Tag Archives: Margaret Smith Court
Bobby Riggs
Bobby Riggs (Tennis. Born, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 25, 1918; died, Leucadi, CA, Oct. 25, 1995.) At age 12, Robert Larimore Riggs began taking tennis lessons and, within six years, was the fourth-ranked player in the U.S. In 1938, Riggs made the U.S. Davis Cup team. The next year, he won the U.S. singles title […]
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf (Tennis. Born, Mannheim, West Germany, June 14, 1969.) The dominant women’s tennis player of the late 1980s, Steffi Graf won five U.S. Open women’s singles titles, including her first in 1988 that completed the third Grand Slam in women’s tennis history (following Maureen Connolly in 1953 and Margaret Smith Court in 1970). That same year, […]
