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January Gunnarsson (Sweden) and Michael Mortensen (Denmark) defeated John Frawley (Australia) and Victor Pecci (Paraguay) 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6."quote[4]="The longest rally in tournament play was one of 643 times over the net between Vicky Nelson and Jean Hepner at Richmond, VA in October 1984. The 6 hr 22 min match was won by Nelson 6-4, 7-6. It concluded with a 1 hr 47 min tie break, 13-11, for which one point took 29 minutes."quote[5]="Will Duggan and Ron Kapp (both USA) performed a rally of 6,202 strokes, which took 3 hr 33 min, at Santa Barbara Municipal Stadium, CA on 12 March 1988."quote[6]="Margaret Court won a record 13 titles at the French Championships. She won five singles, four women's doubles and four mixed doubles between 1962-73."quote[7]="The record number of wins for men at the French Championships is nine by Henri Cochet (France) (1901-87). He won four singles, three men's doubles and two mixed doubles between 1926-30."quote[8]="The singles record at the French Championships is seven by Chris Evert; 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986."quote[9]="Bjorn Borg won a record six men's singles at the French Championships; 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981."quote[10]="The youngest doubles champions at the French Championships were the 1981 mixed doubles winners Andrea Jaeger (b. 4 June 1965), at 15 yr 339 days and Jimmy Arias (b. 16 August 1964), at 16 yr 296 days."quote[11]="The youngest singles winners at the French Championships have been: Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) (b. 2 December 1973) who won the 1990 women's title at 16 yr 169 days in 1990 and Michael Chang (USA) (b. 22 February 1972), men's singles winner at 17 yr 109 days in 1989."quote[12]="The modern game is generally agreed to have evolved as an outdoor form of the indoor game of tennis (Real Tennis). 'Field tennis' is mentioned in an English magazine - Sporting Magazine - of 29 Sep 1793."quote[13]="The earliest club for such a game, variously called pelota or lawn rackets, was the Leamington Club founded in 1872 by Major Harry Gem."quote[14]="The earliest attempt to commercialize the game was by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833-1912) who patented a form called 'sphairistike' on 23 February 1874. It soon became called lawn tennis."quote[15]="The youngest Wimbledon champion was Charlotte 'Lottie' Dod (Great Britain; 1871-1960), who was 15 yr 285 days when she won in 1887."quote[16]="The youngest male Wimbledon champion was Boris Becker (West Germany) (b. 22 November 1967) who won the men's singles title in 1985 at 17 yr 227 days."quote[17]="The youngest ever player at Wimbledon was reputedly Mita Klima (Austria) who was 13 yr in the 1907 singles competition."quote[18]="The youngest Wimbledon seed was Jennifer Capriatti (USA) (b. 29 March 1976) at 14 yr 89 days at the time of her first match on 26 June 1990. She won this match making her the youngest ever winner at Wimbledon."quote[19]="The oldest Wimbledon champion was Margaret Evelyn du Pont at 44 yr 125 days when she won the mixed doubles in 1962 with Neale Fraser (Australia)."quote[20]="The oldest singles champion at Wimbledon was Arthur Gore (Great Britain) in 1909 at 41 yr 182 days."quote[21]="The greatest number of Wimbledon titles by a man has been 13 by Hugh Laurence Doherty (Great Britain) (1875-1919) with five singles titles (1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906) and a record eight men's doubles (1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905) partnered by his brother Reginald Frank (1872-1910)."quote[22]="The most titles won by a US man at Wimbledon is seven by John Patrick McEnroe (b. 16 February 1959), singles 1981, 1983 and 1984; men's doubles (all with Peter Fleming) 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984."quote[23]="Billie-Jean