Tennis
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open - Guillermo Vilas
- French Open - Björn Borg
- Wimbledon championships - Björn Borg
- US Open - Jimmy Connors
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open - Chris O'Neil
- French Open - Virginia Ruzici
- Wimbledon championships - Martina Navratilova
- US Open - Chris Evert
- Davis Cup – United States win 4-1 over Great Britain in world tennis.
- US Open moves to hard courts of the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York.
- Total prize money at US Open exceeds US $500,000.
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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)