Tennis Freak

Present-day version of tennis is a hugely popular sport and is played by different people across the world on different types of surfaces but this was not always the case. Introduced mainstream public as a sport in the late 1800s, it was considered to be an elite sport. It is played and followed by the people from the upper status of the society and the common public was almost unaware about the sport. In fact, this elitism was the reason why private tennis clubs are found in the first place.Tennis clubs in their formative years were only open to the elite few who belonged to the higher class societies. Even in their entry and acceptance into tennis clubs were largely restricted invitations or by solicitation of large donations. As a result, tennis was hugely popular and was restricted to a select few in different pockets of the world. Tennis clubs started realizing this and the decided to increase the popularity of the sport either individually or collectively.

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