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)
“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)