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CONTENT
I. History of tennis
II. Rules of tennis
III.Biography of Andre Agassi
IV.Moments to remember in tennis
V.Bibliography

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Chapter I
History of tennis

History of Tennis Ancient Origins

If you turn back the pages of the history of tennis, you will discover that ball games have been
played since ancient times and the first depictions can be seen in Egyptian temple carvings
that date from 1500 BC. It is said that ball game actually formed a part of the religious
ceremonies of the ancient Egyptians. This tradition was taken to Europe by the Moors in the
8th century, by which time their empire had spread to southern France. In fact, it was this
meeting of cultures, between the Moors religious rites and Christian monks, which in due
course gave birth to tennis.
It was these Christian monks, influenced by the Moors religious customs, who would be the
very first Europeans to play the ball game that would become tennis. In the earliest version of
this game, which was known as La Soule, the players hit the ball across to each other either
with their bare hands or by using a stick. The game grew in popularity in monasteries all
across Europe, to the extent that the Church even contemplated forbidding the game.
This early form of the game, wherein the ball was usually hit against the walls of a courtyard,
soon began to be played outside the monasteries, with it developing further in the 12th and
13th centuries. Players soon discovered that they could control the ball better with just their
hands, which soon led to the creation of a leather glove. It wasnt much longer before the
glove began to be affixed with a wooden handle, thus creating the first tennis racket. The balls
too underwent several refinements, changing from being of solid wood to far softer versions
with bran being stuffed into leather. The game soon grew very popular, especially in France
where it was taken up by the royalty.
Tennis History - The Growth of Real Tennis
The game, as it is known by us today, actually came into being in France. Named Jeu de
paumme, or the game of the palm, it became a highly fashionable sport played by the kings
and the aristocracy, in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. In those days, the French players
would call out Tenez, or Play, at the start of a game, and it soon came to be referred to as
Royal, i.e. Real Tennis.
Real Tennis was in fact quite different from the game that is played today. It used to be an
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indoor game, played in large galleries that had jutting roofs. Players won points according to
how they played the ball off the walls of the gallery. Another way in which Real Tennis was
different from todays game is a system of chases that were used. In the game that is played
today, the ball is considered dead if it bounces twice. However, in Real Tennis, the point
where the ball would bounce a second time would be marked by a marker, which was referred
to as the chase. Therefore, apart from playing for points, the players would compete by
attempting to place their chase as close to their opponents back wall as possible. Hence, a
player who had scored fewer points could actually win the match by using the chase more
skillfully.
After its popularity with the French aristocracy, tennis began spreading all across Europe,
getting especially popular in England. Here too, the game was quickly adopted by the royalty,
thus becoming known as the sport of kings. Henry VIII, who was a keen enthusiast of the
game, had a tennis court built at Hampton Court, his palace, which is still in use today by the
aficionados of Real Tennis. But, tennis did not remain confined to England and France, soon
spreading to Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Italy and Spain. However, with the Napoleonic
wars and the French Revolution, the game was almost eliminated across practically all of
Europe in the 18th century.
History of Tennis - The Emergence of Lawn Tennis
But, by the 19th century, with the advent of Victorian prosperity which came about in
England, the game was revived again. Several notable country houses had courts built in their
premises along with the first appearance of tennis clubs that provided facilities for their
members being made. It was in this period that saw the emergence of Lawn Tennis. The
enthusiasts of the game, in fact, had been trying to modify the game into an open-air sport for
quite a while, which was finally facilitated with the advent of vulcanized rubber. This made it
possible to produce balls which were soft enough not to cause damage to the grass, and yet
retain the liveliness and elasticity of rubber.
Another contributing factor for the revival of the game was the simplicity and ease of Lawn
Tennis. A grassy, flat surface was all that was required, and soon it became a commonplace
feature to have Lawn Tennis courts in the estates of the rich. While Real Tennis had been a
sport of the royalty and the aristocracy, in Victorian England, it was the upper classes that
embraced this sport in the form of Lawn Tennis.
It was Arthur Balfour, who was a British statesman, who coined the term Lawn Tennis, and
soon various other turf derivatives began replacing lawn surfaces, eventually leading to
concrete and clay surfaces. Soon, Lawn Tennis began replacing croquet as the sport played in
summer. However, it was in 1875 that tennis got its biggest boost. This came about because
the All England Croquet Club, which had been formed in 1869, had not succeeded in
attracting enough visitors, and hence, the club decided to provide Lawn Tennis as an
additional attraction. This new game was a success immediately, to such an extent that the
clubs name was changed, becoming the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club, in 1877.
With the increasing rents at the four-acre site, located in Wimbledon, a suburb of London,
however, entailed the club having to raise more funds. Hence, that led to the first Lawn Tennis
tournament ever being organized, later that year. A committee was set up to devise a set of
rules, and the first tournament was held with 22 players participating, with 200 spectators
watching the games. Thus was born the Wimbledon Championship.

