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3 days ago · Wimbledon Championships, internationally known tennis championships played annually in London at Wimbledon. The tournament, held in late June and early July, is one of the four annual “Grand Slam” tennis events—along with the Australian, French, and U.S. Opens—and is the only one still played on.
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5 days ago · She won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1985 with Kathy Jordan. In mixed doubles, she teamed with John Fitzgerald to win the 1983 US Open and 1991 Wimbledon titles and with Todd Woodbridge to win the 1990 US Open.
4 days ago · In 1891 the first French national championships were held in the Stade Français, as a men’s interclub competition. In 1897 women’s singles matches were added to tournament play. Women’s doubles matches were added in 1925, the same year that the championships were opened to non-French players.
4 days ago · Australian Open, one of the world’s major tennis championships (the first of the four annual Grand Slam events), held at the National Tennis Centre at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. Started by the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia (later, of Australia), the first tournament for men.
2 days ago · Under Their Thumbs. At the close of the Constitutional Convention (in 1787), a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”.
4 days ago · The 1990 WTA Tour (officially titled 1990 Kraft General Foods World Tour after its sponsor) was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 1990 tennis season.
3 days ago · Albuquerque – Sandia. Next stop: Sandia National Laboratories, near Albuquerque, New Mexico, where we get the title of these chapters. I wrote in Part 1 that the atomic scientists in the 40s and 50s got anything they wanted, a blank check to spend, spend, spend. Sandia National Laboratory just south of Albuquerque, New Mexico was the first ...
