Trinquete No Watermark
Trinquete (in Spanish) or trinquet (in Catalan and French) can refer to the popular and shortened names for two different ball game courtfields: * Basque trinquete, a court for various indoor versions of pelota with some of the features of a real tennis court * Valencian trinquet Valencian trinquet, or simply trinquet (), is the court used in the Valencian Community for two different modalities of Valencian pilota: the Escala i corda and the Raspall. Court Trinquets are closed rooms of variable size: from 8.5–11 m wi ...

Basque Trinquete
A trinquete (also ''trinquet'') is a special court for various indoor versions of pelota and it is a modality of the pelota sport. In South America, especially in Argentina the trinquete is also known as ''close court'', because the other ''open court'' is named for the fronton. It has some of the characteristic features of a real tennis court, probably because many real tennis courts were converted to trinquetes in the 19th century. For some sports, the players face the same wall and share the court, similar to squash. For other sports, a net is strung across the middle of the court and the players face each other, similar to tennis. Features of the court and the game The trinquet has some basic aspects with the fronton. * One front wall called '' frontis,'' which is the wall where the players must throw the ball in each play. The wall has some delimitations. At 80 cm height there is a metallic sheet called ''chapa".'' Another metal sheet is located 8,5 metres up the fl ...
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