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15 Interesting Tennis Facts
1Longest Match - between John
Isner and Nicolas Mahut endured for 11 hours. Isner was the winner.
2Shortest Match - between Suzanne
Lenglen and Molla Mallory which only lasted for 23 minutes.
3Fastest Serve was performed by
Sam Groth with an incredible speed of 263km/hr (163mph)
4Fastest Serve (Woman) - 210.8km/
hr (131mph) by Sabine Lisicki
5Richest Tennis Player is Roger
Federer with $97,855,881
6Ivo Karlovic is an oldest
professional male tennis player, he is 36 years old
7Kimiko Date-Krumn is an oldest
female professional tennis player, she is 44 years old
8
Tennis balls were originally white
9Tennis was initially played without hands. Players used their palms.
10There are 24 tons of strawberries ordered each year at Wimbledon
11Strings were originally made of
cow and sheep guts
12Initially, tennis balls were made of
leather and filled with hair
13Margaret Smith Court holds the
record with 24 grand slam singles titles
14
Tennis comes from Great Britain
15There are 5 main court types: Grass, Clay, Wood, Hard and
Carpet
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