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Monica Seles: Youngest-Ever Women's Singles Champion - Roland Garros 1990.
The rise of Monica Seles in women’s tennis during the early 1990s was incredible and it blazed a trail directly through the French Open.
At the age of 16 years and six months, the Yugoslav put the cherry on top of an amazing, undefeated clay-court season. This victory marked the start of a new era in women’s tennis, which Graf had been dominating since 1987 without much opposition. Seles would not only win the French Open three times in succession but she would topple the legendary German from the world No 1 spot less than a year later, in March 1991.
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Monica Seles: Youngest-Ever Women's Singles Champion - Roland Garros 1990.
The rise of Monica Seles in women’s tennis during the early 1990s was incredible and it blazed a trail directly through the French Open.
At the age of 16 years and six months, the Yugoslav put the cherry on top of an amazing, undefeated clay-court season. This victory marked the start of a new era in women’s tennis, which Graf had been dominating since 1987 without much opposition. Seles would not only win the French Open three times in succession but she would topple the legendary German from the world No 1 spot less than a year later, in March 1991.
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![Tennis Before the Open Era
Tennis Before the Open Era
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Amateurs versus Professionals. For decades, the fundamental conflict that existed, to a greater or lesser degree, in most major sports that emerged from England at the end of the 19th century.
The distinction was not one of accomplishment or ability, as we might understand now, but had more to do with class.
Amateur was the athletic version of gentleman, a man of inherited means who didnt need to play a sport for money. In a tennis context, having the leisure time to hone one’s skills on court was a sign of status. The professional, on the other hand, had to serve and volley for his living.
Footage:
[1] BFI: Tennis World Championships Open at Wimbledon (1921):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTTO9hU_6E&t=23s
[2] urmaddad: 1920s William Tilden Silent Instructional Tennis Vintage Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhCbhDdbqbE
[3] historycomestolife: Wimbledon Tennis Suzanne Lenglen 1925: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnIGMUAkqcU&t=20s
[4] BFI: Tennis World Championships Open at Wimbledon (1921):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTTO9hU_6E
[5] Kodiak CGB: Helen Wills v Suzanne Lenglen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thkch28ngyw&t=5s
[6] GammaRayDigital: Tennis - Longwood1940:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RCv6J7h-LQ
[7] John Meyer: 1960 USLTA River Forest Clay Courts Tennis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz3li_tUlok
[8] GammaRayDigital: Tennis match - Possibly Newport, RI, 1960s? 1970s?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nd7YqmMyDg
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#tennis #shamateurism #openera Tennis Before the Open Era](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MpjHPOT2AE4/mqdefault.jpg)





