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One of my greatest passions is playing Tennis. Since middle school, I have been playing for my school team. After making it on varsity my junior year, I enjoyed playing even more since I was being challenged and was getting recognition for my matches. As tennis season started this fall, I continued to enjoy every moment until I realized that this was going to be my last year playing for a team since it was my senior year. This disappointing thought hovered over me during every practice and match…

right. Tennis can be a fun past time for anyone who wants to try a new sport. Tennis is the best sport that I have ever played. Tennis has so many reasons for being such an exhilarating, fun and social sport. These reasons are exercising, creating friends, playing on a marvelous and warm day, being competitive while having fun, and being able to play the sport all your life. First, tennis is an exercising sport to get your body into shape. I started tennis when I was a freshman at a tennis…

The Game of Tennis has evolved from wood rackets, 1st steel rackets, to modern day racket technology. Wooded tennis rackets were used during the 1900’s: when tennis first started in 1873 by an Englishman Major Walter C. Wingfleid. Tennis has been known of being the game of Royalty, but that soon as new tennis player 's developed there skills and start playing tennis Tournaments, that the rackets have changed to steal and to modern day rackets using graphite or carbon fiber. If you look at the…

the fallen leaves of the White Oak that embodied the start of fall. The weather was perfect for tennis. But in my mind I felt a nuisance, a bothersome, due to the current deficiency of my restfulness. But I suppose “everything in this life has a purpose” (Kübler-Ross). Today was the first day of practice for the boys’ tennis team in Sikeston. But before any team members or new members can play tennis as a team, they had to complete the coach’s…

Tennis has always been an international game. Many fans love watching tennis but do not realize how hard it is to prepare for a season. Most fans do not realize the amount of work a tennis player puts in, on court and off court. I feel that preparing for a tennis season requires much preparation. The preparation I use includes working on my strokes, working out, and studying other people’s ideas on technique and match strategies. These steps are necessary for me to have a successful season.…

There is no actual evidence of the origin of tennis as people believe that the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans played different versions of tennis. One piece of evidence of ancient tennis was noted as a few Arabic words from the ancient Egyptian times. This theory presents the origin of the name of the sport: “tennis”. The theory lends the name’s origin to the derivative of the Egyptian town of “Tinnis” and the name “racquet”, the main tennis equipment used, evolved from the Arabic word…

American skilled tennis player Serena Williams has accomplished over 20 Grand Slam singles titles and numerous Olympic gold medals. Serena Jameka Williams was born September 26, 1981 in Saginaw Michigan. She is the youngest of five daughters. Her father Richard and mother Oracene Williams have two daughters, Serena and her sister Venus, which became two of tennis great champions. Serena’s father was determined to see his two daughters succeed in tennis so when he moved his family out to Compton,…

Jelena Jankovic Jelena Jankovic is a Siberian tennis player born on 28 of February 1985. she is a former world number 1 singles tennis player. she achieved this feat in the year 2008 with her appearance in the US Open. her career is filled with accolades in the game of tennis. she is a well known name in the Tennis history and plays with a Furious enthusiasm. she is one of those players who brings excitement to the Tennis Court and keeps her audiences on the toes. she is also a great…

Serena Williams had an eventful childhood which sparked her love of tennis and fostered her competitive drive. She is an American born tennis player from Saginaw Michigan. She was born there in 1981 making her the youngest among her 4 other sisters. Her parents, Richard and Oracene Williams, like many other parents, wanted to see their children succeed. The two youngest of their daughters, Serena and Venus, became interested in tennis and their father, a former sharecropper from Louisiana, took…

Selecting the best of the best in such a competitive sport like women's tennis is difficult to say the least. Yet again, there are those names that always come to mind when you think of this sport. They are the players that resisted the test of time in remaining at the top. The combination of good defense and offense positioned them at the highest in their times and helped them remain there for decades to come. Grand Slam titles There are four Grand Slams over the year: the Australian Open, the…