Tennis
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open – Arthur Ashe
- French Open – Jan Kodeš
- Wimbledon championships – John Newcombe
- US Open – Ken Rosewall
- Margaret Court wins the Grand Slam in women's tennis –
- Australian Open – Margaret Court
- French Open – Margaret Court
- Wimbledon championships – Margaret Court
- US Open – Margaret Court
- Davis Cup – United States wins 5–0 over Germany F.R. in world tennis.
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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)
“[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)