The History of Tennis

Podcast Transcript It began almost a thousand years ago as a game played with bare hands in medieval France. It eventually became a favorite pastime of kings, spread across Europe, and underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian era. Along the way, changes in equipment, playing surfaces, and technology fundamentally changed how people played the ... Read more

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