The origin of tennis

The origin of tennis can be traced back to France in the 12th and 13th centuries, and now it has a history of more than 800 years. At that time, a game of hitting the ball with the palm of the hand was popular among the missionaries. The method was to use the palm of the hand to hit the ball made of cloth wrapped in hair with a rope between two people in the open space.
This leisure sport was very popular among monks and began to spread. Gradually, this activity spread from monasteries to the upper classes of society and became an entertainment game for the nobles at that time. Slowly, this game was gradually introduced into the French court and was favored by the French royal family. Tennis became the king’s sport. During the reign of Charles V, the first court in Paris was built in the Louvre; during the reign of Francis (1515-1547), he ordered the construction of courts all over the country and let the common people participate in tennis, and he even built a royal tennis court on his personal battleship; Charles IX even called tennis “the most glorious and value, and the healthiest exercise.” So it seems that successive French monarchs have helped popularize tennis across the country.

In the middle of the 14th century, Britain and France had frequent exchanges. The French crown prince gave the ball used in this game to King Henry V, so this game was introduced to the United Kingdom. King Edward III of England was particularly interested in this and ordered the construction of an indoor tennis court in the palace. Since then, tennis has begun to develop in England. During the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, around 1,800 indoor courts have been built in England. Because the surface of this ball is made of twill flannel, the most famous flannel produced in the town of Tannis in Egypt, the British call it “Tennis”