Tennis
Tennis is the twelfth most popular French sport in terms of the number of licensed players with 1,054,513 licensed tennis players in France (2005).
France holds the tennis Grand Slam tournament Roland Garros. France's current stars include Richard Gasquet, Gaël Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gilles Simon, Marion Bartoli, and Aravane Rezaï. Other stars from the past include Yannick Noah (father of Joakim Noah), Amélie Mauresmo, and Mary Pierce.
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“[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)
“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)