* David Wheaton, professional tennis player, writer, speaker, talk-show host

Some notable German descendants in Chile are: Air Force General Commander Fernando Matthei Aubel, architect Mathias Klotz, tennis player Hans Gildemeister, female athlete Marlene Ahrens, Police General Commander Rodolfo Stange Ölckers, Musician Patricio Manns, Army Commanders in Chief Lieutenant General René Schneider and Division Generals Emil Körner, Economist Rolf Lüders, politicians Carlos Kuschel, Rolf Lüders Schwarzenberg, Miguel Kast and Evelyn Matthei, businessmen Horst Paulmann, Jürgen Paulmann, Werner Grob, Carlos Heller ; TV presenters Karen Doggenweiler, Margot Kahl, Pamela Hodar, Michael Müller, writer César Müller ( aka Oreste Plath ), actresses Gloria Münchmeyer, Aline Küppenheim, actor Bastián Bodenhöfer, painter Rossy Ölckers, and publisher and orders collector Norberto Traub.

* Henry Jones ( writer ) ( 1831 – 1899 ), pen name " Cavendish ", English author on card games and tennis

The city is the birthplace of Alberto Hurtado, the second Chilean Catholic saint and founder of the Hogar de Cristo ( Home of Christ ) foundation, writer Maria Luisa Bombal ( author of La Ultima Niebla ( The Last Fog )), former Chilean president Patricio Aylwin, handball player Marco Oneto, tennis player Nicolás Massú and Slayer vocalist / bassist, Tom Araya.

Prominent supporters include Nelson Mandela, FIFA, the Dalai Lama, Kakha Kaladze, Andriy Shevchenko, Anna Netrebko, Vincent Kompany, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Cesc Fàbregas, Argentine footballer Javier Zanetti, Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters, French writer & actress Anny Dupérey, Sarah, Duchess of York, English Child Actress Georgie Henley, Princess Salimah Aga Khan, Cher, Mike Holmes, June Carter Cash, and Johnny Cash whose memorial fund is towards the work of SOS Children's Villages worldwide.

Allison Danzig, the main tennis writer for The New York Times from 1923 through 1968, and the editor of The Fireside Book of Tennis, called Tilden the greatest tennis player he had ever seen.

Slovenj Gradec is also the birthplace of skier Tina Maze, tennis player Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenia national football team footballers Marko Šuler and Mirnes Šišić, top handball player Iztok Puc, critical theorist Renata Salecl, and writer, theatre critic, and literary historian Lado Kralj.

Following Moldova's 4 – 0 defeat to England in September 1997 the British writer and comedian Tony Hawks travelled to Moldova to challenge and beat all 11 Moldovan international footballers at tennis.

* Dr. Ervin Brody, scholar, writer and table tennis team captain

The following people were born in Walton: Samuel Croxall ( c. 1690-1752 ), noted for his edition of Aesop's Fables ; George Brydges Rodney ( 1718-1792 ), remembered for his victory over the French at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782 ; writer Susan Ertz ( 1894-1985 ), who observed that ' Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon '; aircraft designer John Carver Meadows Frost ( 1915-1979 ), who pioneered supersonic British experimental aircraft ; Tony Walton, set and costume designer, in 1934 ; Dame Julie Andrews, actress, singer and author, in 1935 ; Nick Lowe, singer-songwriter, musician and producer, in 1949 ; Ian Rank-Broadley, sculptor and designer of previous British coinage, in 1952 ; Luke Haines, musician in The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder and The Servants, in 1967 ; Danny Sapsford, tennis player, in 1969 ; Sean Emmett, Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, in 1970 ; Gail Trimble, student and contestant on University Challenge, in 1982.

* Henry Jones ( writer ) ( 1831 – 1899 ), authority on card games and tennis ; wrote under the pseudonym Cavendish

* ( ah ) iPiroso with Antonello Piroso, former La7 News & Sports director, and former tennis player Adriano Panatta, and writer Fulvio Abbate ; It airs every weekday ( late night show );

* Torben Ulrich ( born 1928 ), a Danish writer and tennis pro

Notable athletes to come out of Fairport include Tim Soudan in lacrosse ( UMass, Rochester Knighthawks ), Shawn Johnson in football ( Duke University, Tennessee Titans ), Steve Soja ( Coastal Carolina University, River City Rascals, Mid-Missouri Mavericks, Gateway Grizzlies and Yuma Scorpions ) and Ryan Szwejbka in baseball ( University of South Carolina, Aberdeen Pheasants ), Dave Cerny in lacrosse ( SUNY Albany Hall of Fame ), Dan Predmore in track and field ( Cornell University Hall of Fame ), Chris Collins in hockey ( Boston College Providence Bruins ), professional tennis player Marcus Fugate, Dhruv Tyagi in diving ( Stanford University ), Ryan Kavanaugh in Rowing ( Columbia University )

In 1975, still under contract to Universal, Wagner played the role of Jaime Sommers, a former tennis pro who was the childhood sweetheart of Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin ( played by Lee Majors ).

" He and my mother had always played tennis – a couples ' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love ," Steve wrote.

The last tournament of his tennis season was the AXA Belgian Masters ( Challenger ), where he met countryman Steve Darcis in the semifinal.

* Steve Johnson ( tennis ), currently active tennis player

In 2008 and 2009 Steve had surgeries for tennis elbow.

She had earlier co-written a tennis instruction book with Mary Carillo in 1982, entitled Tennis My Way.

