Portal talk:Tennis

First black MAN to win a Grand Slam
It is mentioned - under Did you know... - that Noah is the second black after Ashe to win a GS. This must be in men's singles, right? Could someone please confirm/correct?--HJ 21:09, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * well yes, of course. yannick noah won the french, i believe. -- tennis man    sign here!  00:34, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Informal Peer Review
Hey people. I was just browsing around when I found this portal. As it is, it's a decent portal with alot of recent activity. I have some suggestions on improving the portal:


 * 1) News section: News captions should be short and concise, with the following format: Date published: News (Source)
 * 2) Selected articles, biographies, and pictures should have a wiki-link to the subject in its opening sentence
 * 3) DYK section: Did you knows... should be short and concise
 * 4) Given the amount of quotes from tennis related media, the portal should feature a rotating template so that each time the page is accessed a new quote is shown, instead of the current multi-list format
 * 5) Tournament results should be reported separately from the News section, perhaps even getting their own caption box on the page.
 * 6) Since the portal already features a multi-tab-page system, suggest adding two additional sub-pages: (1) for tournaments and (2) for gameplay.
 * 7) A Tournaments sub-page could include a recent tournament results caption box, an article caption for each grand slam, and a list of all current tennis tournaments in chronological order.
 * 8) For gameplay, different article and picture caption box for tennis shots, terminologies, and sporting equipment.

These are just suggestions which could, not necessarily should, be incorporated. Given the amount of information, this could easily be a featured portal given a little time and work. Any additions or retractions are welcome. - Mtmelendez (Talk 01:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * #2 has been corrected for this month, and I'll remember to do it from now on. The #3, DYKs will be short and concise, resembling those on the main page, although obviously no limit on the freshness of the articles. I'll take note of the rotation of quotes; it's an interesting idea although I am not yet sure how will it work. As for the additional subpages, two more pages will overcrowd the portal, so it may be a better idea to combine gameplay and tournaments together. -- DarkFalls talk 09:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I know of a template that can help randomize the quotes, and you're right: perhaps a page that combines gameplay and tournaments seems fine. - Mtmelendez (Talk 11:09, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Is anyone here?
I just came to this page and noticed that no one had updated the In the news... section since before the US Open. As such, I added the final results and the results of the WTA Tour Championships to the section. This leads me to wonder if anyone actually does anything with this portal or if it just sits here. -- tennis man  16:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

2008
Wow, nothing updated in a while. I would like to change the portal look and feel to be like WikiProject_Medicine... They seem really organized. I will be working on it in my sandbox. Mjquin_id (talk) 04:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

ATP player profiles
Looks like the old profile links now lead to nowwhere due to the ATP Website relaunch...--Deinocheirus (talk) 19:56, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

!Help (Did You Know)
well, I added (4) Did you know bullets but somehow they are repeating ...can anyone help/fix? I tried to mimic math Portal to say show 1 of 4 but to no avail ...thanks--Billymac00 (talk) 03:52, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Remove the portal
Today talking about the Australian Open as a featured article, and having a featured biography of Kim Clijsters as a retired top player, the day after she won the US Open is painful. Isn't it wise to remove this portal ? Kvdh (talk) 06:47, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Portal Total category is up for deletion
2010 May 7* Svick (talk) 13:07, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Years in the US Open
I have added a navigation box by year for Category:2010 US Open Series so you can go readily to the previous years, as far as 2004 only. The category is now also in categories “2010 in tennis” (like the Australian, French & German Opens) and in “2010 in American sports” The subcategory Category:2010 US Open (tennis) also has a navigation box, back to 2004. It is the only content in the main category unless someone looks for other articles which should be in “2004 US Open (series)”, and similarly for 2005, 2006, and probably 2007. Hugo999 (talk) 10:25, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

2012 Swiss Indoors Basel & 2012 Swiss Indoors
Hi. My english isn't well but i have a question. What's the different between 2012 Swiss Indoors Basel and 2012 Swiss Indoors? I think it's the same for a second time. --SuperAle (talk) 15:59, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Three straight titles article
I'm colaborating with adding all the tennis data to the Three-peat article. For the beginners, a three-peat is a streak of at least three titles.

I've added all about:


 * The Davis and Fed Cups.
 * The Grand Slam tournaments.
 * The Master 1000 tourneys.

I'm thinking about adding more data, but I'm also interested in your stance about the notability criteria (e.g. what's the lowest acceptable level: Challengers, ATP 250-500, M1000/WTA Premiers...?)

--Ernestogon (talk) 02:54, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Proposed new Wikiproject and Portal masthead/logo
I took it upon myself to be bold and swapped in my new creation on the Wikiproject page, since reverted, sob, as well as here at the portal.

