Tennis

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

Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as "lawn tennis". It had close connections both to various field ("lawn") games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport of real tennis. During most of the 19th-century in fact, the term "tennis" referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis: for example, in Disraeli's novel Sybil (1845), Lord Eugene De Vere announces that he will "go down to Hampton Court and play tennis."

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Top Greater Taunton H.S. sports performers for March 27-April 6

Taunton Daily Gazette 29 Mar 2025
Comeback Kids. B-R boys basketball scores another late win ... Boys Lacrosse ... Boys Tennis. Taunton (0-1) fell 5-0 to Durfee on the road in non-league action.Girls Tennis ... Boys Tennis. Banks Beckwith (6-2, 6-4) and Wyatt Cooley (6-4, 6-3) won at first and second singles respectively as Bridgewater-Raynham (0-1) fell 3-2 to Silver Lake at home.Girls Tennis....
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Dalhart tennis' Emily Gaines voted Happy State Bank High School Athlete of the Week

Amarillo Globe-News 28 Mar 2025
Dalhart girls tennis player Emily Gaines has been voted the Happy State Bank High School Athlete of the Week for March 16-22. Gaines had a strong performance at the Borger Tennis Tournament, finishing the event with a 4-0 record....
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South Shore high school top performers for the first week of spring sports

The Enterprise - Brockton 28 Mar 2025
The spring season is jam packed with lacrosse, baseball, softball, outdoor track & field, rugby, tennis, girls golf, boys volleyball, sailing and rowing ... Jason Cunningham pitched 2 innings of scoreless relief.GIRLS TENNIS ... BOYS TENNIS. In Bridgewater-Raynham's 3-2 loss to Silver Lake, Banks Beckwith (first singles) won his 11th consecutive match....
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Teenage Eala takes care of business with little drama

Knoxville Daily Sun 27 Mar 2025
If tennis's broadcasters were hoping for emotional scenes of tears from teenager Alexandra Eala after she secured one of the biggest upsets of the WTA season they were left disappointed ... ECB pushes back against calls for looser bank rules....
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CEBL to host outdoor game in Montreal on May 23

TSN Canada 24 Mar 2025
ET ... It's also the home of the Montreal side of the National Bank Open, Canada's pro tennis tournament ... ....
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Sacked Emma Raducanu coach Vlado Platenik: ‘I’ve never had a player improve so much’

The Daily Telegraph 20 Mar 2025
Her childhood mentor Jane O’Donoghue was in the player box on Wednesday, alongside Lawn Tennis Association coach Colin Beecher ... Raducanu has said before that she sees O’Donoghue – a former Lawn Tennis Association employee who now has a day job in banking – more like a big sister than a coach, while Beecher has multiple other duties to attend to....
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Emma Raducanu dismisses latest coach after just 14 days – but still wins in Miami

Yahoo Daily News 19 Mar 2025
Few had expected the courtside seats to be filled by childhood mentor Jane O’Donoghue and Lawn Tennis Association coach Colin Beecher, rather than the man she had been training with over the past week ... One of them was her childhood mentor O’Donoghue, a former national coach at the Lawn Tennis Association who now works for the Royal Bank of Canada....

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