TENNIS
Equipment and rules 2. Tournaments. Wimbledon 3. Famous sportsmen 4. Tennis in popular culture 1.
EQUIPMENT Racquet/ racket Wood, metal, graphite, titanium Balls Diameter: 65. 41 -68. 58 mm (2. 5752. 700 inches) Weight: 56. 0 g - 59. 4 g Companies: Wilson, Head, Prince and Dunlop
Surface: clay, grass, hard (asphalt, concrete), synthetic size: 78 feet (23. 77 m) long and 27 feet (8. 23 m) for singles matches and 36 feet (10. 97 m) wide for doubles matches.
Singles matches - between two players Doubles matches -two teams of two players. Server-serves the ball Receiver- the opposing player Chair umpire - sits in a raised chair to one side of the court
Game - game is won by the first player to have won at least four points in total and at least two points more than the opponent. Set - a player wins a set by winning at least six games and at least two games more than the opponent. Match - consists of a sequence of sets. The outcome is determined through a best of three or five sets system.
The score of a tennis game during play is always read with the serving player's score first Number of Correspon points ding call won 0 "love" 1 "15" 2 "30" 3 "40" 4 "game" "deuce " – equal score in a game
Tennis - from the French tenez(hold!) Racket - from the Arabic rakhat (hand) Deuce - from à deux le jeu ("to both is the game“) Love for zero - from "l'oeuf" (egg)
Serve Backhand
Forehand
Lob Volley
The o o The The Grand Slam tournaments: Australian Open French Open Championships at Wimbledon US Open. The greatest challenge - to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year.
Don Budge (1938) Rod Laver(1962 and 1969) Steffi Graf (1988)
Grand Slam Tournaments Date January– February Tournament Location Australia Melbourne Open Surface Prize Money First Held Hard A$26, 000, 1905 000 May–June French Open Paris Clay € 18, 718, 1891* 000 June–July Wimbledon London Grass £ 14, 600, 1877 000 August– September US Open New York City Hard US$21, 01 1881 6, 000
Started in 1877 Takes place over two weeks in late June and early July Spencer Gore - the first Wimbledon winner (1877) when he said he didn't think this new game would catch on. In 1884, the club added Ladies' Singles. First prize, awarded to Maud Watson, was a silver flower-basket worth 20 guineas.
Reference to the Players gentlemen’s and ‘ladies’ events Royalty Queen is the sponsor of the All England Club and the Duke of Kent presiding president.
Dress Code the rule of all white uniform
Prize 2013 Wimbledon Championship prize money (singles) Result Prize money Increase from 2012 Winner £ 1, 600, 000 39% Finalist £ 800, 000 39% Semi-finalists £ 400, 000 39% Quarter-finalists £ 205, 000 41% Fourth round losers £ 105, 000 40% Third round losers £ 63, 000 62% Second round losers £ 38, 000 64% First round losers £ 23, 500 62% In 2007 All England Lawn Tennis started awarding the same prize "All England Lawn Tennis Club Single Handed Championship of the World. "
Strawberry and Creams The tradition began in 1953 Ball Boys and Ball Girls
the "Big Four" men's tennis players: Rafael Nadal Roger Federer
Andy Murray Novak Djokovic
Steffi Graf
Martina Navratilova Serena Williams
Film Wimbledon (2004) features Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst Woody Allen’s Match Point(2005) features Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers Tennis video games ( Mario Tennis, Grand Slam Tennis, the Top. Spin series)
Andre Agassi's autobiography Open (2009) David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996) Friends – The One With Chandler’s Work Laugh (1999)
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