Tennis
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Wilfred Baddeley (GB) defeats Wilberforce Eaves (GB) 4–6 2–6 8–6 6–2 6–3
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Charlotte Cooper Sterry (GB) defeats Helen Jackson (GB) 7–5 8–6
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – André Vacherot defeats Laurent Riboulet 9–7 6–2
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Fred Hovey defeats Robert Wrenn 6–3 6–2 6–4
- American Women's Singles Championship – Juliette Atkinson defeats Helen Hellwig 6–4 6–2 6–1
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“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.”
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