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The confusion comes with those games whose names emerged from the equipment used ( paddleball ) or from the peculiarities of the court construction ( platform tennis ). A tangential problem relates to certain ancient racquet sports approaching obsolescence ( court tennis, racquets, squash tennis , for example) whose original clear-cut identity has become hazy owing to recently created sports, such as racquetball and platform tennis , which share some of the characteristics of the older games.
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.
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.
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.
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