Welsh inventor Walter Clopton Wingfield, then a retired British Army officer, is credited with pioneering the sport around ...

By Barry Porterfield | [email protected] The idea of playing lawn tennis, patterned off a famous tournament across the pond, looks to be grabbing some folks’ attention as Pauls Valley ...

Word origins: The word “tennis” traces back to a centuries-old French shout "tenez " but earliest version of tennis was ...

On Day 4 of Wimbledon, some of the fans who queued up outside the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club to see Novak Djokovic take on Dan Evans might have heard a distinctive thwock thwock thwock ...

Tennis fans, mark your calendars! The 2025 US Open is hitting new milestones. This year’s theme art will celebrate the ...

The downgrade was the result of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and the All England Club achieving their aim of staging a women's tournament at Queen's in London in the first week of the grass ...

Perhaps it's because the British Royal Family is invited — Kate Middleton is a patron of the Lawn Tennis Association — or because it's the world's first official lawn tennis tournament ...

Only in the UK and Australia is grass still a widely used playing surface. For the All England Lawn Tennis Club, which runs the Wimbledon championships, the fate of grass court tennis is existential.

Britain's Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) said it understood the decision amid changes to officiating globally and expressed its commitment to continue developing officials in the country going forward.

The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) has submitted an updated complaint in its antitrust lawsuit against tennis’ governing bodies. The organization, which was co-founded by Novak ...

Of the four Grand Slam tournaments in the tennis season — the others being the Australian Open, French Open and U.S. Open — Wimbledon is the only one that is played on a grass surface.