Tennis
- April 30 – during a changeover at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany, Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by a deranged fan of rival Steffi Graf. Seles would not play competitively for more than two years after the incident.
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open - Jim Courier
- French Open - Sergi Bruguera
- Wimbledon championships - Pete Sampras
- US Open - Pete Sampras
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open - Monica Seles
- French Open - Steffi Graf
- Wimbledon championships - Steffi Graf
- US Open - Steffi Graf
- Davis Cup of world tennis won by Germany 4-1 over Australia
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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)