Talk:History of tennis

message: As per I mean literally wikipedia on Tennis... Lawn Tennis was derived from Raquettes which is a handball sport adding racquets developed mainly in prisons (with handball sports pre-dating real tennis). However it was not in any way directly derived from Real Tennis (notably it lacks any defining rules of Real Tennis), they were trying to make the prison game playable on a lawn and not trying to make a game off of Real Tennis. Calling it Tennis seems to have been a gimmick or something of the sort to gentrify it or otherwise... but in any event it still isn't derived from Real Tennis. 2A01:E34:EC12:48C0:F1CD:DAC0:F0EF:DDFB (talk) 08:30, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Article opens with makes a bad assertion that Tennis is a direct decedent of Real tennis

message: There is a typo in the section "ILTF & WCT rivalry and creation of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP)" consisting of a string of ####### instead of a word. Could someone who knows what word should be there please correct it? I don't know enough about pro tennis to edit it myself.
Orb4peace (talk) 06:37, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Typo that needs correction

message: This article needs to be expanded as the tennis article has better information in its history section than this. --Kzrulzuall  Talk• Contribs 09:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Davis Cup 1920 cropped.jpg

message: Tennis open era was redirected here. You can now find the discussions from its talk page here - rst20xx (talk) 02:51, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archived discussions 

message: After finishing my edits, the article is still drastically overfocused on the machinations surrounding professional tennis and its stars, and even that is outdated. A few missing elements:
* technology (rackets, strings, courts, shoes, training aids)
* technique (strokes, stances)
* amateur tennis (leagues, tournaments, ratings, teaching/learning, in schools)
Let's go, folks! Lfstevens (talk) 23:16, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overemphasis on professional tennis 

message: Under Royal Origins it says that tennis is mentioned as far back as 1990. Is that date correct? I am not sure of the date but it seems to recent to be correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.120.93.29 (talk • contribs) 
:. --LukeSurl t c 22:04, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: (edit conflict) That was vandalism and has been reverted to "the Middle Ages". Thanks for reporting it. You could also have checked the page history yourself and reverted it. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:07, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Origins 

message: There is a very famous mythic scene from the French Revolution, when after the National Assembly is locked out of its meeting place by the King in an attempt to disperse it, it meets in a nearby tennis court where all (but two) swear to not be dissolved and to continue the revolutionary struggle.  It was the subject of a famous painting by David.  Perhaps this illustration should be part of the article as well.
[]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.243.148.28 (talk) 06:05, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Tennis Court Oath?

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message: Play it 2001:44B8:6117:9300:80CB:5527:12A7:2F4 (talk) 08:58, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tennis is fun