My start in tennis started different than most. That is because my father is a tennis professional. Not the type of pro that plays around the world but a teaching pro that works at a tennis club. Naturally my parents started to have me take lesson when I was fairly young, I would say around 4 to 5 years old. I didn’t stick with it originally and at around 7 I stopped playing tennis altogether. My dad never tried to force me to play tennis and even encourage me to play other sports. I started playing basketball around the same time I stopped playing tennis. At 9 years old I began playing football; going in between football and basketball during their respected seasons. Two years later, at 11 years old, is when my real journey with tennis began. My brother and I returned to playing that summer when we would have to go to work with our parents who both worked at the tennis center. It started out as just pure fun, something to do to make the time pass until my mom got off work. We didn’t really know what we were doing besides some of the vague instructions we could remember from our previous tennis experience. Then later that summer my dad asked both my brother and I if we wanted to take part in a match play where we would be playing other …show more content…
It was more of the same thing; lessons during the week and tournaments on the weekend. Now instead of playing tournaments because I wanted to, it became playing tournaments just to keep my ranking up. Tournaments and tennis in general started to feel more like a job than a hobby, especially since I was reconnecting with my friends again and had a life outside of tennis. At this point I couldn’t just stop playing tennis without any adverse repercussions. I had my school expecting me to play tennis and felt I couldn’t let them down. There was also the notion of possibly getting a scholarship to play tennis in college. I began to feel trapped in
I first joined my high school’s tennis team when I was a freshman. Although I had little knowledge of the sport due to the district’s lack of a tennis program at the junior high I attended, I still wanted to experience something new. However once tryouts came around, I was one of the unfortunate ones to be cut for no logical reason. The news devastated me and made me feel that I wasn’t good enough to do anything. On the other hand, my friends made the team and encouraged me to try again the following year because they knew I could improve and be great. I took their advice and practiced from days on end the rest of my freshman year to improve and tryout for the team my sophomore year. Through the hard work and determination, I found myself on the team my sophomore year and joining varsity my junior and senior years, which made me feel a lot better about myself.
I earned a spot on varsity. Being on varsity gave me my first taste of truly competitive tennis. Usually during practices, we would be separated from the other girls not on varsity, and our coach would run special drills with us. Tennis is an energy demanding sport. Matches usually started around 8, although sometimes I had to wake up at 4 because of a long drive, and depending on how many teams were at the tournament, could end late in the evening, one day we didn’t finish until around 9pm. By this time in my tennis career, I knew all the rules of tennis inside and out. I would frequently help the players on the team newer to the sport with scoring, knowing where to stand to serve, and what grips to hold their rackets in. It was fun to teach them because they never would have guessed that there could be so many different ways to grip the racket, or angles to hit the
“Quick shoot the ball” Yelled the coach. Running down the field I shoot we won I scored the winning goal.” As I looked over at the scoreboard beep the game was over. We have won the game we are going to the championship. As we were going out to go eat with my team for our win “Bang” a loud crack of the thunder.
My sophomore year I was introduced to tennis, I immediately fell in love with it, but the problem was that my grades were too low for my parents. My mom told me that only way I would be able to play tennis was to get my grades up or else I wouldn 't be able to play at all (Martha). I immediately started to study in hopes of being able to get grades back up to be able to play. My grades started to improve but at a cost I didn 't actually learn anything instead I just regurgitated everything that I memorized. The way I studied was completely different way that Dweck describe growth mindset people studied, I sucked all of the information from my books like a vacuum cleaner, I didn 't study to understand the subject instead I studied just to ace the test (61). Even though I was passing my tests and doing all my work like a growth minded person would, I was just doing it for my own desire of playing tennis not because I wanted to get smarter. Due to my mindset being how it was when it came time for me take the SAT 's I ended up getting low scores which stopped me from going to the college that I wanted to go to be able to play
I started tennis at the age of five, continuing a family tradition. Initially I hated tennis, but I transitioned to loving it. He took us out for tennis a few times every week to play with other families in the
Almost everyday my brother, sister, dad, and I went down to our basement to shoot pucks. Before practicing lifting the puck was similar to a baby bird trying to fly, but after a while I slowly started to lift the puck, and with that came more power. After one really tough practice, I finally told my parents about the stress and pressure that I felt I was under. They understood how I was feeling and told me that it was my decision on whether or not I wanted to keep playing. They wanted to me to to actually enjoy it, and if I didn’t it was not a big deal if I decided not to play anymore.
