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The São Paulo Swallow, the Tennis Ballerina = Maria Bueno [97] [98] [99] Senorita Topspin = Conchita Martínez; Scud = Mark Philippoussis [100] Sliderman = Gaël Monfils [101] Special Kei = Kei Nishikori; Spice Girls [102] = Anna Kournikova; Martina Hingis; Stanimal, Stan the Man = Stanislas Wawrinka; Superbrat = John McEnroe [103] Super Simo ...
"Tennis Court" is a song recorded by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde. She co-wrote the song with Joel Little , with production handled by the latter. Universal Music Group (UMG) released the song as the second single from her debut studio album Pure Heroine (2013) in Australia and New Zealand on 7 June 2013.
In September 2009, Wilmington, North Carolina, named its new community tennis court facility the Althea Gibson Tennis Complex at Empie Park. [111] Other tennis facilities named in her honor include those at Manning High School (near her birthplace in Silver, South Carolina), [ 112 ] the Family Circle Tennis Center in Charleston, South Carolina .
In 1998, Laver received the Philippe Chatrier Award (the ITF's highest accolade) for his contributions to tennis and in 2000, Centre Court at the National Tennis Centre in Melbourne was renamed Rod Laver Arena. Laver was named as a Queensland Great in June 2005. [100] In 2009, he was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. [101]
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [28] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
Fountains of red lava shot into the sky in Sicily overnight on March 9-10, as Mount Etna continued to erupt.This footage, recorded in Zafferana Etnea, about five kilometers southeast of Mount Etna ...
The phrase "Anyone for tennis?" (also given as "Tennis, anyone?") is an English language idiom primarily of the 20th century.The phrase is used to invoke a stereotype of shallow, leisured, upper-class toffs (tennis was, particularly before the widespread advent of public courts in the later 20th century, seen as a posh game for the rich, with courts popular at country clubs and private estates).
Italy's Mount Etna shot lava into the sky on Sunday, 12 November, spewing ash high over the Mediterranean island of Sicily. According to Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology ...