Tennis

Tennis is one of the most popular non-team sports in the world, and is arguably the most widespread racquet sport in the world. While the roots of tennis and other racquet sports go back for millennia, the game in its modern form did not come about until the latter half of the 19th century, when it arose as a pastime for the upper classes of Victorian England.

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Tennis is played as either a one-on-one or two-on-two competition on a specially designed court. The court is demarcated by a specific grid of lines that mark the boundaries for where a ball can be considered "in" or "out" on a serve or during play. A distinguishing feature of the tennis court is a long net that serves as a barrier dividing the court into two sides. The four quarters of either side of the court which border the tennis net are known as the service areas; on a serve, the ball must fall within the service area diagonally across from the serving player's position.

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The basic concept of tennis is to strike the tennis ball with one's racquet in a way that will eventually force one's opponent(s) to be unable to hit the ball back before it strikes the ground two times. A ball that hits the ground more than once is considered "dead" and counts as a lost point for the player whose side is where the ball was allowed to fall more than once. However, if the ball's first contact with the ground occurs outside the boundaries of the court, it is considered "out," and it is the player who last hit the ball that goes out who loses the point.

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There are three major types of material used to make the surfaces of tennis courts: hardcourt (often concrete or treated asphalt), clay, and grass. The type of material used can play a subtle role in the style of play, based on the differences in how the tennis ball will rebound off of a given surface. A hardcourt surface will result in a relatively fast-paced game, as the ball does not tend to bounce very high and therefore forces players to rush more quickly to return the ball before it bounces a second time. Grass often results in even faster games, because of the even lower bounces a ball will make on a grass court as well as the less predictable movements of a ball on grass. Clay courts, by contrast, encourage a slower pace of play as the ball bounces higher and often slows down after hitting the ball once, resulting in longer rallies (i.e., extended sessions of a ball being returned back and forth).