By the middle of14th century, a French poet introduced this ball game to the French court as a pastime for royal men and women.
At that time, this game was played in the hall of the court. There is no net or racket. The ball is rolled into a circle with cloth and tied with a rope. Set a rope in the middle of the field as a boundary, use two hands as rackets, and throw the ball from the rope.
Tenez in French and "Take it" in English! Play "means:" catch it! Throw it in the past, and today's word "tennis" comes from it.
/kloc-At the beginning of the 6th century, this kind of ball game was discovered by French nationals, and began to imitate it out of curiosity, and quickly spread to major cities, improving the equipment.
The ball is made more durable, the racket is changed from a wooden board to a parchment board, the surface area of the racket is increased, and the handle of the grip is lengthened. There are countless short ropes hanging to the ground in the middle of the field, which can be clearly found when the ball passes under the rope.
However, it was later banned by King Louis of France, stipulating that this was a court privilege game.
/kloc-at the beginning of the 0/7th century, the rope curtain was no longer used in the center of the venue, but a small square net was used instead. The net played a better role than the curtain, and the racket was changed into a threaded tennis racket, which was flexible and light.
Later, when playing this game at the French stadium, a golden container was placed next to the stadium. After each game, the audience put money on the plate as a reward for the winner.
This method was good at first, and then it gradually evolved into a kind of gambling. At the beginning, the number of people was small, but over time, the gambling became bigger and bigger, and some people even lost all their money, so disputes broke out again and again, and the king of France ordered that this game be banned again, which was also the main reason for the decline of tennis in the early18th century.
The history of modern tennis began with 1873.
At that time, winfield, the "founder of modern tennis", improved the early tennis style and made it a sports activity on the lawn in summer, and named it "lawn tennis".
In the same year, a pamphlet named Lawn Tennis was published to publicize and popularize this activity. Since then, tennis has become an indoor and outdoor sport. At the same time, tennis clubs have been established all over Britain.
1875, All England Tennis Club was established. This club built the first tennis court in the world, and held the All-England lawn tennis men's singles championship in 1877, becoming a world-famous wimbledon championships.
1874, Mary Outerbridge, an American lady who was on holiday in Bermuda, became interested in the sport after watching the tennis match of British officers, so she brought tennis rules, rackets and tennis to new york.
In the United States, tennis was first played in schools in the east, soon spread to the central and western regions, and then swept the United States. At this time, tennis has developed from grassland to sand, cement and asphalt, so the name "tennis" gradually replaced the name "LawnTennis", which is the origin of our tennis name today.
In the early days of modern tennis, women were often excluded. The reason is that tennis is not suitable for women, and it is considered immoral for women to participate in tennis.
Therefore, there were only men's singles and doubles in the early tennis competitions, and there was no women's tennis event. However, some female players not only dare to break through the obstacles of public opinion and family, but also surpass male players in technical level.
In some informal singles competitions, it often happens that one side is a male player and the other side is a female player. This forced some tennis clubs to break the ban and allow women to participate in the sport.
188 1 year, the first national tennis association appeared in the world, namely the National Lawn Tennis Association of the United States.
The first American lawn tennis men's singles and men's doubles championship was held in Newport, Rhode Island from August 3 1 that year to September 3, using Wimbledon rules, with 26 participants.
189 1 year, France held the men's singles and men's doubles championship for the first time. The contestants are only French citizens, and the women's singles 1897 started.
1904 The Australian Lawn Tennis Association was established, and 1905 began to host the Australian Championship, with two events: men's singles and men's doubles.
1922 added women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
French Tennis Championships, British wimbledon championships Tennis Championships, American Tennis Championships and Australian Tennis Championships are the most famous "Grand Slam" tennis tournaments in the world.
Any player or a group of doubles players who can win these four championships in the same season will be regarded as the winner of the "Grand Slam".
At the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens from 65438 to 0896, tennis men's singles and doubles were listed as official events.
Later, due to the differences between the International Olympic Committee and the International Tennis Federation on the issue of "amateur athletes", the tennis event that has been held for seven consecutive Olympic Games was cancelled.
Tennis was not listed as a performance event until 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
At the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, tennis was once again listed as an official event.