Sport

Tennis

Also Known As Lawn Tennis Historical name for the modern game as it originated in the late 19th century.

Racket Sports

Tennis is a racket sport played between two players (singles) or two pairs (doubles) on a rectangular court divided by a net. The modern outdoor game, originally called lawn tennis, was patented in England in 1874 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, who adapted the older indoor game of real tennis for play on grass with rubber balls that could bounce. Real tennis itself, also called jeu de paume, traces to French monastery courtyards around the twelfth century, where it began as a handball game played against walls before rackets were introduced around the sixteenth century, so the sport carries two distinct origin points depending on whether the ancient handball ancestor or the modern codified outdoor game is meant. Scoring is counted in points named love, fifteen, thirty and forty within a game, a game won by reaching forty with a two-point margin (or by winning consecutive points from deuce, forty-all); games accumulate into sets, ordinarily won by the first side to six games with a two-game margin, and a match is won by the first side to take a majority of sets, best-of-three in most competition and best-of-five in the men's draw at three of the four Grand Slam tournaments.

Facts

Origin Year

1100 3

Marks the approximate twelfth-century French origin of real tennis (jeu de paume), the older ancestor game the entity-description already names; the entity's primary origin-year (1874) records Major Walter Wingfield's later lawn-tennis patent instead.

Originating Region

France (for the medieval jeu de paume ancestor); England (for the 1874 modern codification) 4

International Governing Body

The International Tennis Federation, founded 1913, headquartered in London, United Kingdom. 4

Team or Individual

Both 1

Contact Level

Non-Contact 1

Playing Surface

Court 1

Disputed

Origin Year

1874 4

1874 is the year Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patented the modern outdoor lawn tennis game in England, taken here as the sport codified origin. The much older ancestor game, real tennis or jeu de paume, traces to French monastery courtyards around the twelfth century as a handball game, centuries before rackets or the modern lawn version existed, so which date counts as tennis true origin depends on which game is meant.

Identity

Symbol

A strung racket used to strike a hollow felt-covered rubber ball over a net. 1

Classification

Olympic Programme Status

Current Olympic Sport 2

Tennis

12 entries

Scope

Frequency

Founding Year

Derived From

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Ancestor Of

Padel

Source Padel (sport) - Wikipedia

Pickleball

Borrowed a tennis-height net; not a lineage claim.

Source Pickleball - Wikipedia

Table Tennis

Source Wikipedia, Table Tennis

Featured In

1896 Summer Olympics

1900 Summer Olympics

Source Wikipedia: Tennis at the 1900 Summer Olympics

1904 Summer Olympics

Source Wikipedia: Tennis at the 1904 Summer Olympics

1908 Summer Olympics

Source Wikipedia: Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics

1912 Summer Olympics

Source Wikipedia: Tennis at the 1912 Summer Olympics

1924 Summer Olympics

Source Wikipedia: Tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

Source Wikipedia, 1992 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

Source Wikipedia, 1996 Summer Olympics

2024 Summer Olympics

Asian Games

Australian Open

Source Australian Open, Official History

Billie Jean King Cup

Source Billie Jean King Cup (Wikipedia)

Davis Cup

Source Davis Cup (Wikipedia)

French Open

Source Roland Garros (French Open), Official History

Olympic Games

Source International Olympic Committee, Official Olympic History Reference

Paralympic Games

Source International Paralympic Committee, Official History

US Open (Tennis)

Source US Open, Official History (Tennis)

Wimbledon

Source The Championships, Wimbledon, Official History

Governed By

International Tennis Federation (ITF)

Source Wikipedia, International Tennis Federation

Long-Form Articles

A Racket Reined In: How Composite Materials Forced Tennis to Cap the Frame

Played By

A. W. Andrews

Source A. W. Andrews (Wikipedia)

Abigail Tordoff

Source Abigail Tordoff (Wikipedia)

Adrian Quist

Source Adrian Quist (Wikipedia)

Adriano Panatta

Source Adriano Panatta (Wikipedia)

Ai Sugiyama

Source Ai Sugiyama (Wikipedia)

Albert Costa

Source Albert Costa (Wikipedia)

Àlex Corretja

Source Àlex Corretja (Wikipedia)

Alex O'Brien

Source Alex O'Brien (Wikipedia)

Alex Olmedo

Source Alex Olmedo (Wikipedia)

Alexander Bublik

Source Alexander Bublik (Wikipedia)

Alexander Zverev

Source Alexander Zverev (Wikipedia)

Algernon Kingscote

Source Algernon Kingscote (Wikipedia)

Alice Greene

Source Alice Greene (Wikipedia)

Alice Marble

Althea Gibson

Amélie Mauresmo

Source Amélie Mauresmo (Wikipedia)

Ana Ivanovic

Source Ana Ivanovic (Wikipedia)

Anastasia Myskina

Source Anastasia Myskina (Wikipedia)

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Source Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Wikipedia)

Andre Agassi

Source Wikipedia: Andre Agassi

Andrea Jaeger

Source Andrea Jaeger (Wikipedia)

Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková

Source Olympedia: Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková - Olympedia

Andrei Olhovskiy

Source Andrei Olhovskiy (Wikipedia)

Andy Murray

Source Andy Murray (Wikipedia)

Andy Roddick

Source Andy Roddick (Wikipedia)

Angela Mortimer

Source Angela Mortimer (Wikipedia)

Angelikí Kanellopoúlou

Source Angeliki Kanellopoulou (Wikipedia)

Angelique Kerber

Source Angelique Kerber (Wikipedia)

Ann Jones

Source Ann Jones (tennis) (Wikipedia)

Anna Danilina

Source Anna Danilina (Wikipedia)

Anna Kournikova

Source Anna Kournikova (Wikipedia)

Anna Smashnova

Source Anna Smashnova (Wikipedia)

Anthony Wilding

Source Anthony Wilding (Wikipedia)

Antoine Gentien

Source Antoine Gentien (Wikipedia)

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

Source Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Wikipedia)

Arthur Ashe

Source Arthur Ashe (Wikipedia)

Arthur Gore

Source Arthur Gore (Wikipedia)

Arthur O'Hara Wood

Source Arthur O'Hara Wood (Wikipedia)

Aryna Sabalenka

Source Aryna Sabalenka (Wikipedia)

Ashleigh Barty

Source Ashleigh Barty (Wikipedia)

Ashley Cooper

Source Ashley Cooper (Wikipedia)

Aslan Karatsev

Source Aslan Karatsev (Wikipedia)

Barbara Jordan

Source Barbara Jordan (tennis) (Wikipedia)

Barbora Krejčíková

Source Barbora Krejčíková (Wikipedia)

Barbora Strýcová

Source Barbora Strýcová (Wikipedia)

Beryl Bartlett

Source Beryl Bartlett (Wikipedia)

Beryl Penrose

Source Beryl Penrose (Wikipedia)

Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Source Bethanie Mattek-Sands (Wikipedia)

Betty Stöve

Source Betty Stöve (Wikipedia)

Bianca Andreescu

Source Bianca Andreescu (Wikipedia)

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Found In

Europe

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Sources

1. Wikipedia, Tennis

Wikimedia Foundation

History section
The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis.
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Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net
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Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles)