Tennis
- June 6 – death of Rafael Osuna, Mexican tennis player, in an air crash
- June 21 – death of Maureen Connolly (34), first winner of the women's Grand Slam
- Australian Rod Laver, one of only two men to ever win the Grand Slam in tennis wins it for the second time
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open - Rod Laver (Australia)
- French Open - Rod Laver
- Wimbledon championships - Rod Laver
- US Open - Rod Laver
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open - Margaret Court
- French Open - Margaret Court
- Wimbledon championships - Ann Haydon Jones
- US Open - Margaret Court
- Davis Cup – United States wins 5-0 over Romania in world tennis.
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)