![]() The game of Jeux de Paume with the addition of larger and longer gloves finally became the game of tennis. The original ball used was made of tightly rolled cloth pieces stitched together and this would have given little bounce against a wall. So far there is no mention in any of the sources of a rebound game against a wall, the game played was one of hand-tennis and this is still played in parts of Spain, France, Holland and Sweden. The game was first played with the bare hand, then with the glove, lined or unlined afterwards they bound cord or rattin around the hand to make the ball rebound more forcibly.” “The exercise consists in receiving the ball and driving it back again with the palm. In France Jeux de Paume (palm play) became popular with both the nobility in their enclosed courts and the ordinary people who played longe-paume on common land. Around the year 1000 A.D., as Europe emerged from the Dark Ages, mention of handball became more numerous in manuscripts. A one-wall game is still played in the States around Zacateca, where there are over 400 courts with most of the dimensions 12m x 6m – almost 40′ x 20′.Īlexander the Great (450 B.C.) is credited with spreading the game to the Greek colonies in Italy, and from there it went to Spain, France and to other parts of the Roman Empire. The oldest are dated as far back as 1500 B.C., and interestingly in only one area is there play involving a wall that depicts the land of the Chichimeca people of the Mexican plateau. Showing people engaged in hand-played balls. Many having sculptures, bas-reliefs and painted vessels. Over 700 ball court sites have been identified from Arizona to Nicaragua. Such iconographic evidence is also found in America where ball games formed an integral part of Pre-Hispanic culture. Their priests of the temple of Osiris in Thebes were depicted on the tombs striking the ball with the hand. The first record of ball games with the hand is from 2000 B.C. ![]()
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