real tennis

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As someone who isn’t a particularly fervent fan of even real tennis matches, I find fictional ones pleasantly untaxing.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023

“I was more nervous there than any of my real tennis matches,” Fritz said.

From Reuters • May 3, 2020

Group 2 features Dominic Thiem, John Isner, Diego Schwartzman and the David Ferrer, coming out of retirement from real tennis to make an appearance in the virtual world.

From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2020

Known now as real tennis, it was a diversion for royalty and their minions in France, England and elsewhere during the Renaissance and beyond.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2017

The so-called National Indoor Championship is held at the Seventh Regiment Armoury in New York City on a wood floor, with such frightful lighting that it is impossible to play real tennis.

From The Art of Lawn Tennis by Tilden, William (Bill) Tatem