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Hello, in this oral presentation I’m going to talk about tennis.
Tennis could be an indoor sport or an outdoor sport. In this oral presentation I’m going to talk about outdoor tennis, because I play outdoor tennis.
There are two types of tennis. Single and Doubles, the most common is the single tennis. The main difference is that single tennis is between two players and doubles is between two teams of two players each. Well, because the most common is single and it’s funnier than doubles I’ll talk about it.
There are three types of courts:
-The clay court is made of crushed shale, stone, brick or sand. The clay court is more common in Europe or Latin America than in North America, Canada or Brittan.
When the ball touches the court its speed slows but his bounce, jump is higher.
-The grass court it’s the fastest for the balls, and it’s the most typical and common court in the entire world. It could be natural or artificial grass, in the artificial the ball goes faster.
-The hard court it’s made of prefabricated sand and the speed of the ball depends of it. It’s no common here but in America or Australia it’s also used.
The equipment to play tennis is so easy to get. To play tennis you only need a racket, balls and a court, a place with a net and lines. Tennis is much extended in the world, that’s why you can found a tennis court, here, in Canada or in China.
To start a tennis match one player serve and the other receive. When the player serves he has to pass over the net and touch the opposite square. The receiver has to return the ball to it and then the match starts. When a player touches the ball and it doesn’t touch the opponent square or when the ball touches two times in the same court the other player have fifteen points.
These are the easy rules, there are more and more difficult.
Like football or any sport tennis have competitions. The players are qualified in a list, the ATP list. The ATP list doesn’t give points to players when they win a match like most sports; they give points when they win a tournament.
There are four important tournaments and behind them there are others tournaments. These four are called Grand Slam. When a player beat all his opponents and wins the Slam, he gets more than three million dollars and 2000 ATP points.
Behind them there are Masters 1000, if you win you gets 1000 ATP points. In one year there are like 8-9.
At the last the 250-500 series are the most regular tournaments. Normally there are 50-60 at year.
Last ten years had exploded a new start of tennis, Rafael Nadal, he started to play tennis when he was five whit his uncle. Rafael was born in Mallorca, Spain. With his 24 years he had won Roger Federer and he had broken lots of records.
Roger Federer, he’s second on ATP behind Rafael Nadal. He is from Switzerland and he’s the player who won more Slams in the history of tennis. He’s 28 and he has 16 Slams. The specialists on tennis think that he’s the greatest tennis player of all the time
That's all. Thanks and if you have any questions...
1-when did you start to play tennis? (Nuria)
Well, I'm not gonna speak about my personal life sorry.
2-What kinds of rackets are there?(Simon)
There are four types of rackets, the young one, the middle one, the biggest and after another that is not for tennis. The professional tennists play with the biggest.
3- Witch is considerate the most important Grand Slam?
There is not an important Slam, there is one in France, in America, in Australia and one in Brittan
