Lawn Tennis

Lawn tennis A seek Paper Presented to Mrs. Nora May H. Cubal Mati School of Art and Trades City of Mati Davao Oriental SY2011-2012 In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement in English IV Presented by Junave N. ce goonos IV-Quezon I-Introduction Thanks to the wide coverage that television and other media gives to the racy, lawn tennis is at once 1 of the most popular sports. How does unity define the game? It is a game play with racquets and a light clustering between devil doers. The players stand on opposite aspects of a net placed in the center on a rectangular motor lodge that may be made of grass, carcass or asphalt.It can also be played between two teams of two players. Racquetb entirely, a variation of the game, is played in an indoor court with a specially marked floor and steep walls off which the wrap must be played. tennis has a recollective history, and according to records available, its establishment can be traced to two separate incidents. In 1859, Major T homas Henry Gem, a solicitor, and his friend Batista Pereira, a Spanish merchant, were living in Birmingham, England, and played a game that they termed pe attractora after a Spanish ball game.It was played on a lawn. This subsequently came to be known as tennis, and in 1874 they formed the Leamington lawn tennis Club, which laid out the rules of the game. It was on 23 July 1884 that the first tennis tournament was held on the grounds of Shrubland Hall. Meanwhile, in December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield devised a similar game to entertain his guests at a party on his estate in Wales. It is believed that his version was adapted from an older sport of indoor tennis or royal tennis that had been invented in 12th century France.The world tennis comes from the French word tenez, an imperative form of the verb tenir which means to hold. This, apparently, was a shout out used by the player who was about to respond the ball. The players or the teams, depending on whether it is a singles or a doubles match, stand on opposite sides of the net. One player is the emcee and the opposing player is the receiver. The server serves the ball, which is returned by the receiver. The ball has to go over the net into the service court opposite the servers. If the ball hits the net but lands in the service court, it is a void service.The server then gets a second chance. A fitting service corpusts a rally in which the players alternate hitting the ball across the net. The first player or team that fails to return the ball loses the point. -1- II-Definition of Terms 1. action Synonym for spin. 2. ad court Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ad (advantage) point right off following a deuce is always served from this side of the court. 3. advantage When one player wins the first point from a deuce and needs one more point to win the game not applicable when victimisation deciding points. . advantage set Set won by a player/team having won a t least six games with a two-game advantage over the opponent(s). Final sets in the singles draws of the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the tennis Olympic event, as well as the Davis shape, are all advantage sets. 5. all Used by the chair umpire to call scores when both players have the similar number of points or the same number of games 30all (3030), 15all (1515), two games all, four-spot games all, etc. When both players are at 40, the preferred term is deuce. 6. ll-court modal value of play that is a composite of all the different acting styles, which allows baseline, transition, and serve and volley styles. 7. hindquartershand Stroke in which the ball is hit with the back of the racquet hand facing the ball at the moment of contact. A backhand is often hit by a right-handed player when the ball is on the left side of the court, and vice versa. 8. backspin Shot that rotates the ball backwards after it is hit also known as deletion or chthonicspin. The trajectory of the shot is affected by an upward agitate that lifts the ball. See Magnus effect. 9. ackswing Portion of a swing where the racquet is swung backwards in preparation for the forward motion to hit the ball. 10 bagel lovable (or losing) a set 60 (the shape of the zero organism reminiscent of the round shape of a bagel). See also breadstick. -2- III-Discussion A. Tennis Courts The NTC has 120 acrylic hard courts (50 indoor, 50 exterior), 6 clay courts, and 14 grass courts. B. Hard Courts The NTCs 120 acrylic courts are a GreenSet raised(a) Prix Acrylic surface. The indoor courts have a sprung timber sub-frame, while the outdoor courts are laid directly on asphalt.This GreenSet surface is used at many international tournaments including Davis Cup, Fed Cup, WTA and adenosine triphosphate Masters Series events. C. system Courts The National Tennis Centre boasts two different types of outdoor clay courts which have been designed to brave the elements of the UK climate and allow for the longest possible clay court playing season and maximum use. 4 northerly European dust Courts (These are