Love game: 7 things we love about tennis

It’s Valentine’s Day! Whether or not you select to benefit from the day alongside your important different or resolve to take a while for your self, there’s one factor that may all the time settle for your whole love: tennis!

Scoring System

The tennis scoring system could be very distinctive. It’s all about the important thing moments in a match. Profitable a very powerful factors is what will get you the win. Gamers might even find yourself profitable a match, having gained fewer factors than their opponent. That is what permits for the nice comebacks, the epic matches, the unpredictability of any outcome. Am I sitting right here for one hour or 4? Who is aware of?

Plus, what different sport has “Love” as an official rating? Gotta like it.

Tennis all 12 months

Whereas many sports activities have an extended low season break, tennis goes on just about all 12 months lengthy. The primary official WTA and ATP tournaments begin in the course of the first week of January and are performed all year long till late November/early December. There are even ITF tournaments and Challenger occasions performed in the course of the vacation season.

As a fan, you may actually by no means get tired of tennis. Past the highest gamers, there might be somebody taking part in at virtually any time in the course of the 12 months.

The significance of the ladies’s recreation

Sadly, not many sports activities can boast that each female and male athletes have equal alternatives. In tennis, nonetheless, the hole is constantly narrowing in the direction of equality – not solely in play but additionally in visibility. Girls take pleasure in loads of TV time and sold-out stadiums. Fans only stand to gain, as we get extra nice tennis to look at and love!

Whereas that is presently a privilege, we hope this merchandise will ultimately drop out of this listing as ALL sports activities ought to give equal alternative to women and men – and we’ll additionally preserve working to maintain women in tennis, in any respect ranges and in each space of the sport.

The Grand Slams

Yearly in tennis, we get to witness the perfect gamers of our era face off towards each other in a very powerful tournaments of our sport: The Grand Slams (or majors, as officially named). We love that we should not have to attend for the perfect occasions for 4 years or two. They’re assured to occur EVERY 12 months.

One other factor to like concerning the Grand Slams is that the 4 occasions maintain the identical significance. Whereas it’s cool to comply with an athlete’s or a crew’s development all the way in which to the finals or the playoffs, we tennis followers positively love that we have now our most outstanding tournaments not solely yearly, however 4 occasions a 12 months. It’s unbelievable that we solely have to attend just a few months for the subsequent large trophy to be lifted.

It’s simple to choose up

Following the professionals is nice, nevertheless it’s additionally a pleasure to have the ability to choose up a racquet, go to the courtroom, and hit just a few balls. Who hasn’t performed an epic match themselves, whether or not it was in a membership event or on the park for a day of bodily exercise?

We love that tennis is easy to pick up and so much fun to play.

A recreation for the ages – and for everybody

And naturally, not solely are you able to simply choose up tennis, you may play the game eternally! Regardless of how outdated or younger you might be, tennis is for you. A number of the greatest gamers we have now ever seen began taking part in earlier than they might even learn. And a few amateur players still hungry for competition are playing in their 90s!

One of many important issues we love about tennis, no matter age, you may simply choose it up and preserve taking part in for so long as you reside.

It’s all around the world

Touring tennis gamers journey to many alternative international locations and cities to play tournaments. For the gamers, it’s an effective way to go to cities and by no means be in the identical place for too lengthy at a time. And for tennis followers, this implies we have now a terrific probability to discover a event close by and witness this superior sport in particular person!

For tennis lovers, there may be little or no to not love about tennis.