Beach tennis emerged in Italy in the early 1970s when tennis players on vacation in Lido degli Estensi, in the 🗝 Ferrara town of Comacchio, played using their rackets and the existing volleyball nets already installed on the beach.
Top tennis players 🗝 who have played beach tennis include Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Andy Murray, the Bryan brothers, Rafael Nadal and 🗝 Gustavo Kuerten.
Beach tennis was formalized in the United States in 2005 by Marc Altheim,[4] who discovered the sport on a 🗝 trip to Aruba in 2003.
[5] As of 2007, beach tennis had made progress toward acceptance as a mainstream sport, with 🗝 an official standards organization known as Beach Tennis USA (BT USA).
The Beach Tennis Association currently maintains player rankings and operates 🗝 tournaments in Southern California.[6]
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