lawn tennis

Japanese: lawn tennis(英語表記)lawntennis
lawn tennis

...a ball game in which players stand on opposite sides of a rectangular court with a net dividing it in half, hitting the ball with a racket. A Japanese adaptation of tennis is called soft tennis, which is popular internationally, especially in Southeast Asia, but tennis generally means lawn tennis, so this article will treat it that way.
【history】

[Origin, History]
The "jeu de paume" (hereafter abbreviated as "paume"), which began to be played in French monasteries in the 11th century, is thought to be the prototype of tennis-type games.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "lawn tennis" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…長方形のコートを中央で二分するネットをはさんで相対するプレーヤーが,ラケットでボールを打ち合う球技。テニスを日本的にアレンジしたものにソフトテニス(軟式テニス)があり,東南アジアを中心に国際的に普及しているが,テニスとは一般にローンテニスlawn tennis(硬式テニス)を意味するので,本項でも同様に取り扱う。ソフトテニス
【歴史】

[起源,沿革]
 11世紀にフランスの修道院で行われるようになった〈ジュ・ド・ポームjeu de paume〉(以下〈ポーム〉と略記)がテニス型ゲーム形態の原型と考えられている。…

※「lawn tennis」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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