The French Real Tennis Committee (Comité Français de Courte-Paume) is the national governing body for the sport of real tennis

Real tennis

Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original indoor racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis , is descended...

 in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. It is a dependent commission of the French Tennis Federation (Fédération Françaie de Tennis). The federation was founded on October 30, 1920, and recognized publicly on July 13, 1923, to organize, direct, control, and develop the sports of lawn tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 and real tennis. The federation affiliated various preëxisting tennis associations.

External links

• Comité Français de Courte-Paume (French only)