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History of Tennis - The Wimbledon Championship

One of the most important developments in tennis history was the birth of the Wimbledon
Championship. The tournament caught the publics imagination and before long the first
champions began emerging, the first of them being William Renshaw. He won the title eight
times from 1881 to 1889, being the runner-up in 1887, which is a record that has remained
unbeaten to date.
In the following years, the sport became tremendously popular, not only in England bu all
across the world. May Sutton of the US became the first international player of the
tournament in 1905, which was the year that Wimbledon drew in 71 players.
The tournament continued to grow with the game becoming highly fashionable in the 1930s,
led by British players like Don Budge and Fred Perry and international stars like Henri
Lacoste. The photographs of the tournaments held in those days reveal tennis fashions that
seem quaint to us these days, with men wearing long trousers and women playing with long
dresses worn over stockings.
The Championship not only became a center of the sport of tennis but also of tennis fashion,
with Bunny Austin of the US shocking the spectators in 1933 by stepping out on to center
court with shorts on. The 1930s were boom time for Wimbledon, with the championship
being broadcast for the first time on radio in 1937. This marked an important event in the
history of tennis, with the game being truly introduced to a worldwide audience.
However, there was a sudden end to all this with the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which
saw the closing of the championships until 1946. The sport went on to be transformed by the
post war generation, with technical improvements added to it, turning it into a sophisticated
recreation for the increasingly prosperous middle classes. Australian players like Roy
Emerson and Rod Laver dominated the sport in the 1960s. And with the increasing spread of
television, the game was introduced to an even wider audience, making tennis a moneyspinning international sport. Wimbledon was first televised in color in 1967.
Throughout the 70s and 80s the sport came to be dominated by a new legion of players of
international fame, and the crowds were captivated by tennis greats like the graceful Bjorn
Borg, the brattish antics of Jimmy Connors, and the tempestuous tantrums of John McEnroe.
The womens tournaments produced stars like Sue Barker, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, and
Martina Navratilova. Virginia Wade was Britains foremost womens player, who was the last
British who won the championships in 1977. The prize money of the tournament kept going
up along with the hemlines of the players costumes. In 1986, yellow tennis balls were
adopted for the first time, so that the speeding ball could be more easily visible for TV
cameras.
Tennis History - The US Open Tennis Championship
The US Open tennis tournament is considered the richest in the world, with the biggest in
prize money. The idea about creating the US Open tennis championship came about when the
US Lawn Tennis Association, which was established in May 1881, offered to conduct a
national championship.
The introductory contest, which took place in Newport Island, Rhode Island, had 26 players,
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and it was known as the US National Singles Championship. In order to be eligible to play in
the competition, the player had to be a member of the US National Lawn Tennis Association.
Richard Sears was the first winner of the championship, and he continued be the reigning
winner for the following six years.
Since the championship began moving all over the country, with 9 places holding the event, it
gave rise to the mens doubles event, which was split into a West and East competition. W.F.
Taylor and Clarence Clark won the first doubles title in 1900.
The establishment of the open era in 1968, which meant that the players could participate in
all the tournaments, resulted in the creation of the modern championship that we are familiar
with at present. Five different tournaments were combined into a single US Open
Championship, which was held in New York, at the Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens. The
prize money amount was $100,000, which was shared by 63 women and 96 men who took
part in the event. The tie-breaker system was first introduced by the US Open, in 1970. The
tournament was moved to its present home, the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing
Meadows, New York, in 1978.
Tennis History - The Sport Today
Tennis today has become a highly competitive, world-class sport which captivates thousands
of players as well as fans all over the world. There is a continuous program of events and
tournaments that takes place all through the year and top tennis stars have become the games
icons for the new generation. A game that used to be the pastime of royalty once has turned
into a sport enjoyed by all today.

