See live tennis rankings here. Tennis duels are obsessed with an audience of various categories that visits prestigious sports clubs. This game is euphoric for both the public and gamers. Consider a couple of interesting episodes captured in historical tennis precedents.
Even before the use of racquets, hand-playing hands parried the ball through a stretched net. Entertainment was called “playing in the palm of your hand”, it was very uncomfortable and very often led to hand injuries. Rackets began to be used already at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Game balls were white, only after a few centuries their tone changed to yellow. This was first observed in 1986. The founders of sports came to the conclusion that the ball of yellow tone stands out better on TV screens.
As in other categories of competitions, tennis has its own individual slang concepts. This is where the concept of “love” came from, history does not have such facts. For tennis players, this is a zero report. There are suggestions that it came from “l’oeuf”, which means “egg” in French, and if everything is in order with your imagination, you can get out of all this the number zero. For a match, a gamer winds up about three miles on his tachometer. These are movements without respite throughout the playing field.
Racket duel. A racket is a sports equipment used for a given sports tournament. It has the property of being used in squash and racquetball. Many disputes about the spelling of this sports equipment come to the conclusion that it is necessary to say – racket. The USTA uses this variation of the name.
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Tennis player Rafael Nadal plays with his left hand, although in real life he is right-handed from birth. His uncle taught him to hold the racket in his left hand when Nadal was 12 years old, justifying this by the fact that left-handers have an additional advantage, as they can hit right-handers (which are the majority) under an uncomfortable hand and give the ball an unusual spin.
According to the rules of Grand Slam tournaments (except for the US Open), if the match reaches the fifth game, then it continues until one of the tennis players wins by at least two games without a tie-break. The record for the duration of such a game was set at Wimbledon 2010 by John Isner and Nicolas Mayu, who finished it with a score of 70:68. In total, the match lasted more than 11 hours.
Anna Kournikova has not won a single adult professional singles tournament in her sports career. Poker players have named an ace and king (AK) combination after her, as she looks beautiful, but rarely wins.
The youngest Olympic champion among tennis players was American Jennifer Capriati, who was no more than 16 years old when she won the 1992 Games in Barcelona in singles.
The birthplace of tennis, to which we are so accustomed now, can be considered England, where the Wimbledon tournament has been held since 1877. Although the history of tennis is not entirely transparent, it is believed that the English army officer Walter Wingfield came up with the rules in 1873. He patented tennis in the hope of profiting from it, but in vain. Although Wingfield claimed to have used the principles of the ancient Greek ball game in tennis, researchers believe that he simply combined the rules of popular English games such as badminton and squash.
Oddly enough, tennis scores are not kept in the usual way: zero, fifteen, thirty, and forty. Why are these numbers used? According to legend, at the beginning of the game, the score was kept by the clock and each point was marked on the dial by moving the arrow a quarter of a turn. Over time, forty-five was transformed for convenience into forty.
