Dig Your Short Shorts Out! (Tennis in General)

Member Name: andyoz

Product:	Tennis in General
Date:	02/07/09 (17 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great fun, good exercise

Disadvantages: None

Well it's that time of year again. Everywhere you look its Wimbledon this and Wimbledon that. Suddenly all the tennis courts are full of middle age men trying to bring short shorts back into fashion. Kids are playing with them giant plastic bats and yellow sponge balls. The entire nation goes tennis mad. So what's it all about?

Well tennis is a pretty simple game, where you have two players on a court. A net in the middle, and the idea is to hit a ball over the net using your racket. That's the basic idea anyway, of course there is a lot more to the rules than that.

Tennis is an very enjoyable game. I have been playing for years, and its a great way to keep fit. It's very cheap to play, you can get a racket for £10 although a good racket will cost you a little more. Balls tend to be a few pound each for decent ones. And to play on a court varies in price. Some places you can play for free, or if your after better facilites you may have to spend a few pounds. About £5 an hour is probably average.

There are different surfaces you can play on, all of which alter the speed of the game. There is clay, synthetic, concrete, and even grass. Depends where you play really.

If you are watching tennis there are all kinds of big tournaments. The quality of the play is excellent and its very easy to enjoy watching a game. As I mentioned earlier at this time of the year (july) everyone is talking about Wimbledon. This is a big tournament that takes place every year in London. The games are played on grass and the title is one of the most saught after in tennis.

Britan has not had a top class player for many many years. Its well over 50 years since a British man won Wimbledon. But now we have the young Scot Andy Murray who is currently ranked in the top 5. So he is are best chance to win for a long long time.

Tennis is quite an easy game to learn. You can get lessons if you want to really get into it. Children enjoy playing and its good to learn from an early age. It's easy to pick up the basic rules, you can watch a game for a while or play with someone who knows what there doing. The scoring itself is probably the most compicated thing in tennis, but it doesn't take to long to get the hang of.

So Tennis is a really great game that anyone can try and anyone who enjoys sports I'm sure will enjoy giving this a go. Pick up a racket today.

Summary: Great game for everyone