Saturday, February 5, 2011

How You Can Make Tennis Your Pastime

By Teddy Q. Xavier


Playing tennis has long been a preferred method of activity for plenty of people Tennis provides a host of benefits, including stress reduction, improved concentration,and improved hand eye coordination. There likely several tennis courts very near your home, so there is no reason you shouldn't be out there playing with everybody else. If you'd like get started playing tennis, but aren't quite sure how, then this article is for you. You'll learn everything you need to know to get out there and have some fun.

One thing to do first would be to familiarize yourself with the rules, and how to keep score. If you don't know how to keep score, watching tennis on TV can be a mystery, but it's pretty simple. You can head down to your library, or check out the Internet. You should have the rules down in just a few minutes. Now that you've got the rules down, you need to get some equipment. Basically you'll need a racket, a decent pair of sneakers, and some balls. And probably a hat, if you don't already have one. Don't worry about getting the best quality tennis racket just yet. Simply head on over to your local sporting goods shop and ask for a good tennis racket for a beginner. You should be able to get one for thirty or forty dollars.

Of course, you'll need to learn how to play at some point. You could hire a personal coach, which is pretty expensive, or just hack it on your own, which is free. Or you could spend ten bucks and sign up for a course at your local community college. This has many benefits. You'll get some decent instruction, you'll meet plenty other people who are starting out just like you, and you may find some potential tennis partners for later.

Now you've got the basic skills down, it's time to start to find people to play with a couple times a week. if you haven't found anybody in your community college class that's suitable, you can look for people using other methods. What you'll find is that once you start telling your friends that you play tennis, you'll discover that many of them do as well, and they'll be the ones suggesting you get together and play.

Tennis is a fantastic sport for plenty of reasons, reasons you'll soon be finding out on your own. You get plenty of exercise, you reduce stress, and you will relish the competitive spirit.




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