In 1789, Jacques-Louis David attempted to leave his artistic mark on the historical beginnings of the French Revolution with his painting of The Oath of the Tennis Court.

* 1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.

Tennis is enjoyed by millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments ( also referred to as the " Majors "): the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.

Tennis was also popular in France, where the French Championships dates to 1891 although until 1925 it was open only to tennis players who were members of French clubs.

The ITF's national associations, Tennis Australia ( Australian Open ), the Fédération Française de Tennis ( French Open ), the Lawn Tennis Association ( Wimbledon ) and the United States Tennis Association ( US Open ) are delegated the responsibility to organize these events.

Each year The Championships, Wimbledon, better known as simply Wimbledon, one of the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments ( along with the US, French and Australian Opens ) is held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Church Road Wimbledon.

The Tennis Court Oath () was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution.

* Official site of the Tennis Club of Thuin ( in French )

Nine's other popular recurring sporting events include the Rugby League State of Origin, British Open, US Golf Open, US Tennis Open, Wimbledon, the French Open, KFC Twenty20, Commonwealth Bank Series Cricket, and Test cricket and formerly the Australian Swimming Championships until Nine lost the rights in 2009.

The French Open did not allow Connors to participate due to his association with World Team Tennis ( WTT ).

The lawsuits stemmed from the French Open banning Connors in 1974 after he had signed a contract to play World Team Tennis ( WTT ) for the Baltimore Banners.

* Inaugural French championship is held as the Championat de France International de Tennis.

Real tennis played a role in the history of the French Revolution, through the Tennis Court Oath, a pledge signed by French deputies in a real tennis court, which formed a decisive early step in starting the revolution.

Mauresmo declined the nomination by the French Tennis Federation to play in the Olympic Games after Mary Pierce withdrew.

During the French Revolution ( from July 1789 to September 1791 ) a National Constituent Assembly () was formed when representatives assembled at the only location available – a tennis court – and swore the Tennis Court Oath on June 20, 1789, promising that they would not adjourn until they had drafted a new constitution for France.

Năstase was prevented from entering the French Open because he participated in World Team Tennis.

In 1998, she won the US Open girls singles title and the French Open doubles with Kim Clijsters, ending the season ranked World No. 1 in the International Tennis Federation junior singles rankings and World No. 7 in doubles.

* Tennis – Tony Roche, 1966 French Open champion, and later a coach, is from Tarcutta near Wagga

He won the French Open three times ( 1997, 2000, and 2001 ), and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000, becoming the only player to defeat Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi in the same major tournament.

The French Tennis Federation had announced that Kuerten, as a three-time champion, would have every chance of being granted a wildcard to play at the 2006 French Open, provided that he managed to remain active throughout the 2006 season leading up to the French Open.

* French Open, one of the four major tennis tournaments

French Open: 3R ( 1997 )

At the French Open, he was defeated in a quarterfinal by Argentine Gastón Gaudio.

Hewitt had at this point lost to the eventual champion at seven consecutive Grand Slam tournaments he played ( he missed the 2005 French Open because of injury ).

At the 2006 French Open, Hewitt reached the fourth round, where he lost to defending champion and eventual winner Rafael Nadal in four sets.

À travers champs, 2005, 440 p. ISBN 2-7099-1564-2 Open Archives: book in free access / in French

* of Phrenology Open Content Alliance eBook Collection, Manual of phrenology: being an analytical summary of the system of Doctor Gall, on the faculties of man and the functions of the brain: translated from the 4th French ed

Thus, Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open, and the Australian Open ( dating to 1905 ) became and have remained the most prestigious events in tennis.

Only in the final sets of matches at the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, the Olympic Games, Davis Cup, and Fed Cup are tie-breaks not played.

: Examples are red clay, used at the French Open, and green clay ( an example of which is Har-Tru and used mainly in the U. S .).

In clay-court matches, such as at the French Open, a call may be questioned by reference to the mark left by the ball's impact on the court surface.

They are held annually and include, in chronological order, the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open.

Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open and Australian Open use hard courts ( though both used grass courts in the past, and the US Open used clay courts from 1975 through 1977 ), the French Open is played on clay ( though it too was played on grass before 1928 ), and Wimbledon has always been played on grass.

The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the French.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

This is important because, despite all the efforts of the French government, an appreciable segment of France's export trade in wines is still tainted with a misrepresentation approaching downright dishonesty, and there are many too many negociants who would rather turn a sou than amass a creditable reputation overseas.

Today it is occupied by the French Embassy.

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

BAM is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is Editions De La boite A Musique.

What is interesting about these chamber works here is how they all reveal the aspect of French music that was moving toward the rococo.

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, French and American dances mixed into the stew.