History

| HIS-STORY |

Tennis has its own great story behind of its existence. The story of tennis itself starts in Egypt, but the lineage to the world-wide game of today has its roots more in France before it was launched in Great Britain. In times preceding where early ball games have been documented there was an Egyptian city named "Tinnis". According to the history reference, the earliest existing deception of a ball game is from Egyptian tomb of Beni Hassan prior to 2000 BC, which shows women on the backs of other women throwing a ball back and forth. 

Meanwhile, an early version of tennis started out in the 16th century in France where players would yell "tenez" when starting a game and giving the game as Tennis. "Tenez" means Play or in other words it means to hold or to take heed which involves from server to receiver. “Tenez” may have been a common call for jeu de paume players to initiate play in France and somehow retained association to the English versions of the game. Later the game would be refined in England in the 19th century as lawn tennis to more resemble the sport we play today. 

During the reign (1327-1377) of King Edward III of England, tennis court was constructed at Windsor Castle.  Courts in France have been discovered as early as 1368 and by 1600 as many as 2000 courts were built.  Tennis can be shown as a royal game since decades ago in William Shakespeare's play 'Henry V' (circa 1600) referring to an event circa 1414.  Below is the Shakespeare's reference to an event when Prince Dauphin of France sent balls for the game to England's King Henry V (reign 1413 to 1422)  

King Henry: "What treasure, uncle?" 

The Exeter: "Tennis-balls, my liege." 

King Henry: When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, we will in France (by God's grace) play a set..."

Caption:  Court Tennis - 1883 depiction of Henry VIII (1491-1547) playing tennis.  

| HOW . IT . BEGAN |

Tennis started in the streets with the "common people" and likely progressed by the monks, and was ultimately embraced by aristocracy and royalty. During the time between the 16th and 18th centuries, the game called "Jeu de Paumme" means Palm Game. Palm Game is the term of reference for the old game called, in English, Real Tennis, Court Tennis or Royal Tennis. Therefore, it would become an indoor court game played in an intricate setting with sloped roofs and walls, likely modeled after the earlier environment of the earlier street games. 

Jeu de Paume and its antecedents likely began bare-handed, evolved to gloves, then bats, and ultimately jeu de paume evolved to racquets. It is proposed that in the 11th and 12th centuries organized ball games were routinely being played, and by around the 13th century in France, traditional Easter ball games had formalized into the game of jeu de paume, similar to that which was popular with aristocracy in the 16th and 17th centuries. It appears that French monks were a dominant influence on the game in its origins. The name jeu de paume was obviously not changed after racquets were employed centuries later. In English the term 'tennis' has been the equivalent name for jeu de paume for centuries.

The immediate ancestor of the game was called "Sphairistike" invented by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield and first played by him on a grass court in Wales. "Sphairistike" refers to their ball games and this name was briefly associated with lawn tennis in the late 19th century. Meanwhile, during 19th century, "Lawn tennis" and "Tennis" was formed and it has been the terms used for the game and international sport we know today. 

Caption:  Racquet design


As time goes by, technology becomes more efficient and tennis has been one of the best video game that has the most influence among people around the world.  This is the evolution of technology and it shows the impact of tennis sport towards tennis fans.  

History of Video Game Tennis

from 70's until 2011