Coolest Tennis Facts and records

1. First Wimbledon’s women’s singles was held in 1884.
2. Marylebone Cricket club first laid down the rules for Lawn Tennis.
3. International Lawn Tennis Federation was found in 1912.
4. Nicknamed as Little Mo, Maureen Conolly became the first woman to achieve Tennis Grand Slam.
5. Norman Brookes was the first Australian to win the Wimbledon Championship.
6. Monica Seles is the youngest player to win a French Open, in 1990 beating Steffi Graf.
7. Pete Sampras is the youngest Player to win U.S. Open.
8. In 1985 Boris Becker was the first unseeded Wimbledon champion. He beat Kevin Curran in the 1985 Wimbledon finals.
9. Women’s singles French Open has been won by Chris Evert for a record 7 times.
10. Manual Santana was the first Spainard to win men’s Wimbledon in 1966.
11. Martina Navratilova won the Women’s grand slam consecutively in 1984 & 85.
12. Bill Tilden was the Titanic survivor who went on to win the Wimbledon doubles in 1920.
13. Lottie Dod won her first Wimbledon title at the age of 15. She had won 5 Wimbledon titles against the same opponent.
14. Bunny Austin was the first to wear shorts at Wimbledon.
15. From 1927 to 1938 Helen Wills Moody won 8 Wimbledon titles.
16. Wimbledon starts from 6 Mondays back the first Monday of August.
17. Wimbledon was first televised in 1937.
18. Rodney Grover Laver of Australia won the first ever grand slam.
19. Elizabeth Ryan of U.S has won 19 Wimbledon doubles titles.
20. Monica Seles was once stabbed during a match.
21. Boris Becker—Wimbledon, Pete Sampras—U.S. Open, Michael Chang—French Open, are the youngest to win the respective tournaments.
22. The first man to beat Bjorn Borg at the Wimbledon was Roger Taylor in 1973.
23. In 1996, Mahesh Bhupathi &Leander Paes of  India reached the finals of all the 4 tennis grand slams & won 2 of them.