All About Tennis Game

Tennis
Most of us usually watch or play a game or a sport but don’t know much about its background and origin. Let's take an example of tennis which is quite popular worldwide. In the 19th century a game called tennis emerged or originated from United Kingdom. Initially, popularity of tennis was only restricted to the upper class English speaking population and later it spread in the other parts of the world.  

Tennis is described as a game which is played between two players called singles, or between two teams of two players called doubles. Like any other sport and game, tennis also requires special equipment and accessories to play it. There are two things that are very important to play tennis, a racquet and a hollow rubber ball. The ball is covered with felt which is most of the time yellow in color but it can be in any color. The game of tennis is all about striking this ball with the racquet over a net into the opponent's court. There are special rules for playing tennis like any other game has special rules which must be strictly followed in order to maintain the interest of the competition.

Tennis is included in Olympics too and is played at all levels of society at all ages. Tennis is played by millions of players, and has million of people worldwide who follow tennis as a spectator sport. The Four Grand Slam tournament includes Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. In the recent years, the major growth of tennis is quite noticeable in Eastern Europe and the Far East.

The place where tennis is played is called court, a tennis court which is rectangular in shape. The length of the court is 78 feet and the width of the court is approximately 27 feet which is a standard for the singles matches. The width of the court for the doubles matches is around 26 feet. The variations of the surface of the courts are mainly three which includes clay, hard and grass surfaces. Some surfaces are slow while some are fast and the selection is based upon requirements. In order to divide the court into two ends, a stretched net across the full width of the court parallel with the baseline.