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On Day 4 of Wimbledon, some of the fans who queued up outside the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club to see Novak Djokovic take on Dan Evans might have heard a distinctive thwock thwock thwock ...
Britain has a proud history of sending kids from grassroots courts to Grand Slam titles - but could the next Andy Murray be ...
Welsh inventor Walter Clopton Wingfield, then a retired British Army officer, is credited with pioneering the sport around ...
An inspirational figure in Welsh tennis and youth politics secured a raft of accolades following smash-hit success on and off ...
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for two indoor tennis courts in Brighton not to be replaced with padel ...
Word origins: The word “tennis” traces back to a centuries-old French shout "tenez " but earliest version of tennis was ...
As Wimbledon fever sweeps the UK, there are now improved tennis facilities that people in Calderdale can now use.
By Barry Porterfield | [email protected] The idea of playing lawn tennis, patterned off a famous tournament across the pond, looks to be grabbing some folks’ attention as Pauls Valley ...
A tennis-loving paralympic hopeful has been given a boost by his local MP to play the sport internationally. Lucas De Gouveia, 14, found it difficult to compete abroad because of the cost. Beckenham ...
Shelton, Fritz, Ruud and several others at Wimbledon are kids of former pros. Was it a pivotal moment when they beat their ...
A confluence of factors — including the rise of color TV, the climate of social change in the 1960s and decisions by governing groups like the British Lawn Tennis Association — helped usher in ...
With its short playing season and high maintenance costs, grass court tennis is under threat. Only in the UK and Australia is ...