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.
Read more about this topic: 1971 In Sports
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)
“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)