10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROYAL TENNIS»
Discover the use of
royal tennis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
royal tennis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Royal tennis in renaissance Italy
The book regularly quotes from the text of the first book on tennis, Antonio Scaino's Trattato del giuoco della palla (Treatise of the Ball Game) of 1555 which was written as an instructive manual for the ballplaying courtier.
2
Tennis:Cultural History
Instead, they were deeply convinced that the Lord Jesus was here receiving a
present befitting his rank: a royal tennis ball.“ Pastoral plays such as the Secunda
Pastorum formed part of medieval mystery plays, so named after the 'mysteries', ...
3
Traveling the
Tennis Tour: The Men's Professional Tour
To Catch a Match in Tokyo Fujimigaoka Lawn Tennis Club 1-60-25 Kita
Karasuyama, Setagaya- ku, Tel: 3-3307-0350 Fujino Tennis Club 1- 840
Ogawacho, Kodaira City, Tel: 42-344-4472 Hoy a Royal Tennis Club 2- 1 6-30
Kitamachi, Hoya ...
4
Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear
It goes by many names—jeu de paume in France, royal tennis in Australia, or real
tennis in England (which is either a corruption of the Spanish word for royal, or a
term to distinguish it from upstart lawn tennis). Whatever the name, it's a rare ...
5
Scottish
Royal Palaces: The Architecture of the
Royal ...
According to a near-contemporary source, the king's attempts to escape his
murderers by crawling through a sewer beneath his chamber were thwarted
because the outlet had been blocked up to prevent the loss of royal tennis balls (
Brown ...
The Royal Tennis Court. 2002. Covey, Neil (editor). Fred Covey,World Champion
ofTennis. 1994. Howell, Jonathan. More Than aYard Worse. 1995. Morgan,
Roger. Tennis: The Development of the European Ball Game. 1994. Morgan,
Roger.
Real or royal tennis in the 16th and 17th centuries The French nobility continued
to build new tennis courts and to play the game, using a ball made from
sheepskin but which had little bounce. ln fact, it is thought that French players
gave tennis ...
8
Game-Set-Match: A
Tennis Guide
In 1876 the real tennis game was exported to the United States, where it was
called court tennis, and to Australia in 1882 and called royal tennis. This game of
real tennis was the forerunner to lawn tennis, a game played on the lawns of ...
He based the game on the older sport of indoor tennis or real tennis ("royal tennis
"), which had been invented in 12th century France and was played by French
aristocrats down to the time of the French Revolution. According to most tennis ...
According to most tennis historians, modern tennis terminology also derives from
this period, as Wingfield borrowed both the name and much of the French
vocabulary of royal tennis and applied them to his new game: ○ Tennis comes
from ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROYAL TENNIS»
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royal tennis is used in the context of the following news items.
French, Italian Tennis Players Get 6-Month Ban for Match-Fixing
Aziz Laarraf, president of the Royal Tennis Club of Mohammedia, where the tournament was played, said by phone he wasn't aware of any investigation into ... «Bloomberg, Mar 15»
A short history of tennis: Henry VIII to Federer the great
The precise origins of tennis are disputed, with some historians dating it back to Ancient Egypt. According to the official Web site for "Royal Tennis," the game ... «CNN, Apr 10»
