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Rafael Nadal during 2011 Wimbledon

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis.

The rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s. Two exceptions are that until 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point-challenge system, which allows a player to contest the line call of a point, a system known as Hawk-Eye. (Full article...)

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The New York Sportimes were a professional tennis team competing in World TeamTennis (WTT). The team was originally based in eastern Long Island from 2000 to 2002, before moving to Westchester County, New York in 2003, and then to New York City in 2009. The team was founded as the New York Hamptons in 2000, before changing its name to the New York Sportimes in 2003. In 2005, the team made its first playoff appearance and went on to defeat the Newport Beach Breakers in the WTT Final to win its first King Trophy.

On February 14, 2011, WTT announced that the New York Sportimes and New York Buzz had merged and would play the 2011 season as the New York Sportimes. In the three seasons following the merger, the Sportimes played 12 home matches in New York City and nine in the Capital District. On January 16, 2014, Claude Okin, CEO of the New York Sportimes announced that the franchise had been sold to businessman Russell Geyser, and the team would be relocated to San Diego, California and renamed the San Diego Aviators. (Full article...)

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French player Amélie Mauresmo during the quarter-finals of the 2002 Sydney WTA tournament.

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Upcoming tournaments in April

Week	Month	Tour	Points	Tournament	Surface	Town	Country
14	April	ATP	250	Grand Prix Hassan II	Clay	Casablanca	Morocco
14	April	ATP	250	U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships	Clay	Houston	United States
15	April	ATP	1000	Monte-Carlo Masters	Clay	Monte Carlo	Monaco
16	April	ATP	500	Barcelona Open	Clay	Barcelona	Spain
16	April	ATP	250	Romanian Open	Clay	Bucharest	Romania
17	April	ATP	250	Istanbul Open	Clay	Istanbul	Turkey
17	April	ATP	250	Estoril Open	Clay	Estoril	Portugal
17	April	ATP	250	Bavarian Championships	Clay	Munich	Germany

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WikiProject Tennis
Grandslam project • Davis Cup/Fed Cup project
WikiProject Sports • WikiProject Olympics

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Connors in 1994

James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks. By virtue of his long and prolific career, Connors still holds three prominent Open Era men's singles records: 109 titles, 1,557 matches played, and 1,274 match wins. His titles include eight major singles titles (a joint Open Era record five US Opens, two Wimbledons, one Australian Open), three year-end championships, and 17 Grand Prix Super Series titles. In 1974, he became the second man in the Open Era to win three major titles in a calendar year, and was not permitted to participate in the fourth, the French Open. Connors finished year end number one in the ATP rankings from 1974 to 1978. In 1982, he won both Wimbledon and the US Open and was ATP Player of the Year and ITF World Champion. He retired in 1996 at the age of 43. (Full article...)

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Thank God I don't have to play me today!

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— Fred Perry, on entering the locker room at Wimbledon.

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The following are images from various tennis-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Rafael Nadal (from Tennis)
Image 2The French Championships at Roland Garros was the first Grand Slam tournament to become "open" to professionals (from History of tennis)
Image 3Margaret Court (from Tennis)
Image 4Tennis doubles final at 1896 Olympic Games (from Tennis)
Image 5An umpire informing two players of the rules (from Tennis)
Image 6McEnroe with Peter Fleming (left) at Wimbledon, mid 1980s (from Tennis)
Image 7Rafael Nadal during 2011 Wimbledon (from Tennis)
Image 8Cover of the first edition of the book about Lawn Tennis by Walter Clopton Wingfield, published in February 1874 (from History of tennis)
Image 9Tennis doubles final at 1896 Olympic Games (from History of tennis)
Image 10Wooden racket – c. 1920s (from Tennis)
Image 11Two players before a serve (from Tennis)
Image 12Convention dictates that the two players shake hands at the end of a match. (from Tennis)
Image 13Lawn tennis in the US, 1887 (from Tennis)
Image 14Racket of Franjo Punčec in a wooden frame – late 1930s (from Tennis)
Image 15Roger Federer hitting a serve. (from Tennis)
Image 16A tennis racket and balls (from Tennis)
Image 17Rod Laver (from Tennis)
Image 18A carpet court in Kraków, Poland (from Carpet court)
Image 19Novak Djokovic (from Tennis)
Image 201896 Summer Olympics men's singles final (from History of tennis)
Image 21Rafael Nadal hitting a forehand. (from Tennis)
Image 22Maria Sharapova during the 2008 Family Circle Cup played on green clay (from Clay court)
Image 23Novak Djokovic hitting a two-handed backhand. (from Tennis)
Image 24Ken Rosewall (from Tennis)
Image 25Two different tennis strings of lengths 12m (left), and 200 m (right) (from Tennis)
Image 26Tennis court in Petäjävesi, Finland (from Tennis)
Image 27The scoreboard of a match between Andy Roddick and Cyril Saulnier (from Tennis)
Image 28Ashleigh Barty at the 2011 Junior Wimbledon Championships (from Tennis)
Image 29Serena Williams serving at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. (from Grass court)
Image 30A tennis match at Centre Court in Wimbledon in 2007 (from Tennis)
Image 31The dimensions of a tennis court (from Tennis)
Image 32Players on a roofless centre court in 2008 (from History of tennis)
Image 33Lawn tennis in Canada, ca. 1900 (from Tennis)
Image 34Rafael Nadal is known as "The King of Clay" (from Clay court)
Image 35International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino (from Tennis)
Image 36Augurio Perera's house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, where he and Harry Gem first played the modern game of lawn tennis (from Tennis)
Image 37Drawing of a Lawn Tennis court as originally designed by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1874 (from History of tennis)
Image 38Court Philippe Chatrier at Stade Roland Garros in Paris during the 2006 French Open (from Clay court)
Image 39Jeu de paume in the 17th century (from Tennis)
Image 40Amateur tennis match in Sweden, 1892. (from History of tennis)
Image 41Roger Federer (from Tennis)