Tennis
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Harold Mahoney (Ireland) defeats Wilfred Baddeley (GB) 6–2 6–8 5–7 8–6 6–3
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Charlotte Cooper Sterry (GB) defeats Alice Simpson-Pickering (GB) 6–2 6–3
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – André Vacherot defeats Gérard Brosselin 6–1 7–5
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Robert Wrenn defeats Fred Hovey 7–5 3–6 6–0 1–6 6–1
- American Women's Singles Championship – Elisabeth Moore defeats Juliette Atkinson 6–4 4–6 6–2 6–2
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
“[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to hold the racket.”
—Maria Bueno (b. 1939)
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