Open Era 1968-1979

The Swede with the two handed backhand and heavy topspin changed tennis physically and stylistically. He won the French Open six t...

Evert won 157 singles titles and lost barely 10 percent of more than 1,300 matches, the most consistent career in tennis history. ...

King won 39 major titles across singles, doubles and mixed, including the famous 1973 Battle of the Sexes win over Bobby Riggs. Sh...

The Australian with the supreme reach and fitness won 24 major singles titles, still the all time record, including the 1970 calen...

The Bucharest genius won the 1972 US Open and 1973 French Open and became the first official ATP number one in August 1973. His to...

The Argentine with the bulging biceps and heavy topspin swept the 1977 season, winning Roland Garros and the US Open on clay at Fo...

Ashe won the inaugural Open Era US Open in 1968 as an amateur lieutenant, the Australian in 1970, and Wimbledon in 1975 at 31, dis...

The Aboriginal Australian with the silken game won seven major singles titles, including Wimbledon titles in 1971 and 1980 and the...

The ATP Finals gather the top eight singles players and doubles teams of the season in a round robin format. Founded in 1970, it m...

The WTA Finals began in 1972 in Boca Raton and crowned Evert, Navratilova, Graf and Seles in its early decades. The round robin fo...

The Indian Wells Tennis Garden in the California desert hosts the fifth largest tournament in the world, founded in 1974. Its Stad...

The Paris indoor championship was founded in 1968 and moved to the Accor Arena at Bercy in 1986. It is the only Masters 1000 playe...

Smith won the US Open in 1971 and Wimbledon in 1972, beating Ilie Nastase in a five set final. A tall serve and volleyer, he was a...

Wade won the first US Open of the Open Era in 1968 and the Australian Open in 1972. Her Wimbledon victory in 1977, in the year of ...