U.S. Open Finals 2010!

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by Mya Kagan (whyzz writer) >> more about the author

September 14th, 2010

Do you enjoy playing or watching tennis? If so, you might have recently been following or hearing about the U.S. Open!

The U.S. Open is an annual tennis championship that is today held in Queens, New York. Although it’s now watched by hundreds of thousands of people, it began as a much smaller competition in the year 1881 (then called the U.S. National Singles Championship) and has grown bigger ever since!

Because it’s considered such an important competition, the U.S. Open is part of what’s known as the tennis “Grand Slam.” This term refers to what are thought of as the four most important tennis competitions, which include the Australian Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon in addition to the U.S. Open. – Any player who is able to win all four of these competitions in one year is said to have won “the grand slam”!

After about two weeks of competition, the U.S. Open Finals are now underway! On Saturday, September 11th, Vera Zvonareva of Russia and Kim Clijsters of Belgium competed in the Women’s Finals. Clijsters was the winner, and because she only lost three total games within the two sets, the entire match lasted only 59 minutes, making it among the shortest finals matches in U.S. Open history! Clijsters had previously won the U.S. Open twice: In 2005 as well as last year, in 2009!

After a rained-out match scheduled for Sunday, Rafael Nadal of Spain and Novak Djokovic of Serbia finally got to play on Monday, September 13th. Nadal was the winner, and by winning the Open for the first time, he had now earned himself a career Grand Slam! He has eight total wins from past competitions in the three other Grand Slam events, and is only the seventh man in history to have won all four at some point!