Serena Jameka Williams is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No.1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No.1 five times. She won 23 Grand Slam women's singles titles, the most in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time. She is the only player to accomplish a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles.
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a Grand Slam may be achieved as a team or as an individual with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a "non-calendar-year Grand Slam", while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a "Career Grand Slam".
John Donald Budge was an American tennis player. He is most famous as the first tennis player — male or female, and still the only American male — to win the Grand Slam, and to win all four Grand Slam events consecutively overall. Budge was the second man to complete the career Grand Slam after Fred Perry, and remains the youngest to achieve the feat. He won ten majors, of which six were Grand Slam events and four Pro Slams, the latter achieved on three different surfaces. Budge is considered to have one of the best backhands in the history of tennis, with most observers rating it better than that of later player Ken Rosewall.
Frederick John Perry was a British tennis and table tennis player and former world No. 1 from England who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slam tournaments and two Pro Slams single titles, as well as six Major doubles titles. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was World Amateur number one tennis player during those three years. Prior to Andy Murray in 2013, Perry was the last British player to win the men's Wimbledon championship, in 1936, and the last British player to win a men's singles Grand Slam title, until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open.
Lewis Alan Hoad was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur. He was a member of the Australian team that won the Davis Cup four times between 1952 and 1956. Hoad turned professional in July 1957. He won the Kooyong Tournament of Champions in 1958 and the Forest Hills Tournament of Champions in 1959. He won the Ampol Open Trophy world series of tournaments in 1959, which included the Kooyong tournament that concluded in early January 1960. Hoad's men's singles tournament victories spanned from 1951 to 1971.
Kenneth Robert Rosewall is an Australian former world top-ranking professional tennis player. Rosewall won 147 singles titles, including a record 15 Pro Majors and 8 Grand Slam titles for a total 23 titles at pro and amateur majors. He also won 15 Pro Majors in doubles and 9 Grand Slam doubles titles. Rosewall achieved a Pro Slam in singles in 1963 by winning the three Pro Majors in one year and he completed the Career Grand Slam in doubles.
Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former world No. 1 tennis player in both singles and doubles. She won 14 Grand Slam titles: four in singles, six in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She also won four Olympic medals and five Fed Cup titles representing Spain. In 1994, she was crowned the ITF World Champion for the year.
Henri Jean Cochet was a French tennis player. He was a world No. 1 ranked player, and a member of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Robert Falkenburg was an American amateur tennis player and entrepreneur. He is best known for winning the Men's Singles at the 1948 Wimbledon Championships and introducing soft ice cream and American fast food to Brazil in 1952. He founded the Brazilian fast food chain Bob's.
Arthur William Charles Wentworth Gore was a British tennis player.
World number 1 ranked male tennis players is a year-by-year listing of the male tennis players who were ranked as world No. 1 by various contemporary and modern sources. The annual source rankings from which the No. 1 players are drawn are cited for each player's name, with a summary of the most important tennis events of each year also included. If world rankings are not available, recent rankings by tennis writers for historical years are accessed, with the dates of the recent rankings identified. In the period 1948–1953, when contemporary professional world rankings were not created, the U.S. professional rankings are cited.
The Monte-Carlo Masters is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, which borders on Monaco. It is played on clay courts at the Monte Carlo Country Club and is held in April. The tournament is part of the nine ATP Tour Masters 1000 events on the ATP Tour. Rafael Nadal has won the men's singles title a record eleven times.
In tennis, if the serving player makes two mistakes in the same point, it is called a double fault, and they lose the point and the point is awarded to their opponent.
The year 1929 in tennis was a complex mixture of mainly amateur tournaments composed of international, invitational, national, exhibition, and team events and joined by regional professional tournaments limited mostly to British, German, French and American Pro events.
Jasmine Paolini is an Italian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 7 in singles, achieved on 10 June 2024, and No. 13 in doubles, achieved on 1 July 2024.
Alex de Minaur is an Australian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 7 on 17 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 58 on 12 October 2020. He has won nine ATP Tour singles titles and one in doubles.
Cristina Bucșa is a professional tennis player. Born in Moldova, she has represented Spain since 2015. Bucșa has career-high rankings of No. 56 in singles, achieved on 15 January 2024, and of No. 19 in doubles, achieved on 10 June 2024.
