Tennis
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open – Ken Rosewall
- French Open – Jan Kodeš
- Wimbledon championships – John Newcombe
- US Open – Stan Smith
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open – Margaret Court
- French Open – Evonne Goolagong
- Wimbledon championships – Evonne Goolagong
- US Open – Billie Jean King
- Davis Cup – United States wins 3–2 over Romania in world tennis.
- Sixteen year old Chris Evert makes her US Open debut reaching the semifinals where she is defeated by eventual champion Billie Jean King.
- First time in 16 years that Americans won both the men's and women's title at the US Open.
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“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)
“I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it’s hard to think of doing something else where you know you’ll never be the best. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you’re the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it’s not all there is to life and I’m ready to explore the alternatives.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“[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)