Tennis
- Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
- Australian Open - Guillermo Vilas
- French Open - Björn Borg
- Wimbledon championships - Björn Borg
- US Open - Jimmy Connors
- Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
- Australian Open - Chris O'Neil
- French Open - Virginia Ruzici
- Wimbledon championships - Martina Navratilova
- US Open - Chris Evert
- Davis Cup – United States win 4-1 over Great Britain in world tennis.
- US Open moves to hard courts of the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York.
- Total prize money at US Open exceeds US $500,000.
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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)
“[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)
“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)