Benefits of Playing Tennis In a one hour match of tennis, a male can burn as many as 600 calories and a female can burn up to 420 (Groppel); tennis also raises optimism and lowers risk of depression and anxiety (Ogoen). Tennis improves cardiovascular health and mental health as well as encourages social behavior. Tennis includes many different grips and techniques that enable the ball to have different types of spin. Tennis is also great for children and the community. Tennis is a sport that improves
include the Australian, French, and United States Opens, along with Wimbledon, which is located in England but is never called the English Open. Perhaps the two most unique Slams out of the four are Wimbledon and the United States Open. Although both Wimbledon and the United States (US) Open are centered around tennis, the differences between these two prestigious Grand Slams are pronounced in nearly every aspect. Notably (adverb), Wimbledon is sponsored by a 500-member tennis club called the All England
Goal: To write a a 800-1000 word article on professional tennis player Venus Williams. Total Word Count In This Document: 803 Title: Should Venus Williams Retire? For anyone who follows professional tennis, two names stand out: Venus and Serena Williams. Everyone knows the Williams sisters as an unstoppable force, whether they’re playing together or individually. Furthermore, everyone sees them as inseparable, in that one always accompanies the other (whether on the court or simply in conversation)
Serena Williams has a net worth of $140 million. She is a renowned professional tennis player in the world. How she made it Tennis Serena Williams’s career as a professional tennis player spans 20 years. Serena Williams has been ranked #1 in the world 5 times. She has earned the most prize money in the world among female players. Serena had earned $73.3 million in prize money by August 31, 2015, according to the Women’s Tennis Association. She is the highest earning female tennis player in the
The Venus’ Rise to Fame (introduction) Venus Williams is arguably the greatest African-American tennis player in the history of the game. Winning 17 singles titles in the Southern California 10 and under championships, she was featured on the front page of the entire paper of The New York Times. At age 10, she was described as “the most hotly pursued preteen in U.S. tennis history”. However, the sudden rise of Venus to prominence was surrounded with gender equality and racial associations. Despite
Within todays sporting community, certain aspects of sport and its practices promote and construct ideas that sport in general is a male dominated. Sports media often provides an unequal representation of genders. Women athletes are regularly perceived as mediocre in comparison to their male equivalents (Lenskyj, 1998). Achievement in sport is generally established through displays of strength, speed and endurance, men usually set the standards in these areas, consequently woman rarely reach the
communities as suppliers of services and goods obtain increased business. When the world cup was hosted by Japan it brought in a big influx of foreign currency, tourists and additional spending on goods and services. Large sport events such as Wimbledon or the European championship has a similar effect as a multiplier effect. The economic situation of British football has changed massively in the last ten years: what was a hugely under-capitalised industry at the end of the 1980s (that operated
Tennis, since its creation, has been considered stereotypically by many to be the sport of royalty and the elite of society. The modern game of tennis originated in the United Kingdom in the late nineteenth century (The History of...). Subsequent to its creation, tennis spread midst the upper class English population before spreading around the world. Throughout the history of the sport there have been key individuals who continue to assist in the growing popularity and development of the sport.
That didn’t stop her from chasing her dreams, her skills could no longer be denied, and in 1951, she became the first African American to play at Wimbledon. Gibson won the women's
but also have the skills to control the ball on each surface. There are four major tennis grand slam tennis tournaments played around the world. First Australian Open a hard court tournament, next the French Open, a clay court tournament. Third, Wimbledon a tournament played on grass, and lastly the US Open another hard court tournament. The hard court of the US Open is much different from the hard court surface
our Geography class set for a fieldtrip to find out more about the Tramlink and the local area. We meet in Wimbledon where we carried a survey of the shops. We completed the table. Which is in the back of this coursework. We counted the number of low, middle and high order shops. We therefore able to identify what types of shopping area Wimbledon is. We then boarded the tram at Wimbledon station. While on the t... ... middle of paper ... ...hat fit this build in criteria. Conclusion
Novak Djokovic. With his title at the French Open earlier this year, Djokovic completed his career Grand Slam collection. Beyond even the Grand Slam is the Golden Slam, which includes winning the four grand slam events (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open), as well as an Olympic gold medal in the same season. Djokovic entered the Olympics as the No. 1 seed and a heavy favorite to accomplish a career Golden Slam. However, in his first round match, the Serbian ran into the brick wall that
What’s all the Racket Concerning Billie Jean King? “The best way to handle women is to keep them pregnant and barefoot,” provokes World Tennis Champion of 1939, Bobby Riggs (Ware 4). Proud of his blind misogyny, Riggs paradoxically admits he knows absolutely nothing about women’s liberation (Ware 4). Even during the 1970s, women were still being discriminated against and were given limited opportunities to participate in sports. In 1974, Bobby Riggs challenged Billie Jean King, one of the top female
sibling sister named Diana and took up the sport at the age of 14 and decided to become a full time tennis player at age 16 when he gained no.1 national summer tennis rankings at the expense of dropping out from school. In 1998 he won his first junior Wimbledon cup propelling him to become an international player. Novak Djokovic however was born on 22 May 1987 in Belgrade, former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to his father Srdan and mother Dijana. His parents owned the company Family Sports
"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger." These are the words of one woman who would become one of the greatest tennis player and sports star of all time, Serena Williams. Born Serena Jameka Williams on September 26, 1981 to Richard and Oracene this American phenomenon has been wielding a racket and whacking tennis balls to victory since she was three years old. She is the youngest of five daughters and together with her sister Venus, she has scorched
longest of any player, she is the only player who have won all four grand slams single tournaments. A nice feature of grafs game was that she played across all the playing surfaces, concluding of her winning all 6 French open single titles, and 6 Wimbledon single titles she is the only singles player to have accomplished a real grand slam across all 3 types of tennis courts and the 5 singles grand slams happened when the Australian and U.S opens were played in grass. Graf took 13 consecutive grand
to the 12th century and is still an active sport today. One of the prime locations of this sport is in present day Great Britain. Tennis, a sport in Great Britain, has been played throughout the years in many famous courts and by many athletes. Wimbledon, one of the most famous courts in the world, is where professional athletes have played and continue to play this beloved game. Many British fans love to watch the superstar Andy Murray represent their country by playing around the world. The basic
Battle of the Sexes (2017) GOING IN In 1973, a tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs became the most watched televised sporting event of all time. Riggs was past his prime and in and effort to regain the lost spotlight, he claimed that even at the age of 55 he would be able to easily beat the best female tennis player. Billie Jean King (one of the women he challenged), was both extremely successful and an outspoken advocate for gender equality. This biopic starring Emma Stone and
A Race to the Classics Epsom Derby Epsom Derby is the most popular flat horse race in the world, and Britain's most prestigious. So it's only right that you arrive at the venue aboard a chauffeur driven car. It's one of the best ways to make an entrance. After all, a Mercedes-Benz, Bentley, Rolls-Royce Phantom, Stretch Hummer Limousine or a Lamborghini Murciélago is a show stealer. Whether you are from Lutterworth, Rothley, Market Bosworth, Melton Mowbray, Loughborough and Hinckley, an executive
Game Point: The Journey The score is almost identical with Serena Williams, the number one singles women’s tennis player in the world, owning the first set; her sister, Venus Williams, claimed the second set. My heart races knowing how much they both have on the line; for Serena it’s a chance to continue her Grand Slam bid. As they battle out the third set to finish the match, I sit back and reminisce about my surprising, even to me, tennis career. It started out with my own sister, hitting a