Clifford Bernard Malone Jr. is an experienced lawyer from the state of California. Amongst a range of other sports, Clifford Bernard Malone Jr. frequently plays tennis for leisure and exercise.
Tennis is sometimes called “royal tennis” in Great Britain and Australia but is more commonly called court tennis in the US. The game which is enjoyed today can be traced back to the late 1800s when Welsh-born Major Walter Wingfield invented “Sphairistikè”, which translates from Greek as “playing ball.” The game was wildly popular in Europe, Australia, and China, but it wasn’t the first time the world had seen a game like this. As far back as the 1500s, wooden rackets with gut strings were being used by English kings like Henry VIII to play a game somewhat like the modern game - although it was played exclusively indoors due to the cork ball not being bouncy enough to play on grass.
But it goes back even further than that: monks in French cloisters would play “paume” (literally “palm”) where they would hit a ball back and forth between themselves with their palms. Some historians claim that tennis is older even than that, with the word “racket” coming from the old Arabic word for palm (“rahet”) making tennis Egpytian in origin and likely more than a thousand years old. There is very little descriptive evidence for this idea however, making those French cloisters the rightfully named origin of tennis.
