Lawn tennis is not an old game, it is rather new.

Lawn tennis is not an old game, it is rather new. But it is based upon the game which is really very old - court tennis. Court tennis came to Europe from Egypt or Persia about 2500 years ago.
Major Walter Wingfield thought that people could play court tennis outdoors on lawns. In December 1837 he introduced this new game. Soon it became very popular and people called it lawn tennis.
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