- This article is about the sport. For the video game, see Tennis (video game). For the Chris Rea album, see Tennis (album).
Tennis is a sport played between either two players ("singles") or two teams of two players ("doubles"). Player(s) use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered in felt over a net into the opponent's court. In some places tennis is still called lawn tennis to distinguish it from real tennis (also known as royal tennis or court tennis), an older form of the game that is played indoors on a very different kind of a court. Originating in England in the late 19th Century, the game spread first throughout the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Tennis is a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. ...
Christopher Anton Rea (4 March 1951) is a successful British singer-songwriter, from Middlesbrough. ...
Tennis is an album by Chris Rea, released in 1980. ...
Squash racquet and ball Racquetball racquet and ball Tennis racquets and balls A racquet (or racket) is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of cord is stretched. ...
A tennis ball. ...
A tennis court is where a game of tennis is played. ...
Real tennis is the original racket sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. ...
Tennis is now an Olympic sport that is played at all levels of society and by all ages in many countries around the world. Its rules have remained remarkably unchanged since the 1920s. Along with its millions of players, millions of people follow tennis as a spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments. For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ...
In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same year: Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. ...
Manner of play
The court - Main article: Tennis court
 The dimensions of a tennis court, in feet. Tennis is played on a rectangular flat surface, usually of grass, clay, or concrete (hard court). The court is 78 feet (23.77 m) long, and its width is 27 feet (8.23 m) for singles matches and 36 feet (10.97 m) for doubles matches. Additional clear space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) high at the posts, and 3 feet (914 mm) high in the center. A tennis court is where a game of tennis is played. ...
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A typical lawn A lawn sprinkler A lawn is an area of land planted with grass and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at an even low height. ...
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A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a meter. ...
The metre (Commonwealth English) or meter (American English) (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ...
There are three main types of courts, depending on the materials used for the court surface. Each surface provides a difference in the speed and bounce of the ball.
Hardcourt encompasses many different surfaces, ranging from old-fashioned concrete courts to coated asphalt to wooden gymnasium surfaces to artificial grass similar to AstroTurf. A clay court is one of the four different types of tennis court. ...
Grass courts are the fastest kind of tennis courts, next to cement courts or hard courts. ...
Hardcourt describes a form of surface or floor on which a sport is played. ...
AstroTurf is a registered trademark of Textile Management Associates, applied to a particular kind of artificial turf. ...
Clay courts are considered "slow", meaning that the balls lose speed as they hit the court and bounce relatively high, making it more difficult for a player to hit an unreturnable shot, called a winner. On clay courts, line calls are easily reviewable because the ball leaves a visible mark. Hardcourts and grass are "fast" surfaces, where fast, low bounces keep rallies short, and powerful, hard-serving and hard-hitting players have an advantage. Grass courts add an additional variable, with bounces depending on how healthy the grass is and how recently it has been mowed.
Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the U.S. Open and Australian Open use hardcourts (though they used grass courts and clay courts in the past), the French Open is played on clay, and Wimbledon is played on grass. In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same year: Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. ...
The U.S. Open is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam in tennis. ...
This article is about the Australian Open tennis tournament. ...
The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ...
Wimbledon logo Wimbledon is the oldest and most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ...
Play of a single point - Main article: Play of a single point
The players (or teams) start on opposite sides of the net. One player is designated the server, and the opposing player, or in doubles one of the opposing players, is the receiver. Service alternates between the two halves of the court. A point is the smallest unit of scoring in tennis. ...
For each point, the server starts behind his baseline, between the center mark and the sideline. The receiver may start anywhere on his side of the net, usually behind the diagonally opposite service box. When the receiver is ready, the server will serve. Pete Sampras has one of the best serve of all time. ...
In a legal service, the ball travels over the net (without touching it) and into the diagonally opposite service court. If the ball hits the net but lands in the service court, this is a let service, which is void. If the first service is otherwise faulty in any way, the serving player has a second attempt at service. If the second service is also faulty, this is a double fault and the receiver wins the point.
A legal service starts a rally, in which the players alternate hitting the ball across the net. A legal return consists of the player or team hitting the ball exactly once before it has bounced twice or hit any fixtures. It then travels back over the net and bounces in the court on the opposite side. The first player or team to fail to make a legal return loses the point.
Scoring - Main article: Tennis score
A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. A set consists of a number of games, and games, in turn, consist of points. A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. ...
Matches consist of an odd number of multiple sets, the match winner being the player who wins more than half of the sets. The match ends as soon as this winning condition is met. Some matches may consist of five sets (the winner being the first to win three sets), while most matches are three sets (the winner being the first to win two sets).
A set consists of a sequence of games played with service alternating between games, ending when the count of games won meets certain criteria. Typically, a player wins a set when he wins at least six games and at least two games more than his opponent. It has become common, however, to play a "twelve-point tiebreak" or "tiebreaker" when each player has won six games. A tiebreaker, played under a separate set of rules, allows one player to win one more game and thus the set, to give a final set score of 7-6. (See Tennis score for a description of both tiebreak scoring and its history.) A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. ...
A game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving, and is won by the first player to have won at least four points and at least two points more than his opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner particular to tennis: scores of zero to three points are described as "love" or "l'oeuf" (which means egg in french) or "zero", "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty" respectively. (See Tennis score for further explanation of how to score a game.) A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. ...
A game point occurs in tennis whenever the player who is in the lead in the game (the smallest unit of play) needs only one more point to win the game. The terminology is extended to sets (set point), matches (match point), and even championships (championship point). For example, if the player who is serving has a score of 40-love, he has a triple game point (triple set point, etc.). Tennis ball This article is about the sport. ...
A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. ...
A point is the smallest unit of scoring in tennis. ...
A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. ...
A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. ...
A break point occurs if the returner, not the server, has a game point. It is of importance in professional tennis, since service breaks happen less frequently with professional players. It may happen that the player who is in the lead in the game has more than one chance to score the winning point, even if his opponent should take the next point(s). For example, if the player who is serving has a score of 15-40, the returner has a double break point. Should the player in the lead take any one of the next two points, he wins the game. Pete Sampras has one of the best serve of all time. ...
Pete Sampras has one of the best serve of all time. ...
Officials In serious play there is an officiating chair umpire (usually referred to as the umpire), who sits in a raised chair to one side of the court. The umpire has absolute authority to determine matters of fact. The chair umpire may be assisted by line umpires, who determine whether the ball has landed within the required part of the court and who also call foot faults. There may also be a net umpire who determines whether the ball has touched the net during service.
Ball boys or girls (who are usually children) may be employed to retrieve balls, pass them to the players, and hand players their towels. They have no adjudicative role. The referee, who is usually located off the court, is the final authority on the rules. Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants to come to a decision or judgment which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved. ...
In some leagues players will make their own calls based upon the honor code. This is the case for many high school and college level matches.
Miscellaneous A tennis match is intended to be continuous. Stamina is a relevant factor, so arbitrary delays are not permitted. In most cases, service is required to occur no more than 20 seconds after the end of the previous point. This is increased to 90 seconds when the players change ends (every two games), and a 120 second break is permitted between sets. Other than this, breaks are permitted only when forced by events beyond the players' control, such as rain, damaged footwear, or the need to chase an errant ball.
Balls wear out quickly in serious play, and therefore are changed after every nine games. The first such change occurs after only seven games, because the first set of balls is also used for the pre-match warm-up. Continuity of the balls' condition is considered part of the game, so if a re-warm-up is required after an extended break in play (usually due to rain) then the re-warm-up is done using a separate set of balls, and use of the match balls is resumed only when play resumes.
Wheelchair tennis can be played by able-bodied players as well as people who require a wheelchair for mobility. The use of legs or feet is then prohibited, and the player is required to remain seated in the wheelchair. There is an exception for those who are only able to propel themselves using a foot. In wheelchair tennis, in which the players move in wheelchairs instead of using legs, an extra bounce is permitted. This rule makes it possible to have mixed wheelchair and legs matches. It is possible for a doubles team to consist of a wheelchair user and a legs user, or for a wheelchair user to play against a legs user. In such cases, the extra bounce is permitted for the wheelchair users only. Wheelchair seating in a theater A lightweight manual wheelchair A wheelchair is a complex medical device used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness or disability and incorporates posturally supportive seating, including pressure cushions in many cases. ...
Another tennis format is called "Australian doubles" (also referred to as "Canadian doubles"). This involves three players, with one person playing against a doubles team. For the single person, single court rules apply (such that the ball must be within the singles court lines) but on the side of the doubles team, doubles court rules apply (the alleys are considered in). The scoring is the same as a regular game.
Other Rules of Play Used in College Tennis As of 2004, in Division I tennis at the college level, a let service is considered playable. This rule change was made to prevent receivers from falsely claiming a valid service to be a let, which is a call that cannot be overruled. Thus, a service that hits the net before landing in the service box is a playable shot, and must be returned by the receiver. Otherwise, the receiver loses the point.
Other Rules of Play Used in High School Tennis During high school tennis team matches players may have to follow a few different rules:
Pro set: Instead of playing best out of three sets, players may play one pro set. A pro set is first to 8 games instead of 6. All other rules apply.
Super tie-break: This is played sometimes after players split sets (Each wins one set). It decides who wins instead of a third set. This is played like a regular tie-break but you go to ten instead of seven.
No-ad: You play through the match without any ads. The first player or team to four points wins the game.
Shots A competent tennis player has eight basic shots in his or her repertoire: the serve, forehand, backhand, volley, half-volley, overhead smash, drop shot, and lob.
Serve - Main article: Serve
A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point. The serve is initiated by tossing the ball into the air and hitting it (usually near the apex of its trajectory) into the diagonally opposite service box without touching the net. The server may employ different types of serve: a flat, a top-spin, an American twist (or kick), a reverse spin, or a slice serve. A reverse spin serve is hit in a manner that spins the ball opposite the natural spin of the server, the spin direction depending upon right- or left-handedness, while a severely sliced serve is sometimes called a sidespin. Some servers are content to use the serve simply to initiate the point; advanced players often try to hit a winning shot with their serve. A winning serve that is not touched by the opponent is called an Ace. Image File history File links Sampras. ...
Image File history File links Sampras. ...
Country: United States Residence: Los Angeles, California, USA Height: 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) Weight: 77 kg (170 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1988 Retired: 2002 Highest singles ranking: 1 (1993-04-12) Singles titles: 64 Career Prize Money: US$43,280,489 Grand Slam Record Titles: 14 Australian...
Pete Sampras has one of the best serve of all time. ...
Pete Sampras has one of the best serve of all time. ...
