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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.
ITF World Champions; List of tennis players career achievements; Tennis players with most titles in the Open Era; List of highest ranked tennis players per country; List of Olympic medalists in tennis; List of tennis rivalries; Longest tennis match records & Shortest tennis match records; Longest tiebreaker in tennis; Fastest recorded tennis serves
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 first-ever men's tournament took in 1877, with 22 men competing. ... American tennis player May Sutton in play on Court 4 during a women’s doubles match at Wimbledon, London, 1908 ...
In addition to the head-to-head tours, there were the annual professional tournaments called "Championship tournaments" (known retrospectively as "professional majors" [7] [8] or "professional Grand Slams" [9] [10] where the world's top professional players usually played. These tournaments held a certain tradition and longevity.
The Grand Slam tournaments are the annual four major tennis events played in the Open Era, which began in 1968, superseding the Amateur Era. The Australian and U.S. tournaments were officially recognized by the ILTF in 1924, and the French Championships followed a year later in 1925 when it became open to all international players.
In men's tennis, the Grand Slam tournaments, the Masters tournaments, and the year-end championships are considered the top-tier events of the annual ATP Tour calendar, in addition to the quadrennial Olympics. They are collectively known as the 'Big Titles'. [a] [1] The ATP defined the mandatory events (Slams, Masters and YEC) as follows
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 ...