Tennis
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open - Boris Becker
- French Open - Yevgeny Kafelnikov
- Wimbledon championships - Richard Krajicek
- 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
- 1996 Summer Olympics
- Men's Singles Competition – Andre Agassi
- Women's Singles Competition – Lindsay Davenport
- Men's Doubles Competition – Todd Woodbridge & Mark Woodforde
- Women's Doubles Competition – Gigi Fernández & Mary Joe Fernández
- Davis Cup final:
- France wins 3-2 over Sweden
- Fed Cup final:
- USA wins 5-0 over Spain
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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)
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