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	Tennis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tennis comes from the French tenez, the imperative form of the verb tenir, to hold: This was a cry used by the player serving in royal tennis, meaning "I am about to serve!" (rather like the cry "Fore!" in golf).
		In 1968, commercial pressures led to the abandonment of this distinction, inaugurating the Open era, in which all players could compete in all tournaments, and top players were able to make their living from tennis.
		Tennis is now an Olympic sport that is played at all levels of society and by all ages in many countries around the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tennis (4294 words)

	The 2006 RCA Tennis Championships
		Tennis stars like Boris Becker, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Goran Ivanisevic, Carlos Moya, Patrick Rafter, Gustavo Kuerten, Andy Roddick and many others have flocked to Indianapolis over the years to tune-up their game before competing at the world renowned U.S. Open.
		When the Open Era of tennis was created in 1969 and tennis started to become more popular with players ranking among other professional athletes, Woodstock became home to the nationally recognized U.S. Open Clay Court Championships.
		The Indianapolis Sports Center hosted the U.S. Open Clay Court Championships until 1987 when it decided that the Sports Center should become a self-supporting, year-round tennis facility.
	www.rcatennis.com /sections/EventGuide/histpstchamps.html (640 words)

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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/tennis_open_era.htm (121 words)

	Tennis Open Era - TheBestLinks.com - Open era, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1968, TheBestLinks.com:Perfect stub article, ...
		The Open Era in tennis began in 1968, when the Grand Slam events such as the Wimbledon Championships abandoned the longstanding rules of amateurism and allowed professionals to compete.
		Open era, Tennis Open Era, Tennis, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1968...
		Tennis Open Era - TheBestLinks.com - Open era, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1968, TheBestLinks.com:Perfect stub article,...
	www.thebestlinks.com /Open_era.html (126 words)

	The open era (from tennis) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		One of the fastest-moving indoor sports is table tennis, also known as Ping-Pong (an imitation of the sound made by the ball striking the table and hollow vellum battledores used in the early 1900s).
		The first open Wimbledon was a joyous occasion, as many past champions who had been stripped of membership in the All-England Club when they turned professional were welcomed back.
		The first open tournament was the British Hard Courts at Bournemouth in April 1968, where the champions were Ken Rosewall and Virginia Wade.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-230110 (914 words)

	The World of Tennis: Open Era Standings, Best Male and Female Players of Open Era
		Now that half the players at this year's Australian Open have been eliminated, it's time to examine the draw in detail and try to anticipate some of the matchups to look for down the road.
		Tennis Master's Cup champ David Nalbandian would probably be waiting in the round of 16, a matchup that would provide some thrilling all-court tennis and could go either way.
		On the very first day of the event, one of the game's most enigmatic players - Venus Williams - tumbled out to virtual unknown Tszvetana Pironkova 2-6, 6-0, 9-7.
	www.theworldoftennis.com (1138 words)

	Australian Open - A History
		The Australian Open, held annually in the second half of January, is the first leg of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.
		Until tennis' 'Open' era began in 1968, the Australian Championships were held in many different states, and at many different venues around Australia.
		The tournament's beginning were in 1905, when The Australasian Tennis Championships were first staged at the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground in St Kilda Rd, Melbourne.
	www.expert-tennis-tips.com /australian-open.html (394 words)

	U.S. Open remembers Arthur Ashe
		When the open begins its two-week run Monday, it will be in Arthur Ashe Stadium, a brand-new part of the U.S. Tennis Association's $234 million expansion and upgrade of the National Tennis Center.
		Ashe felt that tennis was a way to teach youngsters life lessons that reached beyond the sport, and that the key to success was education.
		He was the first black man to win one of tennis' major tournaments, although Althea Gibson had broken the color barrier 12 years earlier when she won the women's singles at the French Championships.
	www.canoe.ca /SlamTennis97USOpen/aug23_usopen.html (734 words)

