Tennis

Tennis

The history of tennis

Tennis is create in France during the middle aeges.
But then it wasn’t played as we are doing now. In the Middle aeges they caled it Jeu de Paume and played it with a dreased,harry ball.
It wasn’t played with a racket but just with the hand, a few years later they played still with there hand but then they had a glove around it. After that they used a bad and around 1500 it changed in a racked.The 1st championschaps where hold by ’All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club’ at Wimbledon, Londen in juli 1877.
Right know you play tennis with a racket and a ball.

Why it is called tennis is not verry clear, some people say that is from a old egyptian town “Tinnid” because in this town was made linen, that linen was used to full the balls. Other people say it comes from a french word ‘Tenez’ What meens There it comes.

The field.

(tekenen)

23,77 m long.
8,23 m wide.

Net -> 0.91 m high

Middenservice lijn -> 6,4 m
Enkelspel servicevak -> 4,1 m

There are difrent kinds of fields , gravel,gras,hardcourd

The scoring.

The scoring of the game.
The scoring of the gamego’s like this 15-30-40. the person who have another point after 40 wins the game.
If both players have 40 points they called it deuce, the player who gets another point after the deuce gets advatage. If that player gets also another point after advatage he’s the winner of the game.
But if the other player gets another point it is deuce again, then the play till it is game.

The scoring of the set.
The player who get als 1st 6 games and have 2 move games then the other wins the set. But if both players 6 games won, then the ,tiebreak comes. At the tiebreak the person wins who has as 1st 6 points and 2 more than the other player. For man a game can only have 5 sets, for women is that 3. there is no tiebreak for the last set!