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Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. [1] Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings.
Racquetball games can be played with two, three or four players, with doubles or singles matches being most common. Two player games are called singles or "one-up" (one vs. one for the entire game), while four player games are doubles with two pairs playing against each other (two vs. two for the entire game).
It is also known as court tennis in the United States, [1] royal tennis in England and Australia, [2] and courte-paume in France (to distinguish it from longue-paume, and in reference to the older, racquetless game of jeu de paume, the ancestor of modern handball and racquet games). Many French real tennis courts are at jeu de paume clubs.
Padel (Spanish: pádel), also sometimes called padel tennis, is a racket sport of Mexican origin, typically played in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although padel shares the same scoring system as tennis , the rules, strokes, and technique are different.
Games are to 15 points, unless the game is tied at 13–all or 14–all, in which case the game can be "set" to 16 or 18 (in the case of 13–all) or to 15 or 17 (in the case of 14–all) at the option of the player first reaching 13 or 14. Only the server (hand-in) can score—the receiver (hand-out) who wins a rally becomes the server.
Paddle tennis, using similar paddles and played on a court similar to a tennis court. Squash is a somewhat-similar game, played with a long-handled racket on a similar (but different-sized) court. The court is shorter and wider, and the ceiling and bottom 19 inches (48 cm) of the front wall are out of bounds.
A mixed doubles team competing at the World Table Tennis Championships Mixed doubles tennis players at Wimbledon. Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman.
Pickleball - A hybrid of ping-pong, tennis, and badminton. Polocrosse - A hybrid of polo and lacrosse, played on horseback. Q. QuadraSport - another hybrid of soccer, basketball, football and baseball; R. Racketlon - a combination sport in which competitors play a sequence of the four most popular racket sports: table tennis, badminton, squash ...