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Walter Clopton Wingfield

British military officer

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history of tennis

  • Serena Williams
    In tennis: Origin and early years

    …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…

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