Trivia: What did the precursor to tennis use instead of rackets?
Sticks
Boards
Cups
Hands
The correct answer is Hands
So why is this answer correct? : “Jeu de Paume,” the precursor to tennis, began with the simplest racket imaginable — the human hand. While this old game, originally developed in the 11th and 12th centuries, eventually adopted rackets, the name “Jeu de Paume,” or “Game of the Palm,” stuck around, a “handy” reference for remembering the game’s roots.