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Players on Wimbledon's Centre Court in 2008, a year before the installation of a retractable roof. The racket sport traditionally named lawn tennis, invented in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, now commonly known simply as tennis, is the direct descendant of what is now denoted real tennis or royal tennis, which continues to be played today as a separate sport with more complex rules.
Tennis Masters Series (2000–2001) European Indoor Championships: 1990: 1991: Berlin: Carpet: ATP Tour Fort Worth WCT: 1975: 1976: Fort Worth: Hard: World Championship Tennis Frankfurt Cup: 1987: 1989: Frankfurt: Carpet: Grand Prix Frankfurt Grand Prix: 1980: 1982: Frankfurt: Carpet: Grand Prix French Covered Court Championships: 1895: 1971 ...
Djokovic is both the oldest world No. 1 (37 years and 16 days) [21] and the oldest year-end No. 1 (36 years, 7 months). [ 22 ] Federer is the player with the longest time span (14 years) between his first and most recent dates at No. 1 (February 2004–June 2018), [ 23 ] while Rafael Nadal is the only player to hold the top ranking in three ...
Today, the ultimate pursuit in tennis is to win the Grand Slam; winning all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same calendar year. [13] In 1982, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) broadened the definition of the Grand Slam as meaning any four straight major victories, including the ones spanning two calendar years that became known as the non-calendar year Grand Slam, though it later ...
Throughout its history, many changes in the Grand Slam tennis tournaments have affected the number of titles won by various players. These have included the opening of the French national championships to international players in 1925, the elimination of the challenge round in 1922, and the admission of professional players in 1968 (the start of the Open Era).
(The CBS Dallas pro tennis tournament in 1965 was filmed and broadcast one match at a time in a weekly series.) The 1959 Forest Hills Tournament of Champions offered the largest winners' cheques of the year. The current designation by the West Side Tennis Club of the 1957–59 Forest Hills TOC is "WCT Tournament of Champions". [47]
(1970–present) This is a combination of the YECs (Year-end Championships) for two separate tours: the ITF Grand Prix that ran until 1989 and the ATP Tour that replaced it. For record-keeping purposes, the ATP has incorporated the entire history of the ITF "Masters Grand Prix" alongside its ATP Finals tournament; thus they are both listed as ...
As of the 2024 US Open; 487 men's singles Grand Slam championships have been played since 1877.; 153 different players have won a men's singles Grand Slam championship; they are listed here in order of their first win.