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For over 1000 years man has invented and enjoyed a variety of games played by hitting a ball. At sometime in the early 19th century an obsession with rackets and balls spawned another variety of the sport in the unlikely birthplace of the Fleet Prison in London. The prisoners in “The Fleet”, mainly debtors, took their exercise by hitting a ball against the walls, of which there were many, with rackets and so started the game of “Rackets” . Rackets progressed by some strange route, to Harrow and other select English schools