(CNN) -- From the royal courts of England and France to centre court at Wimbledon, from Henry VIII ... a Real Tennis professional, who lives at Hampton Court, told Open Court. "In lawn tennis ...

Tennis originated in France and is based on a game called 'Jeu de paume' Long before the emergence of lawn tennis ... between 1526 and 1529, it was Henry VIII's preferred venue to indulge his ...

Modern tennis, or lawn tennis, which was formally invented ... The sport took off across Europe and Britain, where it was championed by Henry VIII. Image A match in the court tennis French Junior ...

Henry VIII was the first recorded royal to show ... In 1969, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, became president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club – but last year he stepped down from ...

Henry VIII, one of the sport’s earliest and most ... Branches shot off to create lawn tennis, squash and racquetball,” explains Tony Hollins, the head court tennis pro at the International ...

When Roger Federer won his last Wimbledon title in 2017, he surpassed the seven victories that the sport’s first giant, William Renshaw, completed 128 years earlier but the Swiss genius’s ...

Events have been held to mark the 150th anniversary of the first lawn tennis-only club ... on what we see now as the rules of tennis". He said Henry 'Cavendish' Jones, who wrote down the rules ...