Paddle in Russia

Letter from First Secretary Chuvakhin to Blanchard thanking him for sending details on court construction and playing the game
Letter from First Secretary Chuvakhin to Blanchard thanking him for sending details on court construction and playing the game
Source: Fessenden S. Blanchard, Platform Paddle Tennis, 1959

In the spring of 1940, the APTA received a request for information on the sport from the “Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” in Washington, D.C. The Russian Commissar of Sports, Mr. Dm. Chuvakhin, wanted to learn more about platform tennis.