Publications

This is an all-inclusive list of recent publications and online pieces on real tennis and related games. Scholarly publications from the last ten years are included here and in the “Library” Bibliography.

2020

2019

A Manual for the Apprentice of the Game of Real Tennis : Lessons from Pierre Etchebaster recounted by Edouard Kressman translated by Alastair Robson (Ronaldson Publications, 2019).
http://www.ronpubs.com/node/11

A Tennis Passport: The Tennis Courts of the World by Edward J. Hughes (Ronaldson Publications, 2019). http://www.ronpubs.com/node/16

2018

Photo: GRocquefort

Excavation update from Suze-la-Rousse https://journals.openedition.org/archeomed/16805

Better Than The Last by Jonathan Howell (Ronaldson Publications, 2018). http://www.ronpubs.com/node/15

The Rise and Fall of Stické Tennis 1874 – 1939 by Nigel à Brassard (Ronaldson Publications). http://www.ronpubs.com/node/14

2017

A Second Cut by Chris Ronaldson with Rob & Claire Fahey (Ronaldson Publications, 2017). http://www.ronpubs.com/node/17

Hazard a Guess: A Real Tennis Chase by Edward J. Hughes (Ronaldson Publications, 2017). http://www.ronpubs.com/node/8

Tennis: A Cultural History by Heiner Gillmeister (2nd English Edition, Equinox, 2017). Available through the Real Tennis Society at £30 or US$35.

2016

Court Tennis Contemporary (Exhibition Catalogue) by Frederika Adam (Newport Art Museum, 2016) Exhibition Link

2015

Real Tennis Today and Yesterday by John Shneerson (Ronaldson Publications, 2015). http://www.ronpubs.com/node/5

The Neptune Book of Tennis & Rackets by James Bruce. Available through The Tennis Bookshop

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2010

The First & Foremost: A Gallery of Champions by Kathryn McNicoll http://www.ronpubs.com/node/6

2009

2008

Photo: BSilano

A Jeu de Paume excavation project located at 25, rue Thubeneau, Marseille https://multimedia.inrap.fr/atlas/marseille/sites/2871/25-rue-Thubaneau-Jeu-de-Paume#.XxPxVy3MyjQ