U.S. Open aces and faults
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan chest bump as they celebrate match point after their men's doubles first round match against David Goffin and Steve Darcis during Day Three of the 2012 U.S. Open. (Aug. 29, 2012) Credit: Getty
0 Pronounced “love” when a tennis score is 15-0, 30-0, 40-0.
0 Pronounced “zero” during a tennis tiebreaker: 1-0, 2-0, etc.
0 Pronounced “oh” when referring to a player’s record, such as Roger Federer’s mark in night matches at the Open: 23-0.
Today is the 35th anniversary of Renee Richards’ first major tournament match in women’s singles. Before sex-change surgery, she had been Richard Raskind, once a star for Harvard’s men’s team. By 1977, she was 43 years old and a successful ophthalmologist, and had been fighting for more than a year for a right to play as a woman. She lost her first Open match to Virginia Wade in what was described by the late Washington Post reporter Barry Lorge as both “a grand gesture for human rights by some, and a freak show by others.”
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