The first took place in 1900, known at the time as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge ... Crump & Low. The first match, held at Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, Massachusetts, was won ...

So naturally, a newly imported leisure sport fit in quite nicely. Tennis as we currently know it—called "lawn tennis" in those days—had been invented in Great Britain in 1874. Soon enough ...

Now that lawn tennis is so universally popular ... and he introduced it in 1874 under the name of "Spharistike." The first match ever played was in Denbighshire, England, and the first public ...