TENNIS

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TENNIS
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THE HISTORY

• Tennis of one kind or another was played in
  France as far back as the twelfth century. It was
  not until the late nineteenth century that the
  game, in a somewhat different form, began to take
  on popularity in Britain with the start of lawn
  tennis. Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, in search
  of a more energetic game than croquet for the
  leisure classes, created an activity that was
  court tennis (which had existed for centuries).
  He called it Sphairistike, Greek for ball games.
  Wingfield patented his game in 1874 and a kit was
  made available for sale. People took to the new
  game, but soon realized they didn't need Major
  Wingfield's kits. Wingfield let his patent run
  out in 1877 and in that year the All England Club
  held a tournament. Eventually the game was
  modified from the prescriptions laid out by Major
  Wingfield.. There have also been changes in the
  quality and type of equipment and clothing used.
  Early this century short pants were a radical
  idea. During the past few decades players have
  gradually replaced wooden and metal rackets with
  rackets made of graphite and other compounds.
  After 1984, when John McEnroe and Pat Cash
  wielded wooden rackets in the semifinals of the
  U.S. Open, wooden rackets quickly became an
  leftover, to the grieve of some purists.

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EQUIPMENT

• Racquets
• Racket String
• Tennis Balls
• Racket grips and tape

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Wimbledom Champions (Males)

• 2000 P. Sampras USA
• Sampras' older sister Stella is head coach at
  UCLA, and his younger sister, Marion, is a
  teacher in Los Angeles. His older brother, Gus,
  is tournament director at Scottsdale ATP event.
• On September 30, 2000, Sampras married American
  actress and former Miss Teen USA Bridgette
  Wilson. On November 21, 2002, their son Christian
  Charles was born. On July 29, 2005, the couple
  welcomed their second son, Ryan Nikolaos.
• Sampras has thalassemia minor, an inherited
  disease that causes anemia. Thalassemia minor
  limits physical and athletic endurance and causes
  those who have it to feel fatigued when forced to
  perform athletic feats. For Sampras, it meant he
  was weakened when forced to play many long
  rallies from the baseline. This explains why he
  came to net so often and attempted low percentage
  shots if rallies lasted too long.
• Sampras' business-like attitude to tennis and
  cautious handling of the press led critics to
  bemoan his lack of charisma, but his natural
  talent and work ethic meant he was always able to
  let his results speak for themselves.

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Andre Agassi USA1992

• Agassi dated famed American singer Barbra
  Streisand in the early 1990s before marrying
  actress Brooke Shields in a lavish ceremony on
  April 19, 1997. That February, they had filed
  suit against The National Enquirer claiming it
  printed "false and fabricated" statements about
  the couple. The case was dismissed. He later
  filed for divorce from Shields, which was granted
  on April 9, 1999.
• Before the divorce was finalized, Agassi was
  dating retired tennis star Steffi Graf. They were
  married at his home on October 22, 2001. Their
  son, Jaden Gil, was born on October 26. Their
  daughter, Jaz Elle, was born on October 3, 2003.
• The couple own homes in Las Vegas, San Francisco,
  Manhattan, and Germany. They paid 23 million to
  purchase a six-bedroom, eight-bathroom house in
  Tiburon, California.
• Agassi's older sister, Rita, was married to the
  late former tennis legend Pancho Gonzales. In
  1995, when Gonzales died in Las Vegas, Agassi
  paid for his former brother-in-law's funeral.

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Venus Williams USA 2002

• Venus is a business woman and CEO of her interior
  design firm "V Starr Interiors" located in
  Jupiter, Florida. Williams' company garnered
  prominence by designing the set of the "Tavis
  Smiley Show" on PBS, designed the Olympic
  Athletes' Apartments as a part of the US bid
  package for New York, USA to host the 2012 Games,
  and designing residences and businesses in the
  Palm Beach, Florida area.

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Serena Williams USA 2002

• Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan. When she
  and her four sisters were young, their parents,
  Richard and Oracene, took them to the poor and
  sometimes violent Los Angeles suburb of Compton.
  Her father dreamed of making at least one of his
  daughters a tennis superstar, hoping that
  involvement in sports would give them a way out
  of that neighborhood. When Serena was four and a
  half, she won her first tournament, and she
  entered 49 tournaments before the age of 10,
  winning 46 of them. At one point, she replaced
  her sister Venus as the number one ranked tennis
  player aged 12 or under in California. Her
  younger sister is another female tennis champion,
  Venus Williams. They currently resides in Palm
  Beach Gardens, Florida, United States.

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Andre Agassi
Pete Sampras
Venus Williams
Serena Williams
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Number Of Championships

• Venus Williams
• 2000 - Wimbledon,
• 2000 - U.S. Open
• 2002 U.S.- Open (2)
• 2003- Australian Open
• 2003- Wimbledon (2)

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Number of Championships

• Serena Williams
• 1999 - U.S. Open
• 2001- Wimbledon (2)
• 2001- U.S. Open (2)
• 2002- French Open
• 2002- Wimbledon
• 2005- Australian Open (2)
• 2005- Wimbledon (3)

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Number of Championships

• Andre Agassi
• Australian Open (1995, 2000, 2001, 2003)
• French Open (1999)
• Wimbledon (1992)
• U.S. Open (1994, 1999)

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Number of Championships

• Pete Sampras
• Australian Open
• (1994, 1997)
• French Open (1996)
• Wimbledon (1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999,
  2000)
• U.S. Open (1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2002)

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THE US LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION

• Established in 1881
• A world wide organization with 17 geographical
  sections
• Located in New York City

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THE US OPEN

• The tournament has been held at the USTA Billie
  Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing
  Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough
  of Queens.

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John McEnroe

• Winner of the U.S Open in 1984

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Jimmy Connors

• Winner of the US OPEN in 1982

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Lindsay Davenport

• Winner of the US Open in 1998

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Tracey Austin

• Winner of the US Open in 1981