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 ...

It has hosted the trials of Guy Fawkes, King Charles I and churchman Thomas More, who was executed by Henry VIII. Henry's coronation ... In 1920, two leather tennis balls dating from Henry's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales and incumbent patron of Wimbledon’s All England Lawn Tennis ... begun with Henry VIII, the first royal with a recorded interest in tennis.

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 ...