Portal:Tennis/Did you know/09 2007

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 * ...that German Hans Nüsslein was the only non-American to win the Wembley Championship between 1934 and 1953 and the first player to win each of the three pre-Open Era major professional tournaments?
 * ...that at the 1st Pan American Games, held in 1951, Argentines Enrique Morea and Maria Teran de Weiss each won a gold medal in both the singles and doubles tournaments for his or her gender?
 * ...that the American professional Pete Sampras popularized the jump smash, a variant of the overhead smash (pictured), a shot in which a ball is hit above the head with a serve-like motion, in which he jumped and hit the smash in mid-air with great force?
 * ...that in each of six years between 1963 and 1973 Australian Margaret Court won more than half of the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles awarded in Grand Slam tournaments?
 * ...that the seating area at Stade Uniprix, a twelve-court complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at which the Canada Masters, a tournament in the hardcourt US Open Series, is a remnant of Le Stade Jarry, the original home of the Montreal Expos of Major League Baseball?
 * ...that the players who compose a winning side in the Hopman Cup, a co-ed international team tournament held annually in Perth, Australia, receive individual tennis ball-shaped trophies encrusted with diamonds from the Argyle diamond mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia?