How to add the tennis Grand Slams to your calendar

Most people add tennis dates to their calendar by typing them in once. That works right up until a tournament shifts and nobody tells you. A calendar subscription avoids that: your app stores a URL, checks it on its own schedule and applies changes when they happen.

Here's how to set that up for the four majors. Everything below uses the one address.

The address you need

Copy this. It's the same URL for every app and every device and it doesn't change as dates update.

Apple Calendar (iPhone, iPad, Mac)

On iPhone or iPad, open Settings → Apps → Calendar → Calendar Accounts → Add Account → Other, then choose Add Subscribed Calendar and paste the URL.

On a Mac, open Calendar and choose File → New Calendar Subscription, then paste the URL. Set Auto-refresh to daily or weekly. Anything more frequent is wasted, since the source only gets checked once a week.

If you're reading this on the device you want the calendar on, this link opens Apple Calendar directly and skips the menus.

Google Calendar

Google Calendar can only add a subscription on the web. The mobile apps can't do it. That's the single most common reason people give up on this.

Go to calendar.google.com, open Settings, choose Add calendar → From URL, paste the address and confirm. It then syncs down to the phone app on its own.

Google refreshes external calendars on its own schedule and it isn't quick. Expect up to 24 hours for a change to show. That's Google's behaviour for every subscribed calendar, not something this feed controls.

Outlook

In Outlook on the web, open Calendar, choose Add calendar → Subscribe from web, paste the URL, give it a name and save.

Desktop Outlook picks the subscription up once it syncs with the same account.

What you actually get

• Four all-day events a year, one per major, spanning the full main draw.
• No match times, no draws, no scores. This is for planning a season, not following a tournament.
• No account, no signup, no access to anything of yours. Your app reads the same public file as everyone else.

If a tournament's published dates move, the feed picks the change up on its weekly check and your calendar applies it whenever it next refreshes. Nothing to do at your end!

Removing it

Delete or unsubscribe from the calendar in whichever app you added it to. It's a separate calendar, so removing it leaves everything else untouched.