What is Tennis?

The beginning of tennis is said to have been set in the 11th centuries in French courtyards and monasteries. Monks would play a crude game known as "je de paume" or "game of the hand" which eventually evolved and transformed into the sport known today as tennis. Back then, they played without racquets and used balls made of wood or other materials. Despite its rising popularity in the coming centuries, the game was still not the tennis of today. It wasn't until Charles Goodyear developed vulcanisation in 1850 which provided rubber balls that could bounce higher and allowed courts to move outdoors. Within the next decades with the establishment of clubs and international demand for courts, the sport slowly became structured into the modern game of tennis.

As tennis had been formatted since the beginning, it involves players within a court. Today, courts can made with hard, grass, or clay surfaces. In the modern game, a court has a net attached between two poles and divides with an equal distance the two sides of the court. players are compete against each other on respective sides. These players use racquets to hit a tennis ball back and forth on the court. Essentially, it's an intense game of hot-potato.