Welsh inventor Walter Clopton Wingfield, then a retired British Army officer, is credited with pioneering the sport around ...

While Centre Court is quiet, a team prepares for two weeks of sporting theater. In the future, this time will be taken over ...

By Pritha Sarkar LONDON (Reuters) -Before this year, there was no love lost between Iga Swiatek and the grass courts of ...

Lawn tennis was an outdoor adaptation of the indoor racket game “real tennis,” which itself was an adoption of the French pastime jeu de paume, or “the palm game.” ...

Tennis as we currently know it—called "lawn tennis" in those days—had been invented in Great Britain in 1874. Soon enough, it made its way to America.