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John Millman became the first male in Olympic tennis history to win a match by the score of 6–0, 6–0 when he defeated Ričardas Berankis in the first round of the tennis tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [12] There have been several Olympic men's singles matches with a score of 6–0, 6–0, 6–1.
10 and Under Tennis is a program that was introduced by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) in the summer of 2010. [1] Upon making the change official in 2012, it modified the format of all USTA and International Tennis Federation (ITF) events involving players of years 10 and younger. [ 1 ]
Visually impaired tennis (also known as blind tennis in Japan, its country of origin, and as sound tennis in some parts of the world) is competed in 4 types of classification where the B1 (blind) group requires players to wear a blindfold and utilizes special balls, which make a sound upon contact with the court. [4]
Up until 2007, most Masters finals were contested as best-of-five-set matches, but from 2008 all events were decided in best-of-three-set matches. As part of a shake-up of the tennis circuit in 2009, the Masters Series became the ATP Tour Masters 1000, with the addition of the number 1000 referring to the number of ranking points earned by the ...
[citation needed] The French Championship tennis tournament at the time was a domestic competition not recognized as an international major. [ citation needed ] At the time, the major clay court event (actual precursor of the French Open in its current international format) was the World Hard Court Championships , where Suzanne Lenglen also ...
Roger Federer tennis matches (12 P) Pages in category "Tennis matches" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Touchtennis is a modified version of tennis played on a compact court with foam balls and shorter (21-inch or 53-centimetre) rackets. It is regularly featured on Sky Sports and is growing in popularity and acceptance as an alternative form of the full size game.
A tennis ball. At least eight players are needed for this game. Two players start on the baseline, the back line of the tennis court, of each side with the court split in half vertically. Two tennis balls are played simultaneously on each half of the court starting with a drop hit. A drop hit is an underhand hit by bouncing the ball first.