Wimbledon 2015: history of tennis at the All England Club

The tennis competition could very nearly have been called the Wimbledon sphairistike championship

Wimbledon
(Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

By Brian Edwards

Wimbledon is the oldest lawn tennis contest in the world, and remarkably is only three years younger than the game itself. It is also one of the oldest major sporting competitions in the world still taking place.

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