When did you start watching tennis?

[Poisoned Slice]

Not exactly sure. I know it was somewhere during the late 80s.

 

[ojo rojo]

Not exactly sure. I know it was somewhere during the late 80s.

1880's?

 

[Poisoned Slice]

1880's?

All 4 of us had to use the same racquet during the 1 match.

 

[toth]

1991 Courier Agassi RG Final

 

[GabeT]

2011. - when real tennis started

Dec 2010, to be exact. The birth of tennis. What a time to be alive!

 

[mcs1970]

Mcenroe Borg. The sole govt run channel in those days in India had Wimbledon as part of the rare tennis coverage we got. It all seemed so magical with the awesome setting of grass and and drew a lot of us to tennis

 

[Aabye5]

No mention of Venus and Serena -- this poll is busted.

 

[Johnny505]

When the womens matches were televised more on free terrestrial TV and the players got more attractive

 

[The Blond Blur]

Cincy 96

 

[Ronaldo]

Wow, and we go into centuries old matches. Nice. We have veterans here. Nice to know!

pre-dates Talk Tennis

 

[Aabye5]

No mention of Andre, either. :smh:

 

[mahatma]

No mention of Andre, either. :smh:

That is okay. We all can have different starts. Lot of iconic moments, which one was your to start this journey?

 

[mahatma]

1880's?

not 1680s?

 

[mahatma]

pre-dates Talk Tennis

Pre dates tennis as a sport itself, lol

 

[medieval_remnant]

1982. The year of Lendl and Connors resurgence

 

[Mainad]

When I was a kid in the late 60s. My mother was a big Wimbledon fan (strangely not so keen in her later years) and for years I thought Wimbledon was the only tennis show in town (if you didn't play there you didn't exist for me)!

 

[FrontHeadlock]

1990 US Open final. From that day I was a huge Agassi fan and a big Sampras hater,

 

[socallefty]

During Borg’s streak of French Opens and Wimbledons in the late Seventies - don’t remember exactly which year was my first televised match. But, I followed tennis news through newspapers and magazines before that ever since I started playing tennis in the mid-Seventies.

 

[Cupcake]

I don't remember exactly when. There wasn't much coverage, but years ago PBS used to televise tennis. I saw a few matches with John Newcombe and thought he was the cutest thing ever.. and I was hooked.

 

[Ronaldo]

I don't remember exactly when. There wasn't much coverage, but years ago PBS used to televise tennis. I saw a few matches with John Newcombe and thought he was the cutest thing ever.. and I was hooked.

Monday Night Finals

 

[Ronaldo]

During Borg’s streak of French Opens and Wimbledons in the late Seventies - don’t remember exactly which year was my first televised match. But, I followed tennis news through newspapers and magazines before that ever since I started playing tennis in the mid-Seventies.

Remember World Tennis magazine. Received a can of Spalding balls every year. Worst balls ever

 

[King_ Zeglan12]

Wimbledon 2012, I remember the Federer vs Djokovic SF.. The commentators in my broadcast were talking about Nadal's loss and injury concerns rather than the match.. I went up to watch some Nadal videos and became his fan lol .

 

[Musterrific]

The 1991 US Open night match between Chang and McEnroe caught my attention while I was randomly channel surfing in a state of boredom. Been hooked ever since as both a spectator and player.

 

[UnderratedSlam]

Becker winning Wimbledon in 1985, but regularly I started following the tours around 1991.

 

[Sabrina]

Us 2002 Sf between Agassi and Hewitt.

 

[Sir Weed]

Wimby 1980.

 

[mahatma]

Wimby 1980.

Totally a great start. Though I wasn't born, have watched clips though

 

[King_olaf_the_hairy]

When I was a kid in the late 60s. My mother was a big Wimbledon fan (strangely not so keen in her later years) and for years I thought Wimbledon was the only tennis show in town (if you didn't play there you didn't exist for me)!

