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Also look for a local sport called road tennis — a street version of lawn tennis invented on the island in the 1930s and played with wooden paddles.
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Patrick Scott, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
In 1909, the city’s first public golf course opened at the park, and later a horse racing track, lawn tennis courts, a toboggan slide and a pool were added.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
On this day in 1877, the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club held its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then a suburb of London.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 9 July 2024
McKinley Park had picnic grounds, a flower garden, areas for lawn tennis and a deer park, as well as a Zoological Garden that housed rabbits, exotic birds, monkeys, raccoons and alligators.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 29 June 2024
Just three years later, in 1877, the first tournament of champions for lawn tennis, as the sport became known, was held at Wimbledon.
—Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Among English élites of the eighteen-seventies, when lawn tennis caught on, there was a fascination with the culture of ancient Greece: its sculpture, its plays and poems, its prizing of (male) youthfulness, its aestheticizing of the human body in motion.
—Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
Only twelve years earlier, in 1924, before the widespread availability of antibiotics, another presidential son, sixteen-year-old Calvin Coolidge Jr., had gotten a blister on his toe while playing lawn tennis at the White House on the last day of June.
—Perri Klass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
Sir Tom Stoppard, hailed by some as the greatest British playwright since Shakespeare, Stoppard was a teenage journalist in Bristol, making a few pounds a week covering lawn tennis, flower shows and traffic problems.
—Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
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Patrick Scott, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
In 1909, the city’s first public golf course opened at the park, and later a horse racing track, lawn tennis courts, a toboggan slide and a pool were added.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
On this day in 1877, the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club held its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then a suburb of London.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 9 July 2024
McKinley Park had picnic grounds, a flower garden, areas for lawn tennis and a deer park, as well as a Zoological Garden that housed rabbits, exotic birds, monkeys, raccoons and alligators.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 29 June 2024
Just three years later, in 1877, the first tournament of champions for lawn tennis, as the sport became known, was held at Wimbledon.
—Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Among English élites of the eighteen-seventies, when lawn tennis caught on, there was a fascination with the culture of ancient Greece: its sculpture, its plays and poems, its prizing of (male) youthfulness, its aestheticizing of the human body in motion.
—Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
Only twelve years earlier, in 1924, before the widespread availability of antibiotics, another presidential son, sixteen-year-old Calvin Coolidge Jr., had gotten a blister on his toe while playing lawn tennis at the White House on the last day of June.
—Perri Klass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
Sir Tom Stoppard, hailed by some as the greatest British playwright since Shakespeare, Stoppard was a teenage journalist in Bristol, making a few pounds a week covering lawn tennis, flower shows and traffic problems.
—Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
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“Lawn tennis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lawn%20tennis. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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