Athens Olympics :: Athens Olympics Tennis Events And Results Get the latest tennis News in our olympic tennis News Archives. an interestingtennis factbox for Athens 2004 which gives a history of olympic tennis as http://www.livingroom.org.au/olympics/archives/athens_olympics_tennis_events_and
Extractions: In 1996, Andre Agassi became the fourth player to win singles titles at the Olympics and the U.S. Nationals. Agassi, the 1994 US Open men's singles champion, won the 1996 Olympic gold medal in men's singles, defeating Spain's Sergi Bruguera in the final. Others that have achieved this prestigious double include Graf (1988 gold medal, 1988-89, '93, '95 U.S. champion); Helen Wills Moody (1924 gold medal, 1923-25, '27-29, '31 U.S. champion) and Beals Wright (1904 gold medal, 1905 U.S. champion). In doubles, Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge, Ken Flach and Robert Seguso and Helen Wills Moody and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman are the only three tandems to win both the Olympic gold medal and a U.S. doubles title. Woodbridge and Woodforde won the 1996 Olympic gold medal in men's doubles and the US Open doubles title in 1995. Flach and Seguso were Olympic champions in 1988 and US Open champions in 1985. Wills Moody and Hotchkiss Wightman were Olympic champions in 1924 and won the U.S. title as a pair in 1928. IBM Corp United States Tennis Association
Olympic History OLYMPICS HISTORY SPORT Tvnz.co.nz history. olympic history. New Zealand failed to be represented at the first three Perry knocked out of tennis singles Wheel Blacks in medal contention http://tvnz.co.nz/view/sport_story_skin/431308?format=html
Trinicenter.com - Serving Up A History Lesson the most onesided tennis final in olympic history, makes it hard to argue . tennis rejoined the olympic program only in 1988, after an absence of 56 http://www.trinicenter.com/Sports/servinguphistory.htm
Extractions: Williams won 22 doubles matches 6:42PM, Sep 28, 2000 African American Venus Williams added her second gold medal on Thursday, teamming up with sister Serena to win the tennis doubles title. The Williams sisters crushed Miriam Oremans and Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands, 6-1, 6-1 in only 50-minutes. The Williams have now won their past 22 doubles matches, yet their Olympic partnership was in jeopardy for a time, with Serena's choice ahead of the higher-ranked Lisa Raymond challenged by the miffed world No.3. Coach Billie Jean King had argued that the sisters were the better team, and this result, ending in the most one-sided tennis final in Olympic history, makes it hard to argue. One Williams is intimidating enough; facing two such powerful, exceptional athletes, must be demoralising indeed. The Williams sisters were asked to respond to JOHN McENROE's latest critique of them. In a British newspaper, McEnroe described the sisters as less than gracious in victory. "I don't think we are here to talk about that," SERENA WILLIAMS said. "I'm sure he's a great guy." . . . As their Olympic competition ended, Venus Williams's singles winning streak stood at 32; and the sisters had won 33 of 34 doubles matches. Putting her name down in history, Venus Williams also became the first woman to win gold medals in the singles and doubles since Helen Wills in 1924. Tennis rejoined the Olympic program only in 1988, after an absence of 56 years.
NZ Summer Olympic History NZ Summer olympic history. 1908, For the 1908 Games in London and the 1912 Anthony Wilding from Canterbury, won bronze in the men s tennis singles. http://www.olympic.org.nz/Article.aspx?ID=343
Extractions: Yellow Pages E-Mail E-Cards Matrimonial ... Athens 2004 Modern History of Olympics 1896 Athens, Greece Venue Athens , Greece (GRE) Opening Date 06 April 1896 Nations Participated Athletes Events Winner USA with 20 points Medals First Second Third USA Greece Germany Medal The very first modern Olympic Games were held in the first week of April 1896 at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. The people of Athens greeted the Games with great enthusiasm. Pole vaulting, sprints, shot put, weight lifting, swimming, cycling, target shooting, tennis, marathon and gymnastics were all events at the first Olympics. The swimming events were held in the Bay of Zea in the Aegean Sea. The American James Connolly won the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years. Winners were awarded a silver medal and a crown of olive branches. 1900 Paris, France Venue Paris, France Opening Date 14 May 1900 Nations Participated Athletes Events Winner France with 100 Points Medals First Second Third France USA Great Britain Medal The Games of 1900 were held in Paris as part of the Exposition Universelle Internationale - the Paris Worlds Fair. The years Olympics were poorly organized and poorly publicized, because of the fair. It was in this Olympic Games that women first participated as contestants. The first female champion was in tennis, Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain. In athletics, different nations competed on the same team in five categories.
