Frontenis is a Basque pelota speciality that is played in a 30 meters pelota court using rackets (a tennis racket or a frontenis racket, which is quite similar). It can be played in pairs or one versus one, but this last one hasn’t got international representation.

Frontenis consists of one player of the pair has to hit the ball with the racket (before the ball bounces twice in the court) and it must hit the front wall and then it must bounce in the court. The best stroke is that the opponent can’t return. There are many technical moves to get this objective. Frontenis demands having a great mobility, skill, physical agility, mental agility, coordination and training.

There are a few components that make up this sport:

Frontenis has been played only in Mexico, Spain, Argentina and few countries more for many years, but now it is played in approximately eighteen countries all over the world.

According to many historians, Greeks used to play pelota in times of the Greek Empire, in 600 B.C. Due to the wars and the conquests in times of the Roman Empire, pelota expanded over Europe. Kings and nobles had their own courts in the 12th century. France was the greatest European potency in pelota. There were two modalities: longue paume and courte paume, and they were similar to the game played today. The French Revolution brought terrible consequences to pelota. It almost disappeared, and it was relegated to few areas in Spain, France, Italy and Belgium.