Tag: history
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The story behind ‘The Battle of the Sexes’
In hindsight, 1973 seems like a landmark year: it saw the UK hesitantly enter the European Economic Community (*cough*), Pink Floyd’sThe Dark Side of the Moon blow millions of teenage minds, Last of the Summer Wine blow millions of pensioners’ minds, Sunderland win the FA Cup and, most importantly, the first Pizza Hut open on UK soil. However, something even stranger…
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How tennis rackets have evolved
Nowadays, rackets are often seen as disposable tools: they’re replaced multiple times during matches and are flung round, snapped and smashed by frustrated players. But it wasn’t always this way. If, for example, you tried to smash a sixteenth-century racket, it would crack the floor – and possibly trigger an earthquake. Early days Before lawn tennis was even…
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Video: Tennis on ice
As the UK experiences the last throes of winter (hopefully), we dip our toe into a particularly chilling episode from tennis history. Cast your mind back to 1938: Europe is teetering on the brink of cataclysmic war, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is blowing minds around the world, László Bíró has just patented his pen (finally giving people…
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Who has won the most Grand Slam matches?
Now that the Australian Open is in full swing under the sweltering Melbourne sun, what better time to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of Grand Slam victories past and present? So don your stat hat and join Tennis Talent for a rundown of the ten players who have won the…
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Blast from the past: Fred Perry and Dorothy Round win Wimbledon
For our second “blast from the past”, we’ve delved through British Pathé‘s seemingly endless archive to bring you this gem from a golden year for British tennis: 1934. As the tight-lipped newsreader declares, it had been 25 years since an “Englishman” had won Wimbledon, a record that Fred Perry ended in a tough final against Australia’s…
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The story behind the score
No other mainstream sport, with the possible exception of cricket, has a scoring system more deeply rooted in the past than tennis. But where does the unique terminology come from? Who sat down and thought “I know, let’s not start at zero, naught or nil, but love”. Why isn’t it 15, 30 and then 45…
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The 10 best male British players
As Andy Murray becomes the first British player to hold the ATP rankings top spot, an incredible achievement for the sport in this country, we ask: how does he measure up against the all-time greats? Here at Tennis Talent towers, we’ve compiled a list of the top ten male British players of all time, not…
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