Do you have any useless tennis information (it can anything ranging from the players and stats to the insides of the tennis ball), that you would like to share with me? Cite your sources and the best will recieve ten free points...
2007-07-26 07:46:07 · 10 answers · asked by koolkid776 1 in Sports ➔ Tennis
Carlos Moya and Rafael Nadal are good friends, they are both from Majorca, and they both have two-haded backhands.
Oddly, Moya is naturally left-handed but plays tennis with his right hand, whilst Nadal is right-handed but plays with his left hand. Weird, and also about as useless a piece of info as you're likely to find.
2007-07-27 08:40:15 · answer #1 · answered by rammsteinfan-1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The top 4, and 5 of the top 6, "most aces served by a player in a match" all ended up as losses:
51 Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) Wimbledon 2005 - lost to Daniele Bracciali
51 Joachim Johansson (Sweden) Australian Open 2005 - lost to Andre Agassi
49 Richard Krajicek (Netherlands) US Open 1999 - lost to Yevgeny Kafelnikov
47 Gustavo Kuerten (Brazil) Davis Cup 2003 - lost to Daniel Nestor
46 Mark Philippoussis (Australia) Wimbledon 2003 - def. Andre Agassi
46 Goran Ivanisevic (Croatia) Wimbledon 1997 - lost to Andre Agassi
(Actually not really useless information: kind of proves serves aren't everything. And that Agassi arguably the game's top returner was in three of them)
2007-07-27 09:32:16 · answer #2 · answered by catsil_william 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that the sport of tennis originated in europe more than five hundred years ago?
It was played in indoor halls shaped like shoeboxes.
It was very popular with royalty.Henry the eight of England had a court at his country estate;Hampton Court Palace.
According to a book on tennis rackets by F. A. de Garsault they used a rather odd recipe for painting the tennis courts.
"Each ball-house,no matter what style or size it was built in,is painted black inside.The 'ball-masters' produce the paint themselves and the recipe for a normal ball-house is the following:
Take a half a ton of cattle blood, 14 bushels soot, 10 cattle galls in which the soot is first dissolved,a bucket full of urine in order to give the composition a shiny gloss.Pour everything together in a cold state and mix it thoroughly."
It makes you glad they invented lawn tennis.
2007-07-26 16:15:08 · answer #3 · answered by PantherPassant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The longest single point rally ever recorded at an official tennis event was at a San Diego girl's junior event in 1975. Collette Cavanaugh and Carie Hagey rallied for 59 minutes to decide one point. Hagey won that point, but Cavanaugh won the match 6-1, 6-2.
2007-07-26 22:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Name the only one of the grand slam tournaments that has been held on three different surfaces. The US Open - grass, then clay and now hardcourts.
Who is the only male player to win 2 grand slams in tennis and yep not play in the grand slam tournaments for 7 straight years between them...............Rod Laver 1962 and 1969
2007-07-26 15:37:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt...the first cousing of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is in the Tennis Hall of Fame.
2007-07-26 18:25:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when wimbledon was first held in 1877 it only had 200 spectators
in 1999, gred rusedski served 685 aces which made up for 79% of his total points won that year
2007-07-26 15:50:39 · answer #7 · answered by Robert C. 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
After he won his fifth Wimbledon, Roger Federer put on his white pants backwards at the trophy ceremony.
2007-07-26 19:22:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before the well know fuzzy yellow balls were introduced, leather balls were used.
2007-07-26 18:14:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Serena Williams has a bigger butt than even Jennifer Lopez...
2007-07-26 18:55:26 · answer #10 · answered by gannoway 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