	Peter Bodo's Tennis World Blog The X Factor
		Tennis shows—and this is no new trend, growing out of the bogus “democratization” of the game, either—that wealth and status mean nothing when it comes to succeeding in tennis.
		Williams, whose last Tour event was the China Open in mid-September, has been bothered by left ankle and knee problems the past several months, which have affected her ability to perform at the level that has made her one of the most internationally-recognized sports stars in the world.
		One of the most amazing things about tennis, to me, is the way it demonstrates exactly the opposite of what most people, hung up on the image of tennis as an elitist sport, hung up themselves on issues of class or race or economic standing, want to believe.
	www.tennis.com /Tennis_World_Blog/entry.asp?ENTRY_ID=245 (9911 words)

	Courier Among 2005 Tennis Hall of Fame Inductions
		At the age of 20 in 1960, during the era prior to Open Era tennis, Buchholz turned professional and was thus denied the opportunity to continue competing for his country in Davis Cup or in participating in the major championships.
		In a bygone era, there was a thriving grass court summer circuit that prepared players for the US Open in Forest Hills.
		It was also a beautiful day for all tennis fans, because four legends of our sport, Butch Buchholz, Jim Courier, Yannick Noah, and Jana Novotna, took their rightful places in the hallowed International Tennis Hall of Fame.
	www.usta.com /news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=198936&itype=&iCategoryID=155 (1036 words)

	The Tennis Channel::Special Details
		The debut of Tennis magazine coincided with what has become the modern era of the sport, marked by a clear transition into the Open Era of tennis in 1968, from a previous period when only amateur players were eligible to lace-up for high-profile competitions.
		The Tennis Channel is home to the greatest tennis in the world, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
		The world has seen the rise from obscurity of the woman tennis player, to the introduction of America's sweetheart, and the battles of many players, both on the court and off.
	www.thetennischannel.com /programs/SpecialsDetail.aspx?id=1419 (442 words)

	US Open Tennis Tickets Information
		The US Open Tennis Tournaments were held in the east and the west of the USA in order to determine the best two teams (sectional winners).
		The US Open Tennis has survive for more than 120 years, but there have been many vary over that time that have shaped the US Open Tennis tournament into the modern Grand Slam that it is today.
		The US Open Tennis is always developing, and the new century is sure to see new changes and many new stars grace the famous competition courts in the US Open Tennis.
	www.rhinotickets.com /tennis/usopentennis-tickets.htm (1406 words)

	Amazon.com: Days of Grace: A Memoir: Books: Arthur Ashe,Arnold Rampersad
		In the prime of his life, a man in extraordinary physical shape, Ashe suffered the first in a series of congenitally-attributable heart attacks, that lead to open heart surgery, a blood transfusion, and in the ultimate sadness, to his infection with the HIV that lead to AIDS and his untimely death.
		Tennis star and political activist Ashe's eloquent autobiography was a 10-week PW bestseller.
		That tennis great Arthur Ashe died a victim of AIDS on February 6, 1993, is an undeniable tragedy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785728511?v=glance (2277 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Other sports / Tennis / Australian Open Celebrates Its 100th Year
		The Australian Open turns 100 this year, a remarkable feat for a tournament that has reinvented itself several times as it struggled to cement its place as the fourth grand slam of tennis.
		While Wimbledon, the French Open and the U.S. Open have gone from strength to strength, "the Aussie Open" was struggling by the mid-1980s at the quaint but impractical Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in suburban Melbourne.
		Boston.com / Sports / Other sports / Tennis / Australian Open Celebrates Its 100th Year
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/tennis/articles/2005/01/11/australian_open_celebrates_its_100th_year (503 words)

	Nicolas Escudé
		In his first tournament, Adelaide, he was a quarter-finalist but it was the Australian Open which catapulted him into the headlines when he became the first player in the Open era of tennis to win three Grand Slam matches after trailing by two sets to love.
		Nicknamed "Picasso" by Benhabiles for his ability to think obliquely, Escude enjoyed a career-best performance at 1998 Australian Open, reaching the semi-finals unseeded and becoming the first player in the era of Open tennis to earn three victories in a Grand Slam after being two sets down.
		Having turned professional in 1995, a year in which he advanced to 193 in the world rankings, Escude suffered a setback in 1996 when he was hampered for most of the season by a herniated disc and dropped to 415.
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Sideline/2920/nicolas.html (547 words)