Carlos Alcaraz Garfia is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and is the current world No. 3. Alcaraz has won fourteen ATP Tour-level singles titles, including three major titles and five Masters 1000 titles. Following his win at the 2022 US Open, Alcaraz became the youngest man and the first male teenager in the Open Era to top the singles rankings, at 19 years, 4 months, and 6 days old.
Francisco Comesaña is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87, achieved on 20 May 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 257, achieved on 8 May 2023.
Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro is a Spanish professional tennis player. Bouzas Maneiro has career-high WTA rankings of No. 83 in singles, achieved on 24 June 2024, and No. 201 in doubles, attained on 9 January 2023.
Andrew Pattison (second from right) is a Matie Old Boy who was coached by Mr Houba — today he is a world-renowned player. The girl on his left, Daphne Botha (they have since married) represented Free State and Rhodesia.
However, the rain did Andrew Pattison and Daphne Botha a good turn. They had been trying to find time to marry for some weeks....Pattison was scheduled to play Zednik in the final of the consolation singles, the rains came, and so he and Daphne hurried off to a J.P. instead.
Brother combinations in professional tennis have been rare. Unlike the women's circuit...the closest the men's tour comes are Colin and Roger Dowdeswell of Rhodesia and India's Vijay and Anand Amritaj.
...The University of Alabama's brother duo of Clinton and Ellis Ferreira advanced...at the NCAA Men's Tennis Individual Championships.
Barry and Kevin Moir, one of the world's top-ranking brother tennis acts, may be headed on a collision course.
South African sisters Elna and Monica Reinach will team up with John Sadri on the Charlotte Heat.
Dungo got his start in tennis as a child, watching his father, Miguel Dungo Sr., play Davis Cup tennis for the Philippines.
Although Gaurav Misra's father, Sumant, was India's national champion in 1953, a tennis racquet wasn't forced onto Nicky Misra.
Atsushi Miyagi, last year's national singles champion, did not defend his title. Reiko Miyagi, Atsushi's sister, took the women's singles title....
Persian by race, [Nick] Mohtadi has much of his father's flair that was evidenced in Britain a decade and a half ago when Matt Mohtadi was a chemical engineering lecturer at Birmingham University.
In the World Father/Son Championships, the Newcombes will be joined by...Toshiro and Toshiaki Sakai (Toshiaki is Japan's No.4-ranked boys' 18 singles player).
This event's top seeds are Japanese sisters Akiko and Tomoko Yonemura, countrywoman Natsumi Hamamura and American Lauren Albanese.
[Charles] Aeschlimann, husband of the former Leslie Bancroft, of Boston, was profuse in his praise of his partner's play.
In the doubles...Boland and Thraun of Hamburg defeated the brothers Akratopoulos.
The "Echo" regrets to record the death of Mrs. Adelaide Maria Allen, the mother of the famous twin tennis players, C. G. and E. R. Allen, and a cousin of the famous Prime Minister, Mr. W. E. Gladstone.
The bride was Edith Margaret Boucher, of 2, Sion Hill, Clifton, the second daughter of the late Mr. J. Boucher, and the bridegroom Mr. Francis John Hannam, only son of Mr. S. J. Hannam; of 31, Cotham Vale....The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. J. M. Boucher, the well-known tennis player, was handsomely gowned in white satin with silver and pearl embroidery.
In the final of the Gentlemen's Championship Singles, the brothers, the Hon. Patrick Bowes-Lyon and the Hon. Herbert Bowes-Lyon—the last named having been the victor last year—opposed each other, the match being the best of five sets.
Caroline Swift of Crosby...will have the chance of winning a trophy together with an invitation to a month's tennis training at the home of Edda Buding on the Riviera. Edda's brother, Ingo, is Germany's No. 1 player and her sister, Ilse, is married to the former British Davis Cup player, Mike Davies.
Lorna Cawthorn, Wimbledon tennis player and coach who, as Lorna Cornell, was twice junior tennis champion of Britain, is seeking to end her second marriage.
Mississippi State's Daniel Courcol, a latter-day French pioneer, stands where no collegiate tennis player has stood before....Courcol grew up around the Tennis Club of Paris as part of a tennis-playing family. His father, Jean-Pierre Courcol, was one the fourth-ranked player in France.
Tutte le italiane scese in campo (Perna, Bassi e Giorgi) sono state eliminate, fatta eccezione per Monique Salfati Di Maso che è diventata italiana molto recentemente per essersi sposata con Di Maso....
[Jaroslav Drobný] married a former English tennis player, Rita Jarvis, last year.
