Tennis is a sort of sport that can be either played individually or in a team of two people. The former one is called singles and the later one is termed as doubles. The game is played with a racquet and a ball. The racquet which is strung with cords is use to hit the ball on to the other side of the net in the ground, which is the position of the opponent player. The motive of the game is hit the ball this harder that the opponent fails to hit it back. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played by people of all ages and regions.
1. How Technology Has Revolutionized Tennis
The journey of a tennis racquet started from a mere human hand and gradually it got converted into a wooden hand shape item called the “Palla” or paddle in 1874. It further deformed into rackets with wooden frame strung with cords around in 1874, as metal racket in 1967 and as present day composite rackets in 1980.
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2. Tennis - The Twitter Connection
Twitter, the famous social networking hub reveals a lot about the “big names” tennis players. The number of fan following (in millions) discloses the facts that do their fans consider them worth winning or not. Tennis player Rafeal Nadal has maximum no of followers on the website.
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3. Best Techniques For Tennis
Some of the best tennis techniques includes: turning the body and coiling it at a single time for initiating forward strokes, generation of control and power by unwinding similar to a spring, opting for traditional and continental grip as it provides huge potential for power and spring.
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4. The Wimbledon Tournament
The Wimbledon tournament is regarded as the most traditional tournament for the sports of tennis. It is among those 4 tournaments that are played on grass. Such tournaments are vanishing from the tennis world at a faster pace. The famous winner of these tournaments includes Roger Federer, Pete Sampras and Martina Navratilova.
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5. Grand Slam Illustrated
Famous tennis player Novak Djokovic had won 10 trophies where as Andy Murray had attained 5, Nicolas Almargo, Rafeal Nadal and Robin Soderling had won 4 trophies in total. The cash price won by Novak Djokovic was $2,200,000 in Australian open 2011 and cash price won by Rafeal Nadal in Roland Garros 2011 was ₤ 1, 200, 00.
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6. Nadal Vs Federer
The total number of matches won by Nadal is 467 and lost are 99. However, Federer have won 722 matches and have lost 172. Nadal is a left hand player, while Federer plays with his right hand. The former had won 1 title in indoor location and 41 in outdoors, however, the later accounts for 50 outdoors and 13 indoors titles.
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7. Tennis Scholarships
The average women scholarship per team for NCAA/DI is 14, for NCAA/DII is 9.9, for NAIA is 12 and for NJCAA is 18. The average men scholarship per team for NCAA/DI is 4.5, for NCAA/DII is 4.5, for NAIA is 5 and for NJCAA is 9.
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8. Females Rock Over Wimbledon
Comparison made between both the male and female sexes have brought forward the conclusions that females rule over the Wimbledon tournament with an average victory rate 0.300, defeating males with the average rate of 0.296. Even the rate of winners per game goes to the females.
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9. Players Over The Internet
The most search tennis player on the UK internet is Andy Murray, followed by Laura Robson, which accounts for 22% and 19% of the total searches. Roger Federer accounts for 17% of the searches, while Rafeal Nadal, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams capture 14%, 8% and 6% of the searches, respectively.
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10. Roger Federer-The Best!
Roger Federer is considered as the best tennis player of all the times as he has banged 17 grand slams of all the times. He is the world record holder off men’s single match. He has won 7 Wimbledon, 5 US open medal.
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11. Tennis Facts
Since 1922, a total of 83% of tennis matches have been played without rain interruptions. However, 7% of them have been played with rain interruptions. The top countries based on Wimbledon winners include USA, Australia, Switzerland, Germany Sweden, Spain, and UK.
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12. Why Tennis?
Tennis is considered as one of the best games to get some amount of exercise along with enjoying friendly competition. It is also regarded as a great activity that helps in the development of cardiovascular fitness. The short-sharp burst of speed utilized in tennis is necessary for the improvement of anaerobic fitness of an individual.
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13. Top 3 Wimbledon Stars
The top three male winners of the Wimbledon tournament include Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Roger Federer. The top three female contenders for the tournaments are Maria Sharapova, Sareena Williams and Victoria Azarenka.
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14. Tennis Records - Longest Matches To Shortest Tempers
Rafeal Nadal is considered as the best player on clay by winning 36 titles, Rod Laver is considered as the grass champion by winning 39 titles on grass. However, Roger Federer is the hard court king as he won 52 titles on the same.
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15. Most Common Tennis Injuries And Preventions
The most common tennis injuries include Rotator cuff Tendonitis, Ankle Sprain, Patella Tendonitis, Low Back pain, etc. These can be prevented by avoiding painful movements, providing acute inflammation treatments, having soft tissue massage regularly, getting Platelet rich plasma treatment, etc.
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16. Learning To Love Tennis
The reason for kids opting for the game of tennis include having fun doing something that they are good at, staying in shape, learning new skills, etc. The reason why kids quit the game after sometime includes loss of interest, poor coaching and development of interest in other sports.
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17. Becoming A Professional
For becoming a professional tennis player that can be sent for a game in the Olympic game one need to get private lessons, conditioning and drilling coaching and competitive game plays as playing for winning and playing for fitness are two different aspects.
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18. Wimbledon by numbers
A hawk named Rufus is released for one hour on the morning of the Wimbledon tournaments to deter the pigeons. It takes time duration of nearly 8-10 minute to close the center court roof near about 200 million tennis balls can be fitted in the court, with closed roof.
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19. How Andy Murray Become First British Grand Slam In 76 years
Andy Murray won a 5 set match at the US open final and become the first British winner in since 1936. He played 488 matches and won 370 of them against Roger Federer, played 24 matches against Rafeal Nadal and played 1 US open championship against Novak Djokovic.
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20. Types Of Tennis Courts
The various type of tennis courts include Asphalt tennis court, concrete tennis court, cushioned tennis court, Har-Tru clay court, Hydro court, Sythetic clay court, grass court, etc.
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