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Six gentlemen founded a croquet club in a magazine office in 1868, and accidentally created the most famous venue in tennis. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Church Road, Wimbledon, began on 23 July 1868 as the All England Croquet Club, set aside one lawn for the new game of lawn tennis in 1875, and staged the first Championships in 1877 - 22 entrants, play suspended so as not to clash with the Eton versus Harrow cricket match. The club left its original Worple Road ground for th...