Gary Bala

Many people ask about the indoor sport of real tennis, also called court tennis, which is closely-related to today's modern game of tennis, and often considered it's forerunner. Two hundred years before soccer was dubbed "the beautiful game", real tennis or court tennis was called "the first beautiful game"...It went by different names in different

(*or the Ten Minute Tennis Time Capsule) *Tennis in Ancient History - Some historians trace the origins of tennis before the year 1000 to the Egyptian town of Tinnis on the river Nile, and the origin of the word "racquet" to the Arabic word for palm - rahat. Stronger historical evidence tracks tennis to the