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The game we now know as tennis took nearly a thousand years to evolve into its modern form. While some evidence suggests that early forms of ball games were played in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, most historians trace its direct origins to French monasteries around the year 1000 AD. Here, monks played jeu de paume, the “game of the palm,” striking a wooden ball with the bare hand or with a simple leather glove across a rope stretched through the cloister courtyard. The ga

Charles Goodyear Vulcanized Solid Rubber Ball In the 19th century, two groundbreaking inventions laid the foundation for modern lawn tennis: Charles Goodyear's vulcanization of rubber and Edwin Budding's creation of the mechanical lawn mower. In 1839 , Charles Goodyear discovered that heating natural rubber with sulfur transformed it into a durable, elastic material, a process he patented in 1844 as vulcanization . This innovation revolutionized the production of rubber good

From White to Yellow Tennis Balls. London, 07 July 1985. A day destined to make history. The 17-year-old German Boris Becker , who had sensationally reached the Wimbledon final as an unseeded player, was now facing the powerful South African Kevin Curren , who had defeated both John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors on his way to the championship match. But Becker remained unfazed. With his explosive serve-and-volley game, he took control of the final and secured victory in four sets