Athlegend Gameset Retro Tee
Material: 100% ringspun cotton.*
- Semi-fitted with side seams.
- Taped neck and shoulders.
- Twin needle sleeves and hem.
Weight:
- White 180 gsm.
- Colours 185 gsm.
*Sport grey 90% cotton/10% polyester.
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This Item is shipped from the UK.
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Tennis history in a nutshell
The game that we all know as Tennis or Lawn Tennis used to be called “paume” (“Palm”) and then later called “Jeu de Paume” or (“Game of the Palm” in English) during the 12th century in northern France. It is believed to have been first played by striking the ball with the palm of the hand and later, around the 16th century, the name was changed to “Real Tennis” or “Royal Tennis”, when rackets were introduced.
William Shakespeare in his Henry V (1599) history play adaptation even cited the words “Real tennis”, chronicling “When a basket of them (Tennis balls) is given to King Henry as a mockery of his youth and playfulness”
A British army officer in 1874 named Major Walter Wingfield is known to have secured a patent for a new game called “Sphairistike”, a game that he had developed at his home in Wales, from which lawn tennis is believed to have evolved.
The modern game of tennis, which includes the current rules of the game, dates back to 1875 in London, England, when the Marylebone Cricket Club promulgated the official rules for lawn tennis.
And the first major tennis event took place at Wimbledon in 1877, with subsequent major events taking place at the us open from 1881, the French open was established since 1891 and the Australian open in 1905. All four major events remain the most prestigious in the annual tennis calendar.