I was the same when I started. I'm pretty sure 1978 was my first year following tennis, but it was about 1980/81-ish before I discovered they played it outside Wimbledon.

 

[RaulRamirez]

Mid-70s.
Not my mid-70s...not there yet...THE mid-70s.

 

[InsideOut900]

Watched in and out since 2007. Fully commited circa 2010.

I caught up with every single big match since 2003 in the meantime and a bunch of Agassi-Sampras classics, as well as some other 90s and 80s classics.

 

[ChrisRF]

1880's?

I bet he now regrets that he didn't yet caught interest during William Renshaw's prime, but at least he saw his unexpected last hurrah in 1889.

 

[BVSlam]

Wimbledon 2003, although I saw snippets from the Roland Garros 2003 final being a Dutchman and all.

 

[jindra]

The Borg years were what got me interested in tennis.

 

[Humphrey20133]

1996/1997.

 

[thrust]

Most fans of a sport come when there is a story which can't be missed. I am picking some times in history to ask ttw in general when did you start watching tennis?

I was watching it when Ivanisevic won Wimbledon as a wild card. Probably that's where it started for me.

( Have tried and picked 1/2 events per decade! )

Mid 60's till today.

 

[Rafa the King]

Roland Garros 2005

 

[BorgTheGOAT]

Wimbledon 1995 QF Agassi vs Jacco Eltingh was the first match I watched. Became an Agassi fan and was heartbroken when he lost the SF against my countryman Boris.

 

[Tshooter]

I don't remember exactly when. There wasn't much coverage, but years ago PBS used to televise tennis. I saw a few matches with John Newcombe and thought he was the cutest thing ever.. and I was hooked.

In the US in the 70s into the early 80s, PBS used to televise quite a bit of tennis, all summer — back when we had US tennis tournaments all summer, ones the top pros played. Collins and Dell used to do commentary and sometimes Barry MacKay instead of Dell. Bud Collins was a fixture. Collins knew as much about tennis as anyone ever knew about tennis. He would be generally considered “clueless” on TTW.

 

[Tshooter]

Roland Garros 2005

You literally only know the Big 3 era. Are you tired of them already or do you feel lucky to have seen it all?

 

[Sampras-Bruguera 1993]

Early HC season '95. Just after the Australian and bought the Agassi shoes. LOL. God I loved those

 

[ChaelAZ]

I remember my Dad had us watching tennis back in the 70's, but don't recall too much from then. In the early 80's though I had a friend who played tennis so he had me watching and talking about it at the time. Wasn't until probably mid 80's though "i" took full interest and was there when Agassi came to light in the mid 80's, and Pete right after. So I would say that was kinda the era I jumped in. Mind you, I wasn't even playing tennis at that point. I didn't personally play until the late 80's or first year of the 90's, and only just hitting with guests at the Arizona Biltmore where I was the training director. even then, I was a racquetball guy, playing tournaments in the southwest here. I REALLY started playing around 40 years old, so quite a few years later.

 

[USMC-615]

‘78-‘79 timeframe

 

[Ronaldo]

Recall courts were filled from 6am till 2;30am BITD. Signed up for a city tournament and 210 guys were in the draw at one level. Levels were AAA, A, B, C, & D. Guess F was just a dream.

 

[FRV4]

2009 Wimbledon Fed vs Roddick

 

[Ronaldo]

2009 Wimbledon Fed vs Roddick

Seems like a lifetime now

 

[FRV4]

Seems like a lifetime now

My life has sucked since

 

[Curtennis]

When Tiafoe defeated the second coming of Rafa, Carlos Alcaraz.

 

[FRV4]

When Tiafoe defeated the second coming of Rafa, Carlos Alcaraz.

Oh word, a new tennis fan.

 

[Ronaldo]

My life has sucked since

Depends on what suck is. Two strokes, shoulder separation, torn rotator cuff............................................what's nxt?

 

[SamprasisGOAT]

Sampras henman 1998 Wimbledon semi