Tennis
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open – Ken Rosewall
- French Open – Jan Kodeš
- Wimbledon championships – John Newcombe
- US Open – Stan Smith
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open – Margaret Court
- French Open – Evonne Goolagong
- Wimbledon championships – Evonne Goolagong
- US Open – Billie Jean King
- Davis Cup – United States wins 3–2 over Romania in world tennis.
- Sixteen year old Chris Evert makes her US Open debut reaching the semifinals where she is defeated by eventual champion Billie Jean King.
- First time in 16 years that Americans won both the men's and women's title at the US Open.
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“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)
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to hold the racket.”
—Maria Bueno (b. 1939)