Modern Olympic History - Olympics - Sports - Webindia123.com Sante Gaiardoni of Italy became the only cyclist in olympic history to win both the The new amateur rule allowed tennis to return to the olympic Games, http://www.webindia123.com/sports/olymp/olymp1.htm
Extractions: Yellow Pages E-Mail E-Cards Matrimonial ... Athens 2004 Modern History of Olympics 1956 Melbourne, Australia Venue Melbourne, Australia Opening Date 22 November 1956 Nations Athletes Events Winner USSR with 98 points Medals Gold Silver Bronze USSR USA Australia Medal Emblem The 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne were the first Olympics to be held in the southern hemisphere. For the first and only time, due to the stringent animal quarantine laws, the equestrian events was detached from the main Games and held at Stockholm, Sweden almost five months before the start of the actual Games. Laszlo Papp of Hungary became the first boxer to win three gold medals. The U.S. basketball team put on the most dominant performance in Olympic history by scoring more than twice as much as their opponents and winning each of their games by at least 30 points. In weightlifting, ties are broken by awarding the higher place to the athlete with the lower body weight. For the first time in the Olympics, athletes entered en masse - a symbol of global unity - at the closing ceremony. 1960 Rome, Italy
Web Archive Copy: Women In The Olympics - A Brief History Since Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain won gold in singles tennis at the 1900 Paris The first woman in olympic history to take the oath at the opening http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/2001/ascpub/women_olym_hist.asp
Extractions: This is an archive copy of a document originally located at http://www.activeaustralia.org/women/olym_hist.htm The 20th May 2000 marks the 100th anniversary of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. It also marks the centenary of womens participation in the modern Olympics. Three events were available for women at the 1900 Olympic Games: golf, tennis and yachting. When the modern Olympic Games began in 1896 women had no part in the competition. In fact, the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin had said on several occasions that the Olympics were no place for women. He felt that rather than seek records for herself, a womans greatest achievement was to encourage her sons to excel. Women had to work to gain a presence in the Olympic arena and force open the door to one sport after another. Swimming for women was included in the Games in 1912 and a limited program of track and field was added in 1928. Womens races longer than 200m were banned until 1960 when the 800m was reintroduced. The womens marathon was not added until 1984. In 1992 the 10,000m walk was introduced and recently, waterpolo which had been the domain of men since the Olympics first began was added to the 2000 Olympic Games program for women. Women have played an enormous role in painting the Olympic picture. Since Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain won gold in singles tennis at the 1900 Paris Olympics, many women have put their stamp on Olympic history.
Extractions: This computer-generated image released by the London 2012 committee shows an aerial view of London's Olympic Park by night. London won the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games after a vote by IOC members in Singapore on July 6, 2005, beating out Paris, New York City, Madrid and Moscow. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/London 2012/Handout LONDON - From the grass courts of Wimbledon to the prime minister's neighborhood, the venues for the 2012 Olympics in London will provide a variety of backdrops - both traditional and new. The All England Club, annual site of Wimbledon, will be the setting for the Olympic tennis tournament when London hosts the 2012 Olympics. It's one of several London landmarks which will double as venues, along with a new 80,000-seat stadium in the East End suburb of Stratford. "It's the first time that the Olympic tennis event has been played on grass since 1920 Antwerp and the second time that the All England Club has hosted the event (1908)," International Tennis Federation president Francesco Ricci Bitti said. "We are confident that the 2012 Olympic tennis event will be outstanding."
Extractions: ATHENS, Greece - Li Ting and Sun Tian Tian won China's first Olympic tennis medal ever by beating Conchita Martinez and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday for the doubles gold. The eighth-seeded Chinese pair hadn't won a title all year, and ended a four-match losing streak by eliminating 2000 gold medalist Venus Williams and Chanda Rubin in the opening round. In the final match of the Olympic tennis tournament later Sunday, unseeded Mardy Fish of the United States faced No. 10 Nicolas Massu for the men's singles gold. The doubles silver is Martinez's third Olympic medal - but none is gold. She paired with Arantxa Sanchez Vicario to win the silver in 1992 and the bronze in 1996. Martinez and Ruano Pascual had played just one tournament together before the Olympics, yet they were seeded second.
University Of Florida Athletics ***Gatorzone.com*** UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA olympic history. List of UF Olympians 2004 One gymnast,one tennis player and three track stars also competed in Los Angeles. http://www.gatorzone.com/olympics/
Extractions: Official Website of the Athens 2004 Games Few schools in the country can match the rich Olympic tradition the University of Florida boasts. As the Athens game approach, since 1968, 118 Gators and 11 Florida coaches have represented 27 countries in 10 Olympiads and laid claim to 76 medals, including 39 golds. 2004 was another banner outing for athletes and coaches with University of Florida ties, as 27 athletes and two coaches combined for seven medals - four gold, two silver and a bronze. Abby Wambach scored the game-winning goal in overtime of the gold medal match to lead the United States to victory, while Ryan Lochte led the United States to a victory in the 4x200-meter freestyle. Darian Townsend helped the South African squad set a world record in the 4x100-meter freestyle, while Lochte added a silver in the 200-meter individual medley, while on the track Bernard Williams took home silver in the 200-meter dash. The Olympic tradition for UF began in 1972 when track and field standout Ron Jourdan and swimmer Tim McKee exchanged the Orange and Blue of UF for the red, white and blue of the United States. Jourdan competed in the high jump, while McKee collected two silvers in Munich.
