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unusual facts about lawn tennis



Bangabasi College

Bangabasi College has common sports ground and a beautiful pavilion on the Kolkata Maidan for cricket, football, hockey, volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, and athletics.

Harry Gem

Alongside his friend Augurio Perera, he is credited as the earliest inventor of the game of lawn tennis.

Pete Bostwick

Son Pete Jr. was one of the best and most versatile amateur sportsmen in American history who won two National squash titles and hard racquets Open Championships and who also excelled at golf, ice hockey, court tennis and Lawn Tennis.


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1877 Wimbledon Championship

On 2 June 1877 at the suggestion of founding member and club secretary, John H. Walsh, the club committee decided to organize a lawn tennis championship which they hoped would generate enough funds to repair the broken pony roller that was needed for the maintenance of the lawns.

1927 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The 1927 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 22nd edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.

1934 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The 1934 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 29th edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.

1935 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The 1935 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 30th edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.

1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The 1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 31st edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.

1973 Wimbledon Championships

In May 1973 Nikola Pilić, Yugoslavia's number one tennis player, was suspended by his national lawn tennis association, who claimed he had refused to play in a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand earlier that month.

Athens Lawn Tennis Club

The Athens Lawn Tennis Club is a tennis club founded in Athens, Greece in 1895.

Australian Associated Motor Insurers Limited

The AAMI Classic is played in mid-January in Melbourne at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club.

Bobby Riggs

In the 1946 tour against Budge, Riggs won 24 matches and lost 22, plus 1 match tied at Birmingham, Alabama establishing himself as the best player in the world (source : American Lawn Tennis July 15, 1946, page 34).

Dimitri Obolensky

He was educated in Britain at Lynchmere Preparatory School, Eastbourne, and in France at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine, before going up to Cambridge University (Trinity College), where he distinguished himself with a Blue for lawn tennis and graduated in 1940.

Giles Smith

This cassette featured 36 tracks including "Helluva Break By Ray Reardon", "You Lawn Tennis", "The Babylon Shuffle", "Love Me Love My Rabbit", "Guru Guru Guru" and "Icarus Dicarus, I Smell A Nail".

Lawrence Dundas

Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland (1908–1989), lawn tennis player known before 1971 as the Earl of Ronaldshay

Louise Hammond Raymond

In 1914 she won the Middle States Championships (Montrose, New Jersey) at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club by defeating title holder Edith Rotch in the challenge round (6-2 6-3).

Mary Ewing Outerbridge

The modern game of lawn tennis was commercialized in 1874 in England by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of the British Army.

Percy Colquhoun

In 1909 Colquhoun was president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia, and refereed Sydney's first Davis Cup challenge round final.

Sumant Misra

He won the last All India Tennis Championships in 1944–45 and then went on to win the first newly christened National Lawn Tennis Championships of India that was held at Calcutta South Club in Woodburn Park Road, in 1946–47 beating Man Mohan Lal.

Toupie Lowther

The brothers Reginald and Hugh Laurence Doherty invited her to write a chapter entitled "Ladies' Play" for their book "Lawn Tennis" published 1903 and George Whiteside Hillyard 1864–1943, the All England Tennis Club Secretary for many years and husband to Blanche Hillyard in his book "Forty Years of First Class Tennis" (1924) was glowing in his appreciation.

Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club

Vancouver Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club is a tennis club located at Granville Park in the upmarket neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

World Covered Court Championships

The WCCC tournament was disbanded by the ILTF when the Australasian Championships was upgraded to major status for the start of 1924, as well as the United States Lawn Tennis Association (and with it, the US Championships to official major status) joining the governing body of the ILTF, also in 1924.