lawn tennis in English

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the standard form of tennis, played with a soft ball on an open court.
The competition will involve football, netball, chess, basketball, badminton, volleyball, table tennis and lawn tennis .
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1. In spring 1877, the club was renamed "The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club" and signalled its change of name by instituting the first Lawn Tennis Championship.

2. The tournament was played on clay courts at the Athens Lawn Tennis Club.

3. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis.

4. 17 "It's about visualising data in a different way," said IBM Client Executive for the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC),(www.Sentencedict.com) Alan Flack.

5. By 1882, activity at the club was almost exclusively confined to lawn tennis and that year the word "croquet" was dropped from the title.

6. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is a private club founded on 23 July 1868, originally as "The All England Croquet Club".

7. 16 "It's about visualising data in a different way," said Alan Flack, IBM's Client Executive for the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), in an interview.

8. The All England Club, through its subsidiary The All England Lawn Tennis Ground plc, issues debentures to tennis fans every five years to raise funds for capital expenditure.

9. In 1876, lawn tennis, a game devised by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield a year or so earlier as an outdoor version of court tennis and originally given the name Sphairistikè, was added to the activities of the club.

10. Faehioned "Battledores." The game is, in fact, a sort of cross between lawn tennis and the older game, and is said to be the invention of an English officer in India, who found the climate too hot for ten nis

11. Badminton (n.) outdoor game similar to lawn tennis but played with a shuttlecock, 1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid-19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona.The place name is Old English Badimyncgtun (972), "estate of (a man called) Baduhelm."