India, June 27 -- From a record attendance exhibition match in Africa to a money-spinning streaming show in Las Vegas, modern tennis might be expanding its horizon. Yet, at its heart remains Wimbledon.

And it's that time of the year when it springs to life. When the freshly cut green of the 1868-founded All England Club meets its sternest test of modern day battle-hardened baseliners. When players trade the flashy outfits for crisp whites. And when a gush of nostalgia hits Indian tennis, awakening a sport currently in slumber of its more stellar past.

For it's at the oldest and most revered Grand Slam that some of the country's greatest in the sport had their finest achievements. It's here that a father-son duo had the distinction of ea...