traditionally named lawn tennis, invented in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, now commonly known simply as tennis, is the direct descendant of what is now denoted...
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Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each...
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International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It honors both players and other contributors to the sport of tennis. The...
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The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. The association governs the WTA Tour, which is the...
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The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a Grand Slam may...
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In tennis, "Battle of the Sexes" describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women...
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Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (also called...
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A tennis ball is a small, hollow ball used in games of tennis and real tennis. Tennis balls are fluorescent yellow in professional competitions, but in...
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The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuits – the ATP Tour, the ATP Challenger Tour and...
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The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), also known as the All England Club, based at Church Road, Wimbledon, London, England, is a private...
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The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International...
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Racket (sports equipment) (redirect from Tennis racket)
face made of interlaced, tightly stretched strings fixed on an ovoid frame known as the rim. This type of racket is used in sports such as tennis, badminton...
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Tennis in Italy is governed by the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation and in 2012 it was the 6th sport by number of practitioners, with 1,298,000 people...
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Reinagle Cooper; 22 September 1870 – 10 October 1966) was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in...
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The Open Era is the current era of professional tennis. It began in 1968 when the Grand Slam tournaments allowed professional players to compete with amateurs...
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The US Open Tennis Championships, commonly called the US Open, is a hardcourt tennis tournament organized by the United States Tennis Association annually...
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article is concerned with the major tennis achievements of tennis male players of all tennis history. Before the start of the Open Era and in addition to...
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ties (1921 to 1929). The history of tennis in India goes back a long way. In the 1880s, the British introduced the game of tennis in India during the colonial...
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Della Corda. Palla is of interest to those who study the history of tennis, as it provides some insight into the development of the more contemporarily...
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Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary...
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Australian Open (redirect from Australian Open (tennis))
a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the...
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William Higinbotham (category Early history of video games)
computer game, Tennis for Two." As part of preserving the history of Tennis for Two, the Collection is producing a documentary on the history of the game and...
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years of age. He has not only been the highest ranked singles player in Pakistan's tennis history (34th in October 1977) but was also the winner of a number...
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Tennis is one of the most popular sports in Romania. The Romanian Tennis Federation (Romanian: Federația Română de Tenis or FRT), a member of ITF, is...
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The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man founded in 1888....
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rankings are the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) merit-based system for determining the rankings in men's tennis. The top-ranked player is the...
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The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than...
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Real tennis organizations: a list of associations and clubs for the sport of real tennis. International Real Tennis Professionals Association Ladies Real...
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This article details longest tennis match records by duration or number of games. The 1970–1973 introduction of the tiebreak reduced the opportunity for...
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Paddle tennis (sometimes branded as POP Tennis since 2015) is a racket sport adapted from tennis and played for over a century. Compared to tennis, the...
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