Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Why tennis, and not any other sport?


Tennis is a very active sport, which requires concentration and fast reflexes. It can be played for fun, or for health reasons. Anyone can play tennis. Your age, sex or skills cannot affect the enjoyment you get from playing this game. It does not matter whether you play at an outdoor court or an indoor tennis club. Anyone can gain enough from this sport, both physically and mentally.
Below some of the most substantially benefitting outcomes of playing tennis have been enlisted:
  • Health Benefits – It is an excellent exercise. In this sport, players need to be fast and active. By playing this sport, you can easily maintain your health. It helps in losing extra weight, reduces blood pressure, improves metabolism and lowers the cholesterol level. It also improves your hand-eye coordination, speed, flexibility, and strength. Players can burn a lot of calories playing tennis. It helps in enhancing your reaction time and balance. Improvement in muscle tone, bone strength, and density are the other benefits you gain from this sport.
  • Psychological Benefits – This game teaches you how to deal with many emotions like anger, depression, competition, pressure, tension, confusion, stress etc. It makes you mentally strong and responsible. Players learn discipline, tactics, and strategies from this game. It helps in brain development. You can also learn sportsmanship, leadership, and teamwork from this sport. Playing tennis teaches you how to handle a lost match with pride. It shows you how to maintain your cool even if you lost. It also boosts self-confidence of the player. Playing alone gives you the sense of responsibility while playing with a partner teaches you the teamwork.
  • Social Benefits – This sport helps you in social area also. You can improve communication skills. There are double, mixed doubles games in which you need to communicate and discuss strategies with your partner. At the game, players also get to meet new people; they interact with each other and enjoy the same interest at the game. Congratulating the winner and keeping you calm after losing a match shows your social skills and manners.
Tennis helps you not just physically, but mentally and socially as well. You can improve enough in yourself while having fun playing this game. You will not even notice the change, but it will work its magic on you. You can also gain economically from this game if you continue at a professional level. This game gave us so many players to idolize like Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic.

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