Sphairee

Sphairee is a miniature form of tennis developed in Australia.[1] Sphairee derives its name from the Greek word for ball sphaira.[1]

History

It was developed by Frederick Arthur George Beck in Sydney in 1961.[2][1] The New South Wales Sphairee Association was formed in 1961.[1] The first New South Wales Championships were held in 1963 with R.B. Frost and N.Brown winning the men's and women's titles respectively.[1] In 1998, it was reported that the game had ebbed and it was played in 15 primary and high schools in Tasmania and on the first Tuesday of each month at the Greenwich Community Centre on Sydney's lower north shore.[2] The game has been played in Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.[1] The game has also been played since at least the 1970s at Camp Ponacka, a boys camp just south of Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, and includes four single-knockout elimination tournaments for the Munnfellow Cup every summer.[3]

Description

Rules of the game include:[1]

  • Field of play can be indoor or outdoor
  • Court is 6.2 m by 2.2 m with the net being 0.6 m high.
  • Bats are similar to oversized table tennis bats
  • A perforated plastic ball 7 cm in diameter is used

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Vamplew, Wray (1994). Oxford Companion to Australian sport (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. p. 391. ISBN 0195535685.
  2. ^ a b "Australian Invented Sports – Sports Factor, 25 September 1998". Pandora. Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Program". Camp Ponacka. 19 July 2022.

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