DID YOU KNOW?

01.

The first ever tennis rackets were made with cow and sheep guts.

02.

The first person to win Olympic gold in tennis basically just showed up and won. John Puis Boland was on holiday in Athens during the 1896 Olympics and signed up for fun.

03.

Tennis was originally played with a black or white ball depending on the court. It was only in 1972 that the ball was switched to yellow.

04.

There’s no definitive reason why we say ‘love’ for zero in tennis. Some think it comes from the French expression ‘l’oeuf’ meaning zero.

05.

The longest tennis match ever lasted for 11 hours and five minutes and lasted over three days between John Isner and Nicholas Mahut at the 2010 Wimbledon Championship.

06.

The rectangular courts of today were introduced in 1875. Originally, they were hourglass shaped.