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2 days ago
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Wimbledon 2025: Anniversaries for Serena Williams, Arthur Ashe, Isner-Mahut and COVID
FILE - Security guards at the entrance in front of Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon in London, Monday, June 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth,File) FILE - John Isner of the US and France's Nicolas Mahut, right, pose for a photo next to the scoreboard following their epic men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant,Pool,File) FILE - Pete Sampras kisses the trophy, after defeating Australia's Patrick Rafter in the Men's Singles final on the Center Court at Wimbledon Sunday, July 9, 2000. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin,File) FILE - In this July 7, 1990, file photo, Martina Navratilova fights back tears as she poses with her record ninth ladies singles championship trophy at Wimbledon, after defeating Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1. (AP Photo/Roy Letkey, FIle) FILE - Tennis player Anne White of the U.S. is shown in a tight fitting body suit, which she has been banned from wearing in her resumed match against fellow American Pam Shriver, June 28, 1985. (AP Photo/Seelan Naidoo,File) FILE - Sweden's Bjorn Borg falls to his knees in front of the scoreboard on the Centre Court, Wimbledon, London, July 5, 1980, after beating American John McEnroe, unseen, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-7, 8-6, to take the Mens' Singles Final for the fifth year in succession. (AP Photo/Robert Dear) FILE - In this July 5, 1975, file photo, Arthur Ashe holds the men's singles trophy after defeating fellow American Jimmy Conners in the final of the men's singles championship at the All England Lawn Tennis Championship in Wimbledon, London. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Serena Williams of the United States reacts as she holds up the trophy after winning the women's singles final against Garbine Muguruza of Spain, at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin,File) FILE - Serena Williams of the United States reacts as she holds up the trophy after winning the women's singles final against Garbine Muguruza of Spain, at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin,File) FILE - Security guards at the entrance in front of Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon in London, Monday, June 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth,File) FILE - John Isner of the US and France's Nicolas Mahut, right, pose for a photo next to the scoreboard following their epic men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant,Pool,File) FILE - Pete Sampras kisses the trophy, after defeating Australia's Patrick Rafter in the Men's Singles final on the Center Court at Wimbledon Sunday, July 9, 2000. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin,File) FILE - In this July 7, 1990, file photo, Martina Navratilova fights back tears as she poses with her record ninth ladies singles championship trophy at Wimbledon, after defeating Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1. (AP Photo/Roy Letkey, FIle) FILE - Tennis player Anne White of the U.S. is shown in a tight fitting body suit, which she has been banned from wearing in her resumed match against fellow American Pam Shriver, June 28, 1985. (AP Photo/Seelan Naidoo,File) FILE - Sweden's Bjorn Borg falls to his knees in front of the scoreboard on the Centre Court, Wimbledon, London, July 5, 1980, after beating American John McEnroe, unseen, 1-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-7, 8-6, to take the Mens' Singles Final for the fifth year in succession. (AP Photo/Robert Dear) FILE - In this July 5, 1975, file photo, Arthur Ashe holds the men's singles trophy after defeating fellow American Jimmy Conners in the final of the men's singles championship at the All England Lawn Tennis Championship in Wimbledon, London. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Serena Williams of the United States reacts as she holds up the trophy after winning the women's singles final against Garbine Muguruza of Spain, at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin,File) LONDON (AP) — A look at some of the anniversaries this year at Wimbledon: 50 years ago (1975): Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King win Wimbledon Arthur Ashe became the first — and to this day, only — Black man to win the singles title at Wimbledon in 1975, beating defending champion Jimmy Connors 6–1, 6–1, 5–7, 6–4 in the final. Also that year, Billie Jean King easily won her sixth — and, it turned out, last — singles championship at the All England Club, defeating Evonne Goolagong 6-0, 6-1. It also was the 19th of the 20 total Wimbledon trophies (across singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles) that King would win. Advertisement 45 years ago (1980): Bjorn Borg collects his 5th Wimbledon title in a row Bjorn Borg earned his fifth consecutive Wimbledon trophy in 1980, barely getting past rival John McEnroe 1–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–7 (16), 8–6 in a final immediately — and still — considered one of the greatest tennis matches of all time. The fourth-set tiebreaker alone, known as The War of 1816, is still discussed with reverence. 