Tennis History | What the Professional Game Was, What the Amateur Game Paid For, and What Ended the Split | New York, Forest Hills, Melbourne, Maryland, Paris, Brisbane, Adelaide, Boston, Philadelphia, London and the Ile de Puteaux

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Tennis History | What the Professional Game Was, What the Amateur Game Paid For, and What Ended the Split | New York, Forest Hills, Melbourne, Maryland, Paris, Brisbane, Adelaide, Boston, Philadelphia, London and the Ile de Puteaux 15
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Tennis History | Madison Square Garden, New York — professional tennis opened to a third-full house, 9 October 1926
10/9/1926
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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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Tennis History | Place de la Concorde, 30 March 1968 — Twelve Tournaments Opened by Vote
3/30/1968
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Tennis History | Milton Courts, Brisbane — the last major to open, and the reason was the calendar, January 1969
1/27/1969
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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 | 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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Tennis History | West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills — the men's players' union was founded during a tournament and left no address, September 1972
Sep, 1972
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Tennis History | Wright and Ditson, 344 Washington Street, Boston — the firm that printed the association's rules also made its only official ball, 1901
2/15/1901
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Tennis History | Peck and Snyder, 126 Nassau Street, New York — the association voted the American ball out twenty-four to seventeen, March 1886
3/12/1886
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Tennis History | A. J. Reach Company, Tulip and Palmer Streets, Philadelphia — a rival tennis ball on the page facing the official league ball, 1900
1900
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Tennis History | Slazenger and Sons, 56 Cannon Street, London — the directory entered a rubber house, and the tennis trademark was registered in Washington
1/10/1888
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Tennis History | Île de Puteaux, Paris — the first French championship, and the 1900 week whose amateur events were called Olympic long afterwards
7/11/1900
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