Editing Tennis (section)

=== Predecessors ===
[[File:EcoleCremonaiseTennis.jpg|thumb|200px|Painting from [[Cremona]] in the late-16th&nbsp;century]]
[[File:Jeu de paume002.jpg|thumb|upright=1.05|''Jeu de paume'' in the 17th&nbsp;century]]
Historians believe that the game's ancient origin lay in 12th-century northern France, where a ball was struck with the palm of the hand.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gillmeister|first=Heiner|title=Tennis : A Cultural History|url=https://archive.org/details/tennisculturalhi0000gill|url-access=registration|year=1998|publisher=New York University Press|location=Washington Square, N.Y.|isbn=0-8147-3121-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/tennisculturalhi0000gill/page/n130 117]}}</ref> [[Louis X of France]] was a keen player of ''[[jeu de paume]]'' ("game of the palm"), which evolved into [[real tennis]], and became notable as the first person to construct indoor tennis courts in the modern style. Louis was unhappy with playing tennis outdoors and accordingly had indoor, enclosed courts made in Paris "around the end of the 13th&nbsp;century".<ref name=Newman>{{cite book|last=Newman|first=Paul B.|title=Daily life in the Middle Ages|year=2001|publisher=McFarland & Co.|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-0897-9|page=163}}</ref> In due course this design spread across royal palaces all over Europe.<ref name=Newman/> In June&nbsp;1316 at [[Vincennes]], Val-de-Marne, and following a particularly exhausting game, Louis drank a large quantity of cooled wine and subsequently died of either [[pneumonia]] or [[pleurisy]], although there was also suspicion of poisoning.<ref name=Gillmeister>{{cite book|last=Gillmeister|first=Heiner|title=Tennis : A Cultural History|url=https://archive.org/details/tennisculturalhi0000gill|url-access=registration|year=1998|publisher=Leicester University Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-7185-0195-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/tennisculturalhi0000gill/page/17 17–21]|edition=Repr.}}</ref> Because of the contemporary accounts of his death, Louis&nbsp;X is history's first tennis player known by name.<ref name=Gillmeister/> Another of the early enthusiasts of the game was King [[Charles V of France]], who had a court set up at the [[Louvre Palace]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Moyer Heathcote |author2=C. G. Heathcote |author3=Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie |author4=Arthur Campbell Ainger |title=Tennis|url=https://archive.org/details/tennis01ainggoog |year=1901|page=[https://archive.org/details/tennis01ainggoog/page/n36 14]|publisher=Longmans, Green, and co. }}</ref>

The word ''tennis'' probably comes from the French term ''tenez'', which can be translated as "hold!", "receive!" or "take!", an [[interjection]] used as a call from the server to his opponent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tennis |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |date=10 June 1927 |access-date=15 May 2013}}</ref> It was popular in England and France, although the game was only played indoors, where the ball could be hit off the wall. [[Henry VIII of England]] was a big fan of this game, which is now known as [[real tennis]].<ref>Crego, Robert. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=XCl1c2yy5ooC&dq=%22real+tennis%22+and+tenez&pg=PA115 Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries]'', page 115 (2003).</ref>

An epitaph in [[Coventry Cathedral|St Michael's Church, Coventry]], written {{c.|1705}}, read, in part:<ref name="Astley">{{cite Q |Q98360469 |page=21}}</ref>

{{blockquote|<poem>
Here lyes an old toss'd Tennis Ball:
Was racketted, from spring to fall,
With so much heat and so much hast,
Time's arm for shame grew tyred at last.
</poem>}}

During the 18th and early 19th centuries, as real tennis declined, new racket sports emerged in England.<ref name="Perris"/>

The invention of the first [[lawn mower]] in Britain in 1830 is believed to have been a catalyst for the preparation of modern-style grass courts, sporting ovals, playing fields, pitches, greens, etc. This in turn led to the codification of modern rules for many sports, including lawn tennis, most football codes, lawn bowls and others.<ref>Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National ''Ockham's Razor'', first broadcast 6 June 2010.</ref>