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The national sport, badminton, and is played wherever a net, real or makeshift, can be set up for players to thwack the shuttlecock across to each other.
To begin with let us list some of the official racquet games, both ancient and modern, that may be defined in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia of sport: tennis; lawn tennis; squash tennis; paddle tennis; platform tennis; table tennis; paddleball; racquetball; squash racquets; badminton; and racquets . The most obvious characteristic of this list is that most of these games appear, at least, to be variations of the game of tennis , yet in reality they cannot be technically classified as such.
Badminton derives from the name of the estate in Gloucestershire where the game was first played in England; tennis stems from tenetz , an old form of tenez , from French tenir `to hold'; and squash , according to scholars, probably grew out of the “squashy” sound which the original soft ball made against the wall of the court.
As an experienced practitioner of paddle tennis, squash, badminton, platform tennis, etc., over the past twenty years I have become convinced that a revised nomenclature for racquet sports is in order.
With the huge successes of Boris Becker, Steffi Graf, and Michael Stich, tennis has now become a favorite national sport, with squash and badminton catching on fast, too.