Association of Tennis Professionals

Rafael Nadal is a professional tennis player. He is a twenty nine year Spaniard. At this time, Nadal is ranked number eight in the world. Since turning pro in 2001, he has won countless tournaments. A few of these tournaments include: the French Open, the US Open, and Wimbledon. After watching the US Open these past two weeks, I decided to write this paper on him because he a very well-known athlete due to a particular set of rituals that he performs before and during his matches. Rafael Nadal’s rituals and traditions make him very unique in the tennis world. These rituals primarily consist of nineteen actions that take place during his matches. Rafael is known for his tediousness on a tennis court. He is often looked upon as an obsessive…

People of all ages, all around the world are participating and experiencing tennis, a sport of a lifetime. From young children to senior citizens, there is no age barrier for this popular sport. Playing tennis is a very healthy hobby for some, but for others, tennis is a lifestyle. Tennis professionals spend years developing their own tennis games so they can improve their skills and enhance the strengths of their students. Although numerous abilities and talents are needed to be a tennis…

Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈrɔdʒər ˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 2 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).[2] Federer has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles—the most in history for a male player—and has held the world No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for 302 weeks, including 237 consecutive weeks. After turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten from…

Adolescent teens have a desire to be connected to professional athletes, feeling a need to resemble them. Many teens improve their self-esteem by envisioning themselves as the respective athletes they look up to. Adolescents can construct their identity through a parasocial relationship—one sided relationship—where one individual is densely knowledgeable about someone else which is usually common in sport teams. The teens imagine being praised and exalted just like the professionals. Teens…

The Olympic Games lead the world in showcasing a variety of foremost winter and summer sporting events. One principal sport includes tennis, a racket based, non-contact game played with one or two players on each side of the court. Tennis is played recreationally and competitively across the world. Tennis originated in England during the 19th century, but its role as an Olympic sport exhibits how it reaches numerous audiences worldwide. Tennis's universal presence suggests that it can be enjoyed…

to win the US Open in tennis, a moment she had been dreaming about since she started playing tennis at age 15. Gibson was a professional tennis player and golf player, and was one of the first African American athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. Throughout her tennis career, Gibson endured many hardships having to do with family, money, academics, and race. She faced frequent discrimination in the world of tennis, and she would often have trouble entering tournaments or…

white identity in women’s tennis. She has pushed the boundaries not only in tennis, but also throughout women’s sports with her masculine physique and her extraordinary abilities on the tennis court. Serena Williams should be noticed more for her game and the achievements she has gotten throughout her career and not just because of her gender, ethnicity, or the way she chooses to present herself. Her hard-work should be recognized as a game changer in tennis and people should appreciate that. As…

the two most historically disadvantaged demographics (women and black individuals of African descent) have had tremendous achievements in attempting to become completely equal to their white male counterparts. The sports world, particularly, reflects said changes, with both women and blacks being able to compete in the Olympics for the first time in 1900 and more momentous strides being made in the years onward. The sport of tennis, tracing as far back as the twelfth to thirteenth century , has…

Officials from the Swiss Tennis Federation had stated Federer was a pretty good player and there was little to criticize although he was sometimes temperamental. At the age of fifteen he had already won five Swiss national junior championship titles. Roger Federer was one of the world’s best tennis player and strived for perfection. Roger Federer at the very young age of three-and-half years old could hit the tennis ball over the net. At the age of four he could hit twenty or thirty balls…

In the sports of women’s professional tennis and U.S. college football, athletes can often times be constructed as a body with a talent in athleticism, and at the same time be neglected in the acknowledgment of their citizenship through discourses, language, and institutional networks. In the sport of U.S. college football the athlete that is constituted by the network of institutions discourses, and languages as an overworked and underpaid laborer who is denied their ability to exercise their…