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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.
It seems reasonable to assume that racquetball will prevail and that paddle-ball will eventually lose its official sanction and will be confined to a few die-hard eccentrics.
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.
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.
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.
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