istoria tenisului

                                            Tennis history

   

    Many historians believe dates from the 12th century tennis originated in France, but the ball was then hit with the palm. 
 In the 16th century, rackets came into use, and the game began to be called "tennis." It was popular in England and France, although the game was played only in the hall where the ball might have hit a wall.

  Harry Gem and his friend Augurio Perera developed a game that combined elements of rackets and ball game Pelota, which was played on grass in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
 In 1872, together with two local doctors, they founded the world's first tennis clubu town Leamington Spa.
 The first Wimbledon tennis tournament was held in London in 1877. 

  U.S. Men's National Singles Championship, now the U.S. Open was first held in 1881 in Newport, Rhode Island. U.S. Women's National Singles Champonship was first held in 1887. 
  The tennis game was also popular in France where the French Open (French Open) was held for the first time in 1891. 
Thus, Wimbledon, U.S. Open, French Open and Australian Open (dating from 1905) became and remained the most prestigious events in tennis. Together, these four events are called the Grand Slam tournaments.

Davis Cup, an annual competition between national teams of men, dates from 1900. 

  Female competition for national teams, Fed Cup, was founded as the Federation Cup in 1963, to celebrate 50 years since the founding of the ITF also known as the International Tennis Federation. 
 In 1968, commercial pressures and rumors appeared that some amateur earns money dishonestly led the inauguration of the Open era, in which all players could compete in all tournaments and top players could earn their living from tennis.
 With the Open Era started, it was necessary to create an international professional tennis circuit which led to popularize the game of tennis worldwide.

    Big tennis is a sport played either between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a string-based missile to hit a rubber ball covered with felt over the net, the ball must reach the opponent's court. 
Originally from England, the late nineteenth century, tennis spread first to the English world, especially in the rich upper classes. 

Tennis is now an Olympic sport and is played regardless of money, age, in many countries around the globe. Remarkably, outside the adoption of "tie-break", its rules have remained unchanged since 1890. 

    Modern sport of tennis has two origins. Between 1859 and 1865, [Harry Gem] and his friend Augurio Perera developed a game that combined elements of rackets and Spanish game Pelota. In 1874, together with two doctors from the Warneford Hospital, founded the first tennis club in the world to play Pelota the Manor House lawn behind the hotel. The Courier of 23 July 1884 highlighted one of the first tennis tournaments, held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall.

     In December 1873, Walter Clopton Wingfield devised a similar game for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his property at Nantclwyd in Llanelidan, Wales. His game was based on the old sport of tennis in the gym, Jeu de Paume. According to modern historians of tennis, tennis and modern terminology derived from that period, as Wingfield borrowed the name and much of the French vocabulary of royal tennis and applied them to the new game.
    The first championships at Wimbledon, London, took place in 1877. May 21, 1881, formed the National Association of tennis the United States of America (now called the United States Tennis Association) to standardize the rules and organize competitions. U.S. National Championships Men's Singles, or U.S. Open, was first held in 1881 in Newport, Rhode Island.  The U.S. National Championships Women's Singles was first held in 1887. Tennis was a popular sport in France, where the tournament was first held in 1891 French Open. Thus, Wimbledon, U.S. Open, Australian Open and French Open (dating from 1905) became and remained the most prestigious events in tennis. Together, these four Grand Slam competitions is called (a term borrowed from bridge).