Tennis is a very interesting popular sports It is an entertainment， a healthy excercise， an art and also a cliff-hanging To play tennis is gentle and Each good shot could make people excited and Playing tennis， people could become faster， sharper and It really helps on developing people's speed， strength， stamina， delicacy and so It plays a positive role on the improvement of body's Tennis is a game appropriate for both the old and the Either 8 - 9 years old kids or 60 -70 years old seniors could take part in the game according to the personal physical Keeping tennis as a habit could bring you young blood and built It could also make you vigorous and In tennis， the two players are seperated by a There will be no physical It is safe and To play tennis， you will need to get yourself an opponent or a tennis Playing tennis together， the friendship and the solidarity could be So， it is also a good social Together with golf， bowling and billiards， tennis is looked as one of the four gentleman games in the It could reach back 12th-13th century's F By then， among the missionaries， there was a popular ball game playing with To play this game， you will need a rope to seperate the two players on the open The ball was made by hairs and wrapped by Then you could use your own hands to drive at the By mid 14th， this indoor entertainment for aristocrats came into E From 16th to 17th century， tennis met its Silver Age in the French and British At that time， civilians could never set foot in this It was called "Royal Game" In 1873， M Winfield from Britain improved the early tennis playing In 1874， the size of the competition site and the height of the net was In 1875， the game rule was constituded by the British Cricket C In April， 1877， the British Cricket Club holded the first lawn tennis game in W Later， this organization modifyed the play yard into rectangle (77m * 23m) The scoring system was re-designed into three kinds: 15/round， 30/round and 40/ The height of the net was defined as By the year 1884， it was changed into 40cm by the Marylebone Cricket Club in L There from， tennis came out of the palace and ran into the normal In M 1st， 1912， a meeting was hold in Paris by the delegates from the tennis associations in 12 countries such as Australia， Britain， France and so This meeting leads to the establishment of International Tennis League with a London based In 1980， China Tennis Association gained a membership position in this History of the 15 points system: This system could trace back to 15th It came from the sextant in Like a 1/6 circle， sextant has 60 Each degree is devided into 60 By then， for each round of tennis， there would be 4 Four 15-point units would be 1 Four 15-degree units would become a 1/6 Number 15 was used as a radix to calculate the gain and loss of each As for the change from 45 to 40 was for the convinience of pronounciation while calling the At first， each match was divided into 4 rounds with 4 points for each By the beginning of the 17th century， it was changed into 6 rounds/
Tennis It was in France that the game as we know it today really came into During the 16th， 17th and 18th centuries it became the highly fashionable sport of kings and noblemen and was called ' Jeu de paumme' - the game of the Early French players would begin a game by shouting 'tenez' 'Play!' and the game soon became known as Royal， or Real T Real tennis was actually very different to the game that we know It was played indoors， in large galleries with jutting roofs and points were won according to how the ball was played off of the gallery This is very different to today's Lawn Tennis， where the rectangular court is laid out on a grass surface and the play is within marked boundaries， not off of the Another key difference is that Real tennis used a system of In today's game if a ball bounces twice it is In Real Tennis however， a marker would mark the point of the second This was known as the In addition to playing for points， opponents would compete by trying to put their chase as close as possible to their opponents back A player who had lagged behind in the points could come from behind to win the match by being more skilful at the After its initial rise in popularity with the French nobility， tennis spread throughout Europe， becoming particularly popular in E As in France the game became recognised as the sport of Henry VIII was a very keen player and built a court at his palace in Hampton Court， still used today by Real Tennis Tennis wasn't just confined to France and England though， and the game also spread to Spain， Italy， Holland， Switzerland and G In the 18th century however， the game went into decline， the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars virtually eliminating it across most of E
