Tennis During Tudor Times
From Diderot's Encyclopedie Ou Dictionnaire Des Siences

Tennis Master (From Early German Illustration, 1723

In the skill and art of how to judge the ball,
A pasttime of a kind most pleasing to the great,
But though it be held high in courtly estimate
A student too the game may choose withal,
If he do not exercise so use
That in its very practise his best time he lose.
(Translation)

18th Century Racquets and Restringing--Diderot's Encyclopedie Ou Dictionnaire Des Siences