Lea Van Der Zwalmen, the French tennis champion, provides the show from the gazebos. She has only one idea in her head – to get out of secrecy and democratize the “tile”. It is a space of 10 by 30 meters where we play on the walls or on the galleries and where variety is guaranteed from the very beginning. “We feel history, we feel small”explains the vice world champion in the TF1 report above. “It’s a game with intriguing rules, a constantly stimulating intellectual aspect, that’s what I really enjoyed”.
The oldest racket game in the world
The world title that has eluded France since 1955 is now monopolized by the Englishwoman and Lea is determined to take it away from her. Before the match, scheduled for 2024, she conducts intensive training in Merignac (Gironde), one of the three outdoor gyms in the country. It’s one of the anomalies for a country that invented the world’s oldest racquet game long before tennis.
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In our memories of schoolchildren, practice is more like history than sports. On June 20, 1789, in the hall of Versailles, not far from the castle, 500 deputies of the Estates General took the solemn “Oath of the Jeu de Paume” not to part with each other until the Constitution was approved on solid grounds.
Many French expressions also come from this discipline. “Entertain Gallery”, “to catch the ball”or even… “grope”which literally meant “Warm-up before the game”as the curator of the Jeu de Paume at Versailles, Yves Carlier, explains to us.
Contrary to popular belief, the game of tennis is affordable and there is nothing elitist about it, even if the halls are rare – compared to the 250 that were in Paris during the Renaissance. The technical, strategic and physical palm is once again looking to the future and hoping for a return to the splendor of the past. From the time when this game of kings was also the king of games.
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