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American doubles (or American singles, Australian doubles and cut-throat tennis): Informal and unsanctioned variation of tennis played with three players—two on one side of the court and one on the other. The team of two players can only hit the ball within the single player's singles lines, whilst the single player can hit into the full ...
The doubles event was held in various locations; Newport (1881–1914), Forest Hills (1915–1916, 1942–1945, 1968–1977), Longwood (1917–1933, 1935–1941, 1946–1967) and Germantown, Philadelphia (1934) before it settled in 1978 at the USTA National Tennis Center, now the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, in New York City.
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]
Desirae Krawczyk. Age: 30. Hometown: Palm Desert, California . Current Ranking (Doubles): 12 Krawczyk, a doubles specialist, is the fifth women's tennis player going to Paris. She'll play with ...
List of men's doubles Grand Slam tournament champions in tennis: [1]. Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman are the only doubles players and team to achieve a Grand Slam, doing so in 1951, [2] (the Bryans won four consecutive majors, but over the course of two calendar years), and their seven consecutive major titles remain the longest title streak in men's doubles major history.
The ATP rankings by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) are the merit-based system for determining the rankings in men's tennis. In doubles, the top-ranked team is the pair who, over the previous 52 weeks, has gathered the most ATP rankings points.
Molla Bjurstedt Mallory won the women's doubles title in 1916 and 1917 together with Eleonora Sears Helen Wills Moody won the women's doubles title four times in the interbellum years Dutch player Betty Stöve won the doubles title in 1977 and 1979 Virginia Ruano Pascual won 10 women's doubles titles in her career and three of those were at the US Open
This is a list of top international male doubles tennis players, both past and present. It includes players who have won a Grand Slam or Olympic doubles title; or have been officially ranked world no. 1 in doubles. Players who have won more than one Grand Slam doubles title or have been ranked world no. 1 in doubles are in bold.