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From 2009 through 2021, basketball received the 12th-most government funding of any sport in England, virtually even with table tennis and well behind badminton and lawn tennis.
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Joe Vardon, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Her photos serve as a portal to the Gilded Age, with images of the annual regatta, boathouse bathers, charity balls and lawn tennis, a sport newly open to women who were too restricted by corsets to actually run for the ball.
—Margaret Hetherman, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
Robert Osborn, an early thinker on lawn tennis, was also a religious scholar.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
Tennis historian Joel Drucker says the single biggest change since the dawn of lawn tennis was the professionalization of the sport, which happened in 1968.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 July 2025
As lawn tennis gained popularity over the next few years, the club added the sport to its offerings and the first edition of The Championships—open only to men, with 21 competitors—was held in 1877.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
There are paths that lead to various garden rooms such as the rose patio, the cloud pruned box, the greenhouse, the vegetable garden and the lawn tennis court.
—Blue Carreon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
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Joe Vardon, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Her photos serve as a portal to the Gilded Age, with images of the annual regatta, boathouse bathers, charity balls and lawn tennis, a sport newly open to women who were too restricted by corsets to actually run for the ball.
—Margaret Hetherman, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
Robert Osborn, an early thinker on lawn tennis, was also a religious scholar.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
Tennis historian Joel Drucker says the single biggest change since the dawn of lawn tennis was the professionalization of the sport, which happened in 1968.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 July 2025
As lawn tennis gained popularity over the next few years, the club added the sport to its offerings and the first edition of The Championships—open only to men, with 21 competitors—was held in 1877.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
There are paths that lead to various garden rooms such as the rose patio, the cloud pruned box, the greenhouse, the vegetable garden and the lawn tennis court.
—Blue Carreon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Lawn tennis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lawn%20tennis. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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