Portal talk:Tennis

message: It is mentioned - under Did you know... - that Noah is the second black after Ashe to win a GS. This must be in men's singles, right? Could someone please confirm/correct?--HJ 21:09, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: well yes, of course. yannick noah won the french, i believe. --tennisman  sign here! 00:34, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  First black MAN to win a Grand Slam 

message: Hey people. I was just browsing around when I found this portal. As it is, it's a decent portal with alot of recent activity. I have some suggestions on improving the portal:
#News section: News captions should be short and concise, with the following format: Date published: News (Source)
#Selected articles, biographies, and pictures should have a wiki-link to the subject in its opening sentence
#DYK section: Did you knows... should be short and concise
#Given the amount of quotes from tennis related media, the portal should feature a rotating template so that each time the page is accessed a new quote is shown, instead of the current multi-list format
#Tournament results should be reported separately from the News section, perhaps even getting their own caption box on the page.
#Since the portal already features a multi-tab-page system, suggest adding two additional sub-pages: (1) for tournaments and (2) for gameplay.
##A Tournaments sub-page could include a recent tournament results caption box, an article caption for each grand slam, and a list of all current tennis tournaments in chronological order.
##For gameplay, different article and picture caption box for tennis shots, terminologies, and sporting equipment.
These are just suggestions which could, not necessarily should, be incorporated. Given the amount of information, this could easily be a featured portal given a little time and work. Any additions or retractions are welcome. - Mtmelendez (Talk|UB|Home) 01:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: #2 has been corrected for this month, and I'll remember to do it from now on. The #3, DYKs will be short and concise, resembling those on the main page, although obviously no limit on the freshness of the articles. I'll take note of the rotation of quotes; it's an interesting idea although I am not yet sure how will it work. As for the additional subpages, two more pages will overcrowd the portal, so it may be a better idea to combine gameplay and tournaments together. --DarkFalls talk 09:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know of a template that can help randomize the quotes, and you're right: perhaps a page that combines gameplay and tournaments seems fine. - Mtmelendez (Talk|UB|Home) 11:09, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Informal Peer Review

message: I just came to this page and noticed that no one had updated the In the news... section since before the US Open. As such, I added the final results and the results of the WTA Tour Championships to the section. This leads me to wonder if anyone actually does anything with this portal or if it just sits here. --tennisman 16:41, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is anyone here? 

message: Wow, nothing updated in a while.  I would like to change the portal look and feel to be like Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine... They seem really organized. I will be working on it in my sandbox.
Mjquin_id (talk) 04:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008

message: Looks like the old profile links now lead to nowwhere due to the ATP Website relaunch...--Deinocheirus (talk) 19:56, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ATP player profiles 

message: well, I added (4) Did you know bullets but somehow they are repeating ...can anyone help/fix?
I tried to mimic math Portal to say show 1 of 4 but to no avail ...thanks--Billymac00 (talk) 03:52, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  !Help (Did You Know) 

message: Today talking about the Australian Open as a featured article, and having a featured biography of Kim Clijsters as a retired top player, the day after she won the US Open is painful.  Isn't it wise to remove this portal ? Kvdh (talk) 06:47, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove the portal 

message: 2010 May 7* Svick (talk) 13:07, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal Total category is up for deletion 

message: I have added a navigation box by year for :Category:2010 US Open Series so you can go readily to the previous years, as far as 2004 only. The category is now also in categories “2010 in tennis” (like the Australian, French & German Opens) and in “2010 in American sports”
The subcategory :Category:2010 US Open (tennis) also has a navigation box, back to 2004. It is the only content in the main category unless someone looks for other articles which should be in “2004 US Open (series)”, and similarly for 2005, 2006, and probably 2007. Hugo999 (talk) 10:25, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Years in the US Open 

message: Hi. My english isn't well but i have a question. What's the different between 2012 Swiss Indoors Basel and 2012 Swiss Indoors? I think it's the same for a second time. --SuperAle (talk) 15:59, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[2012 Swiss Indoors Basel]] & [[2012 Swiss Indoors]] 

message: I'm colaborating with adding all the tennis data to the Three-peat article. For the beginners, a three-peat is a streak of at least three titles.
I've added all about:
* The Davis and Fed Cups.
* The Grand Slam tournaments.
* The Master 1000 tourneys.
I'm thinking about adding more data, but I'm also interested in your stance about the notability criteria (e.g. what's the lowest acceptable level: Challengers, ATP 250-500, M1000/WTA Premiers...?)
--Ernestogon (talk) 02:54, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Three-peat|Three straight titles]] article 

message: I took it upon myself to be bold and swapped in my new creation on the Wikiproject page, since reverted, sob, as well as here at the portal.
In case some of you think better of it, I would be willing to make other versions of it with other players.  Perhaps we could even engineer a mechanism where different players' versions would periodically replace themselves.  Just a thought.  I can also easily make other versions for Wikipedias where tennis is spelled differently ("tenis", "teniso"). Regards, --Mareklug talk 17:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure about this. It's certainly fancier, but I'm not convinced that fancier (as opposed to simple and straightforward) is what we should go with. Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:31, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed new Wikiproject and Portal masthead/logo 

message: * User:Malo95/Tennis titles per player comparison
Hello I made this graphic. My question is if is OK when I add this at this pages: Tennis players with most titles in the Open Era and Open Era tennis records – men's singles.
When I have time I'll also great the doubles and the women singles and doubles.
Improvements are welcome.
--Malo95 (talk) 13:33, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titles in the Open Era Graphic 

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thread_title:  Notice from the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: The following updates have been performed to the portal. North America1000 03:59, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal updates 

message: Team, I signed up as a maintainer...as I was on another portal that got deleted without very much notice...  (Feel free to add yourself!)
I also plan on changing out certain sections to better "randomize" articles. So, I come here for our consensus thoughts.
* ; New Template on talk:  - this is to "quantify" portal traffic against certain changes. (ideally, a couple weeks apart).
* ; New Random article Template:  - Thinking: maybe based off "lists" that could be managed by the group; "List of tennis 'lede' articles"; containing: Tennis, each slam, each tour, etc.  Kind of like we do with the "General Images" box. , only with articles.
** Obviously cannot be based on any current category (or probably list); but the ; feels a bit cumbersome (hence, things not changing very often).
** Maybe a separate list of "Tennis at the Olympics" that could be rotated in as Primary every four years? (I feel a bit odd not having "some" link to the Olympics right now) - maybe a whole section that could be turned on/off just under the lede?
* Images to be rotated from either a "managed" category "Category:Tennis Portal Pictures" or "List of tennis pictures"? Mjquinn_id (talk) 22:29, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maintainer, etc. 

message: I tried using overflow-x:auto for horizontal scrolling, but that just pushed the right side of the Portal's display out of sight. Is it possible to change the overall dimensions of the Portal's main page, so that the table fits within the parameters, aka is shown completely? Qwerty284651 (talk) 00:15, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can you use overflow for tables? 

message: Hey there, I used this script to create draws for tournaments and it worked just fine for me. Now, however, the ATP changed its design on the website and the script does not work anymore (it was not working with the ITF prior to this, too). I suppose you do not create draws manually and therefore I wonder what you use to create draws for tournaments.--Siebenschläferchen (talk) 13:11, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  tools to create draws for tournaments