The ITF has launched an informative and entertaining brief movie documenting the historical past of tennis – from its origins as a medieval sport by means of the institution of formal guidelines within the Nineteenth century, earlier than charting the game’s journey from the novice days of the early-mid Twentieth century to the fashionable day.
Produced in collaboration with the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame and america Skilled Tennis Affiliation, the movie explores vital moments all through the game’s historical past – corresponding to the inspiration of the Girls’s Tennis Affiliation within the Nineteen Seventies, the re-introduction of tennis on the Olympic Video games within the Eighties and the game’s return following the suspension because of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
The eight-minute movie is introduced by tennis broadcaster and historian Chris Bowers, and options dialogue and imagery of a number of the most interesting athletes ever to play the sport – from the game’s early pioneers within the late-Nineteenth and early-Twentieth centuries to the world-famous gamers who compete at present.
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