Forehand - Main article: Forehand
For a right-handed player, the forehand is a stroke that begins on the right side of his body, continues across his body as contact is made with the ball, and ends on the left side of his body. There are various grips for executing the forehand and their popularity has fluctuated over the years. The most important ones are the continental, the eastern, and the western. For a number of years the small, apparently frail 1920s player Bill Johnston was considered by many to have had the best forehand of all time, a stroke that he hit shoulder-high using a western grip. Few top players used the western grip after the 1920s, but in the latter part of the 20th century, as shot-making techniques and equipment changed radically, the western forehand made a strong comeback and is now used by many modern players. No matter which grip is used, most forehands are generally executed with one hand holding the racquet, but there have been fine players with two-handed forehands. In the 1940s and 50s the Ecuadorian/American player Pancho Segura used a two-handed forehand to devastating effect against larger, more powerful players, and many females and young players use the two-handed grips today. Roger Federer has one of the best forehands in todays tennis; he is using a Semi-Western grip. ...
The grip is how a tennis racquet is held in order to hit shots during a match. ...
William (Little Bill) Johnston (2 November 1894 - 1 May 1946) was an American tennis champion. ...
Pancho Segura, a top-quality tennis player for many years, was born Francisco Olegario Segura in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on June 20, 1921, but moved to the United States in the late 1930s and is considered to be an American tennis player. ...
Backhand - Main article: Backhand
For a right-handed player, the backhand is a stroke that begins on the left side of his body, continues across his body as contact is made with the ball, and ends on the right side of his body. It can be executed with either one hand or with both and is generally considered more difficult to master than the forehand. For most of the 20th Century it was performed with one hand, using either an eastern or a continental grip. The first notable players to use two hands were the 1930s Australians Vivian McGrath and John Bromwich, but they were lonely exceptions. The two-handed grip gained popularity in the 1970s as Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors and later Mats Wilander used it to great effect, and it is now used by a large number of the world's best players, including Andre Agassi and the Williams sisters. Two hands give the player more power, while one hand can generate a slice shot, applying backspin on the ball to produce a low trajectory bounce. The player long considered to have had the best backhand of all time, Don Budge, had a very powerful one-handed stroke in the 1930s and '40s that imparted topspin onto the ball. Ken Rosewall, another player noted for his one-handed backhand, used a deadly accurate slice backhand with underspin through the 1950s and '60s. A small number of players, notably Monica Seles, use two hands on both the backhand and forehand sides. Justine Henin-Hardenne has one of the best one-handed backhands in todays tennis The backhand in tennis is struck by swinging the racquet away from ones body in the direction of where the player wants the ball to go. ...
John Bromwich (1918-1999) was an Australian male tennis player. ...
Country: Sweden Residence: Monte Carlo, MON Height: 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) Weight: 73 kg (160 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1973 Retired: 1981 Highest singles ranking: 1 (8/23/1977) Singles titles: 57 Career prize money: US$3,655,751 Grand Slam Record Titles: 11 Australian Open 3rd...
Christine Marie Evert (b. ...
Country: United States Residence: Belleville, IL Height: 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) Weight: 70 Kg (155 lb) Plays: Left-handed Turned pro: 1972 Highest singles ranking: 1 (29 July 1974) Singles titles: 109 Career Prize Money: US$8,461,040 Grand Slam Record Titles: 8 Australian Open W (1974...
Mats Wilander (b. ...
Country: United States Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Height: 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) Weight: 177 lb (80 kg) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1986 Highest singles ranking: 1 (4/10/1995) Singles titles: 60 Career Prize Money: US$31,006,875 Grand Slam Record Titles: 8 Australian Open W...
The Williams sisters are two famous tennis players who are sisters: Serena Williams Venus Williams This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
John Donald Budge (June 13, 1915 - January 26, 2000) was a champion tennis player who became famous as the first man to win in a single year the four tournaments that the Grand Slam of tennis comprises. ...
Ken Robert Rosewall, born November 2, 1934 in Sydney, Australia, was a champion tennis player. ...
Monica Seles in 1995. ...
Other shots A volley is made in the air before the ball bounces, generally near the net, and is usually made with a stiff-wristed punching motion to hit the ball into an open area of the opponent's court. The half-volley is made by hitting the ball on the rise just after it has bounced, once again generally in the vicinity of the net. From a poor defensive position on the baseline, the lob can be used as either an offensive or defensive weapon, hitting the ball high and deep into the opponent's court to either enable the lobber to get into better defensive position or to win the point outright by hitting it over the opponent's head. If the lob is not hit deeply enough into the other court, however, the opponent may then hit an overhead smash, a hard, serve-like shot, to try to end the point. Finally, if an opponent is deep in his court, a player may suddenly employ an unexpected drop shot, softly tapping the ball just over the net so that the opponent is unable to run in fast enough to retrieve it. Pete Sampras had great touch for volleys. ...
Pete Sampras had great touch for volleys. ...
A lob in tennis is hitting the ball high and deep into the opponents court. ...
An overhead smash in tennis is a shot that is hit above the head with a serve-like motion. ...
A drop shot in tennis is tapping the ball just over the net so that the opponent is unable to run in fast enough to retrieve it. ...
Tournaments Tournaments are often organized by gender and number of players. Common tournament configurations include men's singles, women's singles, doubles (where two players of the same sex play on each side), and mixed doubles (with a member of each sex per side). Tournaments may be arranged for specific age groups, with upper age limits for youth and lower age limits for senior players. There are also tournaments for handicapped players. In the four grand slams, the draw (the maximum number of players allowed in a particular category of the tournament) is 128 people.