Two Berkshire youngsters are among 13 new amateur tennis champions. They are brother and sister partnership of Paul and Kaye Hand of Wokingham, who won their respective events in the national finals of the Advance Tennis Trophy '83 held at Coventry's Ace Tennis Centre.
Mrs. Rita Anderson, formerly Miss Rita Jarvis, the Wimbledon tennis player, of Park View Road, Ealing, was granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court yesterday because of desertion by her husband, Mr. Owen Anderson, of Los Angeles, California. The marriage took place in 1940. There are no children.
Life as a tennis vagabond is a paradox for Nicky Kalo, Greece's No. 1 ranked player. For example, Nicky Kalo doesn't live in Greece. In addition, he doesn't like to travel, yet he's embarking on a two-year tennis tour of the world with his bride of two weeks, the former Carol Prosen.
Nelly Adamson is a Latin who shines in an Anglo-Saxon sport. She was the champion of Belgium, and last fall married Pierre Landry, a great French player of the late-Tilden era.
In the second double mixed doubles, Miss Gibson and Narendra Nath of India defeated the British husband-and-wife team of Claude and Thelma Lister, 6-0, 6-2.
We have a number of splendid, young players, who would have been good enough to bring out. For instance, there is Arthur Lowe, a brother of Gordon, a member of our team....
Miss Lyle is the daughter of Sir Leonard Lyle, of Westminster, and apart from her sporting interests she spends much of her time at Queen Mary's Hospital helping with the library and distributing books amongst the patients.
Roger Taylor, former British number one and world rank seven, now runs a tennis holiday complex in the Algarve, Portugal. Even so, he has separated from his wife, Scottish tennis player Frances MacLennan.
Ross Matheson started tennis at five and was taught by his father, Harry, and his mother, who as Carole Rosser reached the last 16 at Wimbledon.
They met some time ago at a Badminton tournament, where Kitty had been watching the Irish champion play. Miss McKane was "best girl" to her sister, Miss Margaret McKane, who married Mr. Andrew Stocks, the hockey international, in February last year.
Discreto tennista, Marco Mezzadri preferì che i suoi due figli, Claudio e Stefano, si dedicassero alla racchetta piuttosto che al pallone.
...amongst whom in addition to the Ipswich players already referred to, were the well-known Oxford player, Mr. H. Emmons (Balliol College); the brothers F. W. and W. B. Monement...
Tony Mottram, now the LTA coach, was our leading Davis Cup player in the '50s; his wife, Joy Gannon, was one of our Wightman Cup players. Their son Buster, unquestionably the hottest boy in British tennis, became our youngest under-21 champion at the age of 16. Their daughter Linda, just 16, having won the Rothmans Cumberland Club Championship earlier this year, is certain to join her brother on the fringe of world-class tennis.
But the winner of two years ago, Mrs. Pearl Panton, sister of Mrs. Joy Mottram, had an early victory in the chill gloom.
That's Gerald Williams having a chuckle or two about what nevertheless adds up to a bit of a slog....His marriage to Joyce Williams, at one time No 2 to Virginia Wade in Britain, ended in divorce.
Mr. Nalton Womersley, Richmond, brother of Mr. Dale Womersley, of Brentwood....
Top-seeded singles player Lindsay Bartlett and sister Shelly Bartlett downed Capitola's Kirsty Bennington and partner Elizabeth Sordyl, 6-0,6-4.
First, there was Karl Behr, fiery and temperamental national doubles champion with Theodore Roosevelt Pell, and one of the greatest and most colorful players that ever graced the courts. Then came Allen Behr, Karl's cousin.
Boys' 18s top seed Jay Berger, who played this season as a Clemson University freshman, has returned and is seeking a second consecutive championship. So is his exuberant younger sister, Andrea, who won in the girls' and has since moved up one age division.
[Craig] Boynton married Teri Whitlinger and [Kelly] Jones married Teri's sister, Tami.
Jimmy Brown, at 16, is already a pro and faces important qualifying for South American tournaments in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, [Chile], this month. Newman says that Jimmy's younger brothers, Ricky, 14, and Mike, 12, have the potential of excelling as tennis players....
Davis Cupper Keith Carpenter of Montreal and his brother Michael of Quebec were beaten yesterday in the second round of the United States doubles tennis championships.
