The GRAND SLAM Tournaments

  Tennis like Hockey is not a Headliner Sport, like Football, Baseball and Basketball is. I've been following Woman's Tennis for years. Men's tennis NO, I don't care at all. Now with a Sports Blog I guess I'll watch some in 2016. 
  The big matches are the Grand Slam Tournaments. Starting with The Australian Open in January. The French Open in May, Wimbledon in June, and The U.S. Open in August. 
  The Australian Open and U.S. Open are played on hard courts. The French is played on clay. Wimbledon is on a grass court. 
  2015 Serena Williams won the first three legs of the grand slam but lost in the U.S. Open to Flavia Pennetta of Italy. The last Female to win the grand slam was Steffi Graf in 1988. Margaret Court won in 1970 and the first woman to win the grand slam was Maureen Connolly Brinker way back in 1953. 
  On the Men's side same story Novak Djokovic won 3 of 4. The last Male grand slam winner was back in 1969 won by Rod Laver. Rod Laver also won in 1962. The only other winner was Don Budge in 1938. 
  1998 Martina Hingis won the grand slam in Doubles but one of opens she had a different partner. In 1984 Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver was the only team to win in Doubles. (same partners)

2016 AUSTRALIAN OPEN ODDS starting on January 18

Woman's

Serena Williams 8/5
Victoria Azarenka 11/2
Simona Halep 13/2
Maria Sharapova 15/2
Petra Kvitova 11/1

Men's

Novak Djokovic 2/3
Andy Murray 5/1
Rodger Federer 7/1
Rafael Nadal 8/1
Stan Wawrinka 12/1