There has been much dispute over the invention of modern tennis, but the officially recognized centennial of the game in 🌜 1973 commemorated its introduction by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1873.
He published the first book of rules that year and 🌜 took out a patent on his game in 1874, although historians have concluded that similar games were played earlier and 🌜 that the first tennis club was established by the Englishman Harry Gem and several associates in Leamington in 1872.
Wingfield's court 🌜 was of the hourglass shape and may have developed from badminton.
The hourglass shape, stipulated by Wingfield in his booklet "Sphairistiké, 🌜 or Lawn Tennis," may have been adopted for patent reasons since it distinguished the court from ordinary rectangular courts.
At the 🌜 time, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was the governing body of real tennis, whose rules it had recently revised.After J.M.
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