In case some of you think better of it, I would be willing to make other versions of it with other players. Perhaps we could even engineer a mechanism where different players' versions would periodically replace themselves. Just a thought. I can also easily make other versions for Wikipedias where tennis is spelled differently ("tenis", "teniso"). Regards, --Mareklug talk 17:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about this. It's certainly fancier, but I'm not convinced that fancier (as opposed to simple and straightforward) is what we should go with. Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:31, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Titles in the Open Era Graphic
Hello I made this graphic. My question is if is OK when I add this at this pages: Tennis players with most titles in the Open Era and Open Era tennis records – men's singles. When I have time I'll also great the doubles and the women singles and doubles. Improvements are welcome. --Malo95 (talk) 13:33, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * User:Malo95/Tennis titles per player comparison

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Portal updates
The following updates have been performed to the portal. North America1000 03:59, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Updated portal using Template:Transclude random excerpt, providing current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to article content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion. Used selections moved to the main portal page from Portal:Tennis/Selected article and Portal:Tennis/Selected biography.
 * Expanded the portal with a new General images section, which displays images from various topically-related articles.
 * Added FA-class article to the Selected article section: Mario Power Tennis
 * Added FL-class articles to the Selected article section: List of Australian Open men's singles champions, List of Davis Cup champions, List of Wimbledon gentlemen's singles champions, List of French Open men's singles champions, List of US Open men's singles champions
 * Added FA-class article to the Selected biography section: Milos Raonic
 * Added FL-class article to the Selected biography section: Mikhail Youzhny career statistics
 * Added GA-class articles to the Selected article section: 2009 Sony Ericsson Open, Tennis the Menace, Tennis for Two
 * Added GA-class articles to the Selected biography section: Bianca Andreescu, Petra Kvitová, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Ashleigh Barty, Simona Halep, Belinda Bencic, Sofia Kenin, Michael Boulding, Caroline Dolehide, Edwin Flack, Ons Jabeur, Daria Kasatkina, Madison Keys, Naomi Osaka, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Sloane Stephens, Markéta Vondroušová, Dayana Yastremska, Alexander Zverev, Frances Tiafoe
 * Various additional articles added to the Selected biography section, : Maria Sharapova, Daniela Hantuchová, John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, Caroline Wozniacki, Lindsay Davenport, Li Na, Elena Dementieva, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Mikhail Youzhny, Lucy Diggs Slowe, Pancho Gonzales, Chris Evert, Jiro Sato, Jelena Dokic, Monica Seles
 * Various additional articles added to the Selected article section: US Open (tennis), Indian Wells Masters, International Tennis Federation, ATP Finals, Grand Slam (tennis), Bentley Fortissimo, Clay court, Battle of the Sexes (tennis), World TeamTennis, New York Sportimes, San Francisco Golden Gaters, Fed Cup
 * More articles added to diversify and round-out the portal and provide a more comprehensive topical overview: Tennis elbow, Davis Cup, Australian Hard Court Championships, Tennis New Zealand, Queen's Club Championships, Hungarian Tennis Championships, Brisbane International, Doping in tennis, Shanghai Masters (tennis), US Open Series, Real tennis, Borg–McEnroe rivalry
 * Added present #1 world rankings players not already listed in the portal to the Selected bio section: Robert Farah (tennis), Hsieh Su-wei

Maintainer, etc.
Team, I signed up as a maintainer...as I was on another portal that got deleted without very much notice... (Feel free to add yourself!) I also plan on changing out certain sections to better "randomize" articles. So, I come here for our consensus thoughts.
 * ✅; New Template on talk: Annual readership - this is to "quantify" portal traffic against certain changes. (ideally, a couple weeks apart).
 * ; New Random article Template: Transclude_random_excerpt - Thinking: maybe based off "lists" that could be managed by the group; "List of tennis 'lede' articles"; containing: Tennis, each slam, each tour, etc. Kind of like we do with the "General Images" box. Transclude files as random slideshow, only with articles.
 * Obviously cannot be based on any current category (or probably list); but the Random portal component; feels a bit cumbersome (hence, things not changing very often).
 * Maybe a separate list of "Tennis at the Olympics" that could be rotated in as Primary every four years? (I feel a bit odd not having "some" link to the Olympics right now) - maybe a whole section that could be turned on/off just under the lede?
 * Images to be rotated from either a "managed" category "Category:Tennis Portal Pictures" or "List of tennis pictures"? Mjquinn_id (talk) 22:29, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Can you use overflow for tables?
I tried using overflow-x:auto for horizontal scrolling, but that just pushed the right side of the Portal's display out of sight. Is it possible to change the overall dimensions of the Portal's main page, so that the table fits within the parameters, aka is shown completely? Qwerty284651 (talk) 00:15, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

tools to create draws for tournaments
Hey there, I used this script to create draws for tournaments and it worked just fine for me. Now, however, the ATP changed its design on the website and the script does not work anymore (it was not working with the ITF prior to this, too). I suppose you do not create draws manually and therefore I wonder what you use to create draws for tournaments.--Siebenschläferchen (talk) 13:11, 19 December 2023 (UTC)