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Tennis timeline

Ten key moments

Prior to the nineteenth century, real tennis was played by aristocrats. The late nineteenth century saw tennis develop from Sphairistike into lawn tennis for the middle classes, with an amateur code in place until the second half of the twentieth century

1873 Major Walter Wingfield invented the game Sphairistike (from the Greek word for ‘ball game’)

1875 Henry Cavendish Jones convinced the All England Club to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court

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