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July 9, 2016

Lee Green Richards (1878-1950),

Tennis Players, c.1909, oil on canvas, 66 1/2 x 115 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art.
Today we commemorate the first day of the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877. It is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and the only major tournament still played on grass.