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Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.
Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. During most of the 19th century, in fact, the term tennis referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis.
The rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s. Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point-challenge system, which allows a player to contest the line call of a point, a system known as Hawk-Eye. (Full article...)
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The French Open, also known as Roland-Garros, is an annual tennis tournament held over two weeks in May and June. Established in 1891 and played since 1928 on outdoor red clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, the French Open is (since 1925) one of the four Grand Slam tournaments played each year, the other three being the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Organised by the Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT), the French Open is the second of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the year to be played. In 1968, it was the first Grand Slam tournament to open to non-amateur players.
The winner of the men's singles event receives the Coupe des Mousquetaires, named after The Four Musketeers of French tennis: Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, and René Lacoste. The event was not held from 1915 to 1919 because of the First World War and was held unofficially as the Tournoi de France under German occupation from 1941 to 1944, during the Second World War. (Full article...)Selected picture -
Wimbledon 2005- Men's Wheelchair doubles
Upcoming tournaments in September
| Week | Month | Tour | Points | Tournament | Surface | Town | Country |
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| 39 | September | ATP | 250 | Moselle Open | Hard (i) | Metz | France |
| 40 | September | ATP | 250 | Shenzhen Open | Hard (i) | Shenzhen | China |
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Frederick John Perry (18 May 1909 - 2 February 1995) was a British tennis and table tennis player and former World No. 1 from England who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slam tournaments and two Pro Slams single titles, as well as six Major doubles titles. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was World Amateur number one tennis player during those three years. Prior to Andy Murray in 2013, Perry was the last British player to win the men's Wimbledon championship, in 1936, and the last British player to win a men's singles Grand Slam title, until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open.
Perry was the first player to win a "Career Grand Slam", winning all four singles titles, which he completed at the age of 26 at the 1935 French Open. He remains the only British player ever to achieve this. Perry's first love was table tennis and he was World Champion in 1929. He began playing tennis aged 14 and his tennis career at 21, when in 1930 an LTA committee chose him to join a four-man team to tour the United States. (Full article...)Selected quote -
| " | The comparing and rating of athletes who were not contemporaries and did not encounter one another on important occasions is a trap in which no tennis reporter of experience should be caught. | " |
| -- Al Laney, in his book 'Covering the Court - A Fifty-Year Love affair with the Game of Tennis'. | ||
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Jeu de paume in the 17th century (from Tennis)
International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino (from Tennis)
Court Philippe Chatrier at Stade Roland Garros in Paris during the 2006 French Open (from Clay court)
Rafael Nadal (from Tennis)
Tennis doubles final at 1896 Olympic Games (from Tennis)
Rafael Nadal hitting a forehand. (from Tennis)
1896 Summer Olympics men's singles final (from History of tennis)
Margaret Court (from Tennis)
Amateur tennis match in Sweden, 1892. (from History of tennis)
Roger Federer (from Tennis)
A carpet court in Kraków, Poland (from Carpet court)
Cover of the first edition of the book about Lawn Tennis by Walter Clopton Wingfield, published in February 1874 (from History of tennis)
Maria Sharapova during the 2008 Family Circle Cup played on green clay (from Clay court)
Augurio Perera's house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, where he and Harry Gem first played the modern game of lawn tennis (from Tennis)
Novak Djokovic hitting a two-handed backhand. (from Tennis)
A tennis racket and balls (from Tennis)
Convention dictates that the two players shake hands at the end of a match. (from Tennis)
Serena Williams serving at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. (from Grass court)
Ken Rosewall (from Tennis)
Lawn tennis in the US, 1887 (from Tennis)
Lawn tennis in Canada, ca. 1900 (from Tennis)
The scoreboard of a match between Andy Roddick and Cyril Saulnier (from Tennis)
Novak Djokovic (from Tennis)
Wooden racket - c. 1920s (from Tennis)
Tennis court in Petäjävesi, Finland (from Tennis)
Drawing of a Lawn Tennis court as originally designed by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1874 (from History of tennis)
Players on a roofless centre court in 2008 (from History of tennis)
Roger Federer hitting a serve. (from Tennis)
Roger Federer hitting a backhanded shot in 2012 (from Tennis)
The dimensions of a tennis court (from Tennis)
Tennis doubles final at 1896 Olympic Games (from History of tennis)
Rafael Nadal is known as "The King of Clay." (from Clay court)
Racket of Franjo Pun?ec in a wooden frame - late 1930s (from Tennis)
The French Championships at Roland Garros was the first Grand Slam tournament to become "open" to professionals (from History of tennis)
A tennis match at Centre Court in Wimbledon in 2007 (from Tennis)
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