King (ne&eacute; Moffit ; b. 22 November 1943) won a record 20 Wimbledon titles between 1961 and 1979, six singles, ten women's doubles and four mixed doubles."quote[24]="Elizabeth Montague Ryan (USA) (1892-1979) won a record 19 Wimbledon doubles (12 women's, 7 mixed) titles from 1914 to 1934."quote[25]="Martina Navratilova won a record nine Wimbledon titles, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1990."quote[26]="The most men's singles wins at Wimbledon since the Challenge Round was abolished in 1922 is five consecutively, by Bjorn Borg (Sweden) in 1976-80. William Charles Renshaw (Great Britain) (1861-1904) won seven singles in 1881-6 and 1889."quote[27]="In Wimbledon mixed doubles the male record is four titles shared by: Elias Victor Seixas (USA) (b. 30 August 1923), in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956; Kenneth Norman Fletcher (Australia) (b. 15 June 1940), in 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968; and Owen Keir Davidson (Australia) (b. 4 October 1943) in 1967, 1971, 1973, 1974. The female record is seven by Elizabeth Ryan (USA) from 1919 to 1932."quote[28]="Arthur William Charles 'Wentworth' Gore (1868-1928) (Great Britain) made a record 36 appearances at Wimbledon between 1888 and 1927. In 1964, Jean Borotra (b. 13 August 1898) of France made his 35th appearance since 1922. In 1977 he appeared in the Veterans' Doubles at the age of 78."quote[29]="Thelma Long won her first (1936) and last (1958) Australian Open titles 22 years apart. Kenneth Robert Rosewall (b. 2 November 1934) won the singles in 1953, and in 1972 was, 19 years later, at 37 yr 62 days, the oldest singles winner."quote[30]="The oldest Australian Open champion was (Sir) Norman Everard Brookes (1877-1968), who was 46 yr 2 months when he won the 1924 men's doubles."quote[31]="The youngest Australian Open champions were Rodney W. Heath, age 17, when he won the men's singles in 1905, and Margaret Smith, who won the women's singles at 17 yr 5 months in 1960."quote[32]="Margaret Jean Court (ne&eacute; Smith) (b. 16 July 1942) won the women's singles 11 times (in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1973) as well as eight women's doubles and two mixed doubles, for a record total of 21 Australian Open titles."quote[33]="A record six Australian Open men's singles were won by Roy Stanley Emerson (Queensland) (b. 3 November 1936), in 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 1967."quote[34]="Thelma Dorothy Long (ne&eacute; Coyne) (b. 30 May 1918) won a record 12 women's doubles and four mixed doubles for a record total of 16 Australian Open doubles titles."quote[35]="Adrian Karl Quist (b. 4 August 1913) won ten consecutive Australian Open men's doubles from 1936 to 1950 (the last eight with John Bromwich) and three men's singles."quote[36]="Charlotte 'Lottie' Dod (1871-1960) won the Wimbledon singles tennis title five times between 1887 and 1893, the British Ladies' Golf Championship in 1904, an Olympic silver medal for archery in 1908, and represented England at hockey in 1899. She also excelled at skating and tobogganing."quote[37]="Charles Burgess Fry (GB) (1872-1956) was probably the most versatile male sportsman at the highest level. On 4 March 1893 he equalled the world long jump record of 7.17 m 23 ft 6 &frac12; in. He represented England v. Ireland at soccer (1901) and played first class rugby for the Barbarians. His greatest achievements, however, were at cricket, where he headed the English batting averages in six seasons and captained England in 1912. He was also an excellent fisherman and tennis player."quote[38]="The youngest US Open champion was Vincent Richards (1903-59), who was 15 yr 139 days when he won the men's doubles with Bill Tilden in 1918."quote[39]="The youngest US Open singles champion was Tracy Ann Austin (b. 12 December 1962), who was 16 yr 271 days when