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All-time tennis records – Women's singles; Open Era tennis records – Women's singles; World number 1 ranked female tennis players; Top ten ranked female tennis players; Top ten ranked female tennis players (1921–1974) List of Billie Jean King Cup champions; WTA 1000 Series singles records and statistics; WTA 1000 Series doubles records ...
[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 ...
The first open tournament was the 1968 British Hard Court Championships held in April, [1] followed by the inaugural open Grand Slam tournament, the 1968 French Open, a month later. [2] Unless otherwise sourced, all records are based on data from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), [ 3 ] the International Tennis Federation (ITF), [ 4 ...
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 ...
Harry Vardon, six-time Open Champion in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, and 1914, which is a record. The Open Championship is an annual golf competition held in the United Kingdom that was established in 1860. [1] It is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July, and is the last of the four major championships to be played each year. [2]
The ATP Tour is the modern top-level men's professional tennis circuit. It was introduced in 1990 and it's administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). All the records listed here are only for the players who played most of their careers on the ATP Tour and they're based on official ATP data. [1]
This meant the Open had a feel similar to the current tournament, with the leaders after 36 holes going off last (1957 onwards), [44] all players having to use the "bigger ball" (1974 onwards), [45] [46] [47] play spread over four days (1966 onwards, although the days were Wednesday to Saturday until 1980), [48] [49] and a field containing all ...
Wimbledon, the oldest of the majors, was founded in 1877, followed by the US Open in 1881, the French Open in 1891, and the Australian Open in 1905. Beginning in 1905 and continuing to the present day, all four majors have been played yearly, with the exception of the two World Wars, 1986 for the Australian Open, and 2020 for Wimbledon .