Tennis
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Lawrence Doherty (GB) defeats Frank Riseley (GB) 7–5 6–3 6–0
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers defeats Ethel Thomson Larcombe 4–6 6–4 6–2
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – Max Decugis defeats André Vacherot: details unknown
- French Women's Singles Championship – Françoise Masson defeats Kate Gillou 6–0 6–8 6–0
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Lawrence Doherty (GB) defeats William Larned 6–0 6–3 10–8
- American Women's Singles Championship – Elisabeth Moore defeats Marion Jones 7–5 8–6
Davis Cup
- 1903 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – British Isles 4–1 United States at Longwood Cricket Club (grass) Boston, United States
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“[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)
“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)
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