Sports Guide

Tennis

Tennis is a racquet sport played between either two players ("singles") or two teams of two players ("doubles"). Player(s) use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered in felt over a net into the opponent's court. In some places, tennis is still called lawn tennis, to distinguish it from real tennis (also known as royal tennis or court tennis), an older form of the game that is played indoors on a very different kind of a court.Originating in Europe in the late 19th century, tennis spread throughout the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes. Millions of people follow tennis as a spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open.A game of tennis is played with the aim of scoring points by stricking the ball in a way that an opponent would not able to return it. Tennis courts are about seventy-eighty feet long and are 27 feet wide for a single play, or thirty-six feet wide for double play Services courts are those spaces on either side of the net. The services court on the player's right is known as the deuce court, whil\e the services court on the le4ft is called advantage court. Game is started with the server from one team tossing the the ball into the air and hitting it witha rrracquet. the aim is to send the ball in the diagonal direction.
A competent tennis player has eight basic shots in his or her repertoire: the serve, forehand, backhand, volley, half-volley or pick-up ball, overhead smash, drop shot, and lob. a tennis shot that makes the ball spin and stay low when it bounces in the opponent's court.Tennis Masters Series, previously called Super-9, are a series of nine ATP tennis tournaments held throughout the year in various locations around the world, chiefly Europe and North America. The events are mandatory for players in the ATP circuit, and award more ranking points than regular tournaments, but less than grand slam events. The International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It maintains a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world. It was founded in 1954 by James Van Alen and is now the largest tennis museum in the world. The first Hall of Fame members were inducted in 1955 and as of 2004 there are 186 inductees, from 18 countries.

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