Players may also be matched by their skill level. According to how well a person does in sanctioned play, he or she is given a rating (examples from the U.S. system called the National Tennis Rating Program (NTRP): 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, etc.) which is adjusted periodically to maintain competitive matches.
History Tennis has a long history (deriving from the 'jeu de paume'), but its establishment as the modern sport can be dated to two separate roots. In 1859 Major Thomas Henry Gem, a solicitor, and his friend Batista Pereira, a Spanish merchant, who both lived in Birmingham, England played a game they named "pelota", after a Spanish ball game. The game was played on a lawn in Edgbaston. In 1872 both men moved to Leamington Spa, and with two doctors from the Warneford Hospital, played pelota on the lawn behind the Manor House Hotel (now residential apartments). Pereira joined with Dr. Frederick Haynes and Dr. A. Wellesley Tomkins to found the first lawn tennis club in the world, and played the game on nearby lawns. In 1874 they formed the Leamington Tennis Club, setting out the original rules of the game. The Courier of 23 July 1884 recorded one of the first tennis tournaments, held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall (demolished 1948). Jeu de paume was originally a French precursor of tennis played without racquets. ...
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Pelota Vasca or Pelota Valenciana (in Spanish; pilota in Basque, Valenciano and Catalan; pelote in French, from Latin pila) is a name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using ones hand, a racket, a wooden bat (pala), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (front...
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The Royal Pump Rooms and Baths Leamington Spa, (Properly Royal Leamington Spa but commonly called just Leamington) (pronounced Lemmington — IPA: ) is a spa town in central Warwickshire, in England. ...
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In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield devised a similar game for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate at Nantclwyd, Wales. He based the game on the older sport of indoor tennis or real tennis ("royal tennis"), which had been invented in 12th century France and was played by French aristocrats down to the time of the French Revolution. 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). ...
Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (October, 1833 - April 18, 1912) Welsh inventor (1874) of lawn tennis which he called Sphairistikè (Greek for playing ball). He authored two tennis works: The Book of the Game and He also invented the butterfly bicycle. ...
For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom and England, see British Isles (terminology). ...
Real tennis is the original racket sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. ...
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According to most tennis historians, modern tennis terminology also derives from this period, as Wingfield borrowed both the name and much of the French vocabulary of royal tennis and applied them to his new game:
- Tennis comes from the French tenez, the imperative form of the verb tenir, to hold: This was a cry used by the player serving in royal tennis, meaning "I am about to serve!" (rather like the cry "Fore!" in golf).
- Racquet comes from raquette, which derives from the Arabic rakhat, meaning the palm of the hand.
- Deuce comes from à deux le jeu, meaning "to both is the game" (that is, the two players have equal scores).
- Love may come from l'oeuf, the egg, a reference to the egg-shaped zero symbol; however, since "un oeuf" is more commonly used, the etymology remains in question.
- The convention of numbering scores "15", "30" and "40" comes from quinze, trente and quarante, which to French ears makes a euphonious sequence.
Seeing the commercial potential of the game, Wingfield patented it in 1874, but never succeeded in enforcing his patent. Tennis spread rapidly among the leisured classes in Britain and the United States. It was first played in the U.S. at the home of Mary Ewing Outerbridge on Staten Island, New York in 1874. Golf (gowf in Scots) is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ...
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Mary Ewing Outerbridge (February 16, 1852 - May 3, 1886) imported the lawn game tennis to the United States from Bermuda Birth and siblings Mary was born in Philadelphia to: Alexander Ewing Outerbridge (1816-1900) and Laura Catherine Harvey (1818-1867) and her siblings include: Albert Albany Outerbridge; Joseph Outerbridge; August...
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In 1881 the desire to play tennis competitively led to the establishment of tennis clubs. The first championships at Wimbledon, in London were played in 1877. In 1881 the United States National Lawn Tennis Association (now the United States Tennis Association) was formed to standardize the rules and organize competitions. The comprehensive I.L.T.F. rules promulgated in 1924 have remained remarkably stable in the ensuing eighty years, the one major change being the addition of the tie-breaker system designed by James van Alen. U.S. National Men's Singles Championship, now the U.S. Open, was first held in 1881 at Newport, Rhode Island. The U.S. National Women's Singles Championships were first held in 1887. The Davis Cup, an annual competition between national teams, dates to 1900. 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Wimbledon logo Wimbledon is the oldest and most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ...
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The United States Tennis Association (USTA), previously known as the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, was established by a small group of tennis club members in a meeting held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City. ...
The United States Open tennis championships, commonly refered to as the U.S. Open (or as simply the Open in the U.S. only), is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments. ...
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Tennis was for many years predominantly a sport of the English-speaking world, dominated by the United States, Britain and Australia. It was also popular in France, where the French Open dates to 1891. Thus Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open and the Australian Open (dating to 1905) became and have remained the most prestigious events in tennis. Together these four events are called the Grand Slam (a term borrowed from bridge). Winning the Grand Slam, by capturing these four titles in one calendar year, is the highest ambition of most tennis players. The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ...
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In 1926 promoter C.C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle established the first professional tennis tour with a group of American and French tennis players playing exhibition matches to paying audiences. The most notable of these early professionals were the American Vinnie Richards and the Frenchwoman Suzanne Lenglen. For 42 years professional and amateur tennis remained strictly separate. Once a player turned pro he or she could not compete in the major (amateur) tournaments. In 1968, commercial pressures led to the abandonment of this distinction, inaugurating the Open era, in which all players could compete in all tournaments, and top players were able to make their living from tennis. 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Three Major Professional Tournaments Professional tennis players in the years before the Open era began in 1968 played mostly on tours in head-to-head competition. ...