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Chapter II
Rules of tennis
Although the basic rules of playing tennis are the same around the world, the name for the
game varies country to country. For example, it is called court tennis and in Great Britain the
game is referred to as royal tennis, real tennis, or lawn tennis. In Australia it is called Royal
Tennis. The rules of tennis are fairly simple. One player hits, or serves, the ball from a corner
of a marked out area called a court that is divided down the middle with a three foot (0.9
meters) net. The opposite players goal is to return the ball bouncing it no more than once
aiming for the other player to not be able to hit it. A score is made when a player is not able to
return the ball at all or with more than one bounce.
Official tennis rules
The overall goal of tennis is to gain point to win, games, sets and matches. Sets include the
highest score out of three games for women and for men, the highest score out of five for
men. A set is won only if a player leads by two clear games or more.
Equipment
The tennis court - The basic rules of tennis call for a regulation size tennis court. This means
that it is 78 feet long (or 23.8 meters) and has a three foot (0.9 meter) net dividing it down the
center. For doubles play the tennis court is 36 feet wide (11 m) (this is gotten by including the
4.5 ft alleys that run the length of the court) and for singles it is 27 feet (8.2 meters). The court
floor varies; it is sometimes asphalt, clay, concrete, grass, artificial grass or even wood or
other synthetic materials. There is a server line that is marked 21 feet from and parallel from
the net.
Tennis Rackets - the usual tournament size racket is 32 inches long and 11 1/2 inches in
width.
Tennis Balls- These vary in color, but for official tournaments the ball must be yellow or
white in color.
Singles
Server/receiver-The server is chosen by a coin toss or by spinning the racket. The one who
wins the toss can give the choice to other person, choose which end to play and let the other
person serve or choose to serve and let the other person choose the end they wish to play. The
server (person playing first) is changed every game and the ends are changed every other
game.
Doubles
Serving is alternated from team to team and from player to player so that each player serves
every fourth game. Bother partners (of receivers and servers) can stand anywhere they want,
however it is traditional for partners to stand side by side.
Scoring
In tennis scoring is unusual- the scores do not increase by single digits, they begin at 15 and
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go up 30 (2) then 40. When a person has no score it is called "love". So if player A gets 15
first the score is 15-"love". When the score gets to 40-40 it is known as deuce and the next
player to get two points wins. If they get only one point it is known as "Advantage server" (or
receiver) and then loose the next point it goes back to deuce. There are times when players
both agree to skip the advantage acknowledgment and only play to one point after deuce for
the winning point.
Officials
Only during professional tournaments are there officials. One watches the lines to call
whether the ball is in or not. The senior umpire is in a very high chair on one end of the court
and calls the scores. The senior umpire has the power to overrule all other judges. There is
also a match referee who sits in the stands and watches there and he can be consulted should
there be any major conflicts. Disputing with the judges cost points and even disqualification
from the game.
Penalties
There are certain penalties while playing tennis, these usually result in several points lost for
various things. These are:
1. Touching opponents ground, the net or posts or any other person or official in the game.
2. Carrying the ball or catching it in the racket.
3. Hitting the ball two times or before it has crossed the net.
4. If the ball hits or touches anything on (clothes) or carried by the player (with the exception
of the racket).
5. Throwing the racket or other kinds of racket abuse.

