Tennis
- Henner Henkel, 27, German tennis player, KIA during Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Joe Hunt, 24, American tennis player, plane crash (1944)
- Daniela Klemenschits, 25, Austrian tennis player, stomach cancer (2008)
- Karen Krantzcke, 31, Australian tennis player, heart attack (1977)
- Federico Luzzi, 28, Italian tennis player, leukemia (2008)
- Hans Moldenhauer, 28, German tennis player, car accident (1929)
- Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player, heart attack (2009)
- Arthur O'Hara Wood, 27–28, Australian tennis player, KIA during World War I (1918)
- Menno Oosting, 34, Dutch tennis player, car accident (1999)
- Rafael Osuna, 30, Mexican tennis player, plane crash (1969)
- Ernie Parker, 34, Australian tennis player, KIA during World War I (1918)
- Felipe Rivera, 24, Chilean tennis player, car accident (1995)
- John Van Nostrand, 22, American tennis player, car accident (1984)
- Michael Westphal, 26, German tennis player, AIDS (1991)
- Tony Wilding, 31, New Zealand tennis player and Wimbledon champion, KIA during World War I (1915)
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it’s hard to think of doing something else where you know you’ll never be the best. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you’re the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it’s not all there is to life and I’m ready to explore the alternatives.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“[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)
“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)