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	Jack Crawford, Tennis Player, 83 - New York Times
		Crawford, who won Wimbledon, the French and Australian Opens in 1933 and lost the United States final to Fred Perry of Britain, died in a nursing home after a long illness.
		Crawford won an epic Wimbledon singles title against Ellsworth Vines in 1933, and was runner-up to Perry the next year.
		Crawford won four Australian titles and was a member of Australia's winning Davis Cup team in 1939.
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	Tennis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tennis is played on 23.7 m x 8.2m (78 ft x 27ft) (widened by 2.7m (9ft) doubles) court which is divided in the middle a net such as that each side 11.9m (39ft) in length.
		Players attempt to hit a tennis ball a tennis racquet such that it bounces the opposition's side of the court and opposition is unable to return it.
		Tennis was for many years predominantly a of the English-speaking world dominated by the States Britain and Australia although it was also popular in France : the French Open dates from 1891.
	www.freeglossary.com /Tennis (2146 words)

	Tennis: table tennis, tennis club, tennis rule (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tennis is played on a rectangular, flat surface, usually grass, clay, or a hardcourt of concrete and/or asphalt.
		For a right-handed player, the forehand is a stroke that begins on the right side of his body, continues across his body as contact is made with the ball, and ends on the left side of his body.
		For right-handed players, the backhand is a stroke that begins on the left side of their body, continues across their body as contact is made with the ball, and ends on the right side of their body.
	winelib.com /wiki/Tennis (6112 words)

	Jack Crawford (tennis player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman in the 1930s
		John Herbert ("Jack") Crawford (March 22, 1908 - September 10, 1991) was a great Australian tennis player of the 1930s.
		Jack Crawford, Pancho Segura, Frank Sedgman, Tony Trabert, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Björn Borg, and Jimmy Connors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Crawford_(tennis_player) (377 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jack Crawford
		Jack Crawford (sailor), a sailor of the Royal Navy known as the "Hero of Camperdown"
		Jack Crawford (hockey), National Hockey League defenseman with the Boston Bruins from 1937 to 1950
		Jack Crawford (character), a fictional FBI agent in novels and films
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jack_Crawford (126 words)

	SPMESSENGER.COM: Sports - Tennis
		Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball past a player on the other team, who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth...
		Tennis is played on a rectangular flat surface, usually of grass, clay, or concrete (hard court).
		Tennis has a long history (deriving from the 'jeu de paume'), but its establishment as the modern sport can be dated to two separate roots.
	www.spmessenger.com /sports/tennis.html (4151 words)

	Jack Crawford Tennis Player
		John Herbert Crawford, known as Jack Crawford, was a great Australian tennis player of the 1930s who is largely forgotten today.
		In 1933 Crawford had won the Australian, French, and British (Wimbledon) championships before coming to the United States to compete in the American championships at Forest Hills.
		An asthmatic who suffered in the muggy summer heat of Long Island, he was leading the Englishman Fred Perry in the finals of the championship by two sets to one when his strength began to fade.
	www.basictennis.com /men/Jack-Crawford-Tennis-Player.html (210 words)

	Tennis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When called to the court by a player or team captain, the referee may overrule the umpire's decision if the tennis rules were violated (question of law) but may not change the umpire's decision on a question of fact.
		Numerous great players played in the days before tennis's open era, many of whom are unknown by modern sports fans.
		Men's doubles is no longer as important to spectator tennis as it was in the first half of the 20th century, when its attraction, particularly in Davis Cup, was nearly equal to that of singles.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Tennis.htm (7248 words)

	TENNIS
		Tennis is a game played indoors or outdoors by two players (singles) or four players (doubles) on a level court, which may be of grass, tarmac or manmade surfaces.
		Tennis was played in 5th century Tuscany when villagers used to strike balls up and down the streets with bare hands.
		Aside from these two words, evidence for any form of tennis preceding the year 1000 is lacking, and most historians credit the first origins of the game to 11th or 12th century French monks, who began playing a crude handball against their monastery walls or over a rope strung across a courtyard.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sport/tennis.htm (2550 words)

