Tennis
Events
- Inaugural Australian Championship is held, but for men only
Australia
- Australian Men's Singles Championship – Rodney Heath defeats Arthur Curtis 4–6 6–3 6–4 6–4
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Lawrence Doherty (GB) defeats Norman Brookes (Australia) 8–6 6–2 6–4
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – May Sutton Bundy defeats Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers 6–3 6–4
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – Maurice Germot defeats André Vacherot: details unknown
- French Women's Singles Championship – Kate Gillou defeats Y de Pfooffel 6–0 11–9
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Beals Wright defeats Holcombe Ward 6–2 6–1 11–9
- American Women's Singles Championship – Elisabeth Moore defeats Helen Homans 6–4 5–7 6–1
Davis Cup
- 1905 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – British Isles 5–0 United States at Queen's Club (grass) London, United Kingdom
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“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)
“[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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