Tennis
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Lawrence Doherty (GB) defeats Frank Riseley (GB) 6–1 7–5 8–6
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers defeats Charlotte Cooper Sterry 6–0 6–3
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – Max Decugis defeats André Vacherot 6–1 9–7 6–8 6–1
- French Women's Singles Championship – Kate Gillou defeats Françoise Masson: details unknown
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Holcombe Ward defeats William Clothier 10–8 6–4 9–7
- American Women's Singles Championship – May Sutton defeats Elisabeth Moore 6–1 6–2
Davis Cup
- 1904 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – British Isles 5–0 Belgium at Warple Road (grass) London, United Kingdom
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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)
“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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