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Wheelchair tennis at the Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair tennis at the Summer Paralympics is the Paralympic tennis program for wheelchair athletes, a medal sport since Barcelona 1992 with six events and a two-bounce rule.
Will Bayley
Will Bayley (William Bayley, born 1988) is a British Paralympic table tennis player, class 7, Rio 2016 Paralympic champion, seven-time Paralympic medallist, and 2014 and 2022 world champion.
Will Zalatoris
Will Zalatoris, American PGA Tour golfer from San Francisco/Dallas, Wake Forest and 2017 Walker Cup; 2022 FedEx St. Jude winner, runner-up in three majors, world No. 7 peak, recurring back surgeries.
Williams sisters
Williams sisters: Venus and Serena Williams, American tennis champions from Compton, California. Serena holds 23 Open Era Grand Slam singles titles; together they won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles and four Olympic golds.
Williams sisters rivalry
Williams sisters rivalry: Venus vs Serena Williams, 31 singles matches 1998-2020, Serena leading 19-12, nine Grand Slam finals, plus 22 doubles titles won together.
Wimbledon (film)
Wimbledon (2004) is a Working Title romantic comedy directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Paul Bettany as 119th-ranked Peter Colt and Kirsten Dunst as Lizzie Bradbury, filmed at the real 2003 Championships with a CGI ball.
Wimbledon Championships
The Wimbledon Championships, held annually in London by the All England Club since 1877, is the oldest tennis Grand Slam and the only one on grass; record £64.2m 2026 prize money, equal pay since 2007, all-white dress code, Centre Court retractable roof since 2009.
Winged Foot Golf Club
Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, New York: private club founded 1921 with two A.W. Tillinghast courses opened 1923. West Course hosted six U.S. Opens including the 1974 'Massacre'; East hosted two U.S. Women's Opens.
Winifred McNair
Winifred McNair (Winifred Margaret Slocock McNair, 1877–1954), English tennis player; Olympic women's doubles gold with Kitty McKane at Antwerp 1920 and Wimbledon 1913 doubles champion, later an England golfer.
Women's British Open
Women's British Open (AIG Women's Open), women's golf major first played 1976 at Fulford, LPGA major since 2001, run by The R&A with AIG title sponsor since 2019; 2026 purse $10 million, 50th edition won by Shiho Kuwaki.
Women's major golf championships
Women's major golf championships: the five LPGA-recognized majors, the U.S. Women's Open, KPMG Women's PGA, Chevron, AIG Women's Open, and Evian, their history since 1930, and the career Grand Slam.
Women's Tennis Association
Women's Tennis Association (WTA), governing body of women's professional tennis, founded by Billie Jean King June 21, 1973 at London's Gloucester Hotel; runs WTA Tour, PIF WTA Rankings, WTA Finals; HQ St. Petersburg, Florida, moving to Charlotte.
Women's World Golf Rankings
Rolex Rankings, the official Women's World Golf Rankings, launched February 21, 2006 with Annika Sörenstam No. 1; sanctioned by 13 tours plus the R&A and USGA, using a 104-week rolling, strength-of-field points system.
Wood (golf)
Wood (golf): golf's longest-hitting club class, driver plus numbered fairway woods (3, 5, 7, 9), lofts about 13-27 degrees. Once persimmon and hickory; metal woods since 1979, titanium since the 1990s.
World Championship Tennis
World Championship Tennis (WCT) was a professional men's tennis circuit founded in 1967 by Lamar Hunt and Dave Dixon, pioneer of the tie-breaker and the Dallas WCT Finals, dominant January to May in the 1970s until the ATP Tour marginalized it by 1990.
World Crazy Golf Championships
World Crazy Golf Championships (WCGC), annual crazy golf tournament since 2003 at Hastings Adventure Golf, Hastings, England; 2026 pro event drew 162 players from 8 countries; Rocky Bullin is the 2026 champion.
World croquet federation
World Croquet Federation (WCF), international governing body for croquet, founded 15 July 1989 in London; runs AC and Golf Croquet World Championships, 29 members across 5 continents, president José Álvarez-Sala since 2024.
World Cup (men's golf)
World Cup of Golf, originally the Canada Cup (1953-1967), a men's two-man national team golf tournament played 1953-2018; Argentina won the first edition in Montreal, the USA five straight 1960-1964, and Belgium's Detry and Pieters the last, in 2018.
World Curling Championships
World Curling Championships: annual international curling titles (men's, women's, mixed doubles, juniors, seniors, wheelchair) run by World Curling, dating to the 1959 Scotch Cup, expanding from 13 to 18 teams in 2026–2027.
World Curling Tour
World Curling Tour (WCT): open circuit of men's, women's, and mixed doubles curling events under common WCT regulations, with team selection by WCT World Team Ranking and results feeding the World Curling Team Ranking System.
World Golf Championships
World Golf Championships (WGC), a series of elite professional golf events launched in February 1999 and sanctioned by the International Federation of PGA Tours; four events including the Dell Match Play and HSBC Champions; series ended after 2023.
World Golf Hall of Fame
World Golf Hall of Fame: golf's hall of fame, founded Pinehurst 1974, moved to St. Augustine 1998, returned to Pinehurst 2024 with the USGA; 170 members, 75% vote elects.
World Grand Prix (darts)
World Grand Prix (darts): annual PDC major since 1998, the only double-in, double-out tournament on the circuit, played in sets; Phil Taylor won a record 11 titles, Dolan hit the first double-start nine-darter in 2011.
World Junior Curling Championships
The World Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling championship for junior men's and women's teams, with ten teams each qualifying through the previous year or the Junior-B event.
World Junior Table Tennis Championships
World Junior Table Tennis Championships, since 2021 the ITTF World Youth Championships: ITTF junior world title event first held 2003 in Santiago, Chile, with U19 and U15 events; 2026 edition in Istanbul, Türkiye.
World Matchplay (darts)
The World Matchplay is a major PDC darts tournament held every July at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool since 1994, second in prestige only to the World Championship.
World Mixed Curling Championship
The World Mixed Curling Championship is an annual international curling tournament for teams of two women and two men, held each autumn since 2015 and open to all World Curling members.
World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, annual world title for two-player mixed-gender curling teams, first held 2008 in Vierumaki, Finland. Australia's Gill and Hewitt are 2026 champions; Italy won 2025.
World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships
The World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships are the international championships in Classic ninepin bowling, run by the World Ninepin Bowling Association's Ninepin Bowling Classic section.
World Professional Darts Championship
The World Professional Darts Championship is the richest annual darts title, organized by the PDC and held in London since 1994 after a split from the BDO.