If I were going to learn a racket sport, I might pick tennis. 
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I'd choose tennis because it's an Olympic sport, but it's played at all levels of society by all ages of people. 
How did tennis originate as a game of sport?
The modern game comes from Birmingham, England. It started in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. 
Do you mean lawn tennis game or the table one?
Real tennis
Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (originally called "lawn tennis") is derived. It is also known as court tennis in the United States, formerly royal tennis in England and Australia, and courte-paume in France (a reference to the older, racquetless game of "jeu de paume", the ancestor of modern handball and racquet games; many French real tennis courts
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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