Tennis

It is another hot, muggy, September day in Tupelo, Mississippi. The sun is out, and the heat is radiating off of the tennis court. It is a single court with lots of tall trees swaying in the wind around it. I enter the court in my red shirt and am ready for my match to begin. I am all alone; nobody else is in sight. My match is not against another opponent, but it is against myself. I begin my warm up, but my groundstrokes, serve, and volleys all feel off. I feel almost scared to play this match

The Physics of Tennis I. Introduction Background: A friendly game of tennis is being played. Camera: pans away from the game and zooms to Sunne. Sunne: Hello, my name is Sunne. Today, my group, which consists of Ravi, Gramh, Whitney and myself, will portray how physics plays an essential role in one specific aspect of tennis. This aspect is the tennis racquet itself, which can only be mastered when the physics of it is completely understood. In this video

paper will be analysing and critiquing a training program designed specifically for pre-season fitness for tennis. Tennis is a sport that requires May different fitness components but the four main abilities needed to be a successful tennis player include agility, flexibility, speed and muscle power. These four components are extremely important in tennis, agility is obviously important for a tennis player as they need to be able to move and change directions around the court quickly and efficiently,

Tennis as a sport took its modern form during the mid-1800s and has since changed in its governing rules, styles of play and even the equipment used. The equipment used in tennis are mainly the tennis racquet and the tennis ball itself. The biggest changes can be observed in the development of new tennis racquets, where new technological advancements have allowed for better performing racquets that allow for better handling and power transfer from the player to the tennis ball. Many of the changes

A few years ago I was training to be professional tennis player at one of India’s top tennis academies. I had been playing tennis only for ten months when my tennis coach suggested I participate in the upcoming national level fastest serve tennis tournament. There was a fear in me, a fear of facing the more skilled, experienced, and accomplished competition, yet my mind wanted to overcome that fear and trust my coach and ten months of training. My coach had immense faith in my abilities to perform

The question I will be testing is, how does the temperature of a tennis ball affect how high it bounces? Why does this matter? Well it matters because you will know how to get the best results in playing a tennis match, and instead of wasting a bunch of tennis balls, you will understand why it will bounce high in some locations and not others instead of thinking you have a bad ball. Plus, when you are playing a match, you will know how to adjust the amount of force you use on the ball and how you

The secret to doubles tennis is to find the right partner: one who compliments your game. Excelling at doubles tennis was hardly dependent on how hard I could strike the ball or how fast I was. What were important were good teamwork and an understanding of the game. Finding someone who complements your game is never an easy task but by building on these skills, my doubles partner and I were successful varsity tennis players. As my affection for the game of tennis demonstrates, I believe teamwork

Coaching Tennis Some people may think that tennis is just a blow off sport, that it doesn’t take any talent, and anyone can do it. I started playing tennis about 4 years ago and I remember how hard it was to learn. One of my best friends and I started playing together and his dad had taught him how to play, when he first started teaching me I got really frustrated because I would keep hitting the ball out and I found out that playing and coaching tennis was much harder than it seemed. The

fighting, I shake my opponents hand and admit defeat. But what he had beaten in me I had gained in mental fortitude and personality. This is tennis. The sport of tennis is widely perceived as an individual sport when in reality it is the people that stare back at you from the other side of the net that affect, distinguish, and establish your personality. Tennis has developed me into the person I am today and there always seems to be more to learn from it. And as soon as the lazy days of my junior year

It was the day that I tried out for the summer tennis team. I was so excited because my mom would be coming to tryouts. It is going to be clear skies from now on. “Maybe this can be something that my mother and I can bond over. Maybe she will see that I am important like my baby brother, Quinn. I hope she is not mad at me from the times I talked back to her,” I whispered in a very quiet tone. The small bleachers were speckled with people like chocolate chips on a cookie. Then, tryouts started