In England, during the 18th and early 19th centuries as real tennis declined, three other racquet sports emerged: racquets, squash racquets and lawn tennis (the modern game). Birth of lawn tennis Augurio Perera's house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where he and Harry Gem first played the modern game of lawn tennis Amateur tennis match in Sweden, 1892.. The lawyer and memoirist William Hickey ...
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