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player who achieved much success in the French and British womens game from 1919 to 1926, winning 25 Grand Slam titles. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
The Open Era in tennis began in 1968, when the Grand Slam events such as the Wimbledon Championships abandoned the longstanding rules of amateurism and allowed professionals to compete. ...
With the beginning of the Open era, the establishment of an international professional tennis circuit, and revenues from the sale of television rights, tennis has spread all over the world and has lost its upper-class English-speaking image. Since the 1970s great champions have emerged from Germany (Boris Becker, Steffi Graf), the former Czechoslovakia (Ivan Lendl, Martina Navrátilová, and Hana Mandlíková), Sweden (Björn Borg, Stefan Edberg and Mats Wilander), Brazil (Gustavo Kuerten), Russia (Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin, and Maria Sharapova), Belgium (Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne), Spain (Juan Carlos Ferrero), Switzerland (Martina Hingis and Roger Federer) and from many other countries. Country: Germany Residence: Monte Carlo, MON Height: 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) Weight: 85 Kg (187 lb ) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1984 Retired: 1999 Highest singles ranking: 1 (1/28/1991) Singles titles: 49 Career Prize Money: US$25,080,956 Grand Slam Record Titles: 6 Australian Open W...
Stefanie Maria (Steffi) Graf (born June 14, 1969 in Mannheim, Germany) is a former World No. ...
Country: United States Residence: Long Island, New York, USA Height: 187 cm (62) Weight: 79 kg (175 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1978 Retired: 1994 Highest singles ranking: 1 (28 Feb 1983) Singles titles: 94 Career Prize Money: US$21,262,417 Grand Slam Record Titles: 8 Australian Open...
Martina Navrátilová (help· info) (b. ...
Hana MandlÃková, a professional tennis player, was born on February 19, 1962, in Prague, Czech Republic. ...
Country: Sweden Residence: Monte Carlo, MON Height: 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) Weight: 73 kg (160 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1973 Retired: 1981 Highest singles ranking: 1 (8/23/1977) Singles titles: 57 Career prize money: US$3,655,751 Grand Slam Record Titles: 11 Australian Open 3rd...
Country: Sweden Residence: Vaxjo, SWE Height: 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) Weight: 77 Kg (170 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1983 Retired: 1996 Highest singles ranking: 1 (Aug 13th, 1990) Singles titles: 42 Career Prize Money: US$20,630,941 Grand Slam Record Titles: 6 Australian Open W (85...
Mats Wilander (b. ...
Country: Brazil Residence: Florianópolis, BRA Height: 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) Weight: 80 Kg (178 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1995 Highest singles ranking: 1 (12/4/2000) Singles titles: 20 Career Prize Money: US$14,662,963 Grand Slam Record Titles: 3 Australian Open 3R (2004) French...
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov (born on 18 February 1974) (Russian: Евгений ÐлекÑандрович Кафельников) (yehv-GYEH-nee kah-FYELL-nee-koff; KAH-fyell-nee-koff in Russian) is a former World No. ...
Country: Russia Residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco Height: 195 cm (6 ft 5 in) Weight: 88 kg (195 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1997 Highest singles ranking: 1 (11/20/2000) Singles titles: 15 Career Prize Money: US$12,206,048 Grand Slam Record Titles: 2 Australian Open W (05) US...
Kim Clijsters IPA (help· info) , (born on June 8, 1983, Bilzen, Belgium) is the current World No. ...
Justine Henin-Hardenne ( (help· info)) (June 1, 1982, Liège) is a former World No. ...
Country: Spain Residence: Villena, Spain Height: 182 cm (6 ft) Weight: 72 kg (160 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1999 Highest singles ranking: 1 (9/8/2003) Singles titles: 11 Career prize money: $10,027,728 Grand Slam Record Titles: 1 Australian Open SF (2004) French Open W (2003) Wimbledon...
Country: Switzerland Residence: Trubbach, SUI, Wesley Chapel, Florida, USA Height: 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) Weight: 130 lb (59 kg) Plays: Right Racket: Yonex NanoSpeed RQ 7 Shoes: adidas ClimaCool Feather II Turned pro: 1994 Retired: (2002) Comeback in 2005 Highest singles ranking: 1 (March 31, 1997) Singles titles...
Roger Federer is a professional tennis player who in 2004 became the 23rd World No. ...
In 1954 James Van Alen founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a non-profit museum in Newport, Rhode Island. The building contains a large collection of tennis memorabilia as well as a hall of fame honoring prominent members and tennis players from all over the world. Each year, a grass-court tournament is hosted on the grounds that are home to the Tennis Hall of Fame, as well as an induction ceremony honoring new Hall of Fame members. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It maintains a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world. ...
A side street in Newport, Rhode Island, showing the historic buildings near the waterfront Newport is a city located in Newport County, Rhode Island, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. ...
