Learning About This Wonderful Sport
Tennis is nowadays, one of the best known sports in the world. It is played between two players, or also between teams of two people each one. They played with a racket in a court divided in two by a net. The object of this game is to shot the ball from one side to another with the purpose that the opponent don`t be able to make a good play.
In a match have a server and a receiver, who alternate the turn game by game between the players. In the service the ball have to travel over the net without touching it, and into the diagonally opposite service box. After the service both players have to hit the ball over the net, looking for the other player don`t return it before the ball bounced twice or the ball go away the court. If it happens you will win a point. If you win 4 points you get a game, if you win 6 games you get a set. This game is played at the best of 3 or 5 sets.
Different surfaces exist in this sport:
- Clay: it could be red or green; this surface is the most common in Europe and Latin America. Its courts normally have a slower paced ball and bounce with more spin.
- Hard: Hardcourts are of acrylic, asphalt and concrete. These typically have a faster-paced ball with a very true bounced.
- Grass: usually have a faster-paced ball, and a more erratic bounce.
- Carpet: The bounce can be higher or lower than a hard court. Carpet surface has not been used on the ATP and WTA tour since 2009.
- Hard: Hardcourts are of acrylic, asphalt and concrete. These typically have a faster-paced ball with a very true bounced.
- Grass: usually have a faster-paced ball, and a more erratic bounce.
- Carpet: The bounce can be higher or lower than a hard court. Carpet surface has not been used on the ATP and WTA tour since 2009.
Tournaments:
The ATP (association of tennis professionals), is the administrative of the masculine professional tennis circuit in the world. The circuit has 66 tournaments in 32 counties, who give 20 million and 325.000 dollars. Also “Challenger tournaments” are parts of it.
References: www.wikipedia.com
www.atptennis.com
Created by Pablo García Espinoza