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 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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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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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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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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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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professional pickleball player with the American League PPA and a former tennis player. Young had a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 38, achieved on 27 February...
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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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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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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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1994) is an Australian professional tennis player, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 30 in singles and of No. 13 in doubles, both achieved in...
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tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 75, achieved on 19 August 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of...
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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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tennis player and Olympic medalist. Paul has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 12, achieved on October 2, 2023, and doubles ranking of No...
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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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retired from tennis. He was the son of Frederic Richard Sears and Albertina Homer Shelton. His brothers Philip and Herbert were also tennis players. Sears...
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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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Mirra Andreeva (category Tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics)
29 April 2007) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 21, attained on 19 August 2024. Andreeva...
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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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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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years, the longest matches for men (best of five sets, best of three for the women). The tournaments are overseen by the International Tennis Federation...
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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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former professional tennis player. He won 10 titles on the ATP Tour (out of 24 finals contested), reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4. His...
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professional tennis player. Borges has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 34 achieved on 26 August 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 69 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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Destanee Aiava (category Australian female tennis players)
under-13 female tennis players, Aiava won the tournament and won the right to play alongside Steffi Graf in an exhibition match. The years following,...
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Madison Keys (category Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics)
potential by becoming one of the youngest players to win a WTA Tour level match a few months later. She also won a World TeamTennis exhibition set against...
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Coco Gauff (category Tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics)
professional tennis player. She has won seven career singles titles, including the 2023 US Open, and nine career doubles titles, including the 2024 French...
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