1949 French Championships (tennis) 5–7, 6–3 Margaret Osborne duPont / Louise Brough defeated Joy Gannon / Betty Hilton 7–5, 6–1 Sheila Piercey Summers / Eric Sturgess defeated Jean Quertier / Gerry Oakley 6–1, 6–1 1949 French Championships (tennis) The 1949 French Championships (now known as the French Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 18 May until 28 May. It was the 53rd staging of the French Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1949. Frank Parker and Margaret Osborne duPont won the singles titles.
Grand Slam (tennis) America by 1930. "Grand slam" has been used in golf since 1930, when Bobby Jones won the four major championships, two British and two American tournaments. Although John F. Kieran of "The New York Times" is widely credited with first applying the term "grand slam" to tennis to describe the winning of all four major tennis tournaments in a calendar year, sports columnist Alan Gould had used the term in that connection almost two months before Kieran. The possibility of being the reigning champion of all the current four majors did not exist until 1924–25, when the International Lawn Tennis