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In short, remove the platform and a new term would have to be applied to distinguish the game from paddle tennis, which technically is simply a form of miniature tennis and might be better referred to as “mini-tennis.”
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.
There is even a question as to whether or not paddleball , as defined above, should be considered a legitimate game, since a wooden paddle is inappropriate for the quick wrist action that the four-wall game requires.
A suggested solution to the semantic confusion would be to sharpen the distinction between paddleball and racquetball . These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle,' the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball , which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball.
A more serious semantic problem is the ambiguity regarding paddle tennis and platform tennis . Here there is a yawning gulf of misunderstanding between the aficionados, who insist on a precise distinction, and the thousands on the fringes who sloppily apply the term paddle tennis to both sports.