Great old hotels dot the planet, but nowhere do they have the preeminent stature that they enjoy in Florida. Because tourists ...

The medieval sport of real tennis is not "all cloak and dagger", one of the game's most successful ever players has told the ...

Leon Smart is an athlete in a game so unusual that no sporting goods company can make the balls for it ...

That’s the surprising sound that comes off my perforated paddle as I hit a ball ... real-estate executive, played in USTA tennis leagues for years, before adding pickleball to his racquets ...

In other words, to cheat. The basic idea was to make a tennis ball that would start spinning at the push of a button, rather than by skillful wielding of a racket: a spinning ball that flies ...

At night, the ballrooms sway with galas and balls and charity events ... “Palm Beach is a real tennis mecca,” Thompson says. “And I think it will continue to be.” Perhaps the next step ...

Real tennis is played indoors with handmade balls, which are solid like a cricket ball, and wooden rackets. The court, which Ms Fahey described as an "elongated tennis court with a sloping roof around ...