40 years ago (1985): Anne White's white bodysui t at the All England Club Anne White showed up for her first-round Wimbledon match in 1985 against Pam Shriver wearing a full white bodysuit that drew plenty of attention — and criticism. After they split the first two sets, play was called because of darkness. During the break, White was told that the All England Club did not love her original outfit, even if it did comply with the all-white rule, and she wound up wearing more traditional clothing for the third set when action resumed the next day. Shriver won the match. Advertisement 35 years ago (1990): Martina Navratilova wins her 9th Wimbledon trophy A 6-4, 6-1 victory over Zina Garrison in the 1990 final gave Martina Navratilova her record ninth Wimbledon championship. It also was her 18th and last Grand Slam title, equaling rival Chris Evert for the Open era record at the time. 25 years ago (2000): Pete Sampras gets 7th Wimbledon, 13th Slam title Pete Sampras' 2000 Wimbledon title, via a 6–7 (10), 7–6 (5), 6–4, 6–2 victory over Patrick Rafter in the final, gave the American his seventh, and last, trophy at the All England Club and his then-record 13th title from all Grand Slam tournaments. Sampras would win his 14th major at the 2002 U.S. Open, then walk away from the sport. That stood as the men's record until Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic all surpassed it. Advertisement 15 years ago (2010): Isner and Mahut play a 70-68 fifth set at Wimbledon John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played the longest tennis match on record at Wimbledon in 2010, competing for 11 hours, 5 minutes stretched across three days in the first round at the All England Club, until Isner eventually prevailed 70-68 in the fifth set. That was part of the impetus for rules changes that eventually mandated tiebreakers at 6-all in fifth sets of men's matches (and third sets of women's matches) at all four Grand Slam tournaments. 10 years ago (2015): Williams gets a 'Serena Slam' as oldest major champ Serena Williams completed her second self-styled 'Serena Slam' — four Grand Slam titles in a row, although not all within a single season — by winning Wimbledon in 2015. Her 6-4, 6-4 victory over Garbiñe Muguruza in the final made the 33-year-old Williams the oldest woman to win a major singles championship in the Open era. It also set up Williams for a bid at a true Grand Slam — going 4 for 4 at the majors within one calendar year — at the U.S. Open later in 2015. She fell just short, losing to Roberta Vinci in a stunning upset in the semifinals in New York. Advertisement 5 years ago (2020): Wimbledon is canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic Wimbledon was called off in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the first time since World War II that the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament wasn't held. The cancellation was announced in April, with Britain under a nationwide lockdown. Roger Federer offered a one-word commentary on social media, writing simply: 'Devastated.' ___ Howard Fendrich has been the AP's tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: More AP tennis:
Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
John Isner v Nicolas Mahut: the inside story of tennis's longest match
I f a film is ever made about the longest tennis match in history, it would be portmanteau style with criss-crossing storylines, all finishing up on Wimbledon's No18 Court, maybe with some apocalyptic zombies in the supporting cast. It would obviously star a lookalike of Nicolas Mahut, the Frenchman who came through qualifying, and John Isner, the American best known for being exceedingly tall. Plus Mohamed Lahyani, the umpire. But a smart director would start with two journalists going to work that day, 15 years ago. One would be Ronald McIntosh, a BBC commentator who had worked primarily in boxing. He had never covered a tennis match in his life. On the BBC rota, McIntosh was given Isner-Mahut because it was low key. A good one on which to cut his teeth.
UPI
5 days ago
- Politics
- UPI
On This Day, June 24: Isner defeats Mahut in longest tennis match
1 of 2 | A victorious John Isner (L) and Nicolas Mahut (R) stand in front of the scoreboard after Isner won the longest tennis match in history in the final set 70-68 on court 18 on the fourth day of the Wimbledon championships in Britain on June 24, 2010. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo June 23 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1901, Pablo Picasso's artwork had its first exhibition in Paris. In 1908, former president Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 71. In 1948, Soviet forces blockaded the western zones of Berlin, setting the stage for the Berlin airlift to support the 2 million people of the divided German city. In 1970, the Senate repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, named for the 1964 incident the U.S. government used to justify war against Vietnam. The resolution gave President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization for the war, but the vote was largely symbolic because the Nixon administration didn't use it for legal authority to be in Vietnam. In 1975, an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 en route from New Orleans crashed at New York's Kennedy International airport, killing 113 people. There were 11 survivors. In 1986, Raquel Welch won a $10.8 million verdict against MGM, which she said ruined her career by firing her from the 1980 movie Cannery Row. File Photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI In 1993, a Yale professor was injured by a mail bomb, the second sent by Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, in two days. It was the 14th bomb Kaczynski sent since the 1970s. In 2009, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to having an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina. He resigned as chairman of the GOP governors association but stayed on as governor and was later elected to Congress. In 2010, John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut in a first-round match played over three days at Wimbledon. The match -- longest in pro-tennis history -- took 11 hours, 5 minutes and 183 games to decide a winner. In 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt. The military removed him from the office in 2013 and he was later sentenced to death for his role in a mass prison break in 2011. In 2021, the 12-story Champlain Towers condo building in Surfside, Fla., collapsed, killing 98 people and injuring 11 others. The remains of the building were brought down July 4, 2021. File Photo By Gary I Rothstein/UPI In 2022, the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned its 1973 opinion in Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide. In 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed from a British prison after pleading guilty to a felony charge of espionage in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department. Under the deal, he was sentenced to 62 months in prison, which he already served in Britain while fighting to avoid extradition to the United States. