Tennis
Events
- Norman Brookes (Australia) becomes the first overseas winner of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship
Australia
- Australian Men's Singles Championship – Horace Rice (Australia) defeats Harry Parker (Australia) 6–3 6–4 6–4
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Norman Brookes (Australia) defeats Arthur Gore (GB) 6–4 6–2 6–2
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – May Sutton Bundy defeats Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers 6–1 6–4
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – Max Decugis defeats Robert Wallet: details unknown
- French Women's Singles Championship – Comtesse de Kermel defeats d'Elva: details unknown
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – William Larned defeats Robert LeRoy 6–2 6–2 6–4
- American Women's Singles Championship – Evelyn Sears defeats Carrie Neely 6–3 6–2
Davis Cup
- 1907 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – Australasia 3–2 British Isles at Warple Road (grass) London, United Kingdom
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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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