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The Victorian entrepreneur who invented modern tennis

Walter Clopton Wingfield, inventor of lawn tennis, with one of his rackets

We could today be playing tennis on an hourglass-shaped court with a net set at more than a foot higher than the current height if the plans of a Victorian entrepreneur credited with popularizing tennis had become widely adopted.

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