Today in Tennis History
Sub-Topics: Australian Open - Davis Cup - French Open - Tennis Player - US Open - Wimbledon
Historical Events
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1659-09-30 - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
1789-06-20 - Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
1793-09-29 - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1874-02-23 - Mjr Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
1874-06-22 - Game of lawn tennis introduced
1874-07-29 - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1876-02-03 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1877-07-09 - 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held
1877-07-19 - 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1881-05-21 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
1881-08-03 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
1881-08-31 - 1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI)
1881-09-03 - 1st US Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62)
1886-08-18 - Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Assn doubles
1887-07-06 - 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)
1888-08-25 - 8th US Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)
1889-08-29 - 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1890-09-03 - Oliver S Campbell wins US Tennis Open
1891-09-03 - 11th US Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62)
1893-07-24 - For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1893-08-30 - 13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
1895-08-27 - 15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
1898-08-23 - 18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
1900-02-09 - Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1900-08-08 - 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later
1901-08-21 - 21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)
1901-12-14 - 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)
1903-08-27 - 23rd US Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
1904-08-24 - 24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
1905-08-31 - 25th US Mens Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (62 61 119)
1905-11-21 - 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
1906-08-29 - William J Clothier wins the US Tennis Open
1909-06-26 - 23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (60 61)
1909-06-27 - 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (60 61)
1909-09-27 - 29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61)
1910-06-26 - 24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62)
1910-06-26 - Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Assn championship
1910-08-25 - 30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
1911-03-20 - National Squash Tennis Association forms (NYC)
1911-07-07 - 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
1911-09-03 - 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
1911-09-17 - 25th US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97)
1912-02-09 - US Tennis Assn amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
1912-06-15 - 26th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62)
1912-08-26 - 32nd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62)
1913-07-04 - 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
1913-08-26 - 33rd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61)
1913-09-14 - 27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
1914-06-13 - 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)
1914-09-01 - 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
1915-06-12 - 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
1915-09-05 - 35th US Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
1915-09-07 - 35th US Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
1916-06-12 - 30th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61)
1916-06-12 - Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at US tennis championship
1916-09-05 - 36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64)
1917-06-23 - 31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (46 60 62)
1917-08-25 - 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
1918-06-22 - 32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss (64 63)
1918-09-03 - 38th US Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75)
1919-07-05 - 32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97)
1919-09-04 - 39th US Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63)
1919-09-21 - 33rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Zinderstein (61 62)
1920-07-03 - 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64)
1920-09-06 - 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
1920-09-25 - 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
1921-06-29 - 34th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (62 60)
1921-07-02 - 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75)
1921-08-20 - 35th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
1921-09-19 - 41st US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 63 61)
1922-07-08 - 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60)
1922-08-19 - 36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
1922-09-06 - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
1922-09-16 - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64)
1923-07-06 - 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
1923-07-07 - 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
1923-08-18 - 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
1923-09-01 - US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1923-09-15 - 43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
1923-09-15 - Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open
1924-08-16 - 38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63)
1924-09-02 - 44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
1925-07-03 - 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (62 60)
1925-07-04 - 45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86)
1925-08-24 - 39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62)
1925-09-18 - Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship
1925-09-19 - 45th US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63)
1926-02-16 - Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France
1926-06-14 - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
1926-08-23 - 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
1926-09-18 - 46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
1926-09-18 - Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open
1927-06-05 - 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9)
1927-07-02 - 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
1927-07-03 - 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75)
1927-08-30 - 41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
1927-09-16 - Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Assn title
1927-09-17 - 47th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119)
1928-07-07 - 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
1928-07-12 - 1st televised tennis match
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 98 of 98
1861-10-26 - Richard D Sears, Boston, tennis champ, US Open (1881)
1862-05-28 - Henry W Slocum Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1888)
1868-10-07 - Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895)
1871-02-25 - Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US Open-1890)
1872-12-30 - William A Larned, tennis champ (US Open-1901)
1873-09-20 - Robert D Wrenn, tennis champ (US Open - 1893)
1875-10-08 - Hugh L Doherty, tennis champ (US Open-1903)
