The history of Tennis
In many old pictures in the caves humans are shown as they throw something to the goal. In the before-historical writing boards is the speech of players with whom threw one ball to each other. By the time humans and also the plays developed.

The Tennis play is to be retraced up to 1000 years. In the year 1874 the Hauplieutnant walter Clapton Wingfield felt the opportunity that one can come with these plays to wealth. He took the patent with the designation Spairistike . The play formulated itself later to a lawn tennis.

The club, which was created from Harry Gem and Augurio Pereira in the area Leamington Spa is well known as the first tennis club of history. Lawn tennis became within a short time popular, because this was a play where men and women were allowed to play at the same time. It was played not only on the lawn, but on any soil and also in closed areas.

Up to years of 1970er this play was called lawn tennis it was equal on which ground you played this game. Into the 1970er years everyone called the play in many countries shortened only tennis . Despite that the international federation did not change the designation of the play into years 1977. Still today the federation of England calls itself Federation of the lawn tennis .

In the Middle Ages the first versions of the tennis play were with the hands.However with the time the hand began to hurt, for this reason the players invented an aid. They created a wooden racquet and the play took other forms.

The book admits as the first tennis book Trattato del Givoco della Palla di Messer (over the principles of the ball playing), was written by the author Antonio Scaino da Salo in the year 1955 in Venice. This author had sketched 13 years before the first prototype of the racquet. The first tennis championships were organized in the year 1877 in Wimbledon. The committee of this time decided, that the rules were not sufficient and assigned three members of the Kriket club (Messer Julian Marshall, Henry Jones, C.G.Hethcote) to provide and organize again the rules.

These people formed this sport with their rules so in detail that the rules apply up till today.