Do you have a preference over soccer or football as the real name for soccer?  Turns out tennis had the same situation  there was a distinction between lawn tennis and tennis.
I prefer to call it soccer since i was born in the usa and im already used to calling it that way
Well since your a yank tennis was called court tennis in america, but in england it was known as royal tennis.
that is really interesting, could you tell me more about the history of tennis
Sure happy too!  Many think that the beginnings of tennis were in the monastic cloisters of France.  The ball wasn't hit with a racket, but instead with your hand and that was in the 12th century.
Wow that is amazing, im sure there is another sport similar to tennis where you hi the ball with your hand
You might be refering to volleyball.  Guess the ball and net of tennis took steroids and grew into VolleyBall!  But I don't think there's actually much relation to Tennis.