Description of a sport written by a 3rd ESO student. It includes rules, how to play it, where it is played, special requirements or equipement needed, etc.

1. TENNIS
By Carla
4/12/15

2. Tennis
• Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single
opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each
(doubles).
• Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cords to strike a
hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the
opponent's court.

3. Objective
• The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the
opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable
to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

4. History
The history of tennis dates back several thousand years (12th/13th
century). France (Paris) Louis X created this.
• Tennis originally was known as “lawn tennis”, and formally is still
called that in Britain, because it was played on grass courts by
Victorian gentlemen and ladies.
• It is now played on a variety of surfaces.

5. Tennis equipment
Tennis balls
Rackets
Court Shoes
Comfortable Clothing

6. Before you can start playing tennis, you need to understand the layout of
a tennis court.
Here are the basics:
The tennis court has two sides that are separated by a net in the middle.
The deuce side, or the right side of the court o The ad side, or the left
side of the court

7. • The court has alleys on either side, and if one player hits the ball in his
opponent's alleys in a game of singles, he loses the point.
• Each court has a right service box and a left service box.
• The server's goal is to serve the ball into the service box on the
opposite side on his opponent's court. So, if the server is standing on
the deuce side (the right side) of the court, he needs to serve the ball
into his opponent's right service box.
• Each player's court is framed by the baseline at the bottom and the
singles sidelines on each side of the court. One player's ball must land
on or within these lines of the opposing players court during a rally to
be considered in.

8. Positions
• The position that a person stands in while waiting for the ball; This is
done by standing with feet shoulder width apart, knees bent, weight on
balls of feet, racket in center of body, and eyes on opponent

9. Serve
The first shot of each game The server must begin from the right side of
the court behind the baseline and hit the ball diagonally across the court.