Handmade balls and no two courts the same: Tudor-era ‘real tennis’ is making a racket in Sydney

With cumbersome equipment and a labyrinthine scoring system, real tennis takes a long time to master – but fans say the results feel ‘phenomenal’“It’s a bit like three-dimensional chess, and it’s much more intellectual than an average sport because it’s so complicated,” Maggie Henderson-Tew says through a wide grin after walking off the court.Amid an explosion of interest in newfangled racket sports such as pickleball and padel, which have found po