she won the women's singles in 1979."quote[40]="The oldest US Open champion was Margaret du Pont, who won the mixed doubles at age 42 yr 166 days in 1960."quote[41]="The oldest US Open singles champion was William Larned at 38 yr 242 days in 1911."quote[42]="Margaret Evelyn du Pont won a record 25 US Open titles between 1941 and 1960. She won a record 13 women's doubles (12 with Althea Louise Brough), nine mixed doubles and three singles."quote[43]="The men's US Open record is 16 by William Tatem Tilden, including seven men's singles, 1920-25, 1929 - a record for singles shared with: Richard Dudley Sears (1861-1943), 1881-87; William A. Larned (1872-1926), 1901-2, 1907-11, and at women's singles by: Molla Mallory (ne&eacute; Bjurstedt) (1892-1959), 1915-16, 1918, 1920-22, 1926; and Helen Moody (USA) (b. 6 October 1905), 1923-25, 1927-29, 1931."quote[44]="Greg Rusedski (GB) achieved the world record fastest serve of 239.8 kmph (149 mph) during the ATP Championsâ Cup at Indian Wells, California, USA, on March 14, 1998."quote[45]="The fastest server in the women's game is Venus Williams (USA), who recorded a serve of 205 kmph (127.4 mph) during the European Indoor Championships at Z&uuml;rich, Switzerland, on October 16, 1998."quote[46]="A Slazenger lawn tennis racket, used by British tennis sensation Fred Perry at Wimbledon, sold at Christie's, London in June 1997 for &pound;23,000 (US$37,724)."quote[47]="Per-Arne Str&oslash;mnes from Norway headed a tennis ball continuously for 43 min 20 sec at Larkollen, Norway on March 27, 1999."quote[48]="The last time the top four seeded men reached the semi-finals of the US Open was in 1992 (seeds in order: Jim Courier, Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras, and Michael Chang). Edberg defeated Sampras in a four-set final."quote[49]="Three unseeded men have won the US Open Championships, the last Andre Agassi in 1994."quote[50]="There were 55,000 lbs of hamburger sold during the 1999 US Open."quote[51]="The US <em>Open</em> began in 1968. From 1881 to 1967, it was the US National Championships, for amateurs only."quote[52]="Only five players have won <em>The Grand Slam</em> (all four majors in the same calendar year) in singles: Don Budge 1938, Maureen Connolly 1953, Rod Laver 1962 and 1969, Margaret Smith Court 1970, and Steffi Graf 1988."quote[53]="The only mixed doubles partnership to win <em>The Grand Slam</em> was Margaret Smith (Court) and Ken Fletcher in 1963."quote[54]="The top five in Grand Slam mens singles titles are:<br>1. Pete Sampras 13<br>2. Roy Emerson 12<br>3. Rod Laver 11<br>4. Bjorn Borg 11<br>5. Bill Tilden 10"quote[55]="The top five in Grand Slam womens singles titles are:<br>1. Margaret Smith Court 24<br>2. Steffi Graf 22<br>3. Helen Wills Moody 19<br>4. Martina Navratilova 18<br>5. Chris Evert 18"quote[56]="The record for juggling a tennis ball with feet is held by Manfred Wagner (SUI) -  1:25:11 hrs, on 14 July 1996 at the 2nd record festival of the Rekord-Klub SAXONIA in Flensburg."quote[57]="The record for running while keeping up a tennis ball is held by Dr Jan Skorkovsk&yacute; (TCH) - 11.5 km (7 miles 250 yd) in 1:56 hrs, 1989."quote[58]="The official name of the Davis Cup is the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy. It has been awarded to the winner of an annual international team-tennis tournament for men, since 1912."quote[59]="The Davis Cup trophy was donated in 1900 by US doubles champion and public official, Dwight F. Davis (1879-1945), for an amateur contest between the USA and Britain; Davis himself played for the US team in 1900 and 1902. By 1970 the tournament had become international and professional players were allowed to compete."function rndnumber(){var randscript = -1while (randscript < 0 || randscript > howMany || isNaN(randscript)){randscript = parseInt(Math.random()*(howMany+1))}return randscript}quo = rndnumber()quox = quote[quo]// End -->