Walter Kinsella

Walter Kinsella

Walter Kinsella was a real tennis player, who lost three challenges for the world championship, to Fred Covey in 1922 and 1923, and to the great Pierre Etchebaster in 1930 at Prince's Club. "Real" tennis is the racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis is descended.


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