Tennis, The Word
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Tennis, The Word
A very nice article that explains the origin of the word "tennis" and how tennis came about:
"In the English language, sports, for the most part, have assumed intuitive and descriptive names. The word baseball, for instance, is a compound that combines base and ball, two objects central to the game.
Basketball signifies meaning by a similar logic, as does European football. Endurance sports are even more straightforward: Take swimming, running, cycling,nouns that derive simply from the actions themselves.
Still others, while not completely transparent, aren’t too difficult to trace back to their roots; fencing, for example, was apparently shortened from defence (the British spelling of defense), sometime during the Renaissance.
But what about the etymology of tennis? Where and how did this word and its meaning originate?"
http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2013/03/tennis-word/46831/#.UUidDxml3go
"In the English language, sports, for the most part, have assumed intuitive and descriptive names. The word baseball, for instance, is a compound that combines base and ball, two objects central to the game.
Basketball signifies meaning by a similar logic, as does European football. Endurance sports are even more straightforward: Take swimming, running, cycling,nouns that derive simply from the actions themselves.
Still others, while not completely transparent, aren’t too difficult to trace back to their roots; fencing, for example, was apparently shortened from defence (the British spelling of defense), sometime during the Renaissance.
But what about the etymology of tennis? Where and how did this word and its meaning originate?"
http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2013/03/tennis-word/46831/#.UUidDxml3go
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- Armenian Language : թենիս
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- Basque Language : tenis
- Belarusian Language : Ñ‚ÑніÑ
- Bulgaria Language : тениÑ
- Catalan Language : tennis
- Chinese (Simplified) Language : 网球
- Chinese (Traditional) Language : 網球
- Croatian Language : tenis
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- Danish Language : tennis
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- Finnish Language : tennis
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- Galician Language : tenis
- Georgian Language : ჩოგბურთი
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- Haitian Creole Language : tenis
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- Indonesian Language : tenis
- Irish Language : leadóg
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- Japanese Language : テニス
- Korean Language : 테니스
- Latvian Language : teniss
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- Macedonia Language : тениÑ
- Malay Language : Tenis
- Maltese Language : tennis
- Norwegian Language : tennis
- Persian Language : تنیس
- Polish Language : tenis
- Portugese Language : tênis
- Romanian Language : tenis
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I have also read something from tennis history roots and learned why we count points by fifteens. The source also relates to French, where they had special watches on courts which counted a point by a quarter of an hour. Then there is a question why we do not count 45 instead of 40. It was supposedly shortened due to easier pronounceability and it is faster to say.
paulcz- Posts : 1774
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paulcz wrote:I have also read something from tennis history roots and learned why we count points by fifteens. The source also relates to French, where they had special watches on courts which counted a point by a quarter of an hour. Then there is a question why we do not count 45 instead of 40. It was supposedly shortened due to easier pronounceability and it is faster to say.
Exactly. And Love comes from oeuf (egg) (if I remember correctly) cause "oeuf" has a round (zero) shape.
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It would be interesting to find out how court dimensions and proportions were worked out.
I bet they'd need to be redesigned for today's giants if the same principles were applied.
Nadal would probably love to play on a court the size of football pitch.
I bet they'd need to be redesigned for today's giants if the same principles were applied.
Nadal would probably love to play on a court the size of football pitch.
noleisthebest- Posts : 27907
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and with the net high 1,5 meter. Let's stop writing about that or Toni will notice and ask for it Larry to install it for next IW.noleisthebest wrote:It would be interesting to find out how court dimensions and proportions were worked out.
I bet they'd need to be redesigned for today's giants if the same principles were applied.
Nadal would probably love to play on a court the size of football pitch.
paulcz- Posts : 1774
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noleisthebest wrote:It would be interesting to find out how court dimensions and proportions were worked out.
I bet they'd need to be redesigned for today's giants if the same principles were applied.
Nadal would probably love to play on a court the size of football pitch.
They have changed over time if I remember correctly. And I agree they woudl need to change again. Narrower close to the net and wider in the baseline. So they shoudl be like 2 trapezium separated by the net. Like a butterfly or bow tie.
The problem with todays strings is that when you unbalance your opponent by sending him in the tameline, It's very easy for him to make you run too thanks to topspin and strings. Having a narrower centre would make the target smaller and favour the risk takers.
In fact playing with those new string simply changed the targets of the court and the dynamics. keeping the center of the court is not necessarily a good thing unlike back then.
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