Summer Olympics 2000 Kafelnikov Takes Gold, Makes Russian History even sure he should be playing in the olympic tennis tournament, never mindwinning it. Kafelnikov also said that Russia is taking over in tennis. http://espn.go.com/oly/summer00/tennis/s/2000/0928/785177.html
Extractions: SYDNEY, Australia Just three weeks ago Yevgeny Kafelnikov was not even sure he should be playing in the Olympic tennis tournament, never mind winning it. "I was thinking it's probably not worth it for me to come here the way I was playing then," Kafelnikov said in Sydney on Thursday after winning OLympic gold. Now, after beating Germany's Tommy Haas in a hard-fought final 7-6, 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, he reflected on his mood in early September after losing to Slovakia's Dominik Hrbaty in straight sets in the third round of the U.S. Open. "I was really down on myself after that loss and had all kind of thoughts, but I had never said to anyone that I'm pulling out." Nevertheless, his words in New York were interpreted quite differently in Moscow, bringing a storm of criticism back home from Russian Olympic chief Vitaly Smirnov as well as the media. "You can make millions of dollars or commute in a private jet, but when it comes to giving your best for your country, he takes a back seat to many of our true sports heroes," Smirnov said when he thought Kafelnikov was pulling out of the Olympics.
Untitled Document olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Althea Gibson Broke the color barrierin tennis and golf The rest is history - olympic history that is. http://www.blackwomeninsport.org/home.html
Extractions: Trailblazers. Pioneers. Leaders. Breaking down barriers of race and gender, these 10 black female sports figures redefined the role of women in sports and laid the foundation for future generations. In honor of Black History Month, we celebrate their groundbreaking achievements and honor their contributions. Alice Coachman - Pioneer for black female athletes in all sports Growing up in the segregated South during the 1920s and '30s, Alice Coachman was denied access to public facilities and forced to run barefoot in the streets. With the little opportunity she was given, Coachman took it and ran with it - literally. Overcoming racial segregation, Coachman went on to win 25 AAU track titles and numerous national championships at Tuskegee Institute, mostly in the long jump. However, her greatest achievement came in 1948 in London when she became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. By breaking the race barrier for women, Coachman opened the door for the future black female track stars, including some of the greats, like Wilma Rudolph, Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Dominique Dawes - Three-time Olympic medalist As a young girl, Women's Sports Foundation President Dominique Dawes spent hours at the gym in order to achieve her dream of winning an Olympic medal. Her hard work paid off - big time. In 1988, she became the first African-American on the U.S. national gymnastics team, and in 1992, the first on the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team. In 1996, Dawes reached another milestone, winning an individual bronze medal in the floor exercises - the first black to earn an individual Olympic medal in women's gymnastics. She earned an Olympic gold medal the same year, as the U.S. women's gymnastics team won the team event in Atlanta. In a career of firsts, Dawes inspired a generation and set the stage for today's black gymnasts.
The Tennis Channel::History Graff wins the Golden Slam all four Grand Slam titles plus an olympic GoldMedal. This Week in tennis history. 8/10/1973 Lisa Raymond is born. http://www.thetennischannel.com/game/history/
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INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS tennis tennis history In addition, olympic tennis is now open to allplayers, thus many of the world s great professionals compete. http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=TE&sportCode=
Women's Tennis Team Aiming For Aces of the biggest upsets in olympic history, seizing the first tennis gold forChina from their The win has gone down in the history of Chinese tennis. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/11/content_399414.htm
Extractions: But Chinese girls are already aiming at the higher goal of Grand Slam events - and undergoing high-intensity training in Jiangmen, southern China's Guangdong Province, for next year's Australia Open. Li Ting and Sun Tiantian were virtually unknown before the Olympic Games, but this year pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history, seizing the first tennis gold for China from their powerful European and American counterparts. Big names were seen everywhere in Athens as thirteen of the world's top 20 women players entered the tournament, including Grand Slam winners Venus Williams, Martina Navratilova, Anastasia Myskina and Mary Pierce. But it was Li and Sun who belied all the pre-game forecasts by overpowering their first sensational rivals, the Williams/Chanda Rubin pair, to mark an unbelievable victory in their first Olympic match.
This Week In Tennis History May 6 - 12 This Week In tennis history May 6 12 Officials and players I ve talkedwith agreed that the olympic tennis tournament would be No. http://www.usta.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=173426&itype=&iCategoryID=171
History Of Olympic Medalists history of olympic Medalists. 10/16/02 348 PM. The following is a complete listof the athletes that have won an olympic Medal in tennis http://www.usta.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=23135
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