 million at\u00a0\u00a0the Australian Open\u00a02.65 million Australian dollars<\/li>\n<li>$2.14 million at the French Open paid\u00a0 1.65 million Euros<\/li>\n<li>$2.87 million at Wimbledon were rewarded with 1.76 million pounds<\/li>\n<li>$3.00 million at US Open. (up 15% from 2013 $2.6m)<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">_______________<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The slams I attended:<\/p>\n<p>French Open<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46782\">2025<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=42791\">2019<\/a>: (5.26 &#8211; 6.9)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=42440\">2017<\/a> (5.22 &#8211; 6.11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39010\">2014<\/a>: <span style=\"color: #999999;\">(5.25 &#8211; 6.8)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wimbledon<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #999999;\"><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46850\"><em>2025<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39046\">2010<\/a> <span style=\"color: #999999;\">(6\/21-7\/4)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US Open<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46932\">2025<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44786\">2022<\/a>\u00a0(8.29-9.11) $\/$60,102k\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44164\">2021<\/a>\u00a0(<span style=\"color: #999999;\">8.30-9.12<\/span>) $2.5m \/ $57,500k<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43442\">2020<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #999999;\">(8.31-9.13)<\/span> $3 mil \/ $53m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43080\">2019<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #999999;\">(8.26-9.8)\u00a0<\/span>$3.8m \/$57 mil<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=42316\">2018<\/a>\u00a0(<span style=\"color: #999999;\">8.28-9.9<\/span>) $3.8\/$53 mil; the sisters met in the 3rd round<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=41447\">2016<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #999999;\">(8.29-9.11)<\/span> $3.5\/$46.5 mil<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=40317\">2015<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #999999;\">(8.31-9.13)\u00a0<\/span>the sisters met in QF<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39276\">2014<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #999999;\">(8.25 &#8211; 9.8)\u00a0<\/span>$3 million<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39294\">2013<\/a>: (<span style=\"color: #808080;\">8.26-9.09<\/span>) $2.6m; $<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39293\">2012<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39292\">2011<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39291\">2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39290\">2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39289\">2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39288\">2007<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=40112\">1994<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_____________<\/p>\n<p>Australian Open<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44536\">Joker is the news<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38737\">2014<\/a>\u00a0on tv<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open era slams have becoming increasingly popular.\u00a0Serena took $4m\u00a0in 2014 ($1m for winning the Emirates Airline US Open Series;\u00a0she took in $3.6m in 2013).\u00a0Here is when she won her first WTA title, defeating Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo in France. The\u00a0singles\u2019 champions were rewarded in 2014: $2.49 million at\u00a0\u00a0the Australian Open\u00a02.65 million Australian dollars $2.14 million at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}