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The following are archives of captions which have been displayed on the did you know? section of Portal:Tennis.

July 2009

...that both Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi had losing career records in doubles?

...that Roger Federer leads Andy Roddick in head-to-head matches 19-2 (as of July 6 2009)?

...German Steffi Graf is the only player with at least 4 singles titles at each of the Grand Slams?

...that the Women's Tennis Association, formed in 1973, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis?
...that Billie Jean King (pictured) won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles?
...that the Arthur Ashe Stadium, located in Flushing Meadows Park, is the main tennis stadium of the U.S. Open?
...that a singles player or doubles team that wins all four Grand Slam titles in the same year is said to have achieved the Grand Slam?

...that Wheelchair tennis (pictured) is a sport that is played on a regulation tennis court, by people using specially designed sports wheelchairs?
...that Martina Navrátilová had a 74-match winning streak in 1984?
...that World TeamTennis a league of team tennis in the United States that was founded in 1978?.

...that the French Open (court pictured) is considered the most physically-demanding tournament in tennis due to its slow clay playing surface?
...that real tennis is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis is descended?
...that the International Tennis Federation was founded by twelve national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913?
...that Martina Navrátilová had a 74-match winning streak in 1984?
...that Tony Pickard was Greg Rusedski's coach from 1997-1998?
...that the USTA National Tennis Center is the home of the US Open grand slam tennis tournament played every year in August and September?

...that the courts (pictured) singles matches are played on are 2377 centimeters long and 823 centimeters wide
...that the two main courts used in the Australian Open (the Rod Laver Arena and Vodafone Arena) feature retractable roofs
...that the tiebreak was invented by James Van Alen in 1965 in an attempt to speed up the game?
...that at the end of 2006, Maria Sharapova was the highest paid female sports athlete?
...that the International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis and made up of 202 national tennis associations?
...that John McEnroe has won the most number of titles in the modern men's game?

...that Clay courts (pictured) are made of crushed shale, stone or brick?
...that the Medieval form of tennis is termed real tennis which evolved over three centuries from an earlier ball game played around the 12th century in France?
...that during his 15-year career, Pete Sampras won a record fourteen Grand Slam men's singles titles in fifty-two appearances?
...that the Wimbledon championships were played under the control of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in 1877 at a ground near Worple Road?
...that Martina Hingis won five Grand Slam singles titles in her career before her retirement on 1 November 2007?
...that the Arthur Ashe Stadium (the main court at the US Open) is named after Arthur Ashe, the African American tennis player who won the inaugural men's final of the US Open in 1968?

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...that Roger Federer (pictured) has won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year three consecutive times, a current world record?
...that the roots of tennis were traced in history to a game, developed by Major Harry Gem and Augurio Perera, combining elements of pelota and racquets?
...that the All England Club required tennis players entering the tournament to wear almost all white clothing throughout the 1990s?
...that Boris Becker was the youngest and first German tennis player to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, at the age of 17?
...that prior to the Battle of the Sexes, Bobby Riggs challenged Margaret Court to a tennis match, and won it in straight sets, despite Court being 30 years his junior?
...that Helen Wills was the first female player to win 3 Grand Slam titles in one season, in the 1928-29 season?

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...that, whilst no female representing Russia had won an Open era Grand Slam singles title prior to the 2004 season, of the six finals places available in that year's Tournoi de Roland Garros, The Championships, Wimbledon, and United States Open, five were claimed by Russian women, as Anastasia Myskina, Maria Sharapova, and Svetlana Kuznetsova, pictured, won the respective championships, elevating Russia to equal third, behind only the United States of America (eleven players) and Australia (four) and alongside the United Kingdom, in the rank of nations by distinct Grand Slam women's singles titlists fielded?
...that Briton Tim Henman has advanced to the eleven times to the quarterfinals (and thence four times to the semifinals) of the grass court Queen's Club Championships and The Championships, Wimbledon, each contested in London, but has not won a title in either event?
...that Indian Leander Paes, best known for his men's and mixed doubles play, in view of his having won six Grand Slam titles, including three with countrymate Mahesh Bhupathi, claimed the bronze medal in the men's singles event at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, held in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996, despite his having entered the tournament as a wild card?

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