Tennis Test 1

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jeu de paume

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game of the hand

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Who adapted the game of tennis and in what year?

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Major Walter Wingfield, an eccentric puzzle maker, in search of a more vigorous game than croquet, adapted the game.

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1874

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Major Walter Wingfield reveived a patent for his game called "Sphairistike"

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Description of Wingfields original court

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Shaped like an hourglass and was shorter in length

Net was 5 ft. tall, as in badminton

Non-covered rubber balls were used

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How tennis came to the United States.

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1874 - British soldiers were playing sphairistike in Bermuda when a vacationing Mary Ewing Outerbridge of Staten Island, New York noticed. She brought a kit to the U.S. and established the first court in the United States on the lawn of the Staten Island Cricked and Baseball Club.

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1881

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U.S. National Lawn Tennis Association was founded to govern play in the United States. Today it is known as the USTA.

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15-point game rules

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only server can win a point

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1877

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Hourglass court as lengthened and changed to a rectangular shaped one.

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1882

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Height of net was set a 3' in the center and 3' 6" on the sides (same as today).

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1890

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Rules were set most similar to the way the game is played today.

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Year that the All-England Club staged their first tournament at Wimbledon as a fundraiser

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1877

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Year that Wimbledon introduced the ladies championship

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1884

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Tennis joined the Olympics in

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1896

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Who organized the Davis Cup and in what year

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Dwight Davis in 1900

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The International Lawn Tennis Association was founded in

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1913

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Middle Ages

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Origins of court tennis, perhaps in France

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12th century

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jeu de paume

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14th century

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a form of tennis moved to England and later banned because the King felt his soldiers were wasting time rather than practicing archery

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1750

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Racquet now its present shape with a long handle with thick gut for strings

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1789

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May 20, 1789 - Tennis Court Oath

A group of middle class French, calling themselves the National Constituent Assembly, opposed by aristocracy, med ad hoc at a tennis court and took an oath not to split up until they had given France a constitution

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1877

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First Wimbledon - the Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club

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1881

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U.S. National Lawn Tennis Association is founded (now called USTA)

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1900

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First Davis Cup organized by American Dwight Davis in which the U.S. defeated Britain in Boston

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1938

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American Don Budge first to achieve Grand Slam - Winning all four Grand Slams in one year - Australia, French, Wimbledon, United States

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1953

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American Maureen Connolly second to achieve Grand Slam

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1963

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Federation Cup begins for women's international team competition

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1968

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Beginning of the Open tennis, major tournaments such as Wimbledon shift from their history of "amateur status only" to merging the amateur and professional games

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1988

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German Steffi Graf, fifth to achieve Gran Slam Tennis, reinstated at the Olympics

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1990

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Under the tennis point penalty system: "Three strikes and you're out" rule is enforced, American John McEnroe is defaulted from a Grand Slam - Australian Open

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1873

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Walter Clopton Wingfield creates a game played on an hourglass shaped court

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1874

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Walter Clopton Wingfield patents "Sphairistike" -- his game of lawn tennis in Britain

Mary Ewing Outerbridge of Staten Island, New York brings the game to the US after vacationing in Bermuda and seeing the game played by British soldiers

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1973

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American Billie Jean King easily defeats compatriot Bobby Riggs in infamous nationally televised "Battle of the Sexes" held at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas with over 30,000 in attendance

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tenez

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french word meaning take it, the name tennis is thought to have come from it

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l'oeuf

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accepted as the term where love came from, means egg in French

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deuce

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derived from the French "deux a jouer"

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deniers

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German coin - gambling in tennis was prohibited from exceeding sixty deniers

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battoir

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handle of tennis racquet - means bat

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Golden Slam

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Steffi Graf - 1988 - Won all 4 Grand Slams and the Olympic Gold in Seoul