Playing Tennis for Your Health

tennis_open.jpgTennis is popular game in the world. Modern Tennis is played since 19th century. Many people like to play tennis. Some are amateur players, some are professional players, and the others playing for health.

Why playing tennis? Tennis is a cheap sport. You only need a racquet, a ball and then you can go to tennis court nearby and start playing. You don’t need to buy specific tennis apparel. You don’t need an expensive equipment to buy. You don’t need to own tennis court, you can rent it. Even racquet and ball you can rent from sport centers.
What do you need before playing tennis?

Apparel
No standard rule what you wear when you play tennis. As long the cloth is fit to you when playing tennis its OK. Most man players wear t-shirt, and short pant. Woman players usually use t-shirt and skirt. When playing in the mid day, using hat to cover your head is good idea.

Standard tennis shoes are not required, as long your shoes fit on your feet its OK. But it is recommended to use tennis shoes. You can use from cheap tennis shoes or branded tennis shoes like Nike, Adidas, or K-Swiss tennis shoes.

Racquet
There are many type of racquets. You can’t buy based only brand name. You need to understand what type of racquet that fit on you. If you are professional, it’s recommended to buy branded racquet like Yonex, Wilson, Prince, or Babolat racquets.

First, look at the racquet weight. It’s depending on your body power. If you have less power you need light weight racquet. If you have much power, you need heavy weight racquet. Second, you need to look the racquet balance. Some racquets have balance in the head of the racquet, some are in the frame. You need to know your strength to match with racquet balance.

The racquet head size is other factor you need to know. The bigger head size, the more power you will get. Once you know your power strength you will know what head size fit on you.

Ball
Tennis ball is always yellow or white color and designed only for tennis. Tennis ball must conform to certain many criteria like size, weight, deformation, and bounce criteria to be approved for regulation play. It is not expensive to buy a new tennis ball.

Time to play
Now you are ready to play tennis. Go to sport center nearby and rent a tennis court. Oh sorry I forgot one thing, you can’t play alone. You need partner to spare :)

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