It started in Europe by European monks. It was first played several thousand years ago. It was first played with bare human hands then it was played with special gloves and now we have the well known tennis racquet. The tennis racquet was invented as it could hit a ball and you would be alble to serve a ball.
back in those days they were made out of wood :)
The A+ answer is Tennis
Tennis is thought to have been played first in France during the fourteenth century. When a player with a racquet in hand was ready to play he would call out "tenez", which meant take or receive.
Tennis rackets are now built exclusively by machine. The frame is built first, followed next by the grip and the wiring. Videos of rackets being built can be found on YouTube.
Tennis For Two was the first computer game.
The history of the tennis ball goes back to the 15th century, and the individual who created it has been lost to time. For further information on tennis balls, visit the Wikipedia link, below.
The game of table tennis has its roots in lawn tennis. When lawn tennis became very popular in the 1870s & 1880s, game makers tried to emulate its' success by developing indoor versions of the game. David Foster of England introduced the first action game of tennis on a table in 1890.
I believe Rene LeCoste invented a hand-cranked machine that propelled tennis balls, while Bob McLure reversed the motor on a vacuum cleaner to create the first commercially viable ball machine in 1970.
Real Tennis evolved rather than was invented. It began as a ball game played in the twelfth century and continued to evolve for the next several centuries. It has been suggested the game was first played by monks in cloisters, but there is no evidence of this. The first well known historical figure to play the game, however, was Henry V.
Tennis was a game on the Magnavox Odyssey, the first video game system that was released in September of 1972. PONG was a game on the Atari 2600, which was released in October of 1977. Therefore, Tennis came first
Tennis for two was the first video game ever created in the 50s