TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book. Our ancestors started playing the game outdoors for the first time thanks to a Birmingham lawyer who experimented with the sport. Instead of the Wimbledon as we know it with strict singles and doubles teams with no mixing of the sexes the early Victorians were MORE liberal. In a version called the Unicorn one player could play against two opponents. And while ladies were discouraged from playing - they were permitted to battle against the men. This means if Wimbledon was played the Victorian way we could be looking at a big female name like Serena Williams playing the likes of Murray AND Djokovic. History buffs of the sport insist the 1874 'Lawn tennis or Pelota rules of the game' by Thomas Henry Gem was the first of its kind. Former PE teachers Sue Elks, 69, and Christopher Elks, 68, from Wythall in the West Midlands explained the difference the modern game has with the tennis of yesteryear.
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .