texts: topic: Tennis  <s> I'm surprised at how far back tennis-like games go though. It seems most historians believe that tennis was derived from a game played in the monastic cloisters in the 12th century. Except there were no rackets back then, they used the palm of their hands. 
labels: oh wow! i never knew that, that is indeed a nice evolution of tennis! i wonder how the game  would have looked like when they played with their hands 