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tennis

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Also known as lawn tennis, lawntennis

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a point.

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Tennis is a ball game and racket sport that originated in England. It is classified as an Olympic sport and can be practiced as a hobby. The game requires a minimum of two players and a maximum of four. Participants use a tennis court, a tennis racquet, and a tennis ball. The Unicode character 🎾 represents the sport.

The International Tennis Federation serves as the authority for tennis. The subject is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. It is maintained by WikiProject Tennis and appears on the Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have. The topic has a main Wikimedia portal at Portal:Tennis and is categorized under Category:Tennis.

Tennis is referenced by 31,808 other encyclopedia articles. PubMed lists 11,833 entries for the query tennis. The hashtag for the sport is tennis, or テニス in Japanese. The sport is different from Tenis.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Sport.name
Tennis
Sport.image
2013 Australian Open - Guillaume Rufin.jpg
Sport.imagesize
200
Sport.caption
French singles player Guillaume Rufin serves to Czech player Tomáš Berdych in a tennis match at the 2013 Australian Open.
Sport.union
International Tennis Federation
Sport.first
19th century, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Sport.region
Worldwide
Sport.contact
No
Sport.team
Singles or doubles
Sport.mgender
Yes, separate tours and mixed doubles
Sport.type
Outdoor or indoor
Sport.category
Racket sport
Sport.equipment
Ball, racket, net
Sport.venue
Tennis court
Sport.glossary
Glossary of tennis terms
Sport.olympic
Part of Summer Olympic programme from 1896 to 1924Demonstration sport in the 1968 and 1984 Summer OlympicsPart of Summer Olympic programme since 1988
Sport.paralympic
Part of Summer Paralympic programme since 1992

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Research

11,833 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

67 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Predecessors
  • Origins of the modern game
  • Equipment
  • Rackets
  • Strings
  • Natural gut
  • Synthetic
  • Hybrid strings
  • Balls
  • Manner of play
  • Court
  • Lines
  • Play of a single point
  • Scoring
  • Game, set, match
  • Game
  • Set
  • Match
  • Special point terms
  • Game point
  • Break point
  • Rule variations
  • Match play
  • Continuity
  • Ball changes
  • On-court coaching
  • Stance
  • Open stance
  • Semi-open stance
  • Closed stance
  • Neutral stance
  • Shots
  • Grip
  • Serve
  • Forehand
  • Backhand
  • Other shots
  • Tournaments
  • Grand Slam tournaments
  • Men's tournament structure
  • ATP 1000
  • 500 and 250 series
  • Challenger Tour and Futures tournaments
  • Women's tournament structure
  • WTA 1000
  • 500 and 250 Series
  • WTA 125
  • Players
  • Professional players
  • Singles and doubles professional careers
  • Olympics
  • Prize money
  • Grand Slam tournament winners
  • Greatest male players
  • Greatest female players
  • Officials
  • Junior tennis
  • Injuries
  • In popular culture
  • Literature
  • TV and film
  • Video games
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. If a player is unable to return the ball successfully, the opponent scores a point.

Tennis can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users, and is played by people at every level of society and across all ages. The original forms of tennis developed in France during the late Middle Ages. The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tennis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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