The queen of racquet sports is lawn tennis while the real tennis we see here is nothing more than an ugly ancestor, dynamic exciting but lacking the grace and splendour …
5:18 The shot that makes the metallic sound - what was that? Also at 5:47 - this also made a strange sound and a bad bounce. Are there targets to shoot for?
This is a pseudo sport, like something a couple of guys would make up to kill an afternoon. The court is asymmetrical both back to front and side to side. The ball is allowed to bounce as many times as it needs to before it dribbles off the, again, asymmetrical interior awnings. It is fair if they switch sides routinely but it diverges from every other mainstream sport in that its court is . . . asymmetrical, again.
i used this video in my High School class about the French Revolution. Since we were talking about the French Revolution and the "Tennis Court Oath" i wanted them to know what sort of tennis court it was and how it was played.
I could swear I saw this on TV when I was a kid in the 1970s. I can't say if it was on regularly. But I think more than a couple of times. Maybe it was something covered by "Wide World of Sports"
Poor people don't play this game. And by poor I mean "in danger of running out of money somewhere within the next fifteen generations". If your financial situation is that insecure, you're not going to bother with this game. For starters, you wouldn't be allowed to enter the grounds of the estate unless you were the gardener or the gamekeeper.
The idea is you win the serve by laying a chase (getting the ball to bounce twice on the serving side) and then you get to use that nasty corner! If you are very fast and have the right serve you can keep the good end of the court for a long time
And I’m on the toilet watching this now lmao. But fax this is how the toilet search rabbit hole usually goes down 😂. Even tho it wasn’t that for me today but just curious of the sport
I feel like the person closes to the screen is in a disadvantage because the way the wall is on the left. That indent makes for an easy target for the opponent to just try and hit it. Notice how many times the ball goes right to there. Or is that supposed to be this way?
Yeah, there's some obscure rules deciding when they switch, with some irritating stuff in there like hitting the ball beyond a line called the "1 yard worse than last line ", which is just one of the reasons sensible people adapted the game to an actually playable game.
Five minutes ago I had never even heard of this sport. Looks incredibly dynamic. I’m surprised it’s not more popular today. Like a mix of tennis and racquetball.
It's not popular because of the logistics, you can't build that room anywhere. That's why tennis replaced it back when it was invented, way easier, you could just play outside with no walls.
@@TheJoy___ Lawn tennis is a different sport and it don't resemble with real tennis the sport which resemble it are padel,pop tennis,platform tennis unlike lawn tennis in terms of similarity pickleball and soft tennis can rival it
Kind of, but they are all slightly different as well, different sizes too. You can see why sensible people gave up on it in favour of actual tennis a long time ago. "Real" tennis reminds me of the "real" IRA: a bunch of entrenched fanatics holding onto something that has long become obsolete, and insisting that everybody else has got it wrong.
My friend brought me to his Squash club in downtown Boston. The place was pretty vacant and my other friend and me wandered into a match. No one else watching except the officials. We both turned around and quietly showed out selves out. It was kinda creepy
lol, I love this story. For whatever reason, real tennis courts and jai-alai courts really skeeze me out. There's something unsettling about that many quietly chattering people gathered around in a very confined and reverberant space watching a gentleman's game.
800 years old. The court is designed based on the city center, city walls and the shops around it. Hence the windows and slopes around the sides. There is a service side and receiving side. So they change sides to serve. Hitting the big windows in the back is a point. Hitting the small windows in the corner is a point. The only out is the ceiling or top windows. Serves must be off the slopes.
this may sound stupid, but is it normal for the players to not be on a symmetrical court? One side has an outcropping close to where they serve from but the other side does not have it leaving more space for that player to cover?
I HAVE DISCOVERED TODAY (2022) THE REAL TENNIS!! I have readed the story of Ron Fahey in the Daily mail in Spain (I am spanish) and I wish I could play REAL tennis some day!
I looked for an "ordinary" tennis court in Manchester. I saw one indicated in the map downtown. It was strange because I knew the area was just streets and asphalt and buildings with no open space four any court. It turned out it was a "real tennis" court.
Watch out for the 2022 World Championships which will be at Prested Hall (current home of Rob Fahey, the greatest ever player) - September, tickets will be on sale at some point
hehe no it originates from France in the 12th century and most of the rules from back then are still incorporated into this "modern" version of the game
