Racquets and racquet balls including tennis racquets and tennis balls; apparatus for tether tennis, namely, sports apparatus in the nature of an attachable tethered ball for use in sporting games; paddle bats for games; Electronic game playing apparatus that includes a built-in display, namely, for playing tether tennis games adapted for use with a built-in external display screen or monitor; games apparatus that includes built-in computer programs, namely, hand-held game consoles for use with tether tennis apparatus with built-in computer software; games apparatus adapted to receive computer programs, namely, hand-held game consoles for use with tether tennis apparatus adapted so that the apparatus may be wirelessly connected to the internet; wireless enabled games apparatus adapted to receive or send data to other electronic devices, namely, tether tennis apparatus in the nature of hand-held game consoles for use in playing tether tennis games; sports bags, namely, bags specially adapted for sports equipment; structural parts, fittings and accessories being sports equipment for tether tennis apparatus, namely, support bases which are adapted to be filled with either water or sand specially adapted for use with tennis uprights and tether ball poles, adjustable poles being structural parts of tennis uprights and tennis ball poles, adjustable tether balls, tether ball poles with omni-directional springs or flexing devices for dynamic play, removable tether ball head assemblies for housing electronic components being structural parts for tether ball poles