Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Grand Slam is a general sports term applied when achieving something special. Most common uses: In tennis, winning the Grand Slam is winning the following four tournaments in the same year: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open. Those tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. In rugby, the beating of all opponents during the Six Nations Tournament (previously Five Nations Tournament). In golf, winning the following four tournaments in the same year: The Masters, British Open, US Open, PGA Championship. In baseball, a Grand Slam home run is a home run with all the bases occupied. In bridge, it is bidding for and winning all the tricks in one hand. Other meanings: In World War II a special 10,000 kg bomb used by Avro Lancasters of the RAF. A TV quiz-show shown in the UK in 2003. Contestants had to pay £10,000 to take part. This is a disambiguation page. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and direct the link at one of the more specific pages linked from here. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.