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Sport
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Alex Ovechkin surpassed Wayne Gretzky's NHL goal count. Here are other 'unbreakable' sports records
FILE - This June 24, 2010, file photo shows John Isner of the U.S. and France's Nicolas Mahut, right, posing for a photo next to the scoreboard following their record-breaking men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File) FILE - San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds watches the flight of his home run, his 755th, during the second inning of a baseball game game against the San Diego Padres in San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007. (AP Photo/ Kevork Djansezian, File) FILE - In this March 2, 1962 file photo, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors holds a sign reading "100" in the dressing room in Hershey, Pa., after he scored 100 points, as the Warriors defeated the New York Knickerbockers 169-147. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File) FILE - New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio singles to center in the first inning of the nightcap of a doubleheader with the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on July 2, 1941. The hit ran his consecutive hitting streak to 44 games, equaling the record set in 1897 by Willie Keeler. The Boston catcher is Johnny Peacock with Joe Rue umpiring. (AP Photo/File) FILE - United States' Michael Phelps poses with his gold medal for the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) FILE - Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, chat during a "Champions roudd" as preparations continue for the British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Monday July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File) FILE - Florence Griffith Joyner of Los Angeles, Calif., waves to spectators as she holds aloft a U.S.A No. 1 sign following her world record performance in the finals of the women's 200 meters race, Thursday, Sept. 29, 1988, Seoul, Korea. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File) Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) is greeted by Wayne Gretzky during a ceremony after he scored his 895th career goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against New York Islanders in Elmont, N.Y., Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger) FILE - Los Angeles Kings; Wayne Gretzky (99) and teammate Luc Robitaille, on ice, celebrate Gretzky's scoring his NHL career record-setting goal No. 802 against Vancouver Canucks goalie Kirk McLean during the second period of an NHL hockey game at the Forum at Inglewood, Calif., March 23, 1994. (AP Photo/Eric Draper/File) FILE - Los Angeles Kings; Wayne Gretzky (99) and teammate Luc Robitaille, on ice, celebrate Gretzky's scoring his NHL career record-setting goal No. 802 against Vancouver Canucks goalie Kirk McLean during the second period of an NHL hockey game at the Forum at Inglewood, Calif., March 23, 1994. (AP Photo/Eric Draper/File) FILE - This June 24, 2010, file photo shows John Isner of the U.S. and France's Nicolas Mahut, right, posing for a photo next to the scoreboard following their record-breaking men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File) FILE - San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds watches the flight of his home run, his 755th, during the second inning of a baseball game game against the San Diego Padres in San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007. (AP Photo/ Kevork Djansezian, File) FILE - In this March 2, 1962 file photo, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors holds a sign reading "100" in the dressing room in Hershey, Pa., after he scored 100 points, as the Warriors defeated the New York Knickerbockers 169-147. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File) FILE - New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio singles to center in the first inning of the nightcap of a doubleheader with the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on July 2, 1941. The hit ran his consecutive hitting streak to 44 games, equaling the record set in 1897 by Willie Keeler. The Boston catcher is Johnny Peacock with Joe Rue umpiring. (AP Photo/File) FILE - United States' Michael Phelps poses with his gold medal for the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) FILE - Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, chat during a "Champions roudd" as preparations continue for the British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Monday July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File) FILE - Florence Griffith Joyner of Los Angeles, Calif., waves to spectators as she holds aloft a U.S.A No. 1 sign following her world record performance in the finals of the women's 200 meters race, Thursday, Sept. 29, 1988, Seoul, Korea. