Road Tennis Strict guardians of our heritage T
his sport was played in Barbados as long ago as the 1950s and is believed to have originated here. It is called road tennis because it was originally played on courts marked out on streets. A cross between table and lawn tennis, it can be called the poor man’s tennis. All it requires is a home-made wooden paddle, somewhat larger than a table tennis raquet, a tennis ball with the fur removed and a net that is just a long piece of wood, with crude feet to enable it to stand. If a vehicle approaches while a game is in progress, the game is halted, the net is stood on end and play continues when the vehicle has passed.
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Road Tennis being played in Bruce Vale, St. Andrew Photo: Andrew Hulsmeier