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Lawn tennis is a racket sport played on a rectangular court divided by a net, in which players use strung rackets to hit a felt-covered ball across the net. The modern game was formalized in late 19th-century England, and its rules were established by the All England Club for the first Wimbledon Cha...
Table tennis is a competitive racket sport played on a hard table divided by a net, where players use wooden paddles to hit a lightweight plastic ball. Originating in Victorian England, the sport evolved from after-dinner parlour games. It has been governed internationally by the International Table...
Badminton is a racquet sport played with a shuttlecock across a net on a rectangular court. It can be played as singles or doubles and is governed internationally by the BWF. The modern game developed in British India in the 19th century and has been a full-medal Summer Olympic sport since the 1992...
Padel is a doubles racquet sport invented by Enrique Corcuera in Mexico in 1969, using walls as playable surfaces on an enclosed court.
Tennis is a high-energy sport that combines aerobic endurance with anaerobic bursts. It requires constant lateral movement, sprinting, and explosive or power strokes, which improves agility, reflexes, and hand-eye coordination. The game provides an excellent full-body workout while offering signific...
Real tennis is the walled-court ancestor of lawn tennis, with a Hampton Court court built for Henry VIII in 1530 still central to its lore.
Racquetball is a wall racquet sport invented by Joseph Sobek in Connecticut in 1950, notable for adapting paddleball with a strung racquet.
Squash doubles is four-player squash in two-person teams, first played at Philadelphia's Racquet Club in 1907 on a larger court.
Beach tennis is a sand-court racquet sport that emerged in Italy in the early 1970s and was recognized by the ITF in 2008.
Soft tennis is a Japanese tennis variant from 1884, played with hollow rubber balls and included as an Asian Games medal sport in 1994.
Tamburello is an Italian ball sport using tambourine-like bats, notable for an Italian championship form in 1896 and a federation founded in 1926.
Jeu de paume is the French court game that led to real tennis and modern tennis, notable for its 1908 Olympic event won by Jay Gould II.
Platform tennis is a cold-weather U.S. racquet sport invented in Scarsdale, New York, in 1928 by Fessenden Blanchard and James Cogswell.
Crossminton is a no-net racquet sport invented in Berlin in 2001 by Bill Brandes and renamed from speed badminton in 2016.
AirBadminton is BWF's outdoor badminton variant, launched in 2019 with the wind-resistant AirShuttle for sand, grass, and hard courts.
Hardball squash is the North American form of squash, developed by the early 1900s and notable for its faster hard ball and 18.5 ft singles court.
Ball badminton is an Indian racquet sport from Tanjore, played by 1856 with a yellow wool ball on a 12-by-24-metre court.
Speed-ball is a tethered racquet sport invented in Egypt by Mohamed Lotfy in 1961, notable for turning tennis training into a separate sport.
Tambourelli is a Scottish court game invented in Galloway in the 1970s, notable for using tambourine-like bats and a shuttlecock.
Squash tennis is an American squash variant formalized in New York in 1911, notable for using tennis-style racquets and balls on squash courts.
Swingball is a tether-tennis game using racquets and a ball tied to a pole, notable as a commercial British garden game sold under the brand since 1974.
