Like most of today's most popular sports, Tennis was also born in England. Legend has it that on February 23, 1374, a lord with a sumptuous bearing
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Like most of today's most popular sports, Tennis was also born in England. Legend has it that on February 23, 1374, a lord with a sumptuous posture, hitting the ball over the net with a racket, shouted “tenez! ” trying to pronounce it in French, but 'tennis' came out, from here everything came out.
Exactly 500 years later, because we are always talking about legends, on February 23, 1874, a man named Walter Clopton Wingfield went to the London Chamber of Trades to deposit the invention of a new game that he defined as lawn-tennis: here was the birth of modern tennis.
In reality it seems that this discipline took root already in the Middle Ages with the name Real Tennis in England, Jeu de Paume in France and Pallacorda in Italy.
Between 1100 and 1700 it spread to England, France, Spain and Italy with the birth of the first clubs.
1877. The Wimbledon Tournament is born. The first winner, Gore Spencer, was also the inventor of volleyball: he put himself on the net and tried to answer as many balls as possible.
1886. Tennis was admitted to the first modern Olympics, in Athens
.1913. The scoring rules that we know today were introduced.
1968. Three major tournaments were renamed Us Open, French Open (or better called Roland Garros) and Australian Open respectively: the term 'Open' indicates the mode of the tournament: open to everyone, eliminating the distinction between tournaments for professionals and those for amateurs
.1967. The first two men's tennis circuits were created: the World Championship Tennis (WCT) and the National Tennis League (NTL).
To play tennis it was necessary to have a turf on which to draw the lines that delimited the playing area, the shape and size of the lines has changed over the decades. Initially, there were no precise and codified rules of the game, everything was left to the imagination and personal interpretation of the players.
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