Founding of the Lawn Tennis Association
- When
- 1888
- Where
- London
The Lawn Tennis Association was founded in 1888 as the national governing body for tennis in Great Britain, eleven years after the first Wimbledon championship.
The organization was established to govern tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. The founding followed the Marylebone Cricket Club's 1875 promulgation of the official rules of lawn tennis and the founding of the Wimbledon championships in 1877. The legacy row supplies a founding day of 26 January 1888, but no supplied passage corroborates that day, so the date is carried at year precision with the day treated as unverified. The specific founding venue is not stated in the supplied passages; the National Tennis Centre, Roehampton named in the legacy row is the LTA's modern headquarters and is anachronistic for 1888.
Sources
- Lawn Tennis Association Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-08
- History of tennis Wikipedia
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