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Court Tennis
In court tennis, the game depends on a player's ability to create a "chase" after the ball bounces a second time.
Each court is slightly different, one reason that court tennis players, like golfers, say they like to travel to new clubs. The quirkiness of each court makes all the difference!
Tennis Books
Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art celebrates the origins of the game in Birmingham and explores the ways in which tennis has inspired artists from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The book guides us from the origins of the game as a genteel pastime for the upper classes, through its codification as a sport, to the international high-earning power game of today. It illustrates the changes in fashion associated with the sport and the important role tennis played in the emancipation of women in the early part of the twentieth century. The book contains a survey of images of tennis in art from the 1870s onwards, and detailed examinations of the works are placed in a wider social, historical, and art historical context.
Pastimes
I, who decade past had lived recluse,
Left for a while the dust of books and town
To share the pastimes of a country-house;
And thus it chanced that I beheld a scene
That steeped my rusted soul in wonderment.
