Athletes are not valued for their language skills, yet there are a good number of athletes from different sports who can brag about being multilingual. Tennis players like Rafael Nadal play at tournaments around the globe every year, where they are sure to pick up some additional language skills. Rafael Nadal speaks three languages fluently: …
When you mention the name Novac Djokovic, most people will either have heard of him or know that he is the greatest tennis player of all time. However, watching all his interviews after his wins in different countries, you might have noticed his attempts to speak their language. So, how many languages does Novak Djokovic …
Finding the time or the space to have a great game of tennis can be tricky, especially if few facilities are available nearby. Until the emergence of Virtual Reality, unless you went looking for a tennis court, the best you could do was a 2D computer game, which, while fun, doesn’t really translate as well …
As sports became more and more professionalized and commercialized, organizing bodies were created to ensure consistency and safety for the athletes. However, due to the historical mistreatment and exclusion of women from professional sports, many sports have different organizing bodies for men and women. Tennis is no different, and the two major governing bodies within …
If you watch tennis, you should notice that none of the players wear gloves. While in other ‘bat’ or ‘racquet’ sports like golf, baseball, and even football, the players wear gloves. There is no association law against this, so why don’t tennis players wear gloves? Tennis players don’t wear gloves because it reduces the feel …
Tennis is an amazing sport to both watch and play. The other side is that for the one hundred and twenty players of each sex, who don’t make it to the quarter-finals, it is a brutal sport that “takes no enemies.” There are seven rounds in the major tennis tournaments for the singles players of …
It does not get any better than a Grand Slam tournament in the sport of tennis. Every tennis player dreams of playing at one of the four Grand Slam tournaments while growing up. But the road is tough, and qualifying for any Grand Slam tournament is harder than most people think. Tennis players qualify for …
Tennis players are not known for being muscular athletes. Though tennis players compete in a sport where the goal is to smash a ball with lots of power, many people might not think of tennis players as athletes if they randomly see them on the street. However, there are several good reasons tennis players do …
Tennis shoes are known to be one of the most versatile options out there. In fact, tennis shoes became so versatile that people started calling any gym shoe a tennis shoe. When looking at tennis-specific shoes for modern players, they are indeed very flexible as far as what sports they work for. Being able to …
It is most apparent when two tennis players are wearing the same outfit while playing each other – this happens more often than you might think. The reason is not down to a happy accident or the fact that tennis players have no unique sense of style. It is because of the obligation they have …