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Reginald Doherty, four-time Olympic medalist Venus Williams, five-time Olympic medalist. Tennis was first contested as a Summer Olympic sport in the 1896 Olympic Games until 1924 (excluding 1916 due to World War I), before going on hiatus due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players.
Tennis male players statistics; World number 1 ranked male tennis players; Top ten ranked male tennis players; Top ten ranked male tennis players (1912–1972) Tennis Masters Series singles records and statistics; Tennis Masters Series doubles records and statistics; List of Davis Cup champions
Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Championships: 1894: 1974: Haverford: Grass (1894–1969, 1973–1974) Hard (1970–1972) Grand Prix Pepsi Grand Slam: 1976: 1981: Myrtle Beach (1976) Boca Raton (1977–1981) Clay: Grand Prix Perth Indoor Tennis Tournament: 1975: 1977: Perth: Hard: Grand Prix Philippine International Tennis Tournament: 1973: 1978 ...
The playing surface of the court varies between Olympic Games. It has been on hard court for every Olympics since 1984 except for the 1992 Olympics (which was on a clay court), the 2012 Olympics (which was played on a grass court) and the 2024 Olympics (which was played on a clay court). The changing playing surface gives certain players ...
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 ...
The only grass-court tournament scheduled after the Championships is the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships at Newport, Rhode Island, USA, which takes place the week after Wimbledon. Since 2015, the championships have begun one week later than in previous years, extending the gap between the tournament and the French Open from two to three weeks ...
This article compares the Grand Slam and Olympic tournament results of male tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final. The Grand Slam tournaments are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. All data is from the International Tennis Federation men's circuit database.
The most prestigious of the three was generally the London Indoor Professional Championship. Played between 1934 and 1990 at Wembley Arena in England. The oldest of the three was the United States Professional Championship, played between 1927 and 1999. From 1954 through 1962, this tournament was played indoors in Cleveland and was billed as ...