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Players on Wimbledon's Centre Court in 2008, a year before the installation of a retractable roof. The racket sport traditionally named lawn tennis, invented in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, now commonly known simply as tennis, is the direct descendant of what is now denoted real tennis or royal tennis, which continues to be played today as a separate sport with more complex rules.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) conducts a junior tour that allows juniors to establish a world ranking and an Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) or Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking. Most juniors who enter the international circuit do so by progressing through ITF, Satellite, Future, and Challenger tournaments before ...
Soon tennis clubs were established across the country amongst the upper classes, including in New Orleans and San Francisco. [2] The New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club was founded in December, 1876. [3] In 1887 the Philadelphia Cricket Club, hosted a National singles Championship. In 1888 a women's tennis tournament was soon set up.
Each entry below is an outline, an introduction to a subject structured as a hierarchical list of the essential points.Each of these outlines focuses on a country. Along with Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines, the outlines on Wikipedia form an all-encompassing outline of the knowledge of humankind.
This is a list of outlines of present-day nations, states, and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories and dependencies are not. Disputed and unrecognized countries are italicized.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. As of 2016, there are 211 national and six regional associations that make up the ITF's membership.
Category: Tennis by country and year. 3 languages. ... Tennis in the United States by year (145 C) Tennis in Uruguay by year (15 C)
Tennis by country and decade (45 C) Tennis by country and year (45 C) A. Tennis in Albania (1 C, 2 P) Tennis in Algeria (1 C, 3 P) Tennis in Andorra (1 C, 1 P)