Great Players Many great players played in the days before tennis's Open era, many of whom are unknown by modern sports fans. Among them, chronologically, are:  Bill Tilden hitting an overhead - "Big Bill" Tilden - 21 amateur Grand Slam titles, winner of 7 consecutive Davis Cups, 4 professional Grand Slam titles, won the professional doubles title at 52
- Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, René Lacoste - the three best of the "Four Musketeers", 46 amateur Grand Slam titles between them, winner of 6 consecutive Davis Cups, 1 professional Grand Slam title
- Ellsworth Vines - 6 amateur Grand Slam titles, 4 professional Grand Slam titles, #1 professional player 1933-1937, tremendous flat, hard service
- Fred Perry - 13 amateur Grand Slam titles including 3 consecutive Wimbledons, first to win 4 consecutive Grand Slam titles, 2 professional Grand Slam titles
- Don Budge - 14 amateur Grand Slam titles, first to win 4 Grand Slam titles in a single year, 4 professional Grand Slam titles, widely viewed as having had the best backhand of all time before Rosewall
- Bobby Riggs - 6 amateur Grand Slam titles, 4 professional Grand Slam titles and 7 times finalist, #1 professional player 1946-1947
- Jack Kramer - 10 amateur Grand Slam titles, 2 professional Grand Slam titles, first great player to play serve-volley on all serves, beat Gonzales badly in the 1949-1950 tour
- Pancho Segura - 3 professional Grand Slam titles, including 2 victories over Gonzales, and 7 times finalist, Kramer called his two-handed forehand "the single best shot ever produced in tennis."
- Frank Sedgman - 22 amateur Grand Slam titles, 3 professional Grand Slam titles and 4 times finalist, winner of 3 consecutive Davis Cups
- Pancho Gonzales - 4 amateur Grand Slam titles, 12 professional Grand Slam titles and 6 times finalist, #1 world amateur in 1949, still #6 world player in 1969, #9 American in 1972 at 44
- Ken Rosewall - 18 Grand Slam titles, first 11 as an amateur, then 7 in the Open era, plus another 18 professional Grand Slam titles and 5 times finalist, winner of 3 consecutive Davis Cups
- Lew Hoad - 11 amateur Grand Slam titles, 7 times finalist in the professional Grand Slam, Gonzales said of him: "I think his game was the best game ever. Better than mine."
Any of these fourteen would probably be competitive in today's game. Other fine players of the pre-Open era include Maurice McLoughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston, Vinnie Richards, Jack Crawford, Vic Seixas, and Tony Trabert. Among women the top two pre-Open era players are considered to be Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills Moody. Maureen Connolly was the first female player to win a Grand Slam in 1953. Doris Hart was the first player to win all 12 possible singles, doubles and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 - June 5, 1953), often called Big Bill, was an American tennis player. ...
Jean Borotra (August 13, 1898 in Domaine du Pouy, near Biarritz - June 17, 1994) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous Four Musketeers from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. ...
Henri Jean Cochet (December 14, 1901 in Villeurbanne, near Lyon - April 1, 1987) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous Four Musketeers from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. ...
René Lacoste Jean René Lacoste (July 2, 1904 - October 12, 1996) was a famous French tennis player, businessman, and innovator, nicknamed the crocodile by fans; he is now mostly known as being the namesake of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929. ...
The Four Musketeers were four tennis players from France, given their name from the Alexandre Dumas story The Three Musketeers. ...
Ellsworth Vines was a champion tennis player of the 1930s, in the opinion of Jack Kramer the greatest player who ever lived. ...
Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 - February 2, 1995) was an English tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. ...
John Donald Budge (June 13, 1915 - January 26, 2000) was a champion tennis player who became famous as the first man to win in a single year the four tournaments that the Grand Slam of tennis comprises. ...
Bobby Riggs Robert Larimore Bobby Riggs (February 25, 1918–October 25, 1995) was a 1930s/40s tennis champion who gained even more fame in 1973 at the age of 55 as a result of challenge matches against two of the top female players in the world. ...
Jack Kramer can refer to: Jack Kramer: a Major League Baseball player Jack Kramer: a tennis player This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Headline text Serve and Volley Serve and Volley is a strategy used in royal tennis where a player serves and immediately moves forward to make his next shot a volley and generally a winner. ...
Pancho Segura, a top-quality tennis player for many years, was born Francisco Olegario Segura in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on June 20, 1921, but moved to the United States in the late 1930s and is considered to be an American tennis player. ...
Frank Allan Sedgman, born October 29, 1927, in Mt. ...
Pancho Gonzales, also spelled González (born Los Angeles, May 9, 1928; died Las Vegas, July 3, 1995), was the dominant male tennis player in the world for about a dozen years. ...
Ken Robert Rosewall, born November 2, 1934 in Sydney, Australia, was a champion tennis player. ...
Lewis Alan Hoad, born November 23, 1934 in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia - died July 3, 1994 in Fuengirola, Spain, was a champion tennis player. ...
Maurice McLoughlin (born on January 7, 1890 in Carson, USA – December 10, 1957) was an American male tennis player. ...
William (Little Bill) Johnston (2 November 1894 - 1 May 1946) was an American tennis champion. ...
The Three Major Professional Tournaments Professional tennis players in the years before the Open era began in 1968 played mostly on tours in head-to-head competition. ...
Jack Crawford John Herbert Crawford, known as Jack Crawford, was a great Australian tennis player of the 1930s. ...
Vic Seixas (August 30, 1923) was an American male tennis player who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Marion Anthony Trabert (born August 16, 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former star tennis player and longtime tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivation speaker. ...
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player who achieved much success in the French and British womens game from 1919 to 1926, winning 25 Grand Slam titles. ...
Cover of Time Magazine (July 26, 1926) Helen Wills Moody (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1999) was one of the greatest womens tennis players of all time, dominating the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Maureen Catherine Connolly (Little Mo) (17 September 1934-21 June 1969) was an American professional tennis player She was born in San Diego, California, United States. ...
