June 26 1922 - Inaugural tennis match at new WIMBLEDON stadium between A R F Kingscote & L A Godfree. ---- Algernon Robert Fitzhardinge "Algy" Kingscote MC ( 1888 – 1964) was born in Bangalore, India, in 1888. --- Leslie Allison Godfree ( 1885 – 1971) was also the author of a number of tennis books. Lawn tennis was developed as an outdoor version of real tennis in 1876 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield .It was originally called Sphairistikè

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