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File) Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) is greeted by Wayne Gretzky during a ceremony after he scored his 895th career goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against New York Islanders in Elmont, N.Y., Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger) FILE - Los Angeles Kings; Wayne Gretzky (99) and teammate Luc Robitaille, on ice, celebrate Gretzky's scoring his NHL career record-setting goal No. 802 against Vancouver Canucks goalie Kirk McLean during the second period of an NHL hockey game at the Forum at Inglewood, Calif., March 23, 1994. (AP Photo/Eric Draper/File) Long before Alex Ovechkin surpassed Wayne Gretzky for the NHL goal-scoring record with No. 895 on Sunday, Gretzky moved into the top spot ahead of Gordie Howe by putting the puck in the net for the Los Angeles Kings on March 23, 1994. During the Kings' regional sports network broadcast that day, an announcer breathlessly declared: 'A historic moments in sports, compared with Henry Aaron passing Babe Ruth in home runs, with Pete Rose passing Ty Cobb in hits. Great moments when people thought records would never be broken. Mike Powell passing Bob Beamon's long jump record of 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches. And Wayne Gretzky, indeed, has records that may never be broken. Perhaps this one.' Advertisement Gretzky got his 802nd in that game and ended up with 894 when he retired in 1999. Turns out, Ovechkin did get there, scoring from his 'office' in the left faceoff circle on a power play for the Washington Capitals — the only team the 39-year-old Russian winger has played for since making his NHL debut in 2005 — during the second period of a game against the New York Islanders. 'They say records are made to be broken,' Gretzky said during an on-ice ceremony after Ovechkin moved ahead of him Sunday, 'but I'm not sure who's going to get more goals than that.' Perhaps Ovechkin's final total will prove unsurpassable, even if Gretzky's didn't. Here is a by-the-numbers look at some supposedly unbreakable records that do still stand: Advertisement 10.49 Florence Griffith-Joyner has held the fastest time in the women's 100-meter dash since a breezy day at the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials, and only one other athlete has even gone faster than 10.6. Griffith-Joyner also holds the 200 record, established at the Seoul Olympics that year, and debates over the legitimacy of those two standards continue decades later. 18 There was plenty of talk that Tiger Woods was going to overtake Jack Nicklaus for the most major championships in men's golf, but that was before a series of injuries interrupted Woods' career. He recently had surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon and will miss the upcoming Masters. Woods won his most recent major in 2019, ending an 11-year drought and raising his count to 15; Nicklaus retired with 18. No other active player has more than six. Advertisement 23 Michael Phelps' dominance of the pool left the American swimmer with the most Olympic gold medals from any sport — and no one else has more than nine as of now. Phelps, who retired after the 2016 Rio Olympics, also owns more total medals than any other athlete, 28. 56 Joe DiMaggio's streak of consecutive Major League Baseball games with at least one hit has stood since 1941, and the closest anyone has come since then was Rose's 44-game run in 1978. Another number that might not be surpassed: Rose's 4,256 career hits. Baseball is a sport filled with numbers and, therefore, records, and another one widely deemed unapproachable is Cal Ripken's 2,632 games in a row, more than 500 above Lou Gehrig's previous high. The longest current active streak is below 500. Advertisement 100 Wilt Chamberlain's single-game NBA scoring record was set on March 2, 1962, and while he said a quarter-century later, 'I think it can be broken,' the closest anyone has come was Kobe Bryant's 81 in 2006. 511 Cy Young's career pitching wins are nearly 100 more than anyone else in MLB history and came long before the current era of limiting innings and protecting arms (his last season was 1911). There are some who think there might never be another player to get to 300 wins. The sport's active leader is Justin Verlander, who entered this year with 262 at age 42. 762 Barry Bonds hit more career home runs than anyone else in MLB, bettering Aaron's total of 755 before retiring in 2007. Bonds admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs, although he said he didn't do so knowingly. Also still around: Bonds' season record of 73 homers in 2001. Advertisement 70-68 Consider this record one that simply can't be broken because the rules changed: John Isner's victory over Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010 is the longest match in tennis history, lasting 11 hours, 5 minutes until finishing at 70-68 in the fifth set. In 2022, all four Grand Slam tournaments adopted tiebreakers at 6-6 in the fifth set of men's matches and third set of women's to prevent never-ending marathons. ___ Howard Fendrich is an AP national writer. Find his stories here: More AP NHL:
Bloomberg
30-01-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Dallas Cowboys Look to Tackle the Tennis Business
The Dallas Cowboys are expanding into tennis with the Dallas Open, a $2.8 million tournament being held at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The $1.5 billion dollar development, which houses the team's practice facility and is part of the its world headquarters, will host its first-ever ATP tournament beginning February 1. Dallas Cowboys' co-owner and chief brand officer Charlotte Jones, along with former professional tennis star John Isner, discuss the opportunity for one of the NFL's premier franchises to help grow the sport of tennis as well as its own business profile. Charlotte and John speak with Bloomberg's Julie Fine and Jason Kelly. (Source: Bloomberg)
