Tennis history...

   Egyptian, Roman, Greek and Aztec and playing games like tennis. The first references tennis take place in France, named "Jeu de Paume" as initially hit the ball with his hand. But later it began to use snowshoes. It originated in Europe in the late eighteenth century and spread initially in the Anglophone countries, especially among the upper classes. Today's tennis has become universal, and is played in almost every country in the world. Since 1926, creating the first tour, is a professional sport. It is also an Olympic sport since Seoul 1988, having lost that category in Paris 1924.

  Tennis is a sport that is practiced in a plain, rectangular, divided by an intermediate network, played with rackets that is played between two players (singles) or between two pairs (doubles) and which is to hit the ball with racket to go back and forth through the field over the red.2

The word "tennis" comes from English, tennis, which in turn comes from the word tenez of French, 3 expression that comes from the cry of the tennis player (called tennis), who exclaims to throw the ball here goes! , which in French is tenez.