![]() ![]() In addition to these rules, you need to know of any local rules for the club you are playing at. Whilst there is no universal set of real tennis rules accepted at all courts, the closest we have are the UK rules that are documented on the web site of the International Real Tennis Professionals Association (IRTPA). As in most racket games, singles or doubles can be played, although given the court and nature of play, real tennis doubles is an especially fascinating game. At the conclusion of each game, the winner of that game has his or her score called first. So, if the score is 5 games all, there is a final deciding game. The first player to win 6 games wins a set. The scoring is the same as in lawn tennis (15, 30, 40, deuce, advantage), except that the score of the winner of the last point is called first, and not that of the server (for reasons that become obvious once you start to play the game). ![]() Stripped of special rules for serving and chases, the game is simple to understand.Įach player strives to get the ball over the net and in doing so may use any wall - as in squash. The rules of tennis have not changed much for centuries. The newest courts are at Radley College near Oxford UK (2008), the Racquet Club of Chicago, US (2012), Wellington College, Berkshire UK (2016) and Jeu de Paume Bordeaux, France (2020). New real tennis courts are being built, and there are an ever-increasing number of new players, including a substantial number of converts from lawn tennis and squash. The Melbourne Tennis Club was established in Exhibition Street, Melbourne, in 1882. A court was built in Davey Street, Hobart, in 1875 and in Boston in the USA just one year later. Interest in the game spread to Australia and North America in the 19th century. While the world's oldest tennis court still in use is at Falkland Palace Scotland, built for James V of Scotland in 1539, and is unique in being the only active real tennis court without a roof. This is the oldest indoor court in use today and was built by Charles I in 1625 (on the site of Henry VIII’s earlier court). Henry VIII was responsible for The Royal Tennis Courtat Hampton Court Palace in England. The balls were first made from the monks’ discarded robes.Īmong the English kings Henry VII, Henry VIII, Charles I and Charles II and James II are all known to have played. It is thought the monastic style buildings of the Middle Ages lent themselves to games played within the quadrangles and games that utilised the walls. It has evolved over the centuries, although the game’s main features – the court, the rackets, balls, scoring system and other rules – have been standardised since around 1600. Real Tennis has its origins in Europe and started as a form of handball played by monks in the cloisters of French and Italian monasteries in the 11th century. ![]()
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