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Portal:Tennis
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Tennis is a sport played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players each (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a ball, a hollow rubber sphere covered in felt, over a net into the opponent's court. In some places tennis is still called lawn tennis to distinguish it from real tennis (also known as royal tennis, court tennis or jeu de paume), an older form of the game that is played indoors on a very different kind of a court. Originating in England in the late 19th century AD, the game spread first throughout the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes. Tennis is now played in the Summer Olympic Games and at all levels of society, by individuals of all ages many countries around the world. Its rules have remained remarkably unchanged since the early 1900s. Along with its millions of players, tennis claims millions of people who follow the sport as spectators, being particularly interested in the four Grand Slam tournaments.
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The Australian Open is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments to be held each year. It is held each January at Melbourne Park. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905. Like the other three Grand Slam events, it was contested by top-ranked amateur players and known as the Australasian Championships until 1926 then the Australian Championships until the advent of open era in 1968. Originally based at the grass courts at Kooyong in the city of Melbourne's inner south-east, the tournament was in danger of fading into irrelevance before being revived in 1988 with a shift to Melbourne Park (then called Flinders Park), a new ( Rebound Ace) hardcourt venue next to the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the southern fringe of the central business district. Mats Wilander was the only player to win the tournament both on grass and on Rebound Ace. However, in 2008, the Rebound Ace surface, which had by then been in place for 20 years, was replaced by a cushioned acrylic surface known as Plexicushion.
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Serena Jameka Williams, (born September 26, 1981) is an American former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player who has won eleven Grand Slam singles titles and two Olympic gold medals in women's doubles. [1] She is currently the top ranked American female player. She is the last player, male or female, to have held all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously. In 2005, Tennis magazine ranked her as the 17th-best player of the preceding forty years. She is the younger sister of another former World No. 1 professional female tennis player, Venus Williams. Serena currently resides at Ballen Isles in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. [citation needed]
Williams is primarily an offensive baseline player. Her game is built around taking immediate control of rallies with her powerful serve, aggressive return of serve, and forceful groundstrokes that can come from both the forehand and backhand wing.
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Some folks call tennis a rich people’s sport or a white person’s game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile. |
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- Jan30: Serena Williams defeated Justine Henin in the final of the 2010 Australian Open by a score of 6–4, 3–6, 6–2. This win was her 12th slam title in her career tying her with Billie Jean King on the all-time list at number six, but in the Open Era she surpassed Margaret Court's 11 mark becoming number four behind Steffi Graf at 22, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova at 18 slam titles. In addition, Williams won her 5th Australian Open Women's Singles title, which is a record, and she bested the mark of four by Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Steffi Graf, and Monica Seles. This is old news now.
- ...that both Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi had losing records in doubles play?
- ...that Roger Federer leads Andy Roddick in head-to-head matches 19-2 (as of July 6 2009)?
- ...German Steffi Graf is the only player with at least 4 singles titles at each of the Grand Slams?
- ...Martina Navratilova had a 74 match winning streak in 1984?
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