Biography | Tennis Lives Anchored Where Something Happened | Nice, Brooklyn, Richmond, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Maryland, Forest Hills, New York, London, San Francisco, Adelaide, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Hastings

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Biography | Tennis Lives Anchored Where Something Happened | Nice, Brooklyn, Richmond, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Maryland, Forest Hills, New York, London, San Francisco, Adelaide, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Hastings 20
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Biography | Suzanne Lenglen — The Riviera Club Where Her Father Built a World Champion, 1910
Jun, 1910
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Biography | Althea Gibson — She Taught the Grip in This Brooklyn School Gymnasium, December 1957
Dec, 1957
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Biography | Arthur Ashe — He Learned the Game on the Only Courts Richmond Let Him Use, 1950
1950
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Biography | Arthur Ashe — The Los Angeles Tennis Club Was Where He Trained and Where He Kept Coming Back, 1966
5/4/1966
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Biography | Rod Laver — what turning professional actually paid, at a Maryland field house, February 1963
2/14/1963
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Biography | Molla Bjurstedt Mallory — the champion remembered for a match her opponent did not finish, Forest Hills, August 1921
8/16/1921
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Biography | Lew Hoad — the record stops in 1957 because that is the year he was paid, Kooyong, December 1953
12/28/1953
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Biography | Pancho Gonzales — he signed twenty-five days too early, and the association changed the rule, Madison Square Garden, October 1949
10/25/1949
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Biography | Jack Kramer — two years after Wimbledon he won a world championship no record book counts, Wembley, June 1949
6/4/1949
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Biography | Bobby Riggs — three titles in one week, then a bomb and a contract closed the tournament to him, Church Road, July 1939
7/7/1939
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Biography | Alice Marble — the ranking tournament moved onto the public courts where she was already playing, Golden Gate Park, 1930
1930
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Biography | Don Budge — the first calendar Grand Slam began in a thirty-three man draw at Memorial Drive, Adelaide, January 1938
1/31/1938
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Biography | Dwight Davis — a second unnarrowed first claim, earned in city office rather than on a court, St. Louis City Hall, 1911 to 1915
1911
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Biography | Clarence Griffin — the doubles champion who told the country the public courts had made the game, Forest Hills, August 1916
8/29/1916
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Biography | Bill Johnston — the courts a city built for school boys, and the first bay counties junior title decided on them, Golden Gate Park, November 1910
11/6/1910
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Biography | Maurice McLoughlin — the first American man in a Wimbledon challenge round, and the Davis Cup taken back on the same grass three weeks later, Worple Road, July 1913
7/28/1913
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Biography | May Sutton — the women's national championship was a different tournament in a different state, and a seventeen-year-old Californian won it, Philadelphia Cricket Club, June 1904
6/25/1904
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Biography | James Cecil Parke — an Irishman won the Australasian championship, and all four doubles finalists were the touring Davis Cup team, Hastings, 1912
12/30/1912
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Biography | Elisabeth Moore — the challenger played 164 games and the holder 47, and the association's next rule book held women to three sets, Philadelphia, 1901
6/29/1901
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Biography | Juliette Atkinson — a third title made the cup her personal property, and the annual that reported it carried no portrait of her, Philadelphia, 1898
6/17/1898
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