Wimbledon-born Spencer Gore — the inventor of the volley — won the first-ever Wimbledon tennis final on July 19, 1877. He was also a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club in the mid 1870s.
Lottie Dod, who won the Wimbledon ladies' singles five times in 1887-1893, was also a golf champion and took silver in 1908 Olympic archery.
King George VI of the United Kingdom was an outstanding tennis player. Before he became the British monarch, he played at Wimbledon in the Men's Doubles with Louis Greig in 1926, losing in the first round.
Don Budge became in 1938 the first amateur player to win the four major tennis events (Australia, France, Great Britain and United States) in a single year.
The one-armed Austrian tennis player Hans Redl played at Wimbledon from 1947 to 1956. He served by tossing the ball up with his racket.
Sally Ride the first American woman to reach outer space, achieved national ranking as a tennis player, but chose not to follow this as a career.
Former Wimbledon champion Martina Hingis was born in Kosice, now in eastern Slovakia but then part of Communist Czechoslovakia, in 1980. She and her mother defected to Switzerland when she was seven.
Mats Wilander missed only two out of 73 first serves in the entire match when winning the 1988 French Open.
In 1998, teenagers Venus and Serena Williams made a newsletter called Tennis Monthly Recap where they interviewed famous tennis players.
Steffi Graff and Andre Agassi are the only two tennis players to win all four Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal. With only their mothers as witnesses, they married on October 22, 2001 at his Las Vegas home.
Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia is the only player to win the Wimbledon men's singles (in 2001) whose full name is a strict alternation of consonants and vowels. Ivanisevic also has the record for most aces in a single tournament.
Ivo Karlovic (also of Croatia) holds the record for numbers of tennis aces served in his career (12,936).
On May 9, 2012, Samuel Groth of Australia served an ace recorded at 263 km/h (163.4 mph) during an ATP Challenger event in Busan, South Korea. The serve came during Groth's second-round match against Uladzimir Ignatik (Belarus). It's the fastest ever recorded serve.
With a ball speed of 210 kph (131 mph), Germany's 26-year-old Sabine Lisicki holds the record for the fastest serve in the history of women's tennis.
Rafael Nadal "became" a left-handed tennis player as a child when his uncle who coached him thought it would help give him an advantage on the court.
Maria Sharapova's loudest grunt was measured at 101.2 decibels in Wimbledon in 2005: that's louder than a motorcycle or a lawnmower. In fact it's only five decibels less than a lion's roar.
Lottie Dod, who won the Wimbledon ladies' singles five times in 1887-1893, was also a golf champion and took silver in 1908 Olympic archery.
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King George VI of the United Kingdom was an outstanding tennis player. Before he became the British monarch, he played at Wimbledon in the Men's Doubles with Louis Greig in 1926, losing in the first round.
Don Budge became in 1938 the first amateur player to win the four major tennis events (Australia, France, Great Britain and United States) in a single year.
The one-armed Austrian tennis player Hans Redl played at Wimbledon from 1947 to 1956. He served by tossing the ball up with his racket.
Sally Ride the first American woman to reach outer space, achieved national ranking as a tennis player, but chose not to follow this as a career.
Former Wimbledon champion Martina Hingis was born in Kosice, now in eastern Slovakia but then part of Communist Czechoslovakia, in 1980. She and her mother defected to Switzerland when she was seven.
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| Martina Hingis at the Roland Garros 2016. By si.robi - Hingis RG16 (10), |
Mats Wilander missed only two out of 73 first serves in the entire match when winning the 1988 French Open.
In 1998, teenagers Venus and Serena Williams made a newsletter called Tennis Monthly Recap where they interviewed famous tennis players.
Steffi Graff and Andre Agassi are the only two tennis players to win all four Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal. With only their mothers as witnesses, they married on October 22, 2001 at his Las Vegas home.
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| Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi (Wimbledon 2009) Wikipedia |
Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia is the only player to win the Wimbledon men's singles (in 2001) whose full name is a strict alternation of consonants and vowels. Ivanisevic also has the record for most aces in a single tournament.
Ivo Karlovic (also of Croatia) holds the record for numbers of tennis aces served in his career (12,936).
On May 9, 2012, Samuel Groth of Australia served an ace recorded at 263 km/h (163.4 mph) during an ATP Challenger event in Busan, South Korea. The serve came during Groth's second-round match against Uladzimir Ignatik (Belarus). It's the fastest ever recorded serve.
With a ball speed of 210 kph (131 mph), Germany's 26-year-old Sabine Lisicki holds the record for the fastest serve in the history of women's tennis.
Rafael Nadal "became" a left-handed tennis player as a child when his uncle who coached him thought it would help give him an advantage on the court.
Maria Sharapova's loudest grunt was measured at 101.2 decibels in Wimbledon in 2005: that's louder than a motorcycle or a lawnmower. In fact it's only five decibels less than a lion's roar.
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