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Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club is one of the most ancient lawn tennis clubs in the world. It was founded in 1881, seven years before the Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain was founded.
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The Club
Up to the Second World War, after which lawn tennis became less of an amateur pursuit, Cambridge Blues won no less than 28 Wimbledon Championships in singles and doubles. H. W. W. Wilberforce was President, and then the first Chairman,of the All England Club. Cambridge Blues have included such famous names as H. L. Doherty and R. F. Doherty, Anthony Wilding, C. R. D. Tuckey, H. W. ('Bunny') Austin (who, with Tuckey, helped Fred Perry to win the Davis Cup for Great Britain in four successive years from 1933 to 1936) and more recently, Mark Cox, who was in the British team which reached the final of the Davis Cup against t he USA in 1978.
Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club is one of the most ancient lawn tennis clubs in the world. It was founded in 1881, seven years before the Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain was founded. Although it is called a 'club' it is actually the lawn tennis association of the whole of the University of Cambridge, representing the University as a whole, the thirty-one Colleges, and the other institutions which are part of the University.
It is directly affiliated to the Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain and has a representative on the Council and on the Board of the Association. The present Chairman of the Club, Sir Geoffrey Cass, was President of the Lawn Tennis Association and Chairman of the L.T.A. Council 1997-1999.
The University and Colleges give considerable support to British tennis by making available their administrative and playing facilities. CULTC regularly arranges for County Week groups to be held on College grounds.
The annual fixture list is one of the strongest in Britain. It includes matches against many different counties, as well as the All England Club, the International Club, The Queen's Club, and Ealing, Roehampton, Hurlingham and Cumberland lawn tennis clubs; also half-a-dozen universities, and a dozen other clubs and teams. Over 80% of the Club's annual fixtures are home matches, which means that in a typical year about 40 tennis teams from all over Britain are entertained for a day in Cambridge in Fenner's.
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