{"id":6132,"date":"2026-07-19T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:17:18","slug":"wimbledon-tennis-championships-were-held-for-the-first-time-in-1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6132","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon Tennis Championships Were Held for the first Time in 1877"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wimbledon tennis championships were held for the first time in 1877<\/strong>. The competition, held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, started on July 9 and featured 22 male players. Spencer Gore won the competition. Ladies&#8217; Singles and Gentlemen&#8217;s Doubles were added in 1884. Ladies&#8217; Doubles and Mixed Doubles premiered in 1913. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/about_wimbledon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon tennis championships were held for the first time in 1877. The competition, held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, started on July 9 and featured 22 male players. Spencer Gore won the competition. Ladies&#8217; Singles and Gentlemen&#8217;s Doubles were added in 1884. Ladies&#8217; Doubles and Mixed Doubles premiered in <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6132' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5384,769,5725,770,768],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5384","tag-all-england-lawn-tennis-and-croquet-club","tag-july-19","tag-spencer-gore","tag-wimbledon-tennis-championships","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23324,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions\/23324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}