History of tennis

leftys_rock · History of tennis

Hey, i'm doing a speech for public speaking about the history of tennis, do any of you know some good websites where I could get some info?

Adie

http://www.cliffrichardtennis.org/planet_tennis/history.htm

Hope this will help.

leftys_rock

Thanks!

Adie

Hope it helps a little Very Happy

x.doublea

leftys, here's some info from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis#History

You should also do some research on the influence of other sports on tennis (Ex. golf), as well as the original game (Real Tennis). To add a little spice, you can also compare it to other racquet sports.

leftys_rock

@ Pierce, Mauresmo, and Sharapova as being some of the greatest womens players of the Open Era.

x.doublea

As you can see, there strictly using Grand Slam winners with over two wins. It is a bit funny though. Laughing

PSALT

x.doublea

I'm a member there, so I'll challenge that right now. Wink

x.doublea

Ok, I have made my statement on the page:

History of Tennis: "Greatest" Tennis Players

I would like to enquire, how can the article consider anyone with more than one Grand Slam title "one of the greatest". Mary Pierce? One of the greats along side Martina Navratilova? Doesn't make any sense to me. This list should be consisted of players with remarkable Slam achievements (like, at least 3-4 titles) and consisted of champions who were great advocates to the games. How can the "greatest tennis players" be considered someone who won more than two slams? Doublea 04:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

leftys_rock

That's the problem w/ Wikipedia. People can change the stuff on there, so it's not a "reliable" source. But that was amusing. Laughing

x.doublea

No, I just think they weren't thinking there. I love Wikipedia... I'm part of the "OperaProject there"... just, sometimes, you've got to question these things. There is a group of "Wikipedians" who do believe that you should have to register in order to participate. In this case, I think it was logical, just not too logical, if you know what I mean.

stevos14

Sharapova IS the greatest of the open era though...okay even I dont think that...yet.

PS Doublea how was tennis influenced by golf? Im curious.

leftys_rock

x.doublea

Well, about 95% of the stuff is confirmed correct. Wikipedia can sometimes make Britanica look like a joke. They have like a full 15 pages on Andre... Britanica has around three-quarters of a page on him...and it is out of date. You can always use some of the links at the bottom of the Wikipedia articles as website research sources.

Tennis fan

Yeah but they don't allow us to use Wikipedia in school. They keep saying it is inaccurate and all kinds of stuff. The school subcribes to many other on-line resources for research... our librarians get allergic reactions if we go on it in the library computers... but I agree with doublea. I always find so much stuff on wikipedia and hardly find anything on the other sites. So I do use it (at home) knowing that there could be inacuracies.

Anyhow, I had a good laugh when I saw Leftys' post... Laughing

Tennis fan

Lefty's you can finds lots of GS statistics here

Records and statistics for all tennis grand slam tournament finals since the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877 until 2004

Adie also gave a good link