“To see Good Tennis! What divine joy
Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ?
Let other people play at other things;
The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.”

—  James Kenneth Stephen

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English poet, tutor to Prince Albert Victor 1859–1892

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