Tennis
Interesting Facts
Tennis's interesting facts in 10 chapters as Insporta tests them: 1000 sourced facts, each checked against a primary source.
Chapter 1History & OriginsThe royal game and the lawn game's first steps: kings and their courts, a revolution sworn in a tennis room, Shakespeare's tennis balls, and the pioneers in Birmingham, Bermuda and Staten Island.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 2Records & StatisticsRecords that read like stories: the longest match, rally and final, the shortest final, a set without a point lost, the youngest and oldest champions and the longest streaks. Each one checked to still stand.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 3TournamentsTennis beyond the majors and the team cups: exhibitions with odd courts and record crowds, a mixed team league with a hit song, and new formats that make matches shorter.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 4Clubs & VenuesThe places tennis is played and their stories: Wimbledon's hawk, hill and poem, the biggest stadium, a Masters held in the wrong country, marble athletes in Rome and America's oldest grass courts.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 5Equipment & TechnologyThe kit behind the game and the people who invented it: Wimbledon's balls, the first gut strings, a blue clay court, a ball machine, a banned racket and a line-calling machine that beeped.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 6Quirky TriviaTennis's odd side: famous outbursts, a wildcard champion, a singer in the rain, the words of the game, a court in the sky and matches that ran for days.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 7Geography & CultureTennis in fashion, film and custom: dresses that caused a stir, a shoe with two names, Hitchcock and Hollywood, a painting of a lawn party, the Royal Box, strawberries and The Queue.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 8Players & LegendsThe people behind the records: two-sport stars, firsts for Asia, comebacks, coaches, rivalries, the Australians, second careers, farewells, unusual strokes and Olympic heroes.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 9Fans, Media & MoneyTennis as a show and a business: television, video games, sponsors, charity, endorsements, food and drink, stamps and coins, the running of the tours, record crowds and the voices of the game.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 factsChapter 10Women's TennisA chapter on the women's game: the early champions, Lenglen, Wills, Gibson, King, Evert and Navratilova, Graf and Seles, the Williams sisters, new nations and the mothers and comebacks.10 parts · 10 tests · 100 facts