Sport
The Estoril Open, held at the Estoril Court Central, is a professional tennis tournament that hosts both an ATP (men's) and WTA (women's) event. Although named for the nearby resort in Estoril, the event is held in Oeiras by the sports' governing bodies. The men's event was first held in 1990, when the ATP took absolute control of the men's tennis tour and revamped it. In 1998, the first women's event was held, as a component of the ITF women's circuit; a year later, it was promoted to the main WTA Tour. On the men's side, several players who have won the event have also triumphed at the French Open, including Sergi Bruguera, Andrei Medvedev, Thomas Muster, Carlos Moyà, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and Gastón Gaudio. The list of champions also includes two-time finalist Àlex Corretja, Australian Open champion Novak Đoković, Tennis Masters Cup winner David Nalbandian, and, most recently, sixteen-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer.
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“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)