30 October 2014 ~ Hampton Court Tennis

Listening to: Wilco ~ What Light


The first tennis court was built at Hampton Court between 1526 and 1529.

As a young man, Henry VIII was a keen and talented tennis player, spending hours on court. My friend Robert really wants to play!

This is an indoor game. three of these walls are 17th-century.

One of the first English guides to tennis claimed in 1153 that this game has been created for a good purpose, namely, to keep our bodies health, to make our young men stronger and more robust, chasing idleness, virtue's mortal enemy.