1970 US Open (tennis) 1970 US Open (tennis) The 1970 US Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the Forest Hills, Queens in New York, United States. The tournament ran from 2 September until 13 September. It was the 90th staging of the US Open, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1970. It was the first Grand Slam tournament in which the tiebreak was used to decide the set at a 6-6 score. It differed from the current tie-break scoring in that it was won by the first player to reach five points with a
Real tennis court (which does not well lend itself to the placement of cameras), the speed at which the ball travels, and the complexity of the rules all militate against the effectiveness and popularity of televised programming. Web-streaming is proving a helpful innovation, and realtennis.tv broadcast its first tournament, the European Open, from 8–9 March 2011. There were three 'main events' shown; the two men's semi finals and the men's final. The final was between Bryn Sayers and Robert Fahey, with Fahey taking the title in four sets. Real tennis Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of