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Example sentences for: racquet

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Interestingly, in spite of their obscure origins, these are the only three racquet sports whose names communicate something specific to the layman.
One way of putting some of these racquet games into sharper focus would be to minimize use of the words paddle and racquet . To the layman, terms like paddleball, paddle tennis, racquets, racquetball , etc., just fuse into a blur.
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.
It is next to impossible to carry on an intelligent conversation about racquet sports because there is no terminology on which all can agree.
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.