One of my essential questions was "How was tennis first played?" I learned that tennis was first played by the french monks in the 11th and 12th centuries. "It was more like handball, played first by hitting against a wall, then later over a crude net. While not gruesome, hitting a ball with one's hand proved a little too uncomfortable after a while, so players began using gloves. Some players then tried using webbing between the fingers of the glove, while others took to using a solid wooden paddle."
http://tennis.about.com/od/racquetsballsstringing/a/evolmodracquet.htm
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