who was the inventor of the paddle ball and when was it invented?
2006-11-14 07:23:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Paddle tennis is a racquet sport invented in 1898 by Frank Beal. It is similar to tennis, but uses smaller paddles and a spongy ball. Like tennis, Paddle tennis is played in both singles and doubles, but each player is allowed only one serve. The game is best of three sets (first player or team to win two sets). Scoring is the same as in tennis.
A somewhat similar game with the same name is played widely in the Spanish-speaking world, particularly Argentina. It is also called Padel.
2006-11-14 07:33:10 · answer #1 · answered by statistics 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paddleball is actually two different sports, one-wall and four-wall, with two different origins.
Four-wall paddleball was invented by Earl Riskey at the University of Michigan in 1930. The school's tennis players often practiced their strokes on squash or handball courts when the weather was bad. They sometimes used the wooden paddles of paddle tennis instead of tennis rackets.
The sport became popular as a winter alternative for handball players during the early 1950s. However, attempts to organize it haven't been particularly successful. The U. S. Paddleball Association was founded about 1960 but didn't last long. In the late 1960s, the American Paddleball Association (APA) was organized, only to be challenged by the Paddleball Players Association in 1974. Later, there was a One Wall Paddleball Association
2006-11-14 07:28:33 · answer #2 · answered by aceterp 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Doctor Paddle actualy invented the paddle ball. He was on the ball that day!!!
2006-11-14 09:45:12 · answer #3 · answered by DesktopSupport.TV 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because at the time, WW1, they used to have cigarettes as a back up currency - especially when a certain currency fell, like the German Mark back then, they used cigarettes as a form of currency. And at that time they didnt know that they harmed their health, because they didnt have the state-of-the-art technology that we have now, back then.... o yea... and the first smoking of some item i believe was back into the mayan times, (smoking chocolate)
2016-03-19 08:03:23 · answer #4 · answered by Michele 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone who thought it would be funny to drive me insane.
2006-11-14 11:24:12 · answer #5 · answered by racer 51 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