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1. The origin of the sport of tennis is a subject that is debated among historians.
2. Some believed the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans played a primitive form of tennis.
3. Historians cite two ancient Arabic words as evidence for an early origin of tennis.
4. The word tennis may have derived from Tinnis, the name of an Egyptian town near the Nile
River.
5. There are some who say the word racquet comes from the Arabic word rahat "palm of hand"
6. Most say tennis probably originated with French monks around the eleventh or twelfth century.
7. The monks would compete with one another using a rough-hewn handball, the monastery
walls and sometimes a rope strung across the courtyard.
8. Overtime the game became known by a French phrase that means "game of the hand"
9. Many believe the wordtennis is derived from the French word tenez, which means "take this"
10. The players would say this as they served to each other.