when did Russian players first complete at the Wimbledon
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Russian Union Lawn Tennis (RULT) is the oldest sport union in Russia and it came before the current Russian Tennis Federation. Its first regulations were registered on the 3rd of June in 1908 and included in the community registry of Saint Petersburg under the № 265. This date is considered the birthday of the Russian tennis flagship.
The founder and the first chairman of RULT was a bright activist of the Russian sport – Arthur Davydovich MacPherson (1870 – 1919). Having Scottish roots, MacPherson was born in St. Petersburg, where he was born and raised and invested all his efforts into establishing and development of the national sport. MacPherson was first to be a chairman of three Russian unions at the same time, which were lawn tennis, football, and rowing. In 1903 MacPherson organized first ever championship of St. Petersburg on the grounds of the Krestovsiy tennis club. In 1907 he organized united Russian lawn tennis competition, which was the first championship in Russia of that scale. Until 1917 he was a leader of the RULT, which he founded and published and ‘Annual RULT’ (1909 – 1916) and ‘Lawn Tennis’ magazine (1912-1914). He was awarded with the 3rd class Order of Saint Stanislaus for his great achievements in the development of Russian sports. After the Bolshevik Revolution he was arrested twice and has passed away in 1919 in one of the Moscow’s prisons from Typhus. The highest prize one can receive from Russian Tennis Federation was named in the honor of Arthur Davydovich MacPherson. From the birth of the Russian Tennis Federation it has gone through tough times. After revolution government was cautious about sport, which was mainly associated with high society, and then they blacklisted it for years because it wasn’t included in the Olympic games. Despite of all the discrimination Russian tennis have stayed strong and flourished through the years.
The founder and the first chairman of RULT was a bright activist of the Russian sport – Arthur Davydovich MacPherson (1870 – 1919). Having Scottish roots, MacPherson was born in St. Petersburg, where he was born and raised and invested all his efforts into establishing and development of the national sport. MacPherson was first to be a chairman of three Russian unions at the same time, which were lawn tennis, football, and rowing. In 1903 MacPherson organized first ever championship of St. Petersburg on the grounds of the Krestovsiy tennis club. In 1907 he organized united Russian lawn tennis competition, which was the first championship in Russia of that scale. Until 1917 he was a leader of the RULT, which he founded and published and ‘Annual RULT’ (1909 – 1916) and ‘Lawn Tennis’ magazine (1912-1914). He was awarded with the 3rd class Order of Saint Stanislaus for his great achievements in the development of Russian sports. After the Bolshevik Revolution he was arrested twice and has passed away in 1919 in one of the Moscow’s prisons from Typhus. The highest prize one can receive from Russian Tennis Federation was named in the honor of Arthur Davydovich MacPherson. From the birth of the Russian Tennis Federation it has gone through tough times. After revolution government was cautious about sport, which was mainly associated with high society, and then they blacklisted it for years because it wasn’t included in the Olympic games. Despite of all the discrimination Russian tennis have stayed strong and flourished through the years.
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