AHC: Only three grand slams in Tennis

There are today four grand slams in tennis: Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open. Your Challenge is that you have to have only three Grand Slams in tennis: Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open.
How does that happen?
 
Best way would probably to have the early difficulties with transport and lack of participation, combined with slightly more agressive marketing from the individual state competitions lead to the Australian Open folding with the break for WWI (i.e. it never gets going again afterwards). It's likely to be resurrected at some point in the 20s and 30s, but by that point it's quite definately the Australian National tournament rather than a potential international tournament.
 
But would not lkiely be called a Grand Slam. granted the term has more than one usage but in Baseball it denotes a home run hit with the bases loaded thus scoring four runs. I forget what denotes the term in card games such as bridge and others
 
What will be the effects of the Oz open not happening? Will we see Tennis develop differently. Will there be different stars?
 

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There are today four grand slams in tennis: Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open.
There is one Grand Slam consisting of four events; you need to win all four in a single year to win The Grand Slam, despite what retarded television commentators say.
 
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