In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same year: Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. ...
1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Doris Hart (born on June 2, 1925 in St. ...
In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same year: Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. ...
Among the greatest male players of the Open era are Rod Laver (11), Jimmy Connors (8), John Newcombe (7), Stan Smith (2), Guillermo Vilas (4), Arthur Ashe (3), Björn Borg (11), John McEnroe (7), Ivan Lendl (8), Mats Wilander (7), Boris Becker (6), Stefan Edberg (6), Jim Courier (4), Pete Sampras (14), Patrick Rafter (2), Andre Agassi (8), Gustavo Kuerten (3), Lleyton Hewitt (2), Marat Safin (2) and Roger Federer (7). Among the women are Margaret Smith Court (24), Maria Bueno (7), Billie Jean King (12), Evonne Goolagong (7), Chris Evert (18), Hana Mandlíková (4), Martina Navrátilová (18), Steffi Graf (22), Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (4), Monica Seles (9), Martina Hingis (5), Lindsay Davenport (3), Venus Williams (5), Serena Williams (7), Jennifer Capriati (3), Mary Pierce (2) and Justine Henin-Hardenne (4). Numbers in parenthesis indicate the Grand Slam singles titles. Country: Australia Residence: San Diego, California, USA Height: 5 ft 8 in (172 cm) Weight: 150 lb (68 kg) Plays: Left Turned pro: 1962 Retired: 1974 Highest singles ranking: 1 Singles titles: 39 Career prize money: US$1,564,213 Grand Slam Record Titles: 11 Australian Open W (60, 62...
Country: United States Residence: Belleville, IL Height: 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) Weight: 70 Kg (155 lb) Plays: Left-handed Turned pro: 1972 Highest singles ranking: 1 (29 July 1974) Singles titles: 109 Career Prize Money: US$8,461,040 Grand Slam Record Titles: 8 Australian Open W (1974...
John Newcombe. ...
Stan Smith (born December 14, 1946) is an American tennis player who, with his partner Bob Lutz, was one of the best doubles players of all time. ...
Guillermo Vilas after his victory of the 1977 French Open Guillermo Vilas (born August 17, 1952 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) was a star professional tennis player. ...
Country: United States Height: 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) Weight: 73 kg (160 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1966 Retired: 1980 Highest singles ranking: 2 (5/10/1976) Singles titles: 34 Career prize money: $2,584,909 Grand Slam Record Titles: 3 Australian Open W (1970) French Open QF...
Country: Sweden Residence: Monte Carlo, MON Height: 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) Weight: 73 kg (160 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1973 Retired: 1981 Highest singles ranking: 1 (8/23/1977) Singles titles: 57 Career prize money: US$3,655,751 Grand Slam Record Titles: 11 Australian Open 3rd...
Country: United States Residence: New York, New York, USA Height: 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) Weight: 165 lbs. ...
Country: United States Residence: Long Island, New York, USA Height: 187 cm (62) Weight: 79 kg (175 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1978 Retired: 1994 Highest singles ranking: 1 (28 Feb 1983) Singles titles: 94 Career Prize Money: US$21,262,417 Grand Slam Record Titles: 8 Australian Open...
Mats Wilander (b. ...
Country: Germany Residence: Monte Carlo, MON Height: 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) Weight: 85 Kg (187 lb ) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1984 Retired: 1999 Highest singles ranking: 1 (1/28/1991) Singles titles: 49 Career Prize Money: US$25,080,956 Grand Slam Record Titles: 6 Australian Open W...
Country: Sweden Residence: Vaxjo, SWE Height: 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) Weight: 77 Kg (170 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1983 Retired: 1996 Highest singles ranking: 1 (Aug 13th, 1990) Singles titles: 42 Career Prize Money: US$20,630,941 Grand Slam Record Titles: 6 Australian Open W (85...
James Spencer Courier, Jr. ...
Country: United States Residence: Los Angeles, California, USA Height: 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) Weight: 77 kg (170 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1988 Retired: 2002 Highest singles ranking: 1 (1993-04-12) Singles titles: 64 Career Prize Money: US$43,280,489 Grand Slam Record Titles: 14 Australian...
Patrick Michael Rafter (born December 28, 1972, in Mount Isa, Australia) is a former World No. ...
Country: United States Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Height: 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) Weight: 177 lb (80 kg) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1986 Highest singles ranking: 1 (4/10/1995) Singles titles: 60 Career Prize Money: US$31,006,875 Grand Slam Record Titles: 8 Australian Open W...
Country: Brazil Residence: Florianópolis, BRA Height: 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) Weight: 80 Kg (178 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1995 Highest singles ranking: 1 (12/4/2000) Singles titles: 20 Career Prize Money: US$14,662,963 Grand Slam Record Titles: 3 Australian Open 3R (2004) French...
Country: Australia Residence: Adelaide, AUS Height: 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) Weight: 77 Kg (170 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1998 Highest singles ranking: 1 (19 November 2001) Singles titles: 24 Career Prize Money: US$16,002,632 Grand Slam Record Titles: 2 Australian Open F (2005) French Open...
Country: Russia Residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco Height: 195 cm (6 ft 5 in) Weight: 88 kg (195 lb) Plays: Right Turned pro: 1997 Highest singles ranking: 1 (11/20/2000) Singles titles: 15 Career Prize Money: US$12,206,048 Grand Slam Record Titles: 2 Australian Open W (05) US...
