how old was djokovic when he started playing tennis
Novak Djokovic Djokovic began playing tennis at the age of four.[29] In the summer of 1993, the six-year-old was spotted by Yugoslav tennis player Jelena Genčić[30] at Mount Kopaonik, where Djokovic's parents ran a fast-food parlour.[31] Upon seeing the child Djokovic playing tennis, she stated: "This is the greatest talent I have seen since Monica Seles."[18]
History of tennis Between 1859 and 1865, in Birmingham, England, Major Harry Gem, a solicitor, and his friend Augurio Perera, a Spanish merchant, combined elements of the game of rackets and the Spanish ball game pelota and played it on a croquet lawn in Edgbaston.[28][29] In 1872, both men moved to Leamington Spa and in 1874, with two doctors from the Warneford Hospital, founded the world's first tennis club, the Leamington Tennis Club.[30]