15 Interesting Facts about Tennis

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11Strings were originally made of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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