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Why is the word tennis called Tennis and not nines?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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A board of ten people met in Wisconsin in 1928 and invented the sport. When they could not agree on a name, one suggested Ten's. Over the years, in order to make the name less complicated, it has evolved to be called tennis.

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