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PLAN OF THE COURT

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Chapter III
Biography of Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada is a former World No. 1
professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he has won eight Grand
Slam (tennis)Grand Slam singles titles. He is one of only five players in tennis history to have
won the men's singles titles at all four of the Grand Slam events over the course of his career.
Background
Agassi, whose father is half Armenian and half Assyrian, was born and raised in Las Vegas,
Nevada, and lives there when not on tour. His father, Emmanuel "Mike" Agassi, was a boxing
boxer for Iran at the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games, before emigrating to the United States.
Mike Agassi was a tennis fanatic and was determined to turn at least one of his four
children into a world-class player. He hung tennis balls over Andre's crib and gave him a fullsized racket at age two. Growing up, Andre and his siblings would hit 3,000 balls a day, seven
days a week. Mike had Andre practice with Ilie Nastase and Jimmy Connors. Andre's sister,
Rita, finally rebelled and moved in with, and later married, tennis great Pancho Gonzales
(their son, Skylar, played on Bishop-Gorman High School's tennis team). When he was 14,
Andre was enrolled in the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida. Nick Bollettieri would
be Agassi's coach through July 1993.
Tennis career
Agassi turned professional in 1986 at the age of 16, and won his first top-level singles title in
1987 at Itaparica. He won six further tournaments in 1988, and by December that year he had
surpassed US$2 million in career prize money after playing in just 43 tournaments the
quickest player in history to do so.

Agassi quickly developed a reputation on the tour for exceptional fitness and conditioning,
allowing him to outlast most players over the course of a long match, even the best
counterpunchers. He typically employs a baseline style of play, however he often makes
contact with the ball inside the baseline (unlike most baseliners, who make 4-8 feet behind the
baseline their home). His serve is not the fastest on the tour, but has very
good placement. His return-of-serve is his
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strongest weapon. Many observers agree that Agassi is the best service returner in the history
of professional tennis. He was the target of one of the fastest serves on record a 149-mph
(240 km/h) blast from Andy Roddick and returned it into play.
As a young up-and-coming player, Agassi embraced a rebel image. He grew his hair to rockstar length, sported an earring, and wore colorful shirts that pushed tennis' still-strict sartorial
boundaries. He boasted of a cheeseburger-heavy diet and endorsed the Canon Rebel camera.
"Image is everything" was the ads's tag line, and it became Agassi's as well.
Strong performances on the tour meant that Agassi was quickly tipped as a future Grand Slam
champion. But he began the 1990s with a series of near-misses. He reached his first Grand
Slam final in 1990 at the French Open, where he lost in four sets to the seasoned veteran
player Andrs Gmez. Later that year he lost in the final of the U.S. Open to another up-andcoming teenaged star, Pete Sampras. The rivalry between the two American players was to
become the dominant rivalry in tennis over the rest the of the decade. In 1991, Agassi reached
his second consecutive French Open final where he faced his former Bollettieri Academymate Jim Courier. Courier emerged the victor in a dramatic
rain-interrupted five-set final.
Agassi chose not to play at Wimbledon from 1988-90, and publicly stated that he did not wish
to play there because of the event's traditionalism, particularly its "predominantly-white"
dress code which players at the event are required to conform to. Many observers at the time
speculated that Agassi's real motivation was that his strong baseline game would not be suited
to Wimbledon's grass court surface. He decided to play there in 1991, leading to weeks of
speculation in the media about what he would wear he eventually emerged for the first
round in a completely white outfit. He reached the quarter-finals on that occasion. To
the surprise of many, Agassi's Grand Slam breakthrough came at Wimbledon in 1992 when he
beat Goran Ivanisevic|Goran Ivanievi in a tight five-set final.
Following wrist surgery in 1993, Agassi came back strongly in 1994 and captured the US
Open, beating Michael Stich in the final. He then captured his first Australian Open title in
1995, beating Sampras in a four-set final. He won a career-high seven titles that year and he
reached the World No. 1 ranking for the first time that April. He held it for 30 weeks on that
occasion through to November. He compiled a career-best 26-match winning streak during the
summer hardcourt circuit, which ended when he lost in the US Open final to Sampras. In
1996, Agassi won the men's singles Gold Medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, beating
Sergi Bruguera of Spain in straight sets in the final.
1997 was a poor year for Agassi. He won no top-level titles and his ranking sank to World No.
141 in November. His form was perhaps affected by the intense publicity surrounding his
high-profile and turbulent relationship and marriage to actress Brooke Shields. Following this,
he made a decision to rededicate himself to tennis. He shaved his balding head, began a
rigorous conditioning program, and worked his way back up the rankings by playing in
Challenger Series tournaments (a circuit for professional players ranked outside the world's
top 50). Perhaps most remarkably, the one-time rebel emerged as a gracious and thoughtful
athlete, and looked up to by younger players. After winning matches, he took to bowing
and blowing a two-handed kisses to spectators on each side of the court, a gesture seen as a
rather humble acknowledgment of their support for him and
for tennis.

