Tennis
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open – John Newcombe
- French Open – Ilie Năstase
- Wimbledon – Jan Kodeš
- US Open – John Newcombe
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open – Margaret Court
- French Open – Margaret Court
- Wimbledon – Billie Jean King
- US Open – Margaret Court
- Davis Cup – Australia wins 5–0 over the United States in world tennis.
- Men and women players receive equal prize money at the US Open
- 20 September – In the famed Battle of the sexes at Houston's Astrodome – Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in 3straight sets.
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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)
“[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)
“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)