1877-03-05 - Malcolm D Whitman, tennis champ (US Open-1898)
1878-11-23 - Holcombe Ward, tennis champ (US Open-1904)
1879-07-05 - Dwight Filley Davis, US Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup
1879-12-19 - Beals C Wright, tennis champ (US Open-1905)
1880-03-01 - Julian Myrick, promoter of junior tennis
1881-09-27 - William J Clothier, 1st pres of tennis hall of fame/(US Open-1906)
1890-01-07 - Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ (US Open-1912)
1891-01-29 - R N Williams II, tennis champ (US Open-1914)
1891-02-05 - Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim Calif, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbled)
1893-11-03 - R Lindley Murray, tennis champ (US Open-1918)
1894-11-02 - William Johnston, tennis champ (US Open-1915)
1897-05-07 - Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24)
1898-02-27 - Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
1898-08-13 - Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)
1899-05-24 - Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times)
1901-08-03 - John Stennis, (Sen-D-Miss)
1901-08-30 - John C Stennis, (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88)
1901-12-14 - Henri Cochet, tennis champ (US Open-1928)
1902-09-19 - James Van Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis
1903-03-20 - Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro (elected 1961)
1904-12-08 - Wilmer L Allison Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1935)
1905-10-06 - Helen N Willis Moody, tennis pro (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938)
1906-10-16 - George Martin Lott Jr, tennis champ (1931 US Open runner-up)
1908-08-06 - Helen Hull Jacobs, Berkley Calif, US tennis champ (1932-35)
1908-12-07 - John H Doeg, tennis champ (US Open-1930)
1911-09-28 - Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr, tennis (US Open 1931, 32)/golfer
1916-01-31 - Frank A Parker, tennis champ (US Open-1944)
1916-09-02 - Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 US tennis titles
1918-03-04 - Margaret Osborne DuPont, Joseph Oregon, tennis pro (US Open 1948-50)
1918-04-04 - Margaret Dupont, tennis champion
1918-04-30 - W Donald McNeill, tennis champ (US Open-1940)
1918-09-04 - William Talbert, tennis doubles champ (US 1942, 45, 46, 48)
1919-02-17 - Joseph R Hunt, tennis champ (US Open-1943)
1919-08-06 - Pauline Betz Addie, Dayton Ohio, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1946)
1921-07-20 - Frederick Schroeder Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1942)
1921-10-12 - Jaroslav Drobny, Czech, hockey (Oly-gold-1948), tennis (Wimb-1954)
1923-07-31 - Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
1925-04-06 - Arthur D Larsen, tennis champ (US Open-1950)
1926-09-11 - Alfred Slote, author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station)
1927-08-25 - Althea Gibson, Silver SC, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
1927-10-29 - Frank A Sedgman, tennis champ (US Open-1951)
1930-08-16 - Marion A Trabert, tennis champ (US Open-1953)
1930-08-16 - Tony Trabert, tennis pro (1955 Wimbledon)
1931-07-31 - Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
1933-10-03 - Neale A Fraser, tennis champ (US Open-1959)
1934-09-17 - Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, Ca, tennis, 1st woman grand slam (1953)
1935-03-05 - Malcolm J Anderson, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1936-09-15 - Ashley J Cooper, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1937-05-10 - Arthur Kopit, US, playwright (Day Whores Came Out to Play Tennis)
1938-08-09 - Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam)
1938-09-15 - Rafael H Osuna, tennis champ (US Open - 1963)
1938-10-08 - Frederick S Stolle, tennis champ (US Open-1966)
1939-05-09 - Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis manager
1942-07-16 - Margaret Smith Court, Australia, tennis pro (1970 Grand Slam)
1942-12-11 - Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1962)
1943-05-23 - John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71)
1943-07-10 - Arthur Ashe, tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)
1943-11-22 - Billie Jean King, Cal, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75)
1943-12-22 - Billie Jean King, Long Beach Cal, tennis pro
1944-02-12 - Charles Pasarell, tennis pro
1945-06-17 - Tony Roche, tennis coach
1946-12-14 - Stanley R Smith, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1972, US Open-1971)
1948-08-18 - Rudy Hartono Kurniawan, Indonesia, All-England tennis champ
1948-10-10 - Rosemary Casals, SF Calif, tennis doubles (5X Wimbledon) [or Sep 16]
1949-02-06 - Manuel Orantes, tennis champ (US Open-1975)
1952-08-17 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentina, tennis champ (US Open-1977)
1952-09-02 - Jimmy Connors, tennis brat (US Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82)
1954-12-21 - Chris Evert Lloyd Mills, Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
1956-06-06 - Bjorn Borg, Sodertlage Sweden, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1976-79)
1956-10-18 - Martina Navratilova, Revnice Czech, tennis (Wimbledon 1989,79,82-87)
1956-10-19 - Sue Barker, tennis pro (French Open 1976)
1960-02-27 - Andres Gomez, Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
1960-03-07 - Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis champion (US Open 1985-87)
1961-09-28 - Anne White, Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in '85 Wimbledon)
1962-12-12 - Tracy Austin, Rolling Hills Calif, tennis pro (US Open 1979, 81)
1964-01-20 - Roger Smith, Freeport Bahamas, tennis doubles player
1965-08-27 - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Phnom Penh Kampuchea, Canada tennis (Oly-92, 96)
1966-04-15 - Andrei Olhovskiy, Moscow Russia, tennis pro
1970-03-15 - Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro
1970-08-17 - Jim Courier, Sanford Florida, tennis champ (1990, 91 French)
1970-09-29 - Nicolas Pereira, Salto Uruguay, tennis pro
1971-04-16 - Natasha Zvereva, Minsk Belarus, tennis ace (finals 1995 Indian Wells)
1971-08-02 - Pete Sampras, tennis champ, US Open (1990)
1971-08-12 - Pete Sampras, Wash DC, tennis champ (US Open-1990, 93 95)
1974-06-07 - Mahesh Bhupathi, India, tennis pro
1975-03-18 - Claude N'Goran, Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro
1975-06-25 - Alberto Costa, Lerida Spain, tennis pro
1976-03-29 - Jennifer Capriati, Long Is NY, tennis pro (Oly-gold-92)
1977-10-01 - Alejandro Hernandez, Tijuana Mexico, tennis pro
1981-06-02 - Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis pl
1996-06-15 - Cedric Pioline, Neuilly/Seine France, tennis pro (US open final-93)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 15 of 15
1941-09-01 - Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies
1943-04-08 - Richard Sears, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at 81
1945-11-28 - Dwight Davis, donator of tennis' Davis cup, dies
1953-06-05 - Bill Tilden, tennis champ, dies at 60
1972-02-28 - Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies
1979-07-05 - Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87
1984-02-03 - Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies
1987-03-23 - Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
1991-01-20 - Bill Riordon, US tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors), dies
1992-06-19 - Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbledon 1924, 26), dies at 96
1992-12-10 - Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
1995-04-23 - John Stennis, (Sen-D-MS), dies at 93
1995-07-04 - Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67
1995-11-23 - Frank Hammond, tennis umpire, dies of ALS at 66
1998-01-01 - Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92
