ON THIS DATE
1910: For the second consecutive year, Hazel Hotchkiss wins the singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships.
1925: Jim Barnes wins the British Open with a one-stroke win
over Ted Ray and Archie Compston in South Ayrshire, Scotland.
1959: Ingemar Johansson knocks out Floyd Patterson in the third
round at Yankee Stadium to win the world heavyweight title.
1990: Jennifer Capriati, 14, defeats Helen Kelesi 6-3, 6-1 to
become the youngest winner of a match in Wimbledon history.
1995: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a random drug-testing program in Vernonia, Ore. The 6-3 decision allows public high schools to require student-athletes to submit to random urinalysis as a condition of being allowed to play interscholastic sports.
1998: Jamaica becomes the first Caribbean nation to win a World Cup match since Cuba beat Romania in 1938. Theodore Whitmore scores in the 40th and 54th as the Jamaicans beat Japan 2-1.
2002: In one of the most extraordinary days at the All England Club, seven-time champion Pete Sampras, 1992 winner Andre Agassi and No. 2-seeded Marat Safin all lose — throwing the Wimbledon tournament wide open. For the first time in the Open era, five of the top-eight seeded men’s players are eliminated before the third round.
2005: Justin Gatlin cements his status as America’s fastest human by winning the 200 meters, becoming the first man in 20 years to sweep the sprints at the U.S. track and field championships. A day after winning the 100, Gatlin wins the 200 in 20.04 seconds. The last man to win both races at the U.S. meet was Kirk Baptiste in 1985.
2008: Two stunning second-round upsets happen at Wimbledon as former champion Maria Sharapova and two-time runner-up Andy Roddick are ousted.
2011: Top-ranked Yani Tseng wins the LPGA Championship by 10 strokes and, at 22, becomes the youngest player to win four LPGA Tour majors.
2012: Major college football finally gets a playoff. A committee of university presidents approve the BCS commissioners’ plan for a four-team playoff to start in the 2014 season.
2013: Seven-time champion Roger Federer is stunned by 116thranked Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round of Wimbledon, his earliest loss in a Grand Slam tournament in 10 years.
2014: The United States reaches the knockout stage of consecutive World Cups for the first time. Germany beat the U.S. 1-0 to win Group G, but the Americans held onto second place when Portugal defeats Ghana 2-1 in a game played simultaneously.
2017: Helmsman Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand wins the America’s Cup with a resounding romp against software tycoon Larry Ellison’s two-time defending champion Oracle Team USA. They win Race 9 to clinch the 35th America’s Cup match at 7-1. Burling, at 26, is the youngest helmsman to win sailing’s greatest prize in a competition that dates to 1851.