That Denise Carter—the pretty Los Altos teenager who is making the tennis world take notice during her tour of England, leading to today's start of the Wimbledon Open—should pursue that sport follows as night the day. Sacramentans recall her father, Nick, as one of the state's leading players prior to being tennis pro from 1958–65 at Arden Hills....
A notable ceremony of the week was the marriage of Miss Charlotte Mary Hosmer, tennis star and University of California girl, and Alfred Hastings Chapin, eastern tennis star. The service was read last Monday in San Francisco, the setting for the event being the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Hosmer.
The land under the big cooperative project is part of a tract extending from the lake to Halsted street and from Belmont to Melrose which the late Samuel B. Chase, father of Samuel T. and Charles A. Chase, the sellers to Mr. Swayne, acquired from Elisha Hundley, a pioneer real estate owner and operator, in 1853 for $567.
In this tournament, which Dorothy [Sutton Bundy] watched her mother win last year, there was represented still a third member of the family, John Doeg, eighth ranking man player and Dorothy's cousin.
[Dorothy Bundy]'s mother, as May Sutton, was national women's champion in 1904. Her three sisters, assistant coaches to Dorothy, are the former Violet Sutton (mother of Johnny Doeg, 1930 men's champion), Mrs. Ethel Sutton Bruce and Miss Florence Sutton.
Moffatt, of Princeton, partnered him, and on the otherside of the net were the champion Clark brothers, Joseph and Clarence.
Former N.C. State player Bill Csipkay and his brother Tom of Wyckoff, N.J. won the Sioux City doubles crown, after being seeded seventh.
Johnny Doeg, son of one of the famous Sutton sisters, yesterday lived up to the family tennis heritage by winning the Longwood net classic from Cranston Holman of Stanford. The youthful Santa Monican, who is the son of Violet Sutton Doeg, nephew of Florence Sutton and May Sutton Bundy, won out after a thrilling four-set match on the Brookline (Mass.) courts.
Remember Laurie and Carrie Fleming, Fort Lauderdale's "other" talented tennis family?...It has been announced that the Sisters Fleming will join 22 of the top junior players in the nation to tour Hawaii and Australia for two weeks of tournaments beginning March 26.
"I began dating Betty Ann Grubb," Froehling recalled. "When we had a two-week break for Wimbledon, she went to California and got engaged to her old boyfriend, Ken Stuart, and brought him along. Suddenly he wound up on the team because Cliff Drysdale was injured. It was an awkward situation." Grubb has since divorced Stuart.
Charly Harris, Bill's father, ranked No. 8 in the U.S. in 1936, told Bochte that the doctors didn't want Bill to play competitively because the stress might aggravate his condition.
"Don't leave yet," said [Butch] Walts' wife, Allyson, seeing Halsell's glance.
The reason is Tom Kreiss, 14, who is playing the boys' tennis circuits along with his older brothers, Mike, 18, and Bob, 17, both of whom compete for UCLA during the school year.
The Mexican players, Maluca Llamas and Jesus Ceron, recently won the Golden Aztec Tournament in Mexico City. Maluca is the daughter of Mario Llamas, who is player and captain of the Mexican Davis Cup team.
Olga, 16, the older daughter, is ranked No. 1 among girls 16 and under. Patricia, 14, is ranked No. 1 among girls 14 and under and No. 2 in 16 and under. Emilio, 11, is ranked No. 1 among boys 12 and under.
The tennis match between the Neel brothers, champions of the West, and Wren and Chace, champions of the East, came off at 11 o'clock today....Sam Neel put up a brilliant game from start to finish, but his brother Carr played miserably, losing point after point in his wild attempts to keep cool.
...Karen Lukk, also of Sarnia, downed Brenda Nunns of Toronto by the same count in the girls'. Brenda is a daughter of Gilbert Nunns, Canadian Davis Cupper of the '30's.
The service team defeated the tenacious Palafox cousins Gustavo and Antonio, of Mexico City, 4–6, 9–7, 6–2, 10–12 and 17–15.
At Nahant golf seems to have entirely superseded tennis, which only a few years ago drew crowds of visitors to the tennis ground of the champion, Mr Richard D. Sears, when players of renown, including his brothers, Messrs Philip S. Sears and Herbert M. Sears, engaged in friendly rivalry.
Another youngster becoming prominent, and even younger than the Sears twins, is their cousin, Q. A. Shaw, jr., a lad of tall, stalwart frame, still with the gauntness of youth, with a singularly pleasing, intelligent face and modest ways.
