Walter Clopton Wingfield: The "Inventor" of Tennis

On February 23, 1874, a retired English army officer, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, obtained a provisional patent for his invention of a portable court for playing tennis, and then published the rules of his new game. His boxed set hit the market, exploded in popularity, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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