Tennis

Tennis class is an exciting part of my weekly agenda because tennis belongs to an elite class of sports that I truly relish and enjoy. I go to classes on Saturday afternoons, sometimes the weather cooperates other times not. I prefer a calm breeze cooling the sunlight-tainted skies, but this is not always the weather during classes. On a day that appeared to bring nothing but clear skies, gray clouds rolled over the horizon and we had to travel to tennis class under the cover of storm clouds. A few

History of Tennis Tennis originated in northern France in the 11th century as a type of handball played on indoor court. The introduction of a racquet in the 16th century changed the game. By the mid 19th century, it was popularized as an indoor game on a lawn in England. Major W.C. Wingfield popularized the game and devised a set of rules as well as a court in the shape of an hourglass with a net 1.5 m high. Over the next few years, the game was modified as the court became rectangular and the

There are three aspects to every tennis racquet. The grip, the frame, and the strings. Just like these three parts make up a whole racquet, these three correspond to three major aspects of my life. The grip is the base that supports the rest of the racquet and allows it to work properly, the frame is the personality of the racquet and dictates how the racquet will behave, the strings are where all the action happens on the racquet. Having a racquet with just a frame and strings would be unusable

Tennis, the sport of people who are too “privileged” to play any other sport, those whose parents pay thousands of dollars to play at fancy clubs, for the kids to only whine about very inane things. Know I already know what you are picturing in your mind the kids who look like they all just got off their own yacht with their butler and are now on their way to their, you guessed it, solid gold mansion, The same kids that solely because of my sport I am compared to. I began to play tennis roughly

In the pantheon of great American sports, there is one that stands out. It has been called the great American pastime. Yes, that great sport known as tennis. Tennis requires a mastery of many skills to be able to play competitively, but the primary skill needed to win in tennis is the serve. The serve is the primary offensive weapon used I tennis, because it is the only time when a player gets to put a ball into play. The player controls the speed, the placement, and the spin of the ball. With proper

A time when failure became fundamental to later success for me was this year during my tennis teams seeding tournament. I was competing with one of my teammates for our final top six spot. The first time we played each other I had beaten her to win 6th spot. I got to play a few of our matches as the 6th seed. Then she challenged me two more times, and she beat me pretty bad both times to set her up in 6th seed for the rest of the season. I went into playing her with the idea that I was better

     There are several different aspects of playing and improving your tennis game. Different strokes, rules, boundaries and many other aspects make up the game of tennis. Over the next few pages, I will do my best to explain the forehand and backhand stroke, the serve and volley, the rules of tennis, and without a doubt the grandslam.      The forehand stroke is the most popular in tennis. Stand facing the net, knees slightly bent, weight evenly distributed and forward

the classify strategies, then explain court discretization which is necessary for the tennis model. Finally, we will show how the episodes and states features in the tennis task can be represented. A. Classify Strategies Tennis is a racquet sport that can be played either against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players (doubles). For simplicity, we will focus only on modeling singles tennis matches. At any point in a match, one of the players is designated to be the server,

Tennis, an engaging interest I have had since middle school, is not something in which I have always had a passion. Playing the sport was not a priority until I was infected with the mono virus in the summer of fifth grade, causing me to miss basketball and football tryouts. Basketball, by far, was my favorite sport up until then. However, due to the illness, I could not physically exert myself whatsoever. Most of my days consisted of television and becoming very much out of shape. Needless to say

the age of four I had a dream that one day I would play tennis at place called Wimbledon. I remember so clearly waking up that morning and going to my mom to ask her where Wimbledon was. From a young age tennis was my most passionate sport. Tennis was to be the thing that would challenge me far beyond anything I could ever have imagined because I learnt that “Sometimes you have to surrender before you can win.” According to my first tennis teacher, Irene, I had great potential. At the age of eight