Tennis
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Harold Mahoney (Ireland) defeats Wilfred Baddeley (GB) 6–2 6–8 5–7 8–6 6–3
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Charlotte Cooper Sterry (GB) defeats Alice Simpson-Pickering (GB) 6–2 6–3
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – André Vacherot defeats Gérard Brosselin 6–1 7–5
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Robert Wrenn defeats Fred Hovey 7–5 3–6 6–0 1–6 6–1
- American Women's Singles Championship – Elisabeth Moore defeats Juliette Atkinson 6–4 4–6 6–2 6–2
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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)
“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)
“[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)
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