Have you ever played tennis? It's my favorite sport!
Yes I love tennis, I use to play it in the Olympics, I played with people of all ages.
That's amazing, do you know when it was first invented?
Well it originated in Birmingham, England, way back in the late 19th century as a sport known as lawn tennis.
I see, I didn't know tennis came from England!
19th century, in fact, the term "tennis" referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis.
The rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s. Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point-challenge system, which allows a player to contest the line call of a point,
gain a point, while the opposite player will.
Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. During most of the