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SOCCER
Soccer sports history began in the 2nd century BC and -3 in China.In the Han Dynasty, people with a leather ball kicked into small nets.A similar game played in Japan with the title Come. In Italy, the game kicking and carrying the ball are also popular, especially beginning of the 16th century.
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TENNIS
Tennis is a sport that is very old. Recorded on a sculpture that was made around 1500 BC in the wall of a temple in Egypt which shows a representation of the game of tennis balls. The game was later extended throughout mainland Europe in the 8th century.
In the early development of tennis is played by using the hand or a stick slapped alternately using a ball of solid wood. The game is then evolved again into a ball game with a slapped across a barrier wall. Because at that time felt that ball control is more felt by hand, then the media is evolving at that time is to use leather gloves which then evolve again by adding the hilt. This is the embryo of the birth of a tennis racket. The ball was evolved from a solid wooden ball into a ball of leather filled with bran bran.
This sport is highly developed in France at that time. In the 16-18 centuries have begun much loved, especially by the kings and the nobles with the name 'Jeu de Palme' or sports fist. The word itself is believed to come from the Tennis French player who often mentions the word 'Tenez' which means "Play!" When will start the game and until now the word is used as the name of this sport. Tennis then expanded to plain English and also spread to Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. But tennis suffered a setback when the French revolution and the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe.
In the 19th century before tennis raised again by the English aristocracy to build facilities country club or a tennis court in his large house. Because at that time popular tennis is played on the lawn, then known as 'Lawn Tennis' or lawn tennis. At this time also began to emerge from vulcanized rubber ball which at that time was thought to reduce damage to the grass in the field without reducing the elasticity of the ball itself.
Lawn Tennis title comes from an Englishman named Arthur Balfour. Since the invention of lawn tennis, people started experimenting with the play on other surfaces such as clay courts (clay) and hard courts (cement). Menggeliatnya game of tennis was able to shift the game of Croquet as a summer sport. The peak occurred in 1869 when one of the leading croquet club in England, the All England Croquet Club, failed to attract many enthusiasts and try to include tennis as other sports. The result is a very successful club has attracted attention mainly on the Tennis game up in 1877 changed its name to 'All Engand Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club'. This history continues as the location of the club was held at Wimbledon there was an increase of rent which forced the club to get more funds than usual. Therefore, the club held the first tennis tournament at Wimbledon by forming a committee to hold the game and create a standard rule in this game. The tournament was attended by 20 participants with an audience of about 200 people and is the forerunner of the Wimbledon tournament which is one of the prestigious tennis grand slam tournaments in the world.
There are various types of games that use a racquet and tennis is played today is one of the most preferred games. According to some historical records, using a ball and racket games has been played since before Christ, which is in Egypt and Greece. In the 11th century a kind of game called jeu de Paume, which resembles a game of tennis now, has played for the first time in a region in France. Balls used wrapped with yarn while the bat is just hairy hand.
The game was later introduced to Italy and England in the 13th century and was warmly received in a short time. Many devotees were among the local people against this game. Since then the development of tennis continues to rise to the countries of Europe to another.
Stringed racket was first introduced in the 15th century by Antonio da Scalo, an Italian priest nation. He wrote a general rule for all games that use a ball, including tennis. The British magazine "Sporting Magazine" named this game as 'tennis court' (lawn tennis). In the book "Book of Games And Sports", published in 1801, referred to as "long tennis". Tennis was originally a game of the upper classes. The famous grass tennis court at the time of Queen Victoria and then imitated by the middle class, who make regular game.
The first tennis club was founded in France by JB Leamington Perera, Harry Gem, Dr. Frederick Haynes, and Dr.. Arthur Tompkins in 1872. At that time, called a pelota tennis rackets or lawn. In 1874 the game of tennis was first played in the United States by Dr. James Dwight and F.R. Sears. Meanwhile, the All England Croquet Club had been founded in 1868. Two years after it opened its offices in Worple Road, Wimbledon. In 1875, the club is also willing to earmark a portion of their land to the game of tennis and badminton. Accordingly, the regulation game of lawn tennis was written. United States established the first tennis club in Staten Island. Starting from there, the game of tennis in the United States growing by leaps and bounds. From there was born a lot of tough tennis player who controls the world's tennis arena.The first tennis championship began in 1877.



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