Firsts, Lasts & Onlys is a tennis fan's delight, chock-full of
astonishing events, time-honoured anecdotes and extraordinary
facts. The book takes a light-hearted but authoritative look at
every major tennis tournament in the world, including the Wimbledon
Championships. Discover how the first championships - held in 1877,
the same year as the first cricket Test match - were almost an
afterthought. Did you know that no women were allowed in the first
tournament? Or that the All England Club was actually founded to
promote croquet? The book is packed with fascinating trivia that
will tantalise and enthral. When did strawberries and cream become
a Wimbledon staple? Who was the first man to win all four major
titles in the same year? Who is or was Roland Garros? Filled with
bizarre curiosities from the sport's past - from the heir to the
throne whose death was caused by tennis, to the vicar who won
Wimbledon, to the murderer who reached a final - this is a book
every tennis fan should own.
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