Walter Wingfield

Modern tennis has had a number of disagreements over its birth. There were quite a number of debates and disagreements over the idea on when it was founded .Its introduction was honored and was officially recognized from a Major whom some tennis fanatics know of, Major Walter Clapton Wingfield in 1873. Wingfield is a British army officer and is the founder of Modern Lawn Tennis. He had also published books mostly related to tennis and games. These books became tennis's “book of rules” that year. The two most renowned books he wrote about tennis are The Book of the Game and The Major's Game of Lawn Tennis. He was also an inventor of the butterfly bicycle.

Wingfield was also a Gentleman-at-Arms where he was called The Royal Body Guard and was also a captain called as The First Dragon Guards. Wingfield was born on October 1833. He's a Welsh inventor of lawn tennis that was called as Sphairistike during the early times, a Greek word which means “ball games”.

Wingfield went to Rossall School during his student years. He resided at Nantclwyd Hall, Llanelidan, in North Wales. It is in that same country where he patented nets in the year 1873 for the new sport that he was interested about. This new sport expanded its way in Europe and from which evolved the modern outdoor tennis we know of today. He was also included in the International Hall of Fame in 1997 and he passed away on April 18, 1912.