FISB Speedball

Behind the invention of Speedball is an interesting story that occurred in the early sixties of the last century, particularly in 1960 when a young boy at the age of ten named / Hussein Mohammed Lotfy who was a junior tennis player coached by his father Mr.Mohammed Lotfy. The father noticed that the tennis balls which were broken in his son’s training, when dropped from a distance from the ground bounce back in a similar way and for a nearly the same height as the undamaged balls, hence he got the idea that if he ties the tennis ball by a thread and this thread is allowed to loop around a metal pole, his son can practice hitting the ball with the tennis racket without having to go a long way to get the ball back, Hussein started to practice in the backyard of their house and shortly after this the idea of a new ball and racket sport flashed in the mind of Mr.Lotfy who started to play against his son and then playing two teams each consisting of two players, he tried these types of play