identical to the courts used at the Bastad ATP Tennis Event in Sweden) and 2 FRENCH-COURT synthetic clay courts. D. unwrap CourtsThe LTA consulted All England Lawn Tennis Club head groundsman Eddie Seaward to give the axe on the installation of its four outdoor grass courts. The quality and playing characteristics replicate those found at the Wimbledon Championships. E. High Performance Training Facilities on with its 22 tennis courts, the NTC is equipped with a state-of-the-art gymnasium, outdoor sprint track and hydrotherapy and plunge pools. The NTC has overnight accommodation for up to 54 people, along with a player lounge and recreation room to be fully equipped to host high performance players from out of town. -3- F. Sports light CentreThe NTC provides highly professional services in Performance analysis, fitness, psychology, physiatrics and rehab, str ength and conditioning, medical support and nutrition, led by Head of fake Support Simon Jones Simon ensures that his team of highly qualified specialists, work in an interdisciplinary way pitch an applied, player centered support service to Britains top players and coaches The Sports Medicine and Science Centre at the National Tennis Centre offers Britains elite players * Physical therapies physiotherapy, osteopathy and massage * Tennis in operation(p) Movement Screening Sports medicine general practice, sports medicine and specialist follow-up * Sports nutrition * Sports psychology * Exercise physiology Physical testing * Monitoring of train loads * Daily monitoring of hydration and physical readiness * Cardiac screen * Educational advisory service including Anti Doping * Performance analysis including fixed on court camera IV-Suggestion/ tribute With over one million deeds in the database, it isnt feasible to handpick recommendations for every film.Thats why we came u p with a composite plant formula to suggest denominations that fit along with the selected one. The formula uses factors such as user votes, genre, title, and keywords to generate an automatic response. The system produces excellent results most of the season but since recommended titles are not manually chosen, occasionally they may include less than perfect matches, particularly on films where we dont have a lot of data/credits. -4- If you disagree with a recommendation for a given title and know of a better one, we encourage you to assistance us repair the results.While you cant modify the recommendations directly, updating the keywords will have the biggest impact on their selection. Look for the Update button at the bottom of the main title page and add more relevant (or just plain more) keywords and help make our Recommends feature more useful, more appropriate, and more fun. V-Summary Lawn tennis is a comparatively modern modification of the ancient game of court tennis. Maj. Walter Clopton Wingfield prospect that something like court tennis might be played surface on lawns, and in Dec. 873, at Nantclwyd, Wales, he introduced his new game under the name of Sphairistike at a lawn party. The game was a success and allot rapidly, but the name was a total failure and almost straight off disappeared when all the players and spectators began to refer to the new game as lawn tennis. In the untimely part of 1874, a young lady named Mary Ewing Outerbridge returned from Bermuda to New York, bringing with her the implements and necessary equipment of the new game, which she had obtained from a British Army supply hive away in Bermuda.Miss Outerbridge and friends played the first game of lawn tennis in the United States on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club in the spring of 1874. For a few years, the new game went along in haphazard fashion until about 1880, when standard measurements for the court and standard equipment in spite of appearance definite limits became the rule. In 1881, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association (whose name was changed in 1975 to the U. S. Tennis Association) was formed and conducted the first national championship at Newport, R. I.The international matches for the Davis Cup began with a series between the British and U. S. players on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, chromatic Hill, Mass. , in 1900, with the home players winning. Professional tennis, which got its start in 1926 when the French star Suzanne Lenglen was paid $50,000 for a tour, received full recognition in 1968. decorous old Wimbledon, the London home of what are considered the world championships, let the pros compete. This conclusion ended a long controversy over open tennis and changed the format of the competition. -5- VI-Bibliography http//www. infoplease. om/ipsa/A0112966. html Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia www. hallamgrange. org. uk/ www. proline. com. sg -6- Table of Content I-Introduction1 II-Defi nition of Terms2 III-Discussion.. 3-4 A. Tennis Courts3 B. Hard Courts.. 3 C. Clay Courts3 D. Grass Courts 3 E. High Performance Training Facilities. 3-4 IV-Suggestion/Recommendation4-5 V-Summary. 5 VI-Bibliography 6