Since the sport’s inception, the design and manufacture of tennis equipment has been affected by technological advances and regulations. As is common in major sports, regulations became more exacting over time, with improvements ...
The Open Era began in 1968 when Grand Slam tournaments agreed to allow professional players to compete with amateurs.Before 1968, only amateurs were allowed to compete in Grand Slam tournaments and other events organized or sanctioned ...
The lawyer and memoirist William Hickey recalled that in 1767 “in the summer we had another club, which met at the Red House in Battersea fields, nearly opposite Ranelagh…. The game we played was an invention of our own, ...
The Medieval form of tennis is termed as real tennis, a game that evolved over three centuries, from an earlier ball game played around the 12th century in France which involved hitting a ball with a bare hand and later with a glove.By ...
The word tennis came into use in English in the mid-14th century from Old French, via the Anglo-Norman term Tenez, which can be translated as “hold!”, “receive!” or “take!”, a call from the server to ...