Roger Federer is a professional tennis player who in 2004 became the 23rd World No. ...
Margaret Smith Court (nee Margaret Jean Smith) (born July 16, 1942) is a retired Australian professional tennis player, who was one of the most successful players in the history of the sport. ...
Maria Ester Audion Bueno, born October 11, 1939, in São Paulo, Brazil, is a former tennis champion. ...
Billie Jean King (born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California) is a retired tennis player from the United States. ...
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (born July 31, 1951) Australian tennis player, was one of the worlds leading women players in the 1970s, twice winning the womens singles title at Wimbledon. ...
Christine Marie Evert (b. ...
Hana MandlÃková, a professional tennis player, was born on February 19, 1962, in Prague, Czech Republic. ...
Martina Navrátilová (help· info) (b. ...
Stefanie Maria (Steffi) Graf (born June 14, 1969 in Mannheim, Germany) is a former World No. ...
Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario1 (born December 18, 1971, in Barcelona, Spain) is a former World No. ...
Monica Seles in 1995. ...
Country: Switzerland Residence: Trubbach, SUI, Wesley Chapel, Florida, USA Height: 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) Weight: 130 lb (59 kg) Plays: Right Racket: Yonex NanoSpeed RQ 7 Shoes: adidas ClimaCool Feather II Turned pro: 1994 Retired: (2002) Comeback in 2005 Highest singles ranking: 1 (March 31, 1997) Singles titles...
Lindsay A. Davenport (born June 8, 1976 in Palos Verdes, California) is an American and current World No. ...
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Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional womens tennis player, who is a former World No. ...
Country: United States Residence: Wesley Chapel, Florida, USA Height: 170 cm (57) Weight: 72. ...
Country: France Residence: Sarasota, Florida, USA Height: 1. ...
Justine Henin-Hardenne ( (help· info)) (June 1, 1982, Liège) is a former World No. ...
Until the mid-1950s, Bill Tilden was generally considered the greatest player ever, his only rivals being Vines, Budge, and Kramer. For much of the 1950s and 1960s, many thought Gonzales had claimed that title. Since then, first Laver, then more recently Borg and Sampras, have been widely regarded as the greatest ever. Roger Federer is considered by many commentators to have the most "complete" game in modern tennis, with the potential to challenge the achievements of these past greats. Even among experts, however, no consensus exists as to who has been the greatest of all. Kramer, for instance, still believes that Vines was the best ever, while Segura opts for Gonzales, and Gonzales himself considered Hoad, at the height of his game, to be the best. Among the women, Lenglen and Wills Moody vie for the distinction of greatest of all time, along with several modern players: Court, Navratilova, Evert, and Graf.
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The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ...
Tennis in general A list of terms in tennis: Ace – a service of a tennis ball that is not returned by an opponent and is deemed to be IN play by the umpire Ad court – the left side of the court of each player Advantage – when one player wins a point from a...
In tennis, a player uses different strategies that play up his natural abilities and/or exploit his opponents weaknesses to gain the advantage and win more points. ...
Professional circuit The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 202 national tennis associations. ...
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) was formed in 1972 to protect the interests of male professional Tennis players. ...
For other uses of the initials WTA, see WTA The Womens Tennis Association, is also known as the WTA Tour, and is to womens tennis what the ATP is to mens tennis. ...
The Three Major Professional Tournaments Professional tennis players in the years before the Open era began in 1968 played mostly on tours in head-to-head competition. ...
List of female tennis players: Note: Players who have won more than one grand slam event in singles or have been ranked World No. ...
To keep it at a reasonable length, the following is (only) a list of male tennis players from over the years who in singles play have been ranked in the top 25 in the open era, in the top few prior to the open era, quarter-finalists or better in...
// Winners by number of singles majors accumulated (7 wins and over) Note that * indicates that player never played in that particular Grand Slam event. ...
Tournaments In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same year: Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. ...
This article is about the Australian Open tennis tournament. ...
The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held over two weeks between mid May and early June in Paris, France, and is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar. ...
Wimbledon logo Wimbledon is the oldest and most prestigious event in the sport of tennis. ...
The United States Open tennis championships, commonly refered to as the U.S. Open (or as simply the Open in the U.S. only), is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments. ...
The Tennis Masters Series is a series of nine tennis tournaments held throughout the year in Europe and North America. ...
The Cincinnati Masters is an annual tennis event held in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio, USA. The event started on September 18, 1899 and is today the oldest tennis tournament in the United States played in its original city. ...
Satellite tournaments are tournaments organised by the ITF (International Tennis Federation). ...
Logo The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in mens tennis. ...
The Fed Cup (until 1995 Federation Cup) is the most important tennis tournament for female national teams, very similar to the mens Davis Cup. ...
The Hopman Cup is an annual international team tennis tournament held in Perth, Western Australia in early-January (sometimes commencing in late-December) each year. ...
The World Team Cup is the international team championship of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). ...
Miscellaneous Regional competition level table tennis, showing table, net, and player getting ready to return the ball with a winning backhand topspin stroke. ...
Platform tennis is unique as the only racquet sport that is played outdoors in cold weather. ...
It has been suggested that Mada mada da ne be merged into this article or section. ...
This is a list of tennis courts sorted by country. ...
Dakete is a quickfire version of tennis. ...
This is a list of the male and female tennis players who have won twenty or more official events on the tennis tour in the Open Era. ...
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