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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 ...
At the Class A level in Michigan under the banner of the Hamtramck High School Cosmos, Jean Hoxie and her husband Jerry Hoxie developed 16 state titleholders in singles tennis, and 13 state titleholders in doubles tennis. At all levels, members of their program won 18 boys state championships between 1949 and 1969 in high school competition.
Nehemiah Atkinson (1918–2003) was a professional tennis player and tennis coach in New Orleans, Louisiana USA. He managed public tennis facilities in New Orleans and played competitive tennis into old age. He was particularly noted for teaching young African-Americans, especially the underprivileged, to play the sport of tennis.
As the tennis tournament's official history notes, "From 2000-2010, the Williams sisters made SW19 their own back yard. Venus won five singles titles, Serena four.
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 ...
The oldest was the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, played between 1927 and 1999. Between 1954 and 1962, it was played indoors in Cleveland and was called the World Professional Championships. The third major tournament was the French Pro Championship, played between 1930 and 1968. The British and American championships continued into the Open ...
The oldest of these three tournaments was the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, played at a variety of different venues and on a variety of different surfaces, between 1927 and 1999. The Wembley Championship , played between 1934 and 1990 at the Wembley Arena in the United Kingdom, was played on a wood surface through 1967.
1895 – Chicago's West Division High School formed the first women's softball team, but they went without a coach for four years until 1899. [15] 1895 - Clara Gregory Baer wrote the first book of rules for women's basketball. 1895 - The first public women's basketball game in the South was played at a men's only club, the Southern Athletic Club.