From Palms to Racqets : Thats Tennis's Journey (part1)

New Delhi,  April 11,( Gautam Agarwal/VNI) Are you fan of famous tennis players, Rafael Nadal. Roger Federer, Simona Halep, Serena Williams ,and specially you are fan of their hitting skills. But do you know Initially instead of rackets,tennis ball was hit by palms ? Surprised ...yes that is the history of Tennis.

It is said that the game was first created by European monks for entertainment roles during ceremonial occasions. At first, the ball was hit with hands. Later, the leather glove came into existence. This leather glove was replaced with an adaptive handle for effective hitting and serving of the ball. That was a birth of tennis racquet.

According to documents related to he History of tennis game. game  was developed from a  12th century French handball game called "Paume" (palm). In this game the ball was struck with the hand. After some time "Paume" game produced handball "Jeu de Paume" (game of the palm) and there were used racquets. At first, the ball was hit with hands. Later, the leather glove came into existence. This leather glove was replaced with an adaptive handle for effective hitting and serving of the ball. That was the birth of tennis racquet.VNI ((Writer is  teenager budding sports player Gautam Agarwal, who is taking training in reputed Tennis Academy (Racquet Academy Ahmedabad) of India under expert guidance of famous International Tennis coach  from Australia ,Mr.Todd Clark who is Tennis Director at Ahmedabad Racquet Academy