Arshad Fahoum Tennis Fan We tend to think of tennis as a sport of clean lines and quiet intensity—a game defined by the "thwack" of a racket and the polite applause of a crowd. But if you dig into its history, you find that tennis is actually a story of language, literature, and the human condition. It turns out that "tennis" is a word that never really existed—at least, not as a name for a game. The Game of the Palm The sport is French to its core (two French kings actually