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The game was played in a circle for hundreds of years, until modern Sepak Takraw began taking shape in Thailand sometime during the early 1740s.
The dating here is wrong: sources place takraw’s shift toward its modern organized form in the 19th or 20th century, not the early 1740s.
Full reasoning
The claim's date is inconsistent with published histories of the sport.
The Sepak Takraw Association of Canada says the game underwent a "significant change" only by the mid-1930s, when it began being played over a net on a badminton court. AramcoWorld's history likewise places the codification of rules and the emergence of the modern form much later than the 1740s, noting rule-setting in 1829 and that Malaysians say the modern version was shaped in the 1930s and 1940s.
That means the article's specific date — the early 1740s — is off by at least about a century and in most accounts closer to two centuries. This appears to be an erroneous date in the chronology of the sport's development.
2 sources
- International Sepak Takraw History | Sepak Takraw Association of Canada (STAC)
However, the game had undergone a significant change by the mid-1930s. In 1935 ... 'Sepak Raga' was played on a badminton court over the net with players on both sides.
- Sepak Takraw Takes Flight | AramcoWorld
Thailand gives credit to the Siam Sports Association for setting the first rules in 1829 before adding a net and holding the first public tournament a few years later. Malaysians claim they shaped the modern version of the game in the 1930s and 1940s.