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The history of modern tennis starts in the second half of the XIX century. Just then there was a game, while bearing the name " lawn tennis ", which was the forerunner of a more ancient game indoors. Wimbledon, the oldest surviving to the present day has been held since 1877, and the first competition of national teams - Davis Cup - traces its history to 1900. Tennis is part of the modern Olympic Games, since I Olympiad, held in 1896, but with more than half a century, which ended only in 1988. Initially tennis was officially an amateur sport, the first professional players appeared in tennis in the 20 - ies of XX century, and since the late 1960s began the so - called Open era, in which all tournaments have become open to both amateurs and for professionals and were combined into a few large cycles