Tennis History | Who Was Allowed to Enter, and Who Built the Courts That Let Them | Philadelphia, the Bois de Boulogne, Forest Hills, Ellis Park, Golden Gate Park, St. Louis, Worple Road, Cincinnati and San Rafael

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Tennis History | Who Was Allowed to Enter, and Who Built the Courts That Let Them | Philadelphia, the Bois de Boulogne, Forest Hills, Ellis Park, Golden Gate Park, St. Louis, Worple Road, Cincinnati and San Rafael 14
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Tennis History | Philadelphia Cricket Club, St. Martin's — the American championship asked which club you belonged to, not which country, June 1915
6/12/1915
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Tennis History | Croix-Catelan, Bois de Boulogne — a national championship closed to foreigners, June 1922
6/10/1922
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Tennis History | West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills — the colour line was an invitation list, August 1950
8/28/1950
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Tennis History | Ellis Park, Johannesburg — a government decided who could enter, November 1973
11/14/1973
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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 | 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 | 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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Biography | Myrtle McAteer — a Cincinnati final the papers called a championship, and the national title she took in 1900 when the holder never appeared
9/22/1899
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Biography | Marion Jones — the challenge round was a rule about travel, and at San Rafael in 1898 it settled a championship with nobody on the court
9/9/1898
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