History of tennis
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- Created on: 06-10-21 09:22
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- history of tennis
- early origins-royal tennis
- upper class
- purpose built indoor facility
- ball played off the walls
- players won by hitting the ball into netted windows
- 1850
- Charles Goodyear invented a process for rummier
- better material for tennis ball
- could be played outdise on grass
- better material for tennis ball
- Charles Goodyear invented a process for rummier
- lawn tennis
- middle class invention
- 1874
- game devised around the leaned gardens of middle class housing
- hour glass court much shorter than modern court
- All England croquet and lawn tennis club
- 1877
- held first Wimbledon games
- ditched whingfields hourglass court
- rectangular
- introduced rule which are essential the game of now
- 1877
- female participation
- 1884
- First Ladies champions league
- seen important activity in the emancipation of women
- female role models inspired participation
- suited women as it could be played in the privacy of their own gardens
- not vigorous
- played as part of social gatherings
- dressed modestly
- 1884
- emergence of modern tennis
- spread around the world
- tournaments in USA, Australia & France known as majors
- players could earn large sums in price money
- 1920s
- professional tours and tournaments set up
- the open era
- in 1968 tennis gave into commercial pressure
- led to the abandonment of the distinct division between amateur and professional
- international tennis circuit established
- increased popularity
- tired to shed middle class image
- however still seen as a social activity rather than competitive
- dress code remains
- in 1968 tennis gave into commercial pressure
- inequalities
- took till 2007 for men and women to receive the same money
- 2016 figures still show inequalities
- emergence of elite female tennis players
- WTA developed their own profffestional circuitln
- provided breaking opportunities form women to play at the top level
- lots of female tennis players in Morden tennis due to world wide media coverage
- in 2015, 2500 women competed in the tour for a prize pot of £129m
- WTA developed their own profffestional circuitln
- early origins-royal tennis
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