International Team: 'Golden Set'

The only known example of a 'Golden set' (to win a set 6-0 without dropping a single point i.e., winning 24 consecutive points) in professional tennis was achieved by Bill Scanlon (USA) against Marcos Hocevar (Brazil) in the first round of the WCT Gold Coast Classic at Del Ray, FL on 22 February 1983. Scanlon won the match, 6-2, 6-0. 

International Team: Highest earnings

Ivan Lendl (Czechoslovakia) (b. 7 March 1960), won a men's season's record $2,344,367 in 1989 and had career earnings of $15,626,336 by end of 1989.

The season's record for a woman is $2,173,556 in 1984 (including a $1 million Grand Slam bonus) by Martina Navratilova.

International Team: Longest game

The longest known singles game was one of 37 deuces (80 points) between Anthony Fawcett (Rhodesia) and Keith Glass (Great Britain) in the first round of the Surrey, Great Britain Championship at Surbiton, Surrey, Great Britain on 26 May 1975.It lasted 31 min.

Tennis (Lawn) : Olympic Games

United States Four US players have won two Olympic gold medals: Beals Coleman Wright (1879-1961) in 1904, Vincent Richards (1903-59) and Helen Moody in 1924, all at both singles and doubles, and Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Wi.aspan (1886-1974), at ladies' and mixed doubles in 1924. Richards won a US record third medal, silver at mixed doubles (with Marion Jessup) in 1924.

Wimbledon Championship: Youngest Champions

The youngest champion was Charlotte 'Lottie' Dod (Great Britain; 1871-1960), who was 15 yr 285 days when she won in 1887.

The youngest male champion was Boris Becker (West Germany) (b. 22 November 1967) who won the men's singles title in 1985 at 17 yr 227 days.
The youngest ever player at Wimbledon was reputedly Mita Klima (Austria) who was 13 yr in the 1907 singles competition.

The youngest seed was Jennifer Capriatti (USA) (b. 29 March 1976) at 14 yr 89 days at the time of her first match on 26 June 1990. She won this match making her the youngest ever winner at Wimbledon

Records : Longest reigns

Jacques Edmond Barre (France) (1802-73) was a world champion for 33 years (1829-62) at court tennis.

Tennis (Originated)

The game originated as jeu de paume in French monasteries c. 1050. A tennis court is mentioned in the sale of the Hotel de Nesle, Paris, France, bought by King Philippe IV of France in 1308.

The oldest of the surviving active courts in Great Britain is that at Falkland Palace, Fife, Great Britain built by King James V of Scotland in 1539.

Australian Open Championship: Longest span, oldest and youngest

Thelma Long won her first (1936) and last (1958) titles 22 years apart.

Kenneth Robert Rosewall (b. 2 November 1934) won the singles in 1953, and in 1972 was, 19 years later, at 37 yr 62 days, the oldest singles winner.

The oldest champion was (Sir) Norman Everard Brookes (1877-1968), who was 46 yr 2 months when he won the 1924 men's doubles.

The youngest champions were Rodney W. Heath, age 17, when he won the men's singles in 1905, and Margaret Smith, who won the women's singles at 17 yr 5 months in 1960.

General Records: Most versatile

Charlotte 'Lottie' Dod (1871-1960) won the Wimbledon singles tennis title five times between 1887 and 1893, the British Ladies' Golf Championship in 1904, an Olympic silver medal for archery in 1908, and represented England at hockey in 1899. She also excelled at skating and tobogganing.