The screenplay followed the book closely with some minor changes and some characters omitted: in the adaptation there was only one archeologist, there was no doctor, Jane was a stewardess and in the end Poirot does not match Jane with young archeologist as mentioned in the novel and some other minor changes ( such as in the TV adaptation, Poirot takes Japp to Paris, whereas in the book he takes the French Surete detective and also in the book most of the characters have come from Le Pinet where they have been enjoying some time at the casino, whereas in the adaptation the characters have been at a tennis match in Paris.

The first known book about tennis, Trattato del Giuoco della Palla was written during his reign, in 1555, by an Italian priest, Antonio Scaino da Salo.

During the story the game is explained, and the book contains a diagram of a real tennis court.

Her second book, a collaboration with tennis player Chris Evert called Lloyd on Lloyd, was released three years later.

In the sports reference book, Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, it stated that Fry ( apart from his other achievements stated below ), was " a fine boxer, a passable golfer, swimmer, sculler, tennis player and javelin thrower ".

Their name translates to " Bettie Serves ", or " Service to Bettie ", which is the title of a book written by Dutch tennis player Betty Stöve, who made it to the Wimbledon ladies singles final in 1977.

That same year, Sabatini published a motivational book entitled My Story ( ISBN 1-886612-00-5 ), providing a look at her background and the inspirations that led her to become a tennis player.

British tennis star H. W. Austin edited the book, Moral Rearmament ( The Battle for Peace ), which sold half a million copies.

" The same year the British tennis star H. W. Austin edited the book Moral Rearmament ( The Battle for Peace ), which sold half a million copies.

Mere Green Library and Community Centre offer classes in such subjects as yoga, art, book readings, free internet access, tennis and lawn green bowls.

In the book she wrote about her teenage years as a tennis player and her later decision to focus on serving God.

He wrote a tennis book at the request of Dale Jensen, entitled Tennis Champions are Made, not Born in 1976.

Clarke is the author of several books, notably two mock compilations of Australian poetry, and The Tournament, a book describing a fictional tennis tournament involving many philosophical and literary figures of the twentieth century.

" David Foster Wallace's seminal novel Infinite Jest has James Incandenza as an alcoholic filmmaker and tennis academy head who drinks Wild Turkey ; and in Scott Sigler ’ s science fiction book Infected, main character Perry Dawsey is described several times as drinking Wild Turkey.

The statue depicts Arthur Ashe holding a book and a tennis racket, with children below him reaching up to him.

Tauziat wrote a book with the title " Les Dessous du tennis féminin " ( published in 2001 in French ) in which she gave her insights about life on the women's professional tennis circuit.

Its relatively small population of around 600 people maintains a tennis club, a gardening club, a couple of successful cricket teams, and two book clubs.

Krishnan has written, with his son Ramesh Krishnan and Nirmal Shekar, a book titled ' A touch of tennis: The story of a tennis family '.

The book covering the achievements of three generations of the tennis playing Krishnans, was released by Penguin Books India.

Tennis Club participates in a dual tennis tournament with the University of Minnesota each fall, and also sponsors a two-day state invitational tennis meet at Carleton in May.

* Association of Tennis Professionals, a men's professional tennis association

The club engages the services of a head tennis professional to run a coaching programme for the town and was crowned Tennis Wales ' Club of the Year in 2010.

Cheddar Lawn Tennis Club, was formed in 1924, and play in the North Somerset League and also has social tennis and coaching.

In Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is where the famous lawn tennis tournament takes place.

Weather did not allow an outdoor meeting, so the Assembly moved their deliberations to a nearby indoor real tennis court, where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath ( 20 June 1789 ), under which they agreed not to separate until they had given France a constitution.

Tennis is played in Charleville Lawn Tennis Club, founded in 1894 by a small group of tennis enthusiasts headed by a Mrs McConnell.

* Jannuzi Tennis Courts — A pair of dedicated tennis courts.

After finding the door to their chamber locked and guarded, the Assembly met nearby on a tennis court and pledged the Tennis Court Oath on 20 June 1789, binding them " never to separate, and to meet wherever circumstances demand, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and affirmed on solid foundations.

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.

Table tennis is governed by the worldwide organization International Table Tennis Federation ( ITTF ), founded in 1926.

After the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the International Table Tennis Federation instituted several rules changes aimed at making table tennis more viable as a televised spectator sport.

* May 21 – The United States Tennis Association is established by a small group of tennis club members.

* July 9 – The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon.

There are several tennis clubs in Donnybrook, Donnybrook LTC ( Lawn Tennis Club ), St. Marys LTC, and Bective LTC.

The Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ), founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis.

* Tennis Gold Coast, the governing body for the sport of tennis in the Gold Coast, Queensland

Also at the university is the Scottish National Swimming Academy, as well as the Gannochy National Tennis centre, which is seen as a tennis centre of excellence.

Another National Historic Landmark District, Bellevue Avenue, is the home of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where important tennis players are commemorated, as well as a number of mansions dating back to the Gilded Age, including The Breakers, Belcourt Castle, Chateau-sur-Mer, The Elms, Marble House, Rosecliff, Rough Point, and the William Watts Sherman House.

The boys ' tennis team achieved their best finish at the KHSAA State Tennis Tournament in 2008 by winning the team title.

The United States Open Tennis Championships, often referred to as Flushing Meadows, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U. S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881.

The USTA National Tennis Center was renamed in honor of four-time tournament champion and tennis pioneer Billie Jean King during the 2006 US Open.