The history of Frontenis,

The history of Frontenis, whose origins in Mexico no one can deny, begins in 1900. According to numerous collected versions, it was the most famous tennis players of that time, including Battlin, Sharpe, Crowl, Perez Verdia, Maldonado, and Clifford. They banged the tennis ball against the walls of the Reforma and Junior clubs located in this city.
The same version assures that the pelotarians of the time who stood out in Sesta, such as Chiquito de Begona, Goenaga, Irun, Erdosa Mayor and Erdosa Menor, as well as some fans of this Basque sport, such as Mr. Echegaray, Suiniaga, Zetina and Rodriguez, played on the occasion of the renovation of the historic Frontón de Iturbide Frontón a Pala.
A new sporting activity arose with the desire to continue practicing while the partition is repaired. Did the training was done with a tennis ball or a soft handball, a game that certainly interested the tennis mentioned above players of the time, who began hitting the walls of the bathrooms and locker rooms of the Reforma and Junior clubs with a tennis ball.
This game spawned a new lexicon, frontontenis, which will be shortened to frontenis in 1916. The construction of Frontenis in the house of Don Fernando Torreblanca, which, according to people in the know, was located at Calle Guadalajara 104 in Mexico City, led to his christening it Frontenis.
According to another version, the game as was practiced it today began in 1916 in a small pediment that already had a baffle wall and was used by Aztec ancestors to play chacual. This gable was located in the Zacahuisco Ranch, on the road to Tialpan in Mexico City, and measured 26 m long, 6 m wide, and the same height. There was a door in the back wall that gave access to the showers and toilets. The walls were built of mud, except for the front, which was made of bricks covered with cement. As the number of practitioners of it multiplied, the gables gradually adapted to the new modality. From Mexico it spread to other countries