Tennis
- June 6 – death of Rafael Osuna, Mexican tennis player, in an air crash
- June 21 – death of Maureen Connolly (34), first winner of the women's Grand Slam
- Australian Rod Laver, one of only two men to ever win the Grand Slam in tennis wins it for the second time
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open - Rod Laver (Australia)
- French Open - Rod Laver
- Wimbledon championships - Rod Laver
- US Open - Rod Laver
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open - Margaret Court
- French Open - Margaret Court
- Wimbledon championships - Ann Haydon Jones
- US Open - Margaret Court
- Davis Cup – United States wins 5-0 over Romania in world tennis.
Read more about this topic: 1969 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“[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)