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Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. It is infrequently called "hard rackets" to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (also called "squash rackets").
Tennis, badminton, and table tennis are the three racket sports featured during the Summer Olympics. Though all three have different origins and rules, the racket sports are bonded by their use of the handy projectile hitter that gives the grouping its name.
Played on a rectangular court lined for singles and doubles, players wield stringed rackets and hit the ball over a regulation tennis net, which divides the court in two. Players alternate serving (an overhead motion with the racket) and must hit the ball into the lined service box.
Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. [1] Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings.
Racquets (or rackets, in British English), has been contested as an Olympic sport only in 1908, when a men’s singles and doubles event was held in London. While its offshoot squash has become a popular sport worldwide, racquets remains obscure.
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