Friday was Mitch Sprengelmeyer Day in Florence....He returned to Florence and the watchful eye of his father and coach, Mike Sprengelmeyer, the pro at Florence Country Club.
Sue Stap, of Deerfield, Ill., seventh-rated 18-under player in the country, will be the top seed in her division. Her sister, Sandy, is ranked No. 22 in the United States in the 16-under division and will also be top seeded.
Chauncey D. Steele Jr., and his 19-year-old son, defending champions at Longwood and seeded number one, passed their quarter-finals test with little trouble, defeating Everett and Peter Hicks of Worcester, 6–1, 6–1....Chauncey D. Steele Jr. and Chauncey 3d, Cambridge, def. Richard Comedy and Jack, Weston, 6–0, 6–0....
Elena Subirats, Mexico's No. 1 women's singles player, and her brother, Jaime, Lamar Tech's No. 1 man, accepted invitations Tuesday for the ninth TTC event which opens a four-day run Friday.
Cliff Sutter's brother, Ernest, will make his debut as a member of the Tulane tennis team next spring.
The 11 a.m. qualifying matches were completed and little Robin Tenney and Marcie Louie staged a cliffhanging first set before skies opened up....But Rollins College ace Rayni Fox succumbed to Laurie Tenney, Robin's older sister 6-2, 6-2.
Por primera vez en la historia de Costa Rica, cuatro tenistas, encabezados por los hermanos Fred y Kenneth Thome, participarán en la Copa Davis.
Erik Van't Hof wants to emulate his big brother Robert. Brother Bob just became a professional tennis player, but the younger Van't Hof first aspires to be the NCAA singles champ.
By 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Ana Mater Dei's Kaes Van't Hof had competed his final task as a high school student....With the victory, Van't Hof becomes Mater Dei's first singles champion and the only son of a former Southern Section champion to take the title. His father, Robert, won the event in 1976.
But Becky called on her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Vest, to help her win the title from Mrs. Cody and her partner, Janice Myers.
Big brother Blaine Willenborg pocketed $500 of the $1,000 total purse by beating little brother Chuck for the singles title, then later teamed with Chuck to win the doubles crown.
Already John Cooper has made his mark in the game and is preparing for the future with a tour of the United States' eastern coast. The refreshing young tennis star, who recently graduated from high school in Victoria, Australia, has eyes towards a pro career and making bigger footsteps than his older brother Ashley made in international tennis in recent years.
Miss Trewley was beated 6-8, 5-7 by Miss Joan Gibson, a niece of Jack Crawford
Neil Gibson, nephew of former Wimbledon champion Jack Crawford, defeated Warren Woodcock 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in the junior singles.
Using a racquet, a present from his famous uncle, Jack Crawford, Allan Kendall has gained first place in the Albury and Border Lawn Tennis Association's contingent....
She is 18-year-old Karen Stewart, of Brisbane, and one of her uncles is Roy Emerson, former Davis Cup and professional star.
In the semi-finals of the French junior, he lost to Loic Courteau of France, but he won the doubles with John Frawley, Rod's younger brother.
Mrs. Neil Gibson (left) and her sister-in-law, Miss Joan Gibson, watch the rain falling at Rockdale tennis courts yesterday from the shelter of a marquee.
Kerryn Pratt last night celebrated the double at Kooyong. Miss Pratt, 18, the daughter of another famous Victorian tennis name, Maureen Pratt, was named captain of Victoria's side to play in the Wilson Cup....
Anthony Frederick Wilding, born at Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1883, was a son of Mr. Frederick Wilding, who was seven times doubles champion of New Zealand.
Nejedly, 25, opened the series with Chile with a 6-1, 6-3 triumph over Barbara Castro. Canada went up 2-0 when Toronto's Maureen Drake defeated Valentina Castro, Barbara's sister, 6-0, 6-1.
Hocevar, No. 319, played in the United States for the first time two weeks ago in Carson. He has two uncles who played professionally: Marcos Hocevar, who climbed to No. 30 in the world in 1983, and Alexandre Hocevar, who reached No. 169 in 1990.
She then teamed up with Dasso, of Long Grove, Ill., to beat Argentine twins Vanesa and Erica Krauth 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the doubles final.
Eduardo Rincon would like nothing better than to follow in big brother's footsteps. When big brother — in this case, 25-year-old Mario Rincon — makes a living at professional tennis, those sentiments are understandable.
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