Real tennis, the mother of all racket sports, has been defined as a combination of tennis, squash and a game of chess and is over 1500 years old.

Between 1500 and 1800 the total number of courts in The Netherlands, then called “kaatsbaan”  exceeded the 150 mark – the possibly most important court stood within the perimeter walls of the Parliament buildings in The Hague! There is not a single court left.

For much more information regarding the history of Real Tennis, we refer to the site of the Dutch Real Tennis Association (http://www.real-tennis.nl/).