	Jack Crawford - encyclopedia article - Citizendium
		John Herbert ("Jack") Crawford (March 22 1908, Albury, New South Wales, Australia — September 10, 1991, Sydney, Australia) was a great Australian tennis player of the 1930s who nearly won immortality by coming within one set of completing the first Grand Slam in 1933, five years before Don Budge ultimately accomplished it.
		He won the first three legs in Australia, France, and Wimbledon, but lost in five sets to Fred Perry in the finals of the American championship.
		Jack Kramer, the longtime promoter and great tennis player himself, wrote in his 1979 autobiography that Crawford was one of the 21 greatest players of all time.
	en.citizendium.org /wiki/Jack_Crawford (277 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Sports : Tennis
		A game point occurs in tennis whenever the player who is in the lead in the game (the smallest unit of play) needs only one more point to win the game.
		Other fine players of the pre-Open era include Maurice McLoughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston, the "Four Musketeers" (Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, and René Lacoste), Vinnie Richards, Jack Crawford, Vic Seixas, and Tony Trabert.
		Among the greatest male players of the Open era are Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors, John Newcombe, Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe, Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, Mats Wilander, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg,Goran Ivanišević, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Michael Chang, Gustavo Kuerten, Lleyton Hewitt, Roger Federer and Andy Roddick.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Sports-Tennis.shtml (3966 words)

	USATODAY.com - Agassi frets over tennis curtain call (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of four players all-time to win the Australian Open title at least four times along with Aussie Hall of Famers Roy Emerson (six), Jack Crawford (four) and Ken Rosewall (four).
		Of this, he is certain: He will bow and blow a two-handed kiss to all four corners of the court, then he will walk off with his wife, German tennis legend Stefanie Graf, and their children, Jaden Gil, 4, and Jaz Elle, 2, to begin Act II of his life.
		In fact, Agassi says, he always has used tennis as a journey to self-discovery, as a vehicle to push himself and those closest to him to achieve their full potential, as an avenue to answer the larger, more important, questions of life, as a platform to make meaningful connections with others.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/tennis/2006-08-25-agassi-cover_x.htm (2216 words)

	TENNIS : Encyclopedia Entry
		Tennis is now once again an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society, by all ages, and in many countries around the world.
		According to how well a person does in sanctioned play, a player is given a rating that is adjusted periodically to maintain competitive matches.
		Average club players under this system would rate 3.0-4.5 while world class players would be 7.0 on this scale.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Tennis (7241 words)

	TIME Magazine: Tennis Greats Archive Collection
		A phlegmatic, gentle youth, so homely that even his mother smiled when a friend said that, if not the best tennis player in the world, her son was certainly the ugliest, young Budge is likeable but undistinguished off a tennis court.
		In other words, he has proved that he is the best amateur tennis player in the world.
		A top-ranked player before he was 20, he won the big one, Wimbledon, at 22 in '92.
	www.time.com /time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_tennis,00.shtml (707 words)

	Top20Tennis.com - Your Top20 Guide for Tennis!
		A gallery of tennis memorabilia from the turn of the 20th century, outlining the sport's evolution from a backyard recreation to a world sport.
		Among the greatest male players of the Open era are Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors, John Newcombe, Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe, BjÃ¶rn Borg, John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, Mats Wilander, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg,Goran IvaniÅ¡eviÄ, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Michael Chang, Lleyton Hewitt, and Roger Federer.
		Kramer himself, for instance, who became a world-class player in 1940 and promoted the professional tour for many years, still believes that Vines was the greatest player ever.
	www.top20tennis.com (3984 words)

	History of Tennis books & collectibles
		Or no tennis match is glamorous or as fascinating as the one in which Suzanne Lenglen met Helen Wills...unless perhaps it was the Don Budge-Baron Von Cramm battle that decided the Davis Cup in 1937?
		Part III is completely devoted to instruction of strokes and tactics by outstanding players who excelled in theory as well, such as Tilden, Billy Talbert, George Lott and Pancho Gonzales.
		Large green cloth hard cover book with a small fl box on the front cover with a tennis player in it (no writing on front cover), the spine has gold writing.
	www.woodtennis.com /history10s.htm (715 words)

	ESPN.com: Page 2 : Who's the NBA MVP?
		In a giant pickup game with every NBA player waiting to play, and two fans forced to pick sides with their lives depending on the outcome of the game (I think this is how the annual Rucker League tournament works), who would be the first player picked based on the way everyone played that season?
		There's no doubt in hell that Isiah is trading Curry, Crawford and 25 future first-rounders for Shaq in the summer of 2007, followed by Knicks fans rejoicing for the first few months, then eventually turning on the trade and claiming they never liked it in the first place.
		Here were two fantastic young players absolutely KILLING it, doing everything they could to win the game, bringing out the absolute best of one another, raising everyone to a higher place.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060414 (3807 words)

	TENNIS VETERANS AUSTRALIA - About Us
		TENNIS VETERANS AUSTRALIA - About Us The 2007 Australian Seniors Tennis Championships will be held in Perth, commencing with the teams week on Monday 15 January.
		The nomination forms for players intending to nominate are also availble in PDF format....
		Australian Tennis Museum - a link has been added to this museum for the benefit of interested senior members.
	www.tennisseniors.org.au (686 words)

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