Tennis Before the Open Era
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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 didn't 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):
• Tennis World Champions...
[2] urmaddad: 1920s William Tilden Silent Instructional Tennis Vintage Film: • 1920s William Tilden S...
[3] historycomestolife: Wimbledon Tennis Suzanne Lenglen 1925: • Wimbledon Tennis Suzan...
[4] BFI: Tennis World Championships Open at Wimbledon (1921):
• Tennis World Champions...
[5] Kodiak CGB: Helen Wills v Suzanne Lenglen:
• Helen Wills v Suzanne ...
[6] GammaRayDigital: Tennis - Longwood1940:
• Tennis - Longwood1940
[7] John Meyer: 1960 USLTA River Forest Clay Courts Tennis:
• 1960 USLTA River Fores...
[8] GammaRayDigital: Tennis match - Possibly Newport, RI, 1960s? 1970s?: • Tennis match - Possibl...
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How is it that this channel doesn’t have 1 million. They should have. Great videos
Great tennis history lesson. Makes you appreciate how big of an achievement it was by Rod Laver to win all the majors tournaments in 1969.
Amazing video!
I genuinely thought 12 minutes would be too long, but the presentation and information, mixed with the lovely voice over, made this a great video. It's amazing to see how far the game has progressed. The Open Era was something I never fully grasped thoroughly until this video.
great quality video! totally an underrated channel
Excellent, very instructive and interesting. thank you for this really good work !
What a woman Susanne lenglen was! need a french movie!! (i'm french and was not aware of her story)
@BaselineTennis
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Whilst it isn't a movie, we did do a piece specifically about her: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jIN12KSMmqeZmco.html La Divine
Excelente resumen que muestra como el circuito estuvo divido entre amateurs y profesionales, lo cual hace mas dificil la comparacion del GOAT, porque tambien hay que contar los torneos Pro Slam.
You deserve a lot more subs, ure way better than pewdipie lol, what has youtube become, keep grinding bro!
suzanne lenglen put her stamp on the game obviously.
So, the power shifted and the open was established...
Wasn't Bill 6'8
@BaselineTennis
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1.88m tall, which is 6.16 feet.
@tomloft2000
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@@BaselineTennis or 6 foot 2 inches
@cpt-r.federer5940
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@@BaselineTennis djokovic height
Good data about the actual tennis, but I got a bit sick of the class-based analysis. Tennis was from the beginning a middle-class game, excepting perhaps Gottfried, Baron von Cramm ;-), but it is certainly true that for a period, and too long a period, it got into the hands of quite a small number of millionaires, one or two per national tennis association. Jack Kramer called out this system as evil, and he was perfectly correct ... and I speak as the grand-nephew of one of those millionaires.