The Real Tennis: World Cup of Tennis

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“Marrero and Verdasco mixed up net and baseline play to negotiate a break of the Stepanek serve to 30 for a 5-4 lead in the first set.” This is the language of tennis and this is what I belong to. I’m a big tennis fan and also a tennis player. I will watch every single match in the ATP world tour final and the World Cup of Tennis. Tennis match gets me excited and bursts my fire inside my heart. I love tennis so I join tennis team in high school and in college. Tennis has made a significant impact to the world and unlike other sports, each member has their own unique ranking in the team, ranking is essential for each tennis team member. From No.1 to the last number, every player will fight for their highest ranking and try to challenge the one above their number. Tennis is cruel and challenging, but that is why I love it.

First, from the introduction you can notice that tennis uses different language than the normal speaking way. We use score and position to explain player position in the match. For example, “Marrero and Verdasco mixed up net and baseline play”, from this report we could know Marrero and Verdasco are teammate and played on the position of net spot and baseline spot and switched their position all the time. Net spot is the position from the front and close to the net that right on the middle. Baseline spot is at the far back from the court but close to the baseline. In other word, Marrero is on the front and Verdasco is on the back. Second part of the report, “To negotiate a break of the Stepanek serve to 30”, this is mean Marrero and Verdasco try to stop Stepanek to achieve more points after Stepanek serve to 30. Serve to 30 here means the second point obtain by who is serving. A serve in tennis is a shot to sta...

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...nnis player. In my old high school and college they both require 3.5 GPA or above to able to attend practice and match. This rule has been enforced for a long time, we cannot change it and we have to adapt the requirement. Sorry for those who don’t study hard in school, tennis is for good student. We need to train our body and maintain good grade to become a tennis player. So I always watch my transcript after I practice to make sure myself not failing any class.

Tennis is cruel and challenging, it’s a sport of variety. Tennis is a component of ranking, trust, partnership, teamwork, hardworking and much other knowledge. It teaches me how to build up trust with my partner, and also, recognize the dark side of this world, countless competition in everyday life. Everyone is trying to take your position, and only thing you can do is let them take it or fight for it.

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