page_title: Sport in Scotland
section_title: Royal Tennis
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Scotland / Racquet sports / Royal Tennis
caption_attribution_description: Falkland Palace Royal Tennis Club in Fife, Scotland.
context_page_description: Sport plays a central role in Scottish culture. The temperate, oceanic climate has played a key part in the evolution of sport in Scotland, with all-weather sports like association football and golf dominating the national sporting consciousness. However, many other sports are played in the country, with popularity varying between sports and between regions.
  Scotland has its own sporting competitions and governing bodies, such as the Camanachd Association, the Scottish Rugby Union, Scottish Rugby League. The country has independent representation at many international sporting events, for example the Rugby League World Cup, as well as the Commonwealth Games.
  Scots, and Scottish emigrants, have made several key contributions to the history of sport, with important innovations and developments in:
  golf, curling, football, rugby union, Highland games, shinty, cycling, and water polo.
  Highland games, the largest and most widespread multi-sport festivals of the 19th century, are claimed to have influenced Baron Pierre de Coubertin and Dr William Milligan Sloane of Princeton when he was planning the revival of the Olympic Games.
context_section_description: While this is an extremely minor game in Scotland there is an outstanding example of a Royal Tennis court at Falkland Palace. It is traditionally known as "caitch" or "cache" in Scotland, and is an ancestor of the better known form of tennis.
caption: The Real tennis court at Falkland Palace
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