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Real Tennis Club Huis ter Kleef (Haarlem)
Real tennis, the mother of all racket sports, has been defined as a combination of tennis, squash and a game of chess and is over 1500 years old.
Hampton Court Palace - Tennis Court LaneBetween 1500 and 1800 the total number of courts in The Netherlands, then called .kaatsbaan. exceeded the 150 mark . the possibly most important court stood within the perimeter walls of the Parliament buildings in The Hague! There is not a single court left.
For much more information regarding the history of Real Tennis, we refer to the site of the Dutch Real Tennis Association (http://www.real-tennis.nl/).
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DELFT BLUE HUIS TER KLEEF
The Stichting Huis ter Kleef, a charitable foundation, will acquire the ownership of the kaatsbaan(http://www.realtennis.nl/) and will be responsible for the restoration of the court. The Stichting will submit financing requests to both public and private institutional funds focused on restoring historic buildings in The Netherlands and in Europe. This process will take some time but we are confident that these funds will reduce our financing need substantially. At the same time we will be setting up a fundraising effort to complete the financing package, in the US, Great Britain and Australia. Special sponsor will be awared with a unique memento, a replica of Huis ter Kleef in Delft Blue . this latest edition in the series of so-called KLM huisjes.
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