The Magic of the
Yellow Ball
“You always want to win. That is why you play
tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it” said
Roger Federer. In the life you have many choices to become one of the legends
especially in sport fields. Many of dreams came true by working hard and love
the field or the sport that involve in. One of the sports that can give you
fame and history as a player and excitement and passion as a fan or a lover is
Tennis.Tennis is on the famous sports that attract millions
of people around the world yearly to see the competition between the legends of
this sport. There are many tournaments and competitions that take place in many
of cities around the world and many of these championships have deep-rooted history.
Tennis is one of the sports that depend on a tennis racket and 4 types of
ground (clay court, grass court and Plexicushion).
History of Tennis
The history of tennis started in the 12th
century in northern France and it started with a small ball and it was played
by the royal family in France. After
that in the 19th century the game moved to United Kingdom and it
started to be in its modern style and opened the first tennis club in
Birmingham- England by Harry Gem and Augurio Perera. After that UK saw the birth of the oldest tournament in the world of
tennis Wimbledon in London in 1877. Tennis moved overseas to United Stated in
1874 and it was devolved by Mary Ewing Outerbridge and she putted the first
laws of the game that took it from Bermuda after she saw the British army officers play. After that US held
the first tournament in the country and it’s US Open.
Back to Europe, the
game became more popular especially in France that opened the first tournament
in the country and it was The French Open (Roland Garros ) and its refers to
the French aviator in the World War I and the
Australian Open in 1905.
After the 4 big
tournament founded and
it’s called (Grand Slam) the International Tennis Federation ITF founded Davis
Cup in 1900 and it`s an annual championship that holds in different cities in
the world between national teams and it`s named after the founder of this
tournament Dwight Filley Davis.
How to play tennis
Tennis requires a tennis
racket and it’s made from carbon fiber-reinforced polymer frame and strong
nylon net. And in this picture below is the right way to hold the tennis
racket:
And for the tennis it
can be play with two players as the single game and four players. And about the
playground there is 4 types of playground (clay court, grass court and Plexicushion) and every stadium has one of these types.
Every player knows how to play in these types of playground because the ball
has different speed and the throwback in every single playground. For example
the speed in the plexicushion is more than it in the clay court and the player
in the clay court should have a very high skills to control the ball and it`s
throwback from the sand.
The playground of
tennis has a rectangular shape with a width of 11 meter and a length of 20
meter. The tennis court is divided as the picture below
The match in tennis
starts when the referee gives the order to start. Each player will have 3 balls
for the first round, after the draw happened between the players one of them
take the lead and start the match by the hit the serve like in the picture
below and after that the player will hit the ball and the point will be count
in case of the ball went out or it touched the outside area in this will be
explained in the next pictures. And if the player at the serve position hit the
net for three times the point will be given for the opposite player.
In normal tennis
matches, the points will count like 15, 30 and 40 and when the first player get
these point he will when the first round and after the first player complete 5
round he will when the first set. In normal championships there are 3 sets but
in the Grand Slam there are 5 sets and it can complete until 7 sets in case of
draw between the players and it will play the break draw set from 7 rounds and
each player will serve until one of them lose three points.
Grand Slam
Grand Slam is the name
of the biggest four championships in tennis and it take place in United
Kingdom, United States, France and Australia. Any titles of these four
championship is the dream of every tennis professional player in the world
because it gives the winner the glory and the history and his national anthem
will be play in front of all the audience and the world. Also the Grand Slam championships
are the most – watch events in the world and the history of tennis and the
Grand Slam tournaments offers the biggest prize in tennis and the good ranking.
And here is a brief introduction of each tournament:
·
Australian Open
Founded
|
1905
|
Location
|
Melbourne
|
Playground type
|
Plexicushion
|
Prize
|
$33,000,000
|
Most title (Men)
|
Roy Emerson (AUS)
|
Most title (Women)
|
Margaret Court (AUS)
|
The Australian Open is
one of the Grand Slam tournaments that take place in Melbourne – Australia in January
in every year. The Australian Open offers around 33 million Dollars and its
hosts by Tennis Australia (TA).
·
Roland Garros ( French Open)
Founded
|
1890
|
Location
|
Paris
|
Playground Type
|
Clay
|
Prize
|
€ 25,018,900
|
Date
|
May - June
|
Most titles (Men)
|
Rafael
Nadal (ESP)(9)
|
Most titles (Women)
|
Chris Evert (US)(7)
|
The French Open (Les
Internationaux de France de Tennis) also called “Roland Garros” after the
French aviator in World War I is one of the Grand Slam tournaments that take
place in Paris – France in two main Stadium Philippe Chatrier Court and Suzanne
Lenglen Court. Roland Garros happened between May to June around two weeks.
Roland Garros is my favorite championship in tennis because it’s the first
championship that I saw when I started to be one of the tennis fans.
·
Wimbledon
Founded
|
1877
|
Location
|
London -
England
|
Playground Type
|
Grass
|
Prize
|
€26,500,000
|
Date
|
June - July
|
Most titles
(Men)
|
William Renshaw (7) (UK)
Pete Sampras (7) (US) Rogger Federer (7) (SU) |
Most titles
(Women)
|
Martina
Navratilova (9)(US)
|
The championships, Wimbledon
is one and the oldest Grand Slam tournaments that founded in 1877 in London-
England. Wimbledon is the famous championship in the history of tennis and has
attract hundreds thousands of the yellow ball lovers around the world from June
to July in around two weeks.
·
US Open
Founded
|
1881
|
Location
|
New York City
|
Playground Type
|
Hard
|
Prize
|
$ 34,252,000
|
Date
|
August - September
|
Most titles (Men)
|
Richard Sears (7)
Bill Larned(7) Bill Tilden (7) |
Most titles (Women)
|
Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (8)
|
The US open is the
second oldest Grand Slam tournament and it take place in New York City – New York
– USA and the type of the playground is hard. US Open is held between August to
September as the last Grand Slam tournament in the year with a total prize of
35 million dollars.
