July 1977 in Sport

Events in Sport

Jul 1 84th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)

Jul 2 91st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)

Jul 9 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland

Jul 10 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic

Jul 24 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881

Jul 28 Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham v Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings

Jul 5 Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player.
Jul 6 Con Blatsis, Australian footballer
Jul 6 Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
Jul 8 Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
Jul 11 Brandon Short, American football player
Jul 12 Neil Harris, English footballer
Jul 15 Andre Nel, South African Cricketer
Jul 17 Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
Jul 19 Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
Jul 19 Ed Smith, English cricketer
Jul 19 Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
Jul 20 Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer
Jul 20 Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
Jul 21 Allison Wagner, 200m/400m medley swimmer (Olympic silver 1996)
Jul 21 Paul Casey, English golfer
Jul 22 Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
Jul 23 Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
Jul 23 Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
Jul 24 Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
Jul 24 Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
Jul 25 Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
Jul 26 Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
Jul 28 Aki Berg, Finnish NHL defenseman (LA Kings), born in Raisio, Finland
Jul 28 Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player, born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Jul 29 Greg Burgess, American 200m individual medley (Olympic silver 1992, 96)
Jul 30 Jayme Dickman, South Bend Ind, 3x20 rifle (Olympics 1996)
Jul 31 Tim Couch, American football player

Jul 8 NFL coach Mike Ditka (37) weds Diana Trantham in Dallas County, Texas