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In 1998, Agassi won five titles and lept from No. 122 on the rankings at the start of the year,
to No. 6 at the end of it, making it the highest jump into the Top 10 made by any player in
tennis. He won five titles in ten finals, and finished runner-up at the Miami Masters.
Agassi entered the history books in 1999 when he beat Andrei Medvedev in a five-set French
Open final to become only the fifth male player to have won all four Grand Slam singles titles
(a feat last achieved in the 1960s by Roy Emerson). He followed that up by reaching the
Wimbledon final, where he lost to Sampras. He then won the US Open, beating Todd Martin
in five sets in the final, and finished the year ranked the World No. 1.
Agassi began 2000 by capturing his second Australian Open title, beating Yevgeny
Kafelnikov in a four-set final. He was the first male player to have reached four consecutive
Grand Slam finals since Rod Laver achieved the Grand Slam in 1969. 2000 also saw Agassi
reach the semi-finals at Wimbledon, where he lost in five sets to Patrick Rafter in a very high
quality battle considered by many to be one of the best matches ever played at Wimbledon.
Agassi entered the year-end Tennis Masters Cup locked in a tight fight for the World No. 1
spot with Gustavo Kuerten and Marat Safin. Safin needed only three match wins in the
tournament to become the year end number one. However, Safin lost to Agassi in the semifinals; Safin only won two matches. He was out of the running. Agassi then met Kuerten in
the final, which would determine not only who would win the title but also who would finish
the year as the No. 1 player. In the end it was Kuerten who emereged victorious with a 6-4, 64, 6-4 score. (Agassi won the tour's year-end championship once in 1990, and was runner-up
in 1999, 2000 and 2003.)
Agassi opened 2001 by sucessfully defending his Australian Open title with a straight-sets
final win over Arnaud Clement. At Wimbledon, he battled Rafter again in the semi-finals and
lost 8-6 in the fifth set. At the US Open he lost in the quarter-finals to Sampras in what is
conisdered to be one of tournament's all-time greatest matches. Sampras won 6-7, 7-6, 7-6,
7-6 in a match with no breaks of serve.
Agassi and Sampras' last duel came in the final of the US Open in 2002. The battle between
the two veterans saw Sampras emerge victorious in four sets, and left Sampras with a 20-14
edge in their 34 career meetings. (The match in fact proved to be the last of Sampras' career.
He did not play in an event on the professional tour again, and officially announced his
retirement in 2003.) Agassi's US Open finish, along with his victories at the Miami Masters,
Rome Masters, and Madrid Masters, helped him become the oldest year-end No. 2 at 32 years
and 8 months.
In 2003, Agassi won the eighth Grand Slam title of his career at the Australian Open, where
he beat Rainer Schttler in straight sets in the final. On May 11, Agassi won the U.S. Men's
Clay Court Championships in Houston, making him the oldest No. 1 ranked male tennis
player in history at 33 years and 13 days. He would hold the position for 13 weeks. At the
Tennis Masters Cup in Houston, Agassi made it to the final, losing to Roger
Federer, making him the oldest player to ever finish the year in the Top 5 (fourth) since
Jimmy Connors finished fourth in 1987 when he was 35.
In 2004, the 34-year-old Agassi won the Tennis Masters Series event at Cincinnati to bring his
career total to 59 top-level singles titles. With strong finishes at the Australian Open (SF),
Indian Wells Masters (SF), Cincinnati Masters (WON), US Open (QF), Madrid Masters (SF)
and Stockholm Open (F), Agassi finished the year ranked eighth, making him the oldest
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player to finish the year in the Top 10 (at age 34) since Jimmy Connors finished seventh in
1988 when he was 36.
Agassi has also won one doubles title (at Cincinnati in 1993, partnering Petr Korda). He is
one of only five male players to have won all the Grand Slams along with legends Don
Budge, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Fred Perry. He is in fact the first male tennis player to
win the four Grand Slams on four different surfaces. The previous players won the Australian
Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open on grass courts and the French Open on clay courts;
whereas Agassi won the Australian Open on Rebound Ace, the French Open on clay,
Wimbledon on grass, and the US Open on hardcourts. By winning the Olympic Gold Medal at
the 1996 Olympics, Agassi became the first male tennis player to win the Career Golden
Slam. Agassi also helped the United States win the Davis Cup in 1990 and 1992. He was
named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1992. Agassi has earned over US$25 million
in prize-money throughout his career, second only to Sampras. In addition to this, he also
earns over US$25 million a year through endorsements, the most by any tennis player and
fourth in all sports (first place is Tiger Woods at US$70 million a year). In 2005, Agassi left
Nike after 17 years
Personal and family life
After a four-year courtship, Agassi married actress Brooke Shields in a lavish ceremony on
April 19 1997. That February, they had filed suit against The National Enquirer claiming it
printed "false and fabricated" statements: Brooke was undergoing counseling, binge-eating
and taking pills; Agassi "lashed into" Brooke and he and Brooke's mother "tangled like
wildcats" when she demanded a prenuptial agreement|prenup. The case was dismissed, but the
headlines were indicative of the union. Agassi filed for divorce, which was granted on April
9, 1999.
By the time the divorce was final, Agassi was dating the German tennis legend Steffi Graf.
With only their mothers as witnesses, they were married at his home on October 22 2001.
Their son, Jaden Gil, was born 6 weeks prematurely on October 26 that year. Their daughter,
Jaz Elle, was born on October 3 2003.
In 1995, when Agassi's former brother-in-law, Pancho Gonzales, died broke and nearly
friendless in Las Vegas, it was Andre Agassi who paid for his funeral.