	U.S. Open (tennis) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Open tennis championships, commonly refered to as the U.S. Open or as simply the Open, is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam in tennis.
		The US Open is also unique in that it is the only Grand Slam event where most of the courts are lighted, meaning that TV coverage of the tournament can extend into prime-time to attract more ratings.
		The Open Era began in 1968 when all five events were merged into the newly named U.S. Open at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_Open_(tennis) (715 words)

	BBC SPORT Tennis French Open history
		Suzanne Lenglen, who had won the title as a pre-war 15-year-old, took the tennis world by storm when she added six of the seven championships between 1920 and 1926.
		The French Open headed into the third millennium with a three-year refurbishment project that began straight after the 1999 championships.
		The Davis Cup success of the French Musketeers, Jacques Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and René Lacoste, over America in 1927 required a new stadium to be built to host the following year's return tie.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/tennis/3708507.stm (666 words)

	Doubles Maestro Woodbridge Returns To Nottingham - LTA Tennis Nation
		Todd Woodbridge (Australia), the most successful doubles player in tennis Open era history has today (9th June) confirmed that he will return to Nottingham to defend the 10tele.com Open doubles crown that he won with fellow countryman, Paul Hanley in 2004.
		Tennis fans can reserve their tickets for The 10tele.com Open by telephoning the box office on 0870 909 3015.
		The Nottingham trophy was one of four ATP doubles titles won by the 34 year-old Australian during a tournament year that also saw Woodbridge achieve his 16th Grand Slam doubles crown.
	www.lta.org.uk /News/BritishNews/Archives/Archives2005/050609TennisNottingham.htm (744 words)

	BBC SPORT Tennis US Open 2003 Navratilova record bid foiled
		Martina Navratilova's bid to become the oldest woman to win a US Open title was ended when she and Svetlana Kuznetsova were beaten in the women's doubles final.
		But under cloudless skies on the Arthur Ashe stadium court the American winner of a record 171 doubles and 166 singles titles and her Russian partner were outplayed by the defending champions.
		Navratilova, 46, would have been the oldest female title winner of the event, breaking the mark set by Margaret Osborne duPont, who was 42 when she won the 1960 mixed doubles crown in a pre-Open era competition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/tennis/us_open_2003/3088694.stm (324 words)

	CP Discussion Board - Interesting article: No. 1 player of the Open Era
		CP Discussion Board - Interesting article: No. 1 player of the Open Era
		The author performs a rather thorough statistical analysis of the top players of the Open Era, similar to what I've tried myself on several occasions, though I've never had the patience to work with this many variegated criteria.
		Though I was pleased by his conclusion, I certainly don't think this approach represents a "final word" of any sort.
	www.tennis.com /ME2/Apps/DiscussionBoard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2744 (586 words)

	BRYAN BROTHERS UP AGAINST U.S. HISTORY IN DAVIS CUP DEBUT
		That year the U.S. reached the final in defense of their title, but stand-ins Flach-Seguso were not up to the task against veterans Guy Forget and Henri Leconte, and U.S. rookie Pete Sampras posted an 0-2 record in his first two singles appearances.
		That era continued strong into the '70s, mainly on the shoulders of Lutz-Smith, and in 1979 handed off to a young upstart pair by the names of Peter Fleming and John McEnroe.
		U.S. Davis Cup fans will be keeping their fingers and toes crossed this weekend, hoping for something that hasn't happened in almost 15 years -- the establishment of a regular, winning doubles-specialist tandem for the U.S. team.
	www.tennis-x.com /story/2003-09-19/c.php (1390 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - It's U.S. Women vs. Russians;
		For the first time in tennis' open era, which dates to 1968, none of the women seeded in the top four have made the semifinals.
		She took advantage of the unsteady nerves of second-seeded Amelie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals and won, despite 15 double faults, a strained thigh muscle and an upset stomach.
		At stake are berths in the U.S. Open finals for whichever women conquer their issues.
	www.olympic-usa.org /11604_26517.htm (790 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.S.
		Federer also won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open for the second straight year, something no player has achieved since professionals were admitted to the four Grand Slam tournaments in 1968, the beginning of tennis's Open era.
		Federer's last loss on hard courts was in the semifinals of the Australian Open in January against Marat Safin, and his last loss in a final was to Jiri Novak in Gstaad, Switzerland, in July 2003.
		Federer wins $1.1 million, while Agassi gets $550,000 plus 50 percent more for his second-place finish in the U.S. Open series that led up to the tournament.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aUtomMWgcL4Q&refer=us (637 words)

