Consider the tennis ball. The small neon orb is so ingenious in its design that it simultaneously inhabits the highest levels of perhaps one of our most demanding sports, fits snugly on the legs ...

played a pivotal role in how we see the tennis ball today. The sport of modern tennis was born out of the English game of lawn tennis, which by most accounts was invented in the 1870s. Lawn tennis ...

Every summer the thwack of tennis balls and the excited cries of spectators resound over the manicured lawns of SW19. But 150 years ago there was an altogether different game in town.