Lawn-tennis

This book is an introduction to tennis, written by James Dwight, an expert in the field and a prominent figure in the history of American tennis. Dwight, who was known as the «Founding Father of American Tennis,» won the first recorded tournament in the U.S. (and possibly the world) in August 1876 on his uncle William Appleton's property in Nahant, Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard, he traveled to Europe, where he witnessed the new sport of lawn tennis and brought back the necessary equipment to introduce the game to America.