History of Tennis Classic

Tennis is a sport that was already very old. Recorded on the sculpture made around 1500 years BC in the wall of a temple in Egypt showed that representation of the tennis ball and the game is played at religious ceremonies. This game and then extended to all land in europe 8th century.

At the beginning growth of tennis is played with a hand or a stick which hit the alternate use of a ball of solid wood. This game then developed into a game with the ball hit across a barrier wall. Because at that time felt that the more control the ball using the hand feels, the media is developing at that time is to use leather gloves, which then evolve again by adding a handle. This is the embryo of the birth of a tennis racket. The ball is evolving from a solid wooden ball into a ball of skin that filled by the skin of rice bran.


Sport this highly developed in France at that time. In the 16-18 centuries have started many interested by mainly by the kings and the noble by the name of 'Jeu de Paume' or sporting mitt. The word itself is derived Tennis players from France who frequently mentions the word 'Tenez' which means the "Main" at the time will start the game and until now the word is used as the name of this sport. Tennis and to develop plain English and also spread to Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. But tennis experience setbacks during the occurrence of revolutionary France and Napoleon Bonaparte glory in Europe.

In the 19th century tennis then appear again by the English nobleman by building facilities or country club tennis court in the big house. Because at that time played tennis popular in the lawn, then famous as the 'Lawn Tennis' grass field or tennis. At this time also began to appear from the rubber vulcanic ball that at that time can be considered to reduce damage to grass in the field without reducing the elasticity of the ball itself.

Exe comes from a British named Arthur Balfour. Since finding lawn tennis, people began to experiment with play on the surface, such as clay court (clay) and hard court (cement). Blowing up game was able to shove a tennis game Croquet as summer sports. Peak occurred in 1869 when one of the Croquet Club, renowned in the UK, All England Croquet Club, does not attract many successful fans and try to play tennis as other sports. The result is very successful club fans particularly interesting for the game Tennis on year until 1877 to change its name to 'All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club'. This continues the history of the location when the club is going in the Wimbledon land rent increase forced the club to get more funds than usual. Therefore, the club's first tennis tournament at Wimbledon to form a committee to arrange the match and make the basic rules in this game. The tournament was attended by 20 participants with about 200 spectators, and this is the embryo of the Wimbledon tournament is one of the grand slam tennis tournament prestigious in the world.