Ultimate Encyclopedia Of Tennis
Publisher: Carlton Books
Published: October 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781858685397
Subjects: Tennis; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Non-Classifiable; Reference works
First sentence: The birth of lawn tennis can be traced back to 1858, when Major Henry Gem, a solicitor and clerk to the magistrates in Birmingham, and Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, a member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms at the court of Queen Victoria, marked out a lawn in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, and called it a tennis court.