	BBC SPORT Tennis Tennis: Where the power lies
		That tour became reality in January 1990, representing the biggest shift in the running of men's tennis since the start of the Open era in 1968.
		The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, amateur and professional.
		The Association of Tennis Professionals is the body that runs the men's professional game.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/tennis/3388847.stm (674 words)

	Top Players of the Open Era - Professional Tennis Ratings [setratings.com]
		Using SET Ratings we can make an unbiased and non-arbitrary attempt to pick the top male tennis player of the Open Era.
		It is a long-standing debate among tennis enthusiasts.
		Top Players of the Open Era - Professional Tennis Ratings [setratings.com]
	www.setratings.com /content/view/30/2 (279 words)

	Early Tennis & Open Era Time Spine Corridors: International Tennis Hall of Fame
		The Open Era Time Spine features history from 1968, when tennis "opened" to have amateurs playing professionals, through the contemporary players and events of today in the back half of the Museum.
		The Early Tennis Time Spine takes you from lawn tennis' beginnings in the 1800s to the end of the 1960s in the front half of the Museum.
		Here you can see how the game, tennis organizations, and the many tournaments and champions have evolved over the decades.
	www.tennisfame.com /earlytennis_gallery.html (141 words)

	Ozeform.com - Tennis News & Betting
		Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt and his fiancee Bec Cartwright are expecting their first child later this year after the couple announced that 21-year-old Home and Away star Cartwright was three months pregnant.
		World Number 1 Roger Federer and Australian Open champion Marat Safin were among the seeded players to easily advance at the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday.
		Australian Lleyton Hewitt moved into a semi final showdown with Andy Roddick at the Pacific Life Open at Indian Wells after Andre Agassi withdrew from their quarterfinal on Friday because of a sore and swollen toe.
	www.ozeform.com /site/sports_news/Tennisnews.aspx?category=Tennis&description= (1128 words)

	USATODAY.com - Federer dominates Hewitt for third Slam win
		The one Grand Slam blemish on Federer's resume this year is the French Open, where he lost in the third round to three-time champion Gustavo Kuerten.
		Hewitt, 23, can take consolation in that, as the U.S. Open Series leader, he was guaranteed a 50% bonus on top of his $500,000 runner-up check for a total payout of $750,000.
		The last time two shutout sets were recorded in an Open championship match was in 1884.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/tennis/open/2004-09-12-men-championship_x.htm (1534 words)

	Tennis Week
		Goolagong was eliminated because she played a bit before the Open Era began, which is the cut-off period I used in order to maintain statistical accuracy, and I decided that Sanchez-Vicario, who had a few more tournament wins, was more deserving than Mandlikova.
		Graf produced possibly the greatest single season in Open Era history by sweeping the Grand Slam and an Olympic gold medal in 1988.
		Her official record of 167 singles titles may well prove to be one of the toughest tennis records to break.
	www.sportsmediainc.net /tennisweek/index.cfm?func=showarticle&newsid=9855 (2230 words)

	CNN/SI - French Open - Moya cruises past Corretja for French Open crown - Sunday June 07, 1998 04:46 PM
		Moya, steady but unspectacular, defeated his fellow Spaniard and close friend 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 for the French Open title before a crowd that seemed more interested in doing the wave than in often tedious tennis.
		Corretja, who in the third round played a 5 1/2-hour match over two days that was the longest at a Grand Slam tournament since tennis' open era began in 1968, was drained by the end of the second set.
		Moya, who lost to Sampras in the 1997 Australian Open final, hopped a railing to hug his family in the stands after his victory, taking the same route used by Sanchez Vicario on Saturday.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /tennis/1998/frenchopen/news/1998/06/07/french_final_07 (859 words)

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