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Michael Chang - Wikipedia  Michael Te-Pei Chang (born February 22, 1972) is an American former tennis player. He became the youngest male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17 years ... Career titles, 34 .... Chang became the first American man to win the French Open since 1955, and the...
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JOHN McENROE AND IVAN LENDL TO CONTINUE RIVALRY IN ...  He captured 77 career singles titles and 78 career doubles titles, his last ... Open singles titles in the early 1990s when he became the first American to reach the No. ... Chang is best known for his historic win at the 1989 French Open where, ... man to win a major singles title, while also becoming the first American in 34...
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List of French Open men's singles champions - Wikipedia  The French Open, (French:Internationaux de France) is an annual tennis tournament held over ... In the Open era, this record belongs to Andrs Gimeno, who was 34 years ... The first winner of the Championship was the British player H. Briggs, ... Michael Chang became the youngest man to win the French Open when he...
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Michael Chang - International Tennis Hall of Fame  In 1988, at 16 years, 7 months, he won his first ATP tour title in San Francisco, ... it was the 5-foot-6 dynamo Chang who became the first to win a major singles title. ... Chang's French Open victory earned him major distinctions: He became the first American man to win the French since Tony Trabert in 1955, and the first...
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French title often eludes players seeking career Slam  May 22, 2016 ... Chang became the youngest man ever to win a Grand Slam tournament and ... won two of the first three sets before losing a five-setter to Michael Chang in 1989. ... But even though he won three French Open men's doubles titles, Newcombe ... and the first American man to win the French Open in 34 years.
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Jimmy Connors - Wikipedia  James Scott "Jimmy" Connors (born September 2, 1952) is an American former world No. .... He reached the final of Wimbledon four out of five years during his peak ... Connors is one of only six men to win three or more Grand Slam singles titles in .... He was also the first male tennis player to win Grand Slam singles titles on...
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John McEnroe - Wikipedia  John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player, often rated among the greatest of all time in the sport, especially for his touch on the volley. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at Wimbledon and four at the ... McEnroe won his first Grand Slam singles title at the US Open.
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Arthur Ashe | American tennis player | Britannica.com  American tennis player, the first black winner of a major men's singles championship. ... Arthur Ashe holding up his trophy after winning the singles title at Wimbledon, 1975. ... He played on the U.S. Davis Cup team (196370, 1975, 197778) and helped the U.S. team to win the ... In the latter year he became a professional.
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Andre Agassi - Wikipedia  Andre Kirk Agassi is an American retired professional tennis player and former World No. ... He also won 17 ATP Masters Series titles and was part of a winning Davis ... 1 in 1999 and enjoyed the most successful run of his career over the next .... Agassi won three Masters Series events in 1995 (Cincinnati, Key Biscayne,...
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History - 1990s - The Championships, Wimbledon 2017 - Official ...  The Swede went on to win the US Open in 1991 and 1992. ... since Bjorn Borg, and the first American to win Wimbledon since John McEnroe in 1984. ... John McEnroe collected his fifth Wimbledon men's doubles title as he and Michael ... By doing so, Martinez became the first  and to date only  Spanish woman to lift the...
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Year by Year | History | 2014 US Open Official Site - A USTA Event ...  That sets up the first US Open men's singles final without either Djokovic or Federer ... Grand Slam finalists to become the lowest-seeded men's singles champion since No. ..... During the course of the event, the USTA honored New York's heroes with .... 1994. Andre Agassi knocks off a record five seeded players en route to...
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Ivan Lendl - Wikipedia  Wimbledon 2013, 2016 (Murray) US Open 2012 (Murray) Olympic Gold Medal 2012, 2016 (Murray). Ivan Lendl (Czech pronunciation: [van lndl]; born March 7, 1960) is a former world no.1 professional tennis player and is .... win. It was the first of three consecutive US Open titles for Lendl and part of a run of eight...
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Budge, First to Win Grand Slam, Dies - latimes  Jan 27, 2000 ... Don Budge, the first player and only American man to win tennis' ... Tennis: Hall of Fame player from California was first to win the sport's four majors in a single year. ... In addition to the 1938 Grand Slam, he played in what was said to be ... He first became aware of Budge in 1932 when local tennis leader...
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What the tennis legends of the past look like today  The42  Sep 7, 2014 ... Michael Chang, 42, is the youngest male player to win the French Open, ... Lindsay Davenport, 38, has three different Grand Slam singles titles (1993-2011). ... Jana Novotna, 45, of the Czech Republic, won 12 Grand Slam...
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'Swiss Miss' Martina Hingis, now 34, wins French Open doubles ...  May 27, 2015 ... 'Swiss Miss' Hingis, now 34, wins French Open doubles match. ... All the way back at the 1997 Australian Open, when she was 16 and nicknamed ''Swiss Miss,'' Hingis became the youngest major champion of the 20th century, ... She also won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open that year, coming within a loss in...
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Double Fault - People  Apr 26, 1999 ... I remember her saying what an amazing father Andre was going to bethat more ... Instead of seeing the hero tennis star that the whole world is cheering, ... Perhaps, but the sudden split didn't keep Agassi, who turns 29 on April 29, ... For Shields, 33, the star of NBC's Suddenly Susan, the day back in L.A....
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Serena Williams - Wins First Singles Title - Venus, Sister, Doubles ...  Later in 1999 the Williams sisters teamed up to win the doubles title at the French Open. ... 1999 when she became the lowest seed to win the women's title since 1968. ... singles title, Williams became only the second African-American woman to do so. ... In July 2000, Venus defeated Serena in the semi-finals at Wimbledon.
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Andre Agassi - Wikipedia  Andre Kirk Agassi is an American retired professional tennis player and former World No. ... Agassi is one of five male singles players to achieve the Career Grand Slam in the Open Era and one of eight in ... ATP Tour World Championships (won in 1990): a distinction dubbed as a "Career Super Slam" by Sports Illustrated.
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Andre Agassi - Wikipedia  Andre Kirk Agassi is an American retired professional tennis player and former World No. ... 141 in 1997, prompting many to believe that his career was over. ... He won his first top-level singles title in 1987 at the Sul American Open in Itaparica .... He began the next year by capturing his second Australian Open title, beating...
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Boris Becker - Wikipedia  He was the youngest ever male Grand Slam singles champion at 17 years, 227 days (a record later broken by Michael Chang in 1989, who won the French Open when he was 17 years, 110 days). Two months after his triumph, Becker became the youngest winner of the Cincinnati Open.
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Wimbledon: How Arthur Ashe became only black man to win title ...  Jun 25, 2015 ... Arthur Ashe won three Grand Slam titles, the US Open (1968), Australian ... The first black tennis player to win a men's Grand Slam singles title was popular and ... By the summer of 1975, the 31-year-old Ashe had never beaten Connors. ... "Connors wore an air of such arrogance he regularly intimidated his...