Question: Trent Cotchin was a player in the sport that plays on what shaped field?

The inaugural 1877 Men's tennis season composed of 3 tournaments for the first edition pre-open era tour.  Before the birth of Open Era (tennis), most tournaments were reserved for amateur athletes.  In 1874 the British Major Walter Clopton Wingfield he patent the House of London Crafts the invention of a new game, which consists of a shaped field hourglass, divided in the middle by a net suspended.  The game was packaged in a box containing some balls, four paddles, the network and the signs to mark the field.  The game was based on the rules of the old real tennis and, at the suggestion of Arthur Balfour, was called lawn-tennis.  The official date of birth of the court would be February 23, 1874.  In 1877 all were amateur tournaments, among them was the first 1877 Wimbledon Championship, the inaugural event was held from the 9 to 19 July and saw as the inaugural winner Spencer Gore, the tournament would remain for a period of 35 years the sole major tennis tournament in the world until the International Lawn Tennis Federation introduces its three World championship series events in 1913 that continue until 1923, however the later U.S. Lawn Tennis Association (f. 1881) only agrees to join the ILTF in 1923 on the basis of two compromises: the title 'World Championships' would be abolished and wording would be 'for ever in the English language'.  Wimbledon would still retain its historical status and become one of the four Grand Slam tennis events from 1924 <SEP> Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. <SEP>  He is a Brownlow Medallist, an All-Australian and a three-time Richmond best and fairest winner.  Cotchin represented the Victorian Metropolitan side at the 2007 AFL Under 18 Championships and captained the Vic Metro side at 2006 Under 16 Championships.  He played for the Northern Knights in the TAC Cup as a junior, before being drafted to Richmond with the second overall pick in the 2007 national draft. Trent William Cotchin (born 7 April 1990) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for and captains the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).  Cotchin has served as Richmond's captain since 2013 and has led the club to finals appearances on four occasions including a premiership in 2017. <SEP> Emma Quayle was a journalist at "The Age" newspaper in Melbourne, Australia.  Joining as a cadet in 1999, she covered sport from 2001-2017, specialising in Australian Football League football and in particular the under-18 system and national draft.  Quayle won several AFL Media Association Awards for her news and feature writing, and in 2017 won a Quill for best feature writing for her article on Essendon footballer Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti.  She was the first person to win three Grant Hattam awards, awarded by the AFL Players Association for the best football journalism.  Emma's first book – "The Draft: inside the AFL's search for talent", which followed the junior careers of Trent Cotchin, Ben McEvoy, Brad Ebert, Cyril Rioli and Patrick Veszpremi in the lead-up to the 2007 AFL Draft - was published by Allen & Unwin in September 2008.  A follow-up - The Draftees, featuring Isaac Heeney, Jake Lever, Peter Wright, Tom Lamb and Clem Smith - was published by Penguin in 2015 and Quayle is also the author of Nine Lives, the story of former Essendon wingman Adam Ramanauskas' battle with cancer.  In 2017 Emma became the first female recruiter in the AFL when she joined the Greater Western Sydney Giants.