International Tennis Day is an annual celebration on 20 June to raise the profile and catalyze interest in the game of tennis—real tennis, court tennis, jeu de paume. Founded in 2014, International Tennis Day is funded by the U.S. Court Tennis Preservation Foundation, directed by the U.S. Court Tennis Association and supported by all the other national tennis governing bodies and associations in the world. The aim is to motivate current players and to mobilize new ones who have not played tennis before.
June 20 was chosen for the
celebration of International Tennis Day as it falls on the anniversary of the
Tennis Court Oath, taken on 20 June 1789 by nearly 600 people at a tennis court
near the Palace of Versailles. The Tennis Oath was a pivotal event at the start
of the French Revolution. Jacques-Louis David’s iconic 1791 painting “Le
Serment du Jeu de Paume” is perhaps the most famous image of a tennis
court. To celebrate the painting and its communal message of hope and change,
International Tennis Day was started on 20 June in 2014.
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