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Jul 8, 2016 · BBC NI. Long before the PR driven age of image rights and social media, before Borg, Laver and even Perry, Wimbledon had its own matinee idol - Anthony Wilding. Yet despite him being a...
May 9, 2024 · When World War I started, Anthony Wilding joined the British Army. In October 1914, he joined the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division in the battlefields of northern France, and on May 2, 1915, he was promoted to captain.
May 10, 2017 · The Battle of Aubers Ridge near near Neuve-Chapelle, one of the numerous trench battles of the Western front in the First World War, took place on May 9, 1915, and among some 11000 casualties...
Mar 18, 2024 · Modern tennis was established by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, a British army officer, who created and patented a new game called “Sphairistiké” or “lawn tennis” in 1874. The game featured a rectangular court, a net, and simplified scoring rules.
Jan 28, 2012 · As a consequence of World War 1 and despite the heavy loss of life, including many Australasian tennis players such as Anthony Wilding, Arthur O’Hara Wood and Jack Addison to name only 3, tennis in the 1920′s got off to […]
During the two world wars, many great athletes, sportsmen and women were killed or injured, either through serving in the armed forces or as civilian casualties. These conflicts also caused serious disruption to professional sporting organisations in Britain and throughout the world.
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Apr 29, 2022 · By the start of the Great War, when the major tennis championships were suspended, Wilding and Brookes had accumulated six Wimbledon singles titles between them, and secured a stranglehold on the Davis Cup.
