Tennis
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open – John Newcombe
- French Open – Ilie Năstase
- Wimbledon – Jan Kodeš
- US Open – John Newcombe
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open – Margaret Court
- French Open – Margaret Court
- Wimbledon – Billie Jean King
- US Open – Margaret Court
- Davis Cup – Australia wins 5–0 over the United States in world tennis.
- Men and women players receive equal prize money at the US Open
- 20 September – In the famed Battle of the sexes at Houston's Astrodome – Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in 3straight sets.
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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)
“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)