Amateur Era to 1967

The redhead from Rockhampton won all four majors in 1962 as an amateur, then spent five pro years barred from them. When the Open ...

Rosewall won the Australian and French in 1953 as an 18 year old, spent his peak years in the pro wilderness with Laver and Hoad, ...

Emerson held the men record of 12 major singles titles from 1967 until Sampras passed it in 2000, winning every major at least twi...

Gonzales won the US amateur title in 1948 and 1949, turned pro, and ruled the professional tour for about a decade, world professi...

Tilden took Wimbledon three times and the US Championships seven in the 1920s, playing before royalty and writing classic instruct...

The French prodigy won Wimbledon six times between 1919 and 1925 and the French twice, never losing a major final. She played with...

Wills won 19 major singles titles from 1923 to 1938, including a record eight Wimbledons that stood until Navratilova. Her ruthles...

The son of a cotton spinner from Stockport won eight majors and three consecutive Wimbledon titles from 1934 to 1936, then turned ...

The red haired American with the booming backhand won six majors in a row, the 1938 calendar Grand Slam, Wimbledon, Forest Hills, ...

Riggs won Wimbledon in 1939 as a 21 year old, taking singles, doubles and mixed, and the US title that year. A shrewd strategist a...

Connolly won the US Championships at 16 in 1951 and took Wimbledon three straight years from 1952. In 1953 she swept all four majo...

Gibson broke the tennis color line after years of segregation, winning the French Championships in 1956, her first major, then Wim...

Newcombe won Wimbledon and the US in 1967 as an amateur, then won four more majors across the Open Era boundary, including Wimbled...

Played on outdoor grass at the All England Club in London, Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, founded in 1877...

The French Championships began in 1891 and moved to Stade Roland Garros in 1928. The slow red clay of Paris rewards stamina, topsp...

First played in 1881, the US Open became the first major to offer equal prize money in 1973. It moved to the USTA Billie Jean King...

Founded in 1905 and rooted at Melbourne Park since 1988, the Australian Open opens the Grand Slam year in January. Blue hard court...

Dwight Davis donated the bowl and the USA played Britain in Boston in 1900, beginning international team tennis. Australia, the US...

The Internazionali d Italia began in 1930 and found its home at the marble statues and pine trees of the Foro Italico. The red cla...

The Monte Carlo Country Club clings to the cliffs of Roquebrune, its center court overlooking the Mediterranean. Founded in 1897, ...

Tennis Canada stages the national championship founded in 1881, alternating annually between Toronto and Montreal, the men and wom...

First played in 1899, Cincinnati is the oldest tennis tournament staged in its original city. Now held in Mason, Ohio on hard cour...

Tennis appeared at the first modern Games in Athens 1896, and champions were crowned until 1924, then left the program after Paris...

Cochet was one of the Four Musketeers who carried France to six straight Davis Cup wins from 1927 to 1932. A slight player who too...

Lacoste won seven major singles titles between 1925 and 1929, including Wimbledon twice and the US Championships twice, built on s...

Kramer won the US Championships in 1946 and 1947 and Wimbledon in 1947 with an aggressive serve and volley approach he called the ...

Hoad won the Australian, French and Wimbledon titles in 1956 and lost the US final to his friend and rival Ken Rosewall, one match...

Bueno won Wimbledon in 1959, 1960 and 1964 and the US Championships four times, bringing a graceful attacking game that made her a...

Held at the Queens Club in West Kensington since 1890, the tournament is one of the oldest in tennis and a traditional preparation...

Founded in 1963 as the Federation Cup to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the International Tennis Federation, it was first played...