Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a point.
Billie Jean King, also known as BJK, is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. King was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, she was the U.S. captain in the Federation Cup.
World TeamTennis (WTT) was a mixed-gender professional tennis league played with a team format in the United States, which was founded in 1973.
Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 209 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. Nadal won 22 Grand Slam men's singles titles, including a record 14 French Open titles. He won 92 ATP-level singles titles, including 36 Masters titles and an Olympic gold medal, with 63 of these on clay courts. Nadal is one of three men to complete the career Golden Slam in singles. His 81 consecutive wins on clay constitute the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era.
Annabel Nicola Croft is a British former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.
Frank Andrew Parker was an amateur & later professional American male tennis player of Polish immigrant parents who was active in the 1930s and 1940s. He won four Grand Slam singles titles as well as three doubles titles.
The Belgian women's national tennis team, managed by the Belgian Tennis Federation, has been competing in the International Tennis Federation sanctioned Fed Cup since the very beginning: 1963. It has won the competition once, in 2001. Both Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin won their singles matches to seal the first victory for Belgium against Russia in Madrid.
Iva Budařová is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia.
Li Bun-hui is a former table tennis player from North Korea who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Tennis was part of the Southeast Asian Games from the inaugural 1959 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games It has been played at each edition of the games with the exception of 2013 Southeast Asian Games.
Bohumil Váňa was a male international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia who was born and died in Prague.
Zoltán Mechlovits was a male former international table tennis player from Hungary.
Toshiaki Tanaka was a Japanese international table tennis player.
The 1st World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from December 6 to December 11, 1926.
Hildegard Bussmann was an international table tennis player from Germany. She was born in Düsseldorf.
Sári Szász, was a female international table tennis player.
Shizuka Narahara is a Japanese former table tennis player. From Hiroshima, she was in the city on 6 August 1945, when the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan.
The 1886 men's tennis season was composed of the eleventh annual pre-open era tennis circuit incorporating 154 tournaments. The season began in March in Auckland, New Zealand and ended in December in Napier, New Zealand.
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