The Magic of the Yellow Ball

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 12^th 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 19^th 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.