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How Tennis Invented Everything

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How Tennis Invented Everything

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Season (26 Sept 2026 - 27 Sept 2026)
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Saturday - Sunday17:00 - 18:00

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Tennis historian Christian Howgill reveals how tennis has influenced our world in all sorts of weird and unexpected ways: From the fall of Kings to the birth of Democracy; To inventing Banking; Crashing the Stock Market; Creating MI5 and James Bond;  How Tennis invented the Smart Phone; Even how it helped win the Second World War. Also in the book - the 500 year old secret as to why tennis is scored at 15 points at a time.
But this is no history lesson.
This is raw entertainment.

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