The Match of the Century was a tennis match in February 1926 known for being the only career meeting between Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills, the two...
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called the Game of the Century The Match of the Century (tennis), between Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills in 1926 The Battle of the Sexes (tennis), exhibition...
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Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the best female player of the 20th century,...
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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...
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The tennis scoring system is a standard widespread method for scoring tennis matches, including pick-up games. Some tennis matches are played as part of...
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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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the four most prestigious annual tennis events: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open. All records are based on official data from the...
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Steffi Graf (category Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics)
Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named Graf as the best female player of the 20th century...
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Mirra Andreeva (category Tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics)
April 2007) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 19, by the WTA, attained on October 7, 2024. Andreeva...
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'game of the palm'). It was not until the 16th century that rackets came into use and the game began to be called 'tennis'. It was popular in the Kingdom...
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Rafael Nadal (redirect from 2004 Rafael Nadal tennis season)
professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 209 weeks, and has finished as the year-end...
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Andy Murray (redirect from Andy murray tennis)
professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end...
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POP tennis (originally known as paddle tennis) is a racket sport adapted from tennis and played for over a century. Compared to tennis, the court is smaller...
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Venus Williams (redirect from 2014 Venus Williams tennis season)
tennis player. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, Williams has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon and two at the U...
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Billie Jean King (category International Tennis Hall of Fame inductees)
at the age of 29, she famously won the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs. King was also the founder of the Women's...
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Zhang Shuai (redirect from Zhang Shuai (tennis))
Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2, achieved in July 2022 and a singles ranking of No. 22 reached in...
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Wimbledon Championships (redirect from The Lawn Tennis Championships)
collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tennis events every year...
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Iga Świątek (category Tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics)
professional tennis player. She is currently ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA, having held the position for a total of 124 weeks and...
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compete with amateurs, ending the division that had persisted in men's tennis since the dawn of the sport in the 19th century. The first "open" tournament was...
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shorten the duration of a match, it is mainly deployed in defensive players' matches, which tend to have longer points. Though table tennis players grip...
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Ben Shelton (redirect from Ben Shelton (tennis))
an American professional tennis player. Shelton has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 13 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved...
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Carlos Alcaraz (category Tennis players from the Region of Murcia)
is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as World No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Alcaraz...
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Naomi Osaka (category Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics)
professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking...
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Roger Federer (redirect from 2020 Roger Federer tennis season)
1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks,...
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Cricket (redirect from Cricket match)
expansion of the British Empire, with the first international matches in the second half of the 19th century. The game's governing body is the International...
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Martina Navratilova (category Olympic tennis players for the United States)
as one of their 31 Icons of the LGBT History Month. Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century (1999)...
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Paula Badosa (category Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics)
November 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles by the WTA and No. 124 in doubles achieved on...
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Holger Rune (category Tennis players from the Capital Region of Denmark)
professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 4 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), making him the highest-ranked...
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Karolína Muchová (category Tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics)
Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on 11 September 2023. Muchová reached the 2023 French Open...
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