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The Wimbledon World Professional Championship, also known as the Wimbledon Pro, was held in August 1967. It was first time that professional tennis players played on Centre Court at Wimbledon. [54] The tournament was sponsored and broadcast by the BBC to mark the invention of colour television. [55] Wimbledon Pro winner:
Clay: Grand Prix Perth Indoor Tennis Tournament: 1975: 1977: Perth: Hard: Grand Prix Philippine International Tennis Tournament: 1973: 1978: Manila: Hard: Grand Prix Phoenix Open: 1953: 1970: Phoenix, Arizona: Hard: Amateur tour (1953–1967) Grand Prix (1968–1970) Prague Open: 1987: 1999: Prague: Clay: Grand Prix (1987–1989) ATP Tour (1990 ...
A clay-court specialist is a tennis player who excels on clay courts, more than on any other surface. [ citation needed ] Due in part to advances in racquet technology, current clay-court specialists are known for employing long, winding groundstrokes that generate heavy topspin; such strokes are less effective on faster surfaces on which the ...
The Australian and the United States tournaments are played on hard courts, the French on clay, and Wimbledon on grass. Wimbledon is the oldest tournament, founded in 1877, followed by the US in 1881, the French in 1891 (major in 1925), and the Australian in 1905, but it was not until 1925 that all four were held as officially sanctioned majors ...
2013 Boyd Tinsley Women's Clay Court Classic; 2013 Sparta Prague Open; 2013 The Oaks Club Challenger; 2014 Audi Melbourne Pro Tennis Classic; 2014 Boyd Tinsley Women's Clay Court Classic; 2014 Empire Slovak Open; 2014 Seguros Bolívar Open Medellín; 2014 Sparta Prague Open; 2014 The Oaks Club Challenger; 2015 Boyd Tinsley Women's Clay Court ...
The British Hard Court Championships was a Grand Prix tennis and WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament, played in the Open Era from 1968 to 1983 and again (albeit not named as such) from 1995 to 1999.
Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club: Clay 28 1927 Chile Open: Santiago: Club Deportivo Universidad Católica: Clay 28 1930 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships: Houston: River Oaks Country Club: Clay 28 1910 Grand Prix Hassan II: Marrakesh: Royal Tennis Club de Marrakech Clay 28 1984 Romanian Open: Bucharest: BNR Arenas: Clay 28 1993 Geneva Open ...
Centre Court during the 2010 Queen's Club Championships. The Queen's Club Championships are held every year in June. They start one week after the clay-court French Open and conclude one week before the start of the grass court Wimbledon Championships, which are held just 4 miles (6 km) away.