Grand Slam

is to win the prestigious Nobel Prize. For Tennis, one of the highest goals is to win the Grand Slam, “The term … first used in 1933 by the American journalist John Kieran” (Wood). The Grand Slam consists of four tournaments: Australia Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. There are several events: singles, men and women; doubles, men and women; and mixed doubles. The ultimate goal of the Grand Slam is to win all four tournaments in your category. Winners are showered with fame and glory

In the Article Grand-Slam Graphics, Lisa Strausfeld, David Ingold, Christopher Cannon, and Jeremy Diamond go in depth to explore the business-end of Major League baseball and create a polar-area diagram to portray the information in a way to give the viewers a greater understanding of the article in whole. After an eye opening come across after the Los Angeles Dodgers spent nearly two billion dollars just on sales at the ballpark, the Bloomberg News spent nine months gathering and evaluating the

player she takes immediate control of using a powerful serve and return with forceful groundstrokes. Serena serves can be up to 128mph. Serena has been in 21 grand slams single finals winning 17 titles, she has been in 13 grand slams double finals, winning them all. Serena partner with Sister Venus these scenarios, she’s been four grand slam mixed double finals winning two and coming runner-up two. Venus Williams was born June 17, 1980 in Lynwood California,

quickly. Steffi Graf ended her career at the age of 30, Serena is 34 years old. Serena must win one more grand slam title to, at least on paper, be the greatest women’s tennis player in history. It’s hard to imagine a tennis world without Serena. Her iconic fiery attitude and utter determination to win is something that I admire. In my opinion, I think she will try to win more than one more Grand Slam title due to her strong

The goal of this paper is to analyze the effects of time in tennis through both statistical regression analyses. Since the time of when players used wooden tennis racquets and played solely at country clubs, the sport of tennis has progressed into a sport that requires top athletes in the world. Not only has the technology progressed for the better, but so as the physical demands. Similarly, the total amount of money in the sport, which was presented in the Player’s chapter the Pilic Affair, has

Serena Williams lost the French Open final Saturday to Garbine Muguruza. It marked her third failed attempt to win a 22nd singles Grand Slam title, which would tie the Open-era record set by Steffi Graf. Williams was extremely gracious in defeat as she addressed the crowd at Roland Garros in French. The tennis icon can afford to be gracious these days: She earned $28.9 million over the past 12 months. That makes her the world’s highest-paid female athlete over that span, unseating Maria Sharapova

Tennis Clothes for Women in the 1800’s Women have been playing tennis since tennis was originated. Back in 1874, women played tennis, but they only played mixed doubles, which is when men and women play together as partners. The clothes women wore back then is way different then what we wear nowadays. Back then, women had to wear a bustle skirt and a corset. This wasn’t really the ideal clothing to wear on a sweltering day while playing tennis. This is probably why a woman playing in the Wimbledon

establish the Women’s Tennis Association in 1973 also in the same year there was a battle of the sexes and King defeated a man by the name of Bobby Riggs. Kings was a remarkable in the year of 1972 at the U.S. Open, and at the Wimbledon King won three Grand Slam titles in that year. King continue success in the year of 1971 her winning place her the first woman athlete to earn 100,000 prize that year. King states the she was not comfortable with her homosexuality until the age of 51. By the year of 1987

“Big Four”The number of “Big Four”’s Grand Slam championsPlayer Titles FinalsRoger Federer 17 27Rafael Nadal 14 20Novak Djokovic 12 20Andy Murray 3 11I am lucky enough to be able to watch tennis in its “Golden Era” (2008-2016). “Big Four” has been playing a crucial part in this time. It represents how significant modern tennis has developed. The term refers to the four best male tennis players: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, who have innovated the way tennis is supposed

Althea Gibson was an african american that was known as an tennis player but she also played the game of golf very well. She was born August 25, 1927 in Clarendon County, South Carolina and she passed away September 28, 2003 in East Orange, New Jersey. In Gibson younger years she fell in love with paddle tennis and when she was 12 years old she was an paddle tennis champion in New York City. After Gibson won the paddle tennis championship she started to play tennis with the american tennis association