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Stické (also sticke tennis) is a racquet sport
List of sports

The following is a list of sports, divided by category. There are many more sports to be added. This system has a disadvantage because some sports may fit in more than one category....
 invented in the late 19th century merging aspects of real tennis
Real tennis

Real tennis is the original List of sports#Racket sports from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. It is also known as jeu de paume in France, "court tennis" in the United States...
, racquets
Racquets (sport)

Rackets or Racquets is an indoor racquet sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets," possibly to distinguish it from the related sport of squash ....
, and lawn tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
. It derives from Sphairistikè (ancient Greek meaning 'the art of playing ball'), the term originally given to lawn tennis by Walter Clopton Wingfield
Walter Clopton Wingfield

Major Walter Clopton Wingfield was a Wales inventor of tennis , which he called Sphairistik? .Wingfield was educated at Rossall School, and was living at Nantclwyd Hall, Llanelidan, in north Wales, when he patented nets for the new sport in 1873....
.

ké is played with standard lawn tennis racquet
Racquet

A racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of cord is stretched tightly. It is used for striking a ball in such games as squash , tennis, racquetball, and badminton....
s and low pressure balls in an enclosed court. The court is somewhat similar to a real tennis court in shape, but is smaller (about 78 feet by 27 feet) and different in construction.






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Stické (also sticke tennis) is a racquet sport
List of sports

The following is a list of sports, divided by category. There are many more sports to be added. This system has a disadvantage because some sports may fit in more than one category....
 invented in the late 19th century merging aspects of real tennis
Real tennis

Real tennis is the original List of sports#Racket sports from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. It is also known as jeu de paume in France, "court tennis" in the United States...
, racquets
Racquets (sport)

Rackets or Racquets is an indoor racquet sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets," possibly to distinguish it from the related sport of squash ....
, and lawn tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
. It derives from Sphairistikè (ancient Greek meaning 'the art of playing ball'), the term originally given to lawn tennis by Walter Clopton Wingfield
Walter Clopton Wingfield

Major Walter Clopton Wingfield was a Wales inventor of tennis , which he called Sphairistik? .Wingfield was educated at Rossall School, and was living at Nantclwyd Hall, Llanelidan, in north Wales, when he patented nets for the new sport in 1873....
.

Manner of play

Stické is played with standard lawn tennis racquet
Racquet

A racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of cord is stretched tightly. It is used for striking a ball in such games as squash , tennis, racquetball, and badminton....
s and low pressure balls in an enclosed court. The court is somewhat similar to a real tennis court in shape, but is smaller (about 78 feet by 27 feet) and different in construction. Play takes place using all the basics of lawn tennis and the same scoring system, with the addition of side and back walls. Players face each other over the net in pairs. As in real tennis, there is a penthouse, used throughout the game as a playing surface and on which the service has to land to start each point.

History

There were at least 39 courts built throughout the British Empire
British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
 since 1875. The dimensions of the Taplow Court
Taplow Court

Taplow Court is a large Victorian architecture house in the village of Taplow in Buckinghamshire, England.In the grounds of the house, near the church, is a 7th century Anglo-Saxons burial mound....
 built by Lord Desborough
William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough

William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, Order of the Garter, Royal Victorian Order, was an athlete, sportsman, public servant and a Liberal Party politician who left to join the Conservative Party s....
 in 1892 became the standard. In the early 20th century, stické was a popular recreation at many country houses. At the time it was one of the few games that was played by both men and women.

As of 2005 there are only three playable courts remaining:

  • Hartham Park in Corsham
    Corsham

    Corsham is a historic market town in northwest Wiltshire, England. It is at the southwestern extreme of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 road which was formerly the main turnpike road from London to Bristol, between Bath, Somerset and Chippenham, Wiltshire ....
    , Wiltshire
    Wiltshire

    Wiltshire is a Ceremonial counties of England in the South West England of England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire....
     (England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
    ). Built in 1904 out of wood.
  • Knightshayes Court
    Knightshayes Court

    Knightshayes Court is a large Victorian era country house in Tiverton, Devon, Devon, England, designed by William Burges for the Heathcoat-Amory Baronets....
     in Tiverton, Devon
    Devon

    Devon is a large Counties of England in South West England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county but often indicating a shire....
     (England). Built in 1907 out of wood.
  • Viceregal Lodge complex, Indian Institute of Advanced Study
    Indian Institute of Advanced Study

    The Indian Institute of Advanced Study is a prestigious research institute based in Shimla, India. It was set up by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 1964 and it started functioning from October 20, 1965....
    , Shimla
    Shimla

    Shimla , originally called Simla, is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the erstwhile British Raj in India....
    , Himachal Pradesh
    Himachal Pradesh

    Himachal Pradesh is a state in the Punjab region in north-west India. Himachal Pradesh is spread over 21,629 square mile , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on north, Punjab on west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on south, Uttarakhand on south-east and by Tibet on the east....
     (India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    ).


Both English courts have active player groups. The Indian court is primarily used for badminton
Badminton

Badminton is a List of sports#Racquet sports played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net....
.

A book about the sport, Sticke Tennis by Graham Tomkinson, was published in 2004.

Reigning World Doubles Champions Alistair Graham & Julian Mitchell (Hartham Park)

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