Portal:Tennis/Did you know archive

[edit] September 2007

...that German Hans Nüsslein was the only non-American to win the Wembley Championship between 1934 and 1953 and the first player to win each of the three pre-Open era major professional tournaments?
...that at the 1st Pan American Games, held in 1951, Argentines Enrique Morea and Maria Teran de Weiss each won a gold medal in both the singles and doubles tournaments for his or her gender?
...that the American professional Pete Sampras popularized the jump smash, a variant of the overhead smash (pictured), a shot in which a ball is hit above the head with a serve-like motion, in which he jumped and hit the smash in mid-air with great force?
...that in each of six years between 1963 and 1973 Australian Margaret Court won more than half of the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles awarded in Grand Slam tournaments?
...that the seating area at Stade Uniprix, a twelve-court complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at which the Canada Masters, a tournament in the hardcourt US Open Series, is a remnant of Le Stade Jarry, the original home of the Montreal Expos of Major League Baseball?
...that the players who compose a winning side in the Hopman Cup, a co-ed international team tournament held annually in Perth, Australia, receive individual tennis ball-shaped trophies encrusted with diamonds from the Argyle diamond mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia?