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Jaimee Fourlis (born 17 September 1999) is an Australian tennis player of Greek descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 147, achieved on 18 July 2022, and a highest doubles ranking of world No. 138, reached on 2 March 2020. She has won eight ITF singles titles and six ITF doubles titles. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Fourlis ...
Total points won. Because tennis is scored set by set and game by game, a player may lose a match despite winning the majority of points and/or games played. Consider a player who wins six games in each of two sets, all by a score of game–30. The winner has scored 4×12 = 48 points and the loser 2×12 = 24.
The longest women's match (by time) took place at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, when Vicki Nelson took 6 hours, 31 minutes to defeat Jean Hepner 6–4, 7–6 (13–11). The match featured a 29-minute, 643-shot rally, the longest in professional tennis history, though no video exists of this point.
Analysis of records. Today, the ultimate pursuit in tennis is to win the Grand Slam; winning all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same calendar year. In 1982, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) broadened the definition of the Grand Slam as meaning any four straight major victories, including the ones spanning two calendar years that became known as the non-calendar year Grand Slam ...
Men's singles. Rafael Nadal defeated Daniil Medvedev in the final, 7–5, 6–3, 5–7, 4–6, 6–4 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2019 US Open. It was his fourth US Open title and 19th major title overall. Nadal's victory meant that every major title since the beginning of 2017 had been won by either himself (5), Novak Djokovic ...
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either 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.
Sebastian Korda ( / ˈkɔːrdə / KORD-ə; born July 5, 2000) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 23 achieved on 16 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 57 reached on 6 May 2024. He has won one ATP singles, and one doubles title, at the 2024 Mutua Madrid Open.
Jack Alexander Draper (born 22 December 2001) is a British professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 35 in singles by the ATP, achieved on 20 May 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 477 attained on 14 February 2022. Draper has won five titles on the ATP Challenger Tour and seven on the ITF Tour.