Curling is a very cold, unpopular sport that I have known since I was four years old, when my parents started a curling club. Now, I am not talking about a curling iron that makes your hair look nice. I am talking about the sport of curling that is played on ice with rocks and brooms. To me, curling is not an odd, unknown sport. Yet within the world of sports, it is uncommon, and people only recognize it because of the Winter Olympics.
Once people start to learn how to play the game, they can become much more aware of their surroundings. Tennis not only requires one to watch the ball constantly, but also watch for other balls that may come onto the court. Playing tennis also requires the individual to practice. Similar with starting any new sport or club, many people are given the chance to meet new people who share something that they are both passionate about and can relate to. People are also given a chance to become more physically fit. Tennis requires many short sprints from one end of the court to the other, as well as constant conditioning to build up one’s strength, physically and mentally. Tennis can give many people the chance to become more physically active and expand their social life once they decide to incorporate it into their daily
Peer relationships, obeying authority, and looking up to a role model, are all character traits that are learned through the practice of athletics. During a normal match of tennis, many mistakes will be made. However, these mistakes will be able to tell you the flaws in your swing and the ability to fix them and continue competing without getting frustrated. Tennis teaches the ability to handle mistakes and to use them to your advantages. Tennis teaches many positive characteristics that benefit the athlete in many areas of
A sport now played all over the world has an interesting history. Thousands of years ago, the game of tennis began; but to many peoples surprise, they started to play tennis not with a racquet but with their hands. Tennis was started by the European Monks that played for many’s entertainment during religious ceremonies.
My love for tennis blossomed at the young age of eleven. During middle school my peers knew me as the boy who was remarkably talented at tennis and I savored that title. Butterflies floated throughout my youthful body whenever someone complimented me. As the years passed, my dad nurtured me into a top player. Before I knew it high school arrived and it was time to compete at a higher level. My excitement was out of this world, but I knew my dad could no longer push me forward and my future was up to me. However, the ego I developed over the years blocked what lie in front of me. I wasn’t looking at the bigger picture; the hard work demanded of me, teamwork, and the motivation to reach an ultimate goal. Throughout my four years of participating
I can vividly remember back when I was on the High school tennis team at 17 years old, going from school to school and competing at high temperatures. A leisure sport but also an intense sport especially in a competitive age. I remember talking with my coach, also my math calculus teacher, about how to improve my game. My first year playing tennis with a year
1. What is the difference between a. and a. Introduction 1.1. The Origin of Tennis Tennis originated from a game named puzzle de paume (“game of the palm”) in northern France, the use of rackets was introduced in the 16th century. This new game was admired by many greats, especially Henry the XIII, and became rather popular in England and France. The first men’s tennis competition, the Davis Cup, commenced in 1900 and the women’s Federation Cup followed 63 years later.
The most principal piece of the sport of tennis is the rally, where adversaries progressively hit the ball forward and backward over the net, utilizing their tennis racquets, until one player makes a slip. Amid a rally, there is an astounding cluster of essential mechanical standards in progress that represent the direction or the ball. The motion of movement of a tennis ball are represented by the same fundamental mechanical rule. In any case, the sheer number of power communications that happen on a tennis ball make it difficult to effectively determine a basic scientific comparison for the flight way of a tennis ball once it has been hit by a racquet. So all things being equal we will quickly touch on a percentage of the physical rule that administer the development of a tennis ball. At that point we will look at the impacts of twist on
The game of table tennis is a pastime that involves a great deal of understanding in order to become an expertise. The physics as well as mathematics are intriguing concepts to explore. These concepts help us better understand the game and how to become the best player one can possibly be. Newton’s laws of motion play a big role in this game. They affect major elements to the game and make the game interesting. Other major players in the game include air resistance, work, momentum, and torque.