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Chapter IV
Moments to remember in tennis
The best matches in sports arent always about the best versus second-best; the greatest
competitions are about both opponents being equally paired.
In tennis, certain foes seem to bring the best out of each other. From John McEnroe and Bjorn
Borg to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal , there have been plenty of classic pairings where
the two adversaries push each other to their limits.
The results have provided fans with some great spectatorship and some memorable tennis
matches.

In the Wimbledon Championships, McEnroe reached the 1980 Wimbledon Men's Singles
final his first final at the Championships where he faced Bjrn Borg, who was gunning for
his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title. At the start of the final, McEnroe was booed by the
crowd as he entered Centre Court following heated exchanges with officials during his
semifinal victory over Jimmy Connors. In a fourth-set tiebreaker that lasted 20 minutes,
McEnroe saved five match points and eventually won 18-16. McEnroe, however, could not
break Borg's serve in the fifth set, which the Swede won 86. This match was called the best
Wimbledon final by ESPN's countdown show "Who's Number One?"

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Sampras reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in early 2000 (falling to the eventual
champion Agassi in a five-set match) and won the Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida for
the third time in March. He then won a record-breaking 13th Grand Slam title at Wimbledon,
battling through tendonitis in his right shin and a painful back injury in the process. This
victory was his eighth consecutive win in a Grand Slam final (starting at 1995 Wimbledon),
which remains a record. After this victory, Sampras did not win another title for more than
two years. He lost in the finals of the 2000 and 2001 US Open to Marat Safin and Lleyton
Hewitt, respectively, leading many to speculate that Sampras would never capture another
major title. At the 2001 Wimbledon Championships, Sampras lost to Roger Federer, who was
19 at the time, 67(7), 75, 46, 76(2), 57 in the fourth round, ending Sampras's 31-match
winning streak at Wimbledon. The match also marked the first and only time that the two men
ever played each other on the ATP tour.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are professional tennis players engaged in a storied rivalry,
which many consider the greatest in the game's history.

At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships John Isner (left)

defeated Nicolas Mahut (right) 64, 36, 67(7), 76(3),
7068 in the world's longest tennis match. The match
lasted 11 hours, 5 minutes.

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Chapter V
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