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Making a Tennis Court - George E. Walsh
George E. Walsh
Making a Tennis Court
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066139520
Table of Contents
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
LOCATION
KINDS OF COURTS
CONSTRUCTING DIRT COURTS
CONSTRUCTING GRASS COURTS
SIZES AND MARKING
BACKSTOPS AND NETS
CARE OF COURTS
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Table of Contents
Although the game of lawn tennis as played to-day dates back only some forty to forty-five years, it is in reality one of the oldest of all existing ball games. The origin of the game is involved in considerable obscurity, but it has numberless historical associations which make it of peculiar interest.
Tennis was mentioned in the Arthurian romances, and it was quite extensively played in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was played upon open courts in the parks or ditches of the feudal castles of France and Italy. It was called, in Italy, giuoco della palla; in Germany, Ballspiel; in France, jeu de paume; and in Spain, jugar al able.
The French borrowed it from the Italians, and the modern word tennis
was derived from the French exclamation of Tenez! that was employed in serving the ball. It was a game of kings and nobles. Originally a cork ball was used, and this was struck with the palm of the hand. A bank of earth was used instead of a net. The first appearance of the racket is uncertain, but in the time of Henry VII the hand sometimes met the racket on the royal courts of Windsor.
Major Walter C. Wingfield, of the British army, practically modernized and popularized tennis. He patented his game in 1874. It was played on a court 60 × 30 feet, shaped very much like an hour-glass. In this early game of tennis, the net was 7 feet high at the ends, but sagged gradually toward the center to a height of 4 feet 8 inches.
The Marylebone Cricket Club, of Lord's, formulated the first official laws