Lawn Tennis facts
While investigating facts about Lawn Tennis Association and Lawn Tennis Rules, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The first patented version of tennis, lawn tennis, was given the name Sphairistike. It was created by Major Walter Clopton and patented in 1874.
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President Calvin Coolidge's son, Calvin Jr., died of sepsis from a Staph infection which developed from a blister on his toe from playing lawn tennis just a week prior.
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In 1877 the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club decided to organise a tennis tournament to pay for the repair of its lawnmower needed to maintain the lawns. The tournament made a profit of £10 and the lawnmower remained in use. Thus originated Wimbledon.
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Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, also wrote a work titled “Lawn Tennis Tournaments, The True Method of Assigning Prizes with a Proof of the Fallacy of the Present Method” in an attempt to create a better sporting "bracket" system
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The Newport Casino, home to the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the first US Lawn Tennis Association championship, was established by James Bennet in 1880 after he was kicked out of the Newport Reading Room for betting a friend he wouldn't ride his horse into the prestigious social club.
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Lawn tennis was named ‘sphairistikè’ when it